Washing Day!!!

We've had a great time here.  Sachsenring is a great track and beautiful countryside.  Our hotel is in a gorgeous setting. The race yesterday was sooooo cruel. The weather was perfect, we had just had a big feed and settled back to watch with anticipation.  It was so exciting and then boom - all over.  Casey crashed on the last lap.  Oh the pain :(  We went back into hospitality and put up with the crazy Scots for a while and then I decided to go the Start/Finish Line to experience the whole start grid and cameras and umbrella girl hoopla for the next race.  The weather had become overcast and while I was watching them set up on the grid it started to spit a little bit.  Everyone was scrambling for their umbrellas and raincoats and ponchos and I thought "woosies, it's only spitting a bit"  Well.....the skies opened and and within seconds I was drenched.  By the time I ran back to hospitality I looked like I had taken a shower with my clothes on!  It was incredible.  There was thunder and lightning and the wind whipped up ferociously.  Within half an hour everything was good again so I could stand in the sun and dry out.  I did end up watching the start of the next race from the grid.  We headed off early from the track with a few beer stops along the way, but before we got to the gate the boys discovered that the tokens they had been collecting all weekend meant FREE BEERS.  So they had to take advantage of that!  It was good because by the time they had consumed their tokens, the track opened and we got to walk on it!  Steve and Pete decided to have a wrestle in the car on the way home while I'm driving, so luckily the roads are good and my ability to zone out is better.

I'm excited about today because we get to do the washing!! Sad isn't it but even Steve admits he is looking forward to doing his too.  Then Pete and I will catch a train to Salzburg, via Nurnberg and Munich.  If we catch the 12.56 train we should be there by 9.20pm.  Steve will head back with the car to amsterdam.  He may stop again at the Nurburg Ring and do a few more laps but he is undecided as yet.
Talk to you again from Austria. xx