During the course of any given day, I come across things on the internet that crack me up. You're probably familiar with astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Did you know he was a legendary hip-hop artist? I didn't think so... Here's one of the most unlikely pairing I could have ever come up with:



OSpeaking of Ferraris, here's a shot of the business end of a lovely Ferrari sports racer I've seen at the historic racers the last few years. Magnificent V-12!


My partner at Wilsonville Honda, John Dimmer, participated in this past weekend's Baxter Historic Races in his 1971 Tyrrell Formula 1 car - a car which helped take Jackie Stewart to the 1971 World Championship. I decided to roll out the 1988 Spice Acura/GTP/L car that I won the 1991 IMSA Championship with as well as taking a class win at the Daytona 24-Hour in the same year. Here are the two of our cars waiting to go out:



We were both at the track at 5:30am on Friday in order to do all three local morning TV shows: Alana Kujala of KOIN Channel 6, Drew Carney of KGW Channel 8, and Joe V with Fox 12.

Here's a shot of Joe V. sitting in the Tyrrell interviewing John:



The best part of the day was taking Joe V. for a couple of laps at speed. It's something that very few people have experienced -- being flat-out in a IMSA GTP car. It was quite the way to start the weekend. Here we're shoe-horning Joe into the car (it's not meant for two people - at all...):



Here's a short clip of the "out" lap, or warm-up lap, that I drove with Joe V. aboard. I think the ride got his attention!



John and I had a great time during the race weekend, but that wasn't the case for all the competitors, like the driver who slammed into the Safety Truck. Very bad. Out of respect, I didn't take a picture of the driver or his totaled Sunbeam Tiger...



To keep life in balance, as we were packing up and watching many of the historic cars being carfefully loaded into very expenses truck-and-trailer rigs (like the Dennison International transporter in the background), Neal Shelton rolled by with his Porsche 962 on an open trailer. Amazing. I've never seen such a valuable race car being towed in such an inauspicious manner.