I went down to New Hampshire Motor Speedway over the weekend to watch some motorcycle racing. As we drove up to NHMS entrance, I noticed that the new sign at the road is now in place:

They've spruced up the entrance:

As I made my way through the tunnel:

I love the painting on the tunnel. If I remember correctly, it just used to be white so it’s a nice touch.

When we got to the infield, there were people walking around in tank tops and flip flops so I knew right away it was a very relaxed environment. There were tents, campers and motor homes all over the place.

We decided to sit in the stands at turn 3 and watch practice for an hour or so before having to sit through a corner worker class. At that time I still hadn't decided if I was going to attempt flagging.

All day people were zooming around on little bikes like this:

It took a couple hours, from start to finish, to go through the corner-worker class. I decided during the class that it wasn’t something that I should try. I just had a feeling that I would have made a mistake, waving the red or something under a caution and would have had half of the riders stopped on the track. I wanted to watch the racing anyway and have free reign of walking around and checking things out.

It's a pretty good gig though. If you decide you would like to try corner working, your track admission of $25 will be reimbursed and lunch will be provided. Plus you can camp in the infield for free for the weekend. I bet it's pretty fun at night... Here’s what you do:

-- Pay the admission fee at the gate, sign the waiver, get the bracelet

-- Report to the scales area down by the media center (if you don’t know where it is, just ask someone, likely they will know) find someone dressed in white and tell them you want to attend a class. They will show you where to go.

-- Attend the corner working class, it typically takes 2 hours. They do the class on Saturdays at 9 a.m. on race weekends

-- At lunch time, find the appropriate person (they tell you in the class who to find) You will get a voucher or something like that so on your way out you can get reimbursed. I believe you must flag at least half the day to get reimbursed.

That’s it. How can you beat it? Here’s the schedule for the rest of the summer.

Here are a few views from the day:

All for now...

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