Business as usual...

After a few days of endless Depeche Mode ranting, I am back to normal. Well, as normal as I go, anyway. What have I done today? Well, I've worked for 11+ hours as a volunteer marshal for a local street car even at a rally circuit close to where I live. I like to think that I am so idealistic that I would've said yes to this even if cars didn't interest me at all, but I think that might be a lie; me liking cars was a reason why I said yes to do this (although I do believe that volunteering for these things is important, without volunteers festivals and events like these would never ever happen).

These street car events are mostly about styled and pimped out "street legal" cars, mostly Nissans, Hondas, Audi's, BMW's etc. There are, however, a lot of banged up old Datsuns, Opels, Fords and god knows what else making one hell of a racket out on the circuit, most of them are just there to drive and have fun, or drift the hell out of their tyres. And of course you get a few rare and odd ones, like this Ferrari F40, an Alfa, a fair amount of Porsches, a Lotus Exige, Caterhams, a Chrysler 300C with a bloody Hemi in it, and so on.

My work for the day consisted of guarding a gate, checking that people had the appropriate entrance armbands and selling tickets to those who didn't have any. Luckily we were stood at the southern entrance, meaning that people coming through our gate were from the adjacent camp and had their armbands. Ie very little effort on our part. On the downside I spent the better part of 10 hours behind a grassy hill, being deafened by drifting and racing cars, but not seeing anything but the grassy hill. The 250 odd photos I took today I managed to snap during an hour or two where I sneaked away to watch the racing (don't worry, I have sifted through them and ended up with 70 decent ones). Think I might have to go out there tomorrow to take some real photos... *ponder*