Dallarax19
Builder -Dallara Replica
Now and again I get to visit cool places for my profession. This trip I visited Pininfarina
In this location the wind tunnel is active but the old development center and factory are in a state of decay (the new is in Cambiano)
My visit coincided with a Turin Holiday so I took the opportunity to walk around the city as much as I could in a day. I don't know the name of the area I was walking through but there was a small car show in the Plaza. Here are the pics:
This cracked me up, the interior of the X was just a mess
Some random car pics, this Ferrari was just parked in the middle of the street. Parking was around the corner but for this guy he just put on his flashers.
Some cars in the "hood"
I particularly like this one
I also visited Germany and did my normal round of activities. I have an ongoing challenge with the engineers in our European office and we do track events. This time only two of us could go but we went to the Arena of Speed
http://www.arena-of-speed.com/de/infos/kartbahn.html
Still quite a bit to knock off to run with the fast guys but not too bad for a track I had never run before. I had the third fastest lap time out of our group of 10-12 guys with 0.015 seconds between me an the top guys time mg: I had two interesting comments, the first was from a local guy, the second fastest lap time guy and I kept trading off places. He said to me " It it good to see there is an American that can race" I took that as a compliment . The second comment was from the track manager that handed out the time sheets and called me over and said "you are fast but most impressive is you are very consistent" .
The final evening of the trip I met up with Ulix again and I got his debrief on his new engine build; we always reflect on Xweb posts too. One thing we both commented on is how fantastic Steve C's ultimate SOHC write up is. I hope Ulix will post his story of his engine build because it is crazy great.
In this location the wind tunnel is active but the old development center and factory are in a state of decay (the new is in Cambiano)
My visit coincided with a Turin Holiday so I took the opportunity to walk around the city as much as I could in a day. I don't know the name of the area I was walking through but there was a small car show in the Plaza. Here are the pics:
This cracked me up, the interior of the X was just a mess
Some random car pics, this Ferrari was just parked in the middle of the street. Parking was around the corner but for this guy he just put on his flashers.
Some cars in the "hood"
I particularly like this one
I also visited Germany and did my normal round of activities. I have an ongoing challenge with the engineers in our European office and we do track events. This time only two of us could go but we went to the Arena of Speed
http://www.arena-of-speed.com/de/infos/kartbahn.html
Still quite a bit to knock off to run with the fast guys but not too bad for a track I had never run before. I had the third fastest lap time out of our group of 10-12 guys with 0.015 seconds between me an the top guys time mg: I had two interesting comments, the first was from a local guy, the second fastest lap time guy and I kept trading off places. He said to me " It it good to see there is an American that can race" I took that as a compliment . The second comment was from the track manager that handed out the time sheets and called me over and said "you are fast but most impressive is you are very consistent" .
The final evening of the trip I met up with Ulix again and I got his debrief on his new engine build; we always reflect on Xweb posts too. One thing we both commented on is how fantastic Steve C's ultimate SOHC write up is. I hope Ulix will post his story of his engine build because it is crazy great.
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