A day at the races

Today I went to the races in Drachten. I got there around 10AM when they were still preparing the strip by putting down some rubber:

I walked around a bit and checked out some cars:

Work on the strip kept on going...

Not all cars were racers.

A big-ass Mustang in between two tiny VW Golfs.

The weather guys forecasted 50% rain which unfortunately turned into 100% monsoon just before the final preparations of the drag strip:

Everything turned into one big puddle and no cars were allowed to drive for at least one hour. Shortly after the monsoon they fired up a huge blowdryer to dry the track and I just walked around a bit more:

This is what you get when front-wheel drive's go drag-racing ;-)

Before the races started there was a Jet Truck show which was pretty cool. I had seen it before though. I reckon this dude shows up at all these events.

There were surprisingly many female drivers.

The track was ready aroung 13:30 and cars (and bikes) were asked to line up.

Japanese dragster... They sound like mosquitoes...

( https://youtu.be/CReMh63zNIA )
This Ford Mustang was sooo loud it nearly made me shit my pants, Very aggressive car, awesome though!

And then, finally the races started!

( https://youtu.be/djsk1TsnymE )

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Proper dragster action

( https://youtu.be/XbO4onoAz4k )

( https://youtu.be/5os4fhJMg4w )
Here's that Mustang again, it took off really fast but it sounds like something went wrong after a hundred or so meters...

( https://youtu.be/q-KNUaUHjnw )
Here's an older Mustang in the back-lane. I doubt there's much original of the car left though ;-)

Picture:

Get ready....

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GO!

Some more awesome cars:

And finally a few shots before I left to go home again:

Would you believe there were even little Opel Corsa's racing?

It was a fun day and I'm happy to better understand drag racing now :-)

The accident

Some accident happened, no idea what was going on exactly...

The walk / my old house

I took the bus to work this morning because I'm going out straight after work! :-)

I decided to walk into town from work, which is about an hour's walk. The weather was great so it was very nice.

I walked past my old house and was able to look inside and see what they've done with the place!
There is a kitchen where my bed once was.

They made a bedroom where my old kitch was and put a wall around it. I would've done the same thing except I would have made the bedroom smaller so that the little window would be in the kitchen. It's a dark hole now, the kitchen...

The living room door is some black metal thing with a lot of glass in it. Glass = OK, black = shit.

The windows got fresh paint but no green which looks odd compared to the other windows.

I continued my walk along the beautiful canals of Amsterdam.

When I got to Mulligans I was hot and very thirsty so I ordered a cold, juicy pint of cider. Wonderful stuff this is!

Gerrit joined me for a few drinks and a great Indian dinner and we left 10-ish. A lot of things changed in the area lately so I was quite amazed to see that whole streets had another look now, like this part of the Rokin.