Speed News Vol. 1 Issue 6 July : Page 39
Example: Pinnacle Self-erecting pop-up three-person tent: $239 Coleman queen-sized airbed: $29.99 LESSON LEARNED The fi rst time Brian Kenny was unable to drive his car home from the track, he wanted to be sure it didn’t happen again. Matt Thiemann used to drive his E30 to and from the track, but now pulls it Kenny, 51, who owns a on a trailer with a BMW X5. construction company in Simi Valley, Calif., cut two tires because he’d rather hang had,” he says. “At tracks, when he went four-off at the out and bench race with exit of Turn 1 at Willow Springs it’s all gravel parking lots friends Saturday night. He International Raceway. Kenny with rocks, and it’s not pulls his Spec E30 behind his comfortable. An air mattress was trying to keep a Cobra BMW X5, but that’s a luxury Mustang behind him when is so worth it, because it’s he did not always have. he overcooked the turn and not like you’re carrying “Up until three months ago, into the backcountry. You went off in the rocky infi eld. I drove my race car to the “After I damaged the car, just blow it up, and then track with my tent in it,” says we had to leave it here,” says you have a mattress.” the 27-year-old from Burbank, Kenny, who runs his 2008 Someday, he would like to Calif. “The towing is all new to Corvette coupe in HPDE3 with pull his car with an RV. The me. It’s much nicer than going his wife Jan. “We couldn’t accommodations would be home in a very loud, shaky get it home. We decided to more comfortable, he said, race car with no radio, but get a trailer and we started and having a shower would be you’d be amazed how much towing. Then after a couple nice, particularly at racetracks you can fi t in a gutted E30.” of really hot days and a that don’t have them. Now that he has a more couple of really cold days, we “With setting up a tent, you cargo capacity, he has room decided to get a motorhome. always have to get to the track for tools and spares. But he We didn’t want to suffer.” early enough on Friday so also brings along a couple And they don’t. Their you’re not doing it in the dark, of key items to help make 2007 36-foot National especially here [at Willow his stay more comfortable: Pacifi ca diesel pusher has Springs Raceway] where the an air mattress and a pillow, two slide-outs, satellite TV wind is so bad at night,” he which, as elementary as it and an interior as plush as concludes. “Luckily I have a seems, is easy to forget. a Las Vegas honeymoon pretty good tent that doesn’t “When I fi rst started, I was suite. They were pitted next require feeding poles through using traditional backpacking to another couple—also it, so it goes up pretty quickly.” Corvette enthusiasts—and pads, because that’s what I 39
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