On Thursday, we set up at the Internation Motorsports Hall of Fame Museum at the Talladega Superspeedway in anticipation of a weekend of race fans touring the facility prior to catching the action on the Track this weekend. After calls to most of the equipment rental companies and a three hour round trip to Birmingham, we were up and running, only to find that our air compressor couldn't quite keep up with the air demands. A quick call to our local Praxair Territory Manager Melvin Gillison promises air the following morning.
Friday Offered a promising day of demonstrations to the public and Melvin was on site first thing with a truck on the way. Hooked up with air, we began cutting with both our Torchmate 2 Small Shop Machine as well as with the new 2x2 machine that I have affectionately named "Junior". After a short time cutting, our power generator began to fail and we were once again stalled to demonstrate our stuff, but our customers, some of whom had traveled from Houston, Texas after hearing that we would be here, were able to see the machines and have their questions answered. Once racign started, the place became eerily quiet, so we packed up our display and went off to join the fun at the track.
Friday's race was the ARCA 250, which, as we understand it, is the training ground for full blown NASCAR drivers. Training ground or not, the racing as we saw it was action packed from the start! This crash happened just a few minutes after we settled into the grandstand.
The last two laps were some of the most exciting I've ever seen, and as you can see from the photo above, the "drafting" was intense! The winner this day was an 18 year old kid who seems to have a promising future as a driver in the big show. More from "Dega" to come!!!
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