The Weekend Round-up
August 24th & 25th
This weekend was quite exciting.
Red Rock was incredibaly busy. I havent seen that many people
their in a very long time. Lots of imports on Friday and Even
more on Saturday.
Friday August 24th:
My crew and I got out to Red Rock at
around 8:30 and we were the first ones their. Nate
and I hooked up an ATF pump in his
Grand Prix so we had to try it out. It worked pretty well.
At around 9:30 the races started and they went for
quite a while. We ended up going and sitting in the parking lot
adjacent to the "Park-n-ride". I was extatic because
I did a burn out thet filled the entire lot of imports with white
thick smoke. We stayed at the lot for a while and the cops never
left the strip so Diana, Tim, Nate, and I decided to go to Perkins.
After perkins we headed to our personal Strip in Rosemount. (E-mail
me for the location). We got in some decent races that night and
ended up rolling back to my place and working on our cars.
Saturday August 25th:
I got to Nates house at around noon today. He was going to go
to Elco Speedway but I talked him out of it. We ended up talking
to Cable and Gyuin and they wanted to start rolling with our crew.
Cable just got a Dodge Stealth R/T and Gyuin just got a 1999 Mercury
Cougar I6. We washed our rides and got em all pretty for the night.
Cable and Gyuin met us at Nates at around 6:45 and we headed out
to Red Rock. We were the first ones their but people soon started
pouring in. The races were going very smooothly. Not a cop in
sight. But, as usual, at 10:00 on the dot. The cops rolled in.
At the time, their was a Saturn and a Jeep lined up to race. As
they got halfway down the strip, all of a sudden we saw a flash
of brown as a highway patrolman gunned it past the starting line
and went after them. We all poured into our rides and dipped outsa
their. It was very orchistrated. All I know is we need to set
up better security down their than just waiting to see the cops
and running.
We went to the PNR (Park-n-Ride) and we met up w/
Phil. He runs an older style Integra that he "claims"
is bone stock. But we all know it isnt. It's funny if you ask
him what he's done to it he'll just say "plugs n' wires".
So we always say that too him. We chilled at the PNR for a while
and then headed back down to the strip. It was sooooooo incrediably
busy. We couldnt even race it was so packed. So we dipped out
to our strip in Rosemount again.
When we got their their were already people their,
people that we didnt know. I was like "What the fuck?"
cause we didnt tell these people about it. I guess that word travels
fast. Anyways, these guys were very orchistrated. They had lookouts
and 2-way radios so we wouldnt get pinched. We got in all sorts
of good races. I raced a 2001 Civic and he beat me unfortunatly.
But it was still fun. Their were two highlights that evening.
The first one was when a blue Dodge Neon R/T and a black Hona
Civic lined up. We didnt think anything special about the race
till we heard a "psss, pssst"
We were all like "Yo!!! They're runnin' NOS!"
So we watched as these two cars roched em down the strip. It was
hella cool. All night long, cars kept rolling in. At one time
their had to have been 50 Imports. Thats big for our little raceway.
The best thing we saw was what happened next. This
kid from INver Grove Heights was their and we dared him to roll
through the corn fields in his Ford F-350. To our delight he did.
And we all rolled laughing as we watched his headlights cruising
through the cornfield making his mark. He finally came back and
his truck was covered in Corn cobs and corn stalks. We helped
him pull out all the weeds and coprn from his underbody. The only
bad thing was that it was his Dad's truck and he scraped the fuck
outa it and busted a head light.
A hile later someone yelled out "50, 50!"
So me and my crew dipped out and they followed me to another strip
I know of. We chilled their for a while untill we thought it would
be safe. I was gonna race some guy in his Truck (which kinda made
me laugh). And when I went to turn around to line up I saw the
cherries commin' at me. I yelled out "cops, cops!" and
floored the gas. Everyone followed me as we gunned it down the
strip to loose the cops. We ended up losing them and "Fartpipe"
and Tim followed me to Holiday cause they needed gas. The cops
drove by and saw us so the pulled a u-turn and blocked us in.
They got out and told us that we needed to get our asses outa
town cause we werent welcome and then they gave "Fartpipe"
a ticket for his exhaust system. Which I thought was kinda funny
cause he has a custom Cat-Back system and Im runnin strait pipes.
Mines twice as loud as his, but they let me go. Fuckin pigs. Anyways,
I met back up w/ Nate and "Rangerguy" at my place and
then we called it a night. All in all, it was a very exciting
nite. We're kind of getting known around the southern metro. So
the cop's ar gunnin' 4 us. So I say fuck em'. Theyre just pissed
cause theyre 45 and realized they've wasted their lives busting
people instead of having fun like us in Visual F/X. More to come
next week. Make sure you come on out.
Bob Hanson
Co-Founder of the web site
Co-Founder of Visual F/X
