SEMAROUND 2

ROBERT MOORMAN

Months before I was ready to jump on that tin can that would fly me from Philadelphia to Vegas we were hearing about the manufacturers deciding that they wouldn’t be there for whatever reason they decided. Thinking back on the manufacturers’ booths from last year and flipping through the hundreds of pictures I took I knew that for me personally it wouldn’t be a big deal not having them. What would I actually be missing, a few big name celebrities, a model that they had released earlier in the year that I have seen every nook and cranny of on the internet, or an overwhelming design of their newer model that they paid someone else to modify (insert shoulder shrug here)? My first year I was excited to see everything but this year would be different. This year I knew where I was going and what I wanted to see!

As I pulled into the offload area, BTW instead of staying on the strip a group of us rented a beautiful house in the valley so we could see the “normal” Vegas, by the OPTIMA area which had vehicles competing lined up, you could smell the fuel coming through the exhaust pipes as they were warming the cars up for the next round of competition. Now we all know Vegas in November is supposed to be in the 70s during the day, however, they had a cold front coming through so