The day began as lazily as the past few days. A shout from mum at around nine in the morning woke me up partly. A grumble, a close of door and another crash with a lazy hand on the fan switch. Ah! back again to my precious sleep! I wake up again to a series of irritating buzzes from the calling bell to find that the servant maid is waiting outside my door. Oh! its that time already? I pull myself to the bathroom and finally after half an hour was clean and dry. After a quick brunch at about 2.p.m and an hour or so on the idiot box, I walked upto the new McD outlet nearby to meet my friends.
From there the journey began. I was first introduced to the luxuries of having a WagonR and its surprising capabilities of easily accommodating eight boys who've just about reached the age of 21 (actually one still has not). We chattered our way through the hustle and bustle of a normal Chennai evening traffic (special mention about the Chamier's Road, Cenatoph Road Junction leading to Kotturpuram). And finally we hit the ECR at about 5:30 p.m. After another 20 minutes of ECR traffic we reached our destination outside the city near Sholinganallur.
First Impression: Why the hell did I drive with 7 crazy boys all the way to this place for 5 minutes on track at the cost of 150 bucks? We enter the track and it was a pleasant sight, atleast for the mechies with me (6 out of the 8). The track was probably around 450 metres in length with U-bend and the regular S curve of a normal racing circuit. The entire track was bordered with stacks of tyres for the obvious and appropriate reasons. We had to wait quite a bit because of a corporate crowd that seemed to be spending its day off there. It was worthwhile because the day was into twilight and added to our excitement. The only dampener being the mechies showing off their technical knowledge on a test model.
We split ourselves into groups of four. The first four was a pure mechies race which was incident free. The only notable happening was that one of the unfortunate four was lapped by the rest atleast once with the race leader doing it twice to earn a extra lap! I was pitted with two other mechis and a tricalite. They let me start the race and the first lap was probably my best. I didn't have any problems. The track basically consisted of a high speed straight with a slight curve on one side of the U and another high speed straight with a S in between. My second lap started with a disaster. Two of the other three flanked me at the beginning of the straight and all three with the accelerator to the floor headed for the slightly narrower curve. And before I know what happened the other two were right in front of me without a gap for me to move ahead. When they did pull ahead I went BAM! on to the chicane. A track man pulled my car out of the misery and I continued my race. After several more laps, a hit onto another chicane, I was chased by the race leader again. I fended him off for the two laps until the chequered flag. It was an amazing experience.
We were all (except for one) for another go on the track. Unfortunately, rain played spoilsport and we had to get going. We headed for the relatively new Foodcourt at Acendas for dinner and hit the road home. It was fun to be part of an injury free accident. And it was a nice change from the dull life at home that has become a regularity for the past two months.
From there the journey began. I was first introduced to the luxuries of having a WagonR and its surprising capabilities of easily accommodating eight boys who've just about reached the age of 21 (actually one still has not). We chattered our way through the hustle and bustle of a normal Chennai evening traffic (special mention about the Chamier's Road, Cenatoph Road Junction leading to Kotturpuram). And finally we hit the ECR at about 5:30 p.m. After another 20 minutes of ECR traffic we reached our destination outside the city near Sholinganallur.
First Impression: Why the hell did I drive with 7 crazy boys all the way to this place for 5 minutes on track at the cost of 150 bucks? We enter the track and it was a pleasant sight, atleast for the mechies with me (6 out of the 8). The track was probably around 450 metres in length with U-bend and the regular S curve of a normal racing circuit. The entire track was bordered with stacks of tyres for the obvious and appropriate reasons. We had to wait quite a bit because of a corporate crowd that seemed to be spending its day off there. It was worthwhile because the day was into twilight and added to our excitement. The only dampener being the mechies showing off their technical knowledge on a test model.
We split ourselves into groups of four. The first four was a pure mechies race which was incident free. The only notable happening was that one of the unfortunate four was lapped by the rest atleast once with the race leader doing it twice to earn a extra lap! I was pitted with two other mechis and a tricalite. They let me start the race and the first lap was probably my best. I didn't have any problems. The track basically consisted of a high speed straight with a slight curve on one side of the U and another high speed straight with a S in between. My second lap started with a disaster. Two of the other three flanked me at the beginning of the straight and all three with the accelerator to the floor headed for the slightly narrower curve. And before I know what happened the other two were right in front of me without a gap for me to move ahead. When they did pull ahead I went BAM! on to the chicane. A track man pulled my car out of the misery and I continued my race. After several more laps, a hit onto another chicane, I was chased by the race leader again. I fended him off for the two laps until the chequered flag. It was an amazing experience.
We were all (except for one) for another go on the track. Unfortunately, rain played spoilsport and we had to get going. We headed for the relatively new Foodcourt at Acendas for dinner and hit the road home. It was fun to be part of an injury free accident. And it was a nice change from the dull life at home that has become a regularity for the past two months.
