CORONADO

Oh, wow!! I LOVE Southern California.

I know I was complaining a few weeks back, that there aren't any mountains in the area worth skiing, but there is so much OTHER coooool stuff to do down here.

Saturday I spend all day in the hot October Sun of San Diego, enjoying the "Chrysler Classic Speed Festival", held on the North Island of the Coronado Naval base, one of the larges navy bases in the continental US (and probably the world, since the Americans do in deed have the biggest army in the world, you know, to protect themselves and stuff).



If you want to learn more, here's the website...

Coronado Base website

This event is hosted by the same organization that produces the Monterey Historic Races, the Wine Country Classic at Sears Point (sorry, INFINEON race way!), as well as the Watkins Glen Historic races on the east coast.

The track is exciting, because it's essentially an "airport track", like in the golden age when a lot of these cars were raced.

356s, Morgans, Lotus', Alfa GTVs and other small-block sports cars LOVE short-tracks, so it was a great day of exciting vintage sprints.

A great shot of a '67 910 being throttle-steered around one of the corners at the 2003 event.



WOW!! Did that 911 just pass all those big-block American V8s?



and finally, it isn't every day that you get to see a Jaguar Type-D being raced...