Colonel Kilgore is my hero

On a recent, lazy Sunday morning, I turned on the cold water in the bathroom and immediately noticed that the water flow was actually warm. For a split second, I thought I had mistakenly turned on the hot water but the water flow soon became cold, as intended, thus preventing any mental panic on my part.

In these parts (SoCal), what I just described above marks the beginning of summer. No more June Gloom (weather phenomena in June that produces overcast mornings and hazy sun in PM), just the sun and earth's axial tilt doing its magic.

The beginning of summer also marks a long break for those involved in ALMS. Our last race was May 17th at Miller Motorsports Park and because we did not participate in 24H Le Mans this year, we had no racing activity other than the Baja 500 that Flatbill wrote about below.

This break is intentionally designed into the ALMS schedule to allow its top teams to go toe-to-toe racing with the world's best at Circuit de la Sarthe in June. For those that don't get to go to France, it is a very long break lasting until July 18th.

Of course, since all of us have "real" jobs aside from hyperslacking jobs (motorsports), we are busy catching up with stuff that fell thru the cracks during the beginning part of the season but just as Robert Duvall put it so eloquently in the epic flick Apocalypse Now, I miss the opportunity in saying “I love the smell of (Duvall: napalm) racing fuel and hydrocarbons in the morning.” Somewhere along the line, I need to say something like, “Charlie don’t (Duvall: surf) race!”

In two weeks we pay a short visit to Pikes Peak, where we will be doing the hill climb in a battery-powered buggy (Flatbill covering the event) and going onto Lime Rock Park for the ALMS race. The long break is almost over. We’ve got some good things brewing and we are definitely eager to get back at it.