Meridianian City Journal

Al Summers on April 11th, 2011 wrote:
Whenever I go to Angelorium It always has a festival atmosphere and it's always a great race. Atleast from behind the wheel. National Stadium hosts two races a year on the quarter mile oval, the Capital City 300 and the Leafson's Cola Company 300, one in the early fall, another in the late spring, so the weather doesn't change much between the two races, but from season to season it changes drastically with the swealtering North Meridianian summers. Since Last November I haven't been on track, no one has with the testing restrictions, and it looks, from the pictures i've seen, that the track has really been baked this summer meaning that the track will have alot more grip but will make tires look like they've been shot with a magazine out of a MAC-10 from the abrasivness of the surface, and we're turning for about 40 seconds every minute, and running about 4 laps a minute, you've got some dead tires pretty fast. But that's more for [Crew Chief] Andy [Archer] to worry about, I'm going to spend the next few day's having fun.

Thursday, April 7th: 6:30 PM

Exit 153 on A-93 in Angelorium.


Red Roof Inn at Embassy Village

Just got into the Hotel, from our shop in Emersonville, It was only a 240 mile journey but because it had 125 miles on two-lane backroads and two lane highways, it took almost five hours to get here, so i'm ready for a nice nap at the hotel. We're staying at a Red Roof Inn near Embassy Village, right across the street from the Shudonese Embassy, towmorrow i'll probably stop by and see one or two of them to learn a bit but for now...night, night

Friday, April 8th: 9:30 AM




Well I woke up this morning and every year, I have this little tradition of going to see Sophie at her little Kitchen in Embassy Village that she's had since 1963 at that place. I order some Pancakes and a Black Coffee and then i'm off to the Cattalian Embassy to learn a little from there. From living so long in such a liberal state as Meridiania, I was suprised to learn about the strict laws of the Holy Kingdom about marriage and other things which are so different than they are here.

Friday, April 8th: 12:15 PM

The team got here really early at about 8:30, but they were just setting up in the Garage Area under the seating bowl but after a short ride in the team's Holden Rodeo, I'm just now getting here. Andy just finished getting the car setup like we decided would probably be best back at the shop and the first on-track session didn't begin until 12:30 so I still had time to get ready and get in the car for the session's start. Immediately when I got on track, I knew we were too tight and after 4 laps I brought it back in, we went down on the sway bar, moved some weight further back and went back on track, and we were perfect. I ran 83 laps before I brought it back in and we tweaked some more but we were mostly done till qualifying. Qualifying came around and I thought I set down a pretty good lap but wound up 8th.

Friday, April 8th: 4:00 PM

Once Qualifying was over, Nikki van den Nieuwenhuijzen had taken pole, I was 8th and teammate Dan Williams was 6th. Not great but not too bad either. I was in Angelorium and decided I would see a large scale team's shop. About 1 mile from National Stadium was the Headquarters of AGPS and LNCS Team David Bayer Motorsports. Their shop is a large engineering building where they punch numbers all day every day and hope it does good about once a month. They have six-colored lettering on the roof to signify the combined background between Germany and Meridiania which has become a very popular sight, especially from aerial shots. I learned alot that i'll take back to the shop and we can apply down the road.

Friday, April 8th: 6:30PM




By the time I finished there I was too beat to continue but drove around the downtown area to see the Legislative House and Abelland, Practice Arena of the Meridianian National Baseball Team. By 7:00 I was back in bed at the Hotel and getting a good sleep for the race towmorrow.


Raceday infront of 86,000 people. Not that common for us to have that many people infront of us drivers in the MSCRA but National Stadium is always Sold Out. It's one of the best races we have all season. Twenty plus cars on the grid driving around a football field for 300 laps is simply exciting. We started 8th but by lap 20 we were in 4th, we had more of a raceday setup than a qualifying setup. On lap 101, the caution came out, we pitted, and came back out in the lead. On lap 145, going into Turn 3, Logan Wilson came up my inside right as I was going outside a lapped car and ended up catching all three of us up in an accident. Even at the slow speeds we do around the track, I had a big hit and tore up my rear end. It took us 98 laps before we could come back on track and we ended up only running 10 laps before giving up and putting it on the truck. The day ended up having a bit of a highlight overall with Dan winning the race. An upside for the team, but still an unfortunate finish.

Saturday, April 9th: 6:45 PM

University of Regnum Redwoods stadium that will be used for the 2012 MCAU Football Season.

In 1996, I graduated from University of Regnum's Mechanical Engineering Program, and every Saturday Night for four years, I would go upto Professor Jackson's Lecture room and watch the Football Game out the back window on the top floor and saw every game of the Redwood's Championship 1994 season so I decided i'd do it again but for once do it legally. We ended up beating University of Dethridge 35-17