mikebaloga.com » sports http://www.mikebaloga.com wasting away in cyberspace Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:14:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Post-Road America ALMS Weekend http://www.mikebaloga.com/2009/08/post-road-america-alms-weekend/ http://www.mikebaloga.com/2009/08/post-road-america-alms-weekend/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:25:30 +0000 mike http://www.mikebaloga.com/?p=220 This past weekend at Road America for the ALMS race was (as always) fabulous.  Such a great time, money and time well spent.  We got to meet, greet, and get autographs from the Corvette and Ferrari teams.  I as able to get my Ferrari helmet signed by both of the Risi Competizione team drivers Jamie Melo and Pierre Kaffer (pics to be posted as soon as I’m done editing the batch).

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We stayed in quite the shanty hotel…the Days Inn in Fond Du Lac Wisconsin is not highly recommended.   We were fine with it but had i brought my wife it may have been more of a problem.

The weather was hot and humid every day with temps reaching 90 every day. That’s okay though and it beats severe storms and rain.

The GT2 Corvettes did very well in their second outing posting a 3rd place podium finish for one of the cars.  Not bad for a team still working out the kinks of a new chassis.  Very surprised about the Risi team who have been struggling as of late.  The M3 BMW’s finished 1-2 for a very strong showing; looks like the sanctioning body will need to look at smaller diameter restrictors soon…the bimmers were dominating this weekend.

A full album of pictures will be uploaded shortly once I’m finished with all of the editing; i know you can’t wait.  I also have a couple of short videos I’ve taken with the iPhone to share.

Click on the photo below for the full gallery on Flickr.

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TCF Bank Stadium June 09

TCF Bank Stadium June 09

Link to the TCF Stadium website.

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