just been doing a load of editing on the new version of the akciddento site and was checking all the movie content was still linked ok.

watched the in bus footage from the beginning of the season (running 19s) and suddenly was right back there…

…by the time i got to watch the runs from flame and thunder (15.11s ) i’d got palpitations…

i think it made me realise that i did actually enjoy racing last year !.

after nearly two months without the race engine in the samba i’d almost forgotten about the noise!

I LOVE THE NOISE MOST OF ALL!

i think it came as a bit of a shock….

i remember it all being very stressful at the time, interspersed with periods of wondering just why on earth i was doing it.

i had planned just to race last year as a portrait project.

just one year.

then it seemed like i might carry on. it seemed like everyone had assumed that i would be racing this year after all.

however i haven’t sent of to renew my MSA license nor my VWDRC membership and that’s been on my mind.

seeing the footage again though. remembering the noise. remembering the sunshine and the great friends i’ve made in the course of racing…

…somehow it all makes sense. i can kinda see it in the context of my life. as if i can finally say ‘yes, i go dragracing’. something i’ve been more than a little confused about until now. – seeing drag racing as part of my life, as something that i do.. it never seemed contiguous with who i saw myself as – if that makes any sense. maybe it’s just a snobby attitude on my part.

to paraphrase grouch marx;

‘i’d never join a drag race club that would have me as a member’

i guess the question now is, if i send off the application form, will they have me back? 🙂

see you at the track!