Red Bull Air Race in Detroit

[Princedietrich]

This mean I don't get to share any of the bounty of Maker's you'd be smuggling in?:bawling:

 

[TWA]

What's the big deal about not going to Canada? I've never crossed the northern border, but is it that much of a hassle?

 

[Princedietrich]

Wow, some dude is selling a pair of 2-day ticks in section 4 and the current bid is 182.50!

Makes me half tempted to sell mine...

there's also some bozo who's auctioning off, for $1000, the opportunity to bring 6 people to his apartment and watch the race from his balcony. Smells like a scam to me.

 

[Princedietrich]

Kirby Chambliss wins it in Detroit.

Saturday qualifyers cancelled due to high winds, so everything went down on Sunday.

Now I just gotta go nurse my sunburn.

 

[TWA]

That's all you've got? Come on man, pics and more details please.

 

[goodgig]

Some nice pics here...
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1029&message=28007292&changemode=1

 

[Princedietrich]

That's all you've got? Come on man, pics and more details please.

Oh trust me, if I had pics or more details I'd share em. But I couldn't see a bedanged thing due to strategic placement of trees and tall people standing with kids on their shoulders.

I do know that one of the racers was DQ for flying too low through a gate, but nobody clipped a pylon throughout the day.

Oh, and the Red Bull helicopter pilot is just as crazy if not more crazy than the racers. He demonstrated the course by flying it in the camera helo, complete with super-tight turns and the cuban 8 at the halfway point.