Day 5, part 1
KC to Denver.
First stop Topeka race track.
I woke up to the sound of sirens, KCPD was out side my window warming up there bikes. That ment I was late again, and I had to scramble to get a ride.
Most of the drivers were warming up there cars when I got down there. So most of the cars were full.
I managed to grab a ride with Reza, aka MRMOTA.com
in his new red 360 spider.
We got a police escort through the city, from the same cops who were trying to give us tickets the night before.
We tore up the city, running 3 wide and 20 cars deep, weaving in and out while the police blocked traffic for us.
I am sure they were happy to see us go, we jumped on the highway for a short hour ride to the track.
Of course Reza and I got lost. and took 12 cars with us, so we were late getting to the track.
When we showed up, there was a drivers meeting going on telling us what we could do on the track.
They let us out for 5 warm up laps, to get use to the track.
Reza was filming with one hand and shifting with the other, as we went around the track.
After the 2nd time around, everyone started to pass each other. The yellow 996 spun in front of us, the 350z went off roading, and the Testerossa got smoked by the Hemi Wagon.
The 2 F40's took the track, and were shadowing each other most of the day. They were giving rides to everyone, and would pit after 4 or 5 laps to switch passenger's.
There was a long line of people waiting to go, so I decided to ride with Dado instead.
We waited in the pits for the 2 F40's to load up, and followed them out on the track.
The F40's could not shake Dado's M3, we were no more than 4 car lengths behind them most of the way around the track.
The only time they would pull ahead is when we came to the strait away.
I could see all the people in the pits cheering Dado on as we went by. Dado stayed with them for 5 laps until the driver of the F40 turned on his hazards.
The video should be great!
I was watching Adrian tear it up on the track, when he came down the strait and missed a shift. There was a big puff of white smoke and his car started to sound ruff.
He wasn't the only one with problems on the track.
There was a Evo that jumped on the track and hurt his engine.
The silver 996 broke a shifter linkage after 3 laps, and had to be towed to the dealer.
Lucky for him it was only 5 miles away, unlucky for him the hillbilly tow truck driver, scraped his rear end and dented the side sill with a 4x4.
Then they got to the dealer, and they didn't have the part in stock, but it was under warranty. They only had 1 Porsche on the lot, and would not take the part off it.
So they had to bribe the guy to take the part off the new car.
It started to rain so we decided to leave for Denver, when 4 police cars showed up.
They had heard we were there, and wanted to take some pic's with the General Lee. We informed them that the General had skipped the track event because it didn't involve jumping the car.
I was going to ride with Dado again, when one of the kid that was in the Testerossa asked if we could switch seats.
I didn't think it was such a good idea, and the kid's dad didn't look to happy about it either.
I warned him that Dado drives a little fast, the kid said that's why I want to ride with him.
His dad said no, but after a few minute's he let him go.
I jumped in the Testerossa and we were off, by the time we hit the highway Dado was long gone.
We were moving along at a good pace when we came across a state trouper parked in the middle, he let us pass and then pulled out and followed us.
He made his way to the front of the pack, and lead the way doing the speed limit.............FOR 20 MILES.
This had to be the smartest cop I have ever seen, we were on the radios daring each other to pass him.
One of the guy's in the Porsche's finally did pull ahead of him, the cop jumped right behind him and got on his bumper.
He escorted us all the way to the tool booths, at 55 mph it seamed like forever.
1 hour later we ran into another cop, he drove along with us for a bit smiling and taking pics as he made his way through the pack until he came to the Prodrive concept truck, he took one look at the plate and pulled him over. The cop impounded the truck for no plate, no insurance, and no vin number.
We were weaving in between our group cars, trying to get to the front so I could video tape them.
I didn't even notice there was a cop following us, he pulled us over for weaving in and out of traffic.
He was sitting in his car running our plates, when the cell phone rang.
It was the kid calling his dad, he said are you guy's getting pulled over? How did you know? Because I heard it over the police scanner. Wait a minute you don't have a police scanner. I don't....... but the jail does.............
He and Dado were in Jail, for running from the police. They had towed his car, and would not tell him what the charges were yet.
The kid could not drive Dado's car back, so he wanted us to pick him up.
The cop gave us an award for stupidity, and we turned around to go pick up the kid. We looked at the map and they were over 2 1/2 hours back.
The kid's dad then made the ultimate father son decision, he called the kid and broke the news.
That guy Dado is your hero, ever since you saw that movie Mischief Destroy you wanted to go on this rally.
This should teach you a leason, you and your hero have to take responsibility for your actions. He fled from the police, and so did you. So you can stay there with him and catch up with us tomorrow when they let him out.
We turned around again and headed for Denver.
His dad told me the deal was, if he got A's and B's in school for a year he could go on the rally.
There were 8 days on this trip. If you want to read more let me know, or I will just crall back in my hole.