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On June 9, 2012, 250,000 Girl Scouts of the USA celebrated their 100th anniversary at the Girl Scouts Rock the Mall sing-along in Washington, D.C. on the grounds of the Washington Monument, an event hosted by Girl Scouts Council of the Nation’s Capital. The Smithsonian welcomed Girl Scouts with displays, programs, social media and blogs, discounts, and special merchandise. Enjoy these photos of the festivities that took place at the National Museum of American History, which had 77,605 visitors on June 9, 2012, an attendance record!
95%+ of my miles are highway miles. I don't use a fairing or a windshield, because they are devices of the Devil (my Father).
After holding onto the bars for dear life because the wind was trying to trip me off of the bike I had to stop at about 60 miles and take a rest because my hands were cramping (Yeah, I'm a wuss...plus I'm gettin' old and I've been sleeping with Arthur too much.) so Melissa and I made Riverdale Park in Riverdale, a beautiful spot on the Saint Johns River.
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Here you see the white caps on the Saint Johns, and the stacks belong to the Georgia-Pacific paper mill near Palatka.
Geez, looks more like the ocean than a river, doesn't it? The wind was really cranking!
Grainy photo because it's taken with my point and shoot's zoom lens. Get it...zoom lens? ROFL
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Check the set, "Monday's Ride:"
www.flickr.com/photos/motorpsiclist/sets/72157629524486602/
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Sanford School of Public Policy 2015 Graduation Ceremonies
Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy Studies, Master of Public Policy, Master of International Development Policy and PhD in Public Policy students graduated from Duke University on Saturday, May 9, 2015. (©2015 Kevin Seifert Photography | kevin@kevinseifertphotography.com | 919-208-9458)
Hong Kong Culture | Modern Hong Kong History started in 1841.
Visit Hong Kong - one of the World‛s GREATEST Cities!
Hong Kong is blessed with some of the most amazing panoramic city views in the World today and even better 75% of the land area consists of country parks and wetlands plus we have 575+ named hills and peaks offering some great hiking trails and lots of very fine beaches and remote islands - in a nutshell, Hong Kong is full of surprises!
Victoria Peak, The Peak Tram, Victoria Harbour, The Big Buddha | Po Lin Monastery, Tai O Fishing Village, The iconic Star Ferry, The Ocean Terminal Deck, The iconic Street Tram on HK Island, TST Promenade, Cheung Chau Island, Peng Chau Island, Temple Street Night Market, The Ladies Market, Chi Lin Nunnery | Nan Lian Garden, Statue Square, The Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple, Tsz Shan Monastery, Tai Kwun Centre, Hollywood Road, The Mid Levels Escalator, Aberdeen, Stanley, The West Kowloon Cultural Centre, Food Markets... the list goes on and on of cool and unusual places you should “visit or do” when you come to Hong Kong.
Book a Private Tour of Hong Kong to maximise your time here and gain an in depth understanding of this amazing city, in addition we have a great food culture and night life scene with some 15,000 - 20,000 Restaurants and Bars officially and unofficially and any and all visitors should take a private or group food tour in Hong Kong!
Hong Kong has one of the very best public transport systems in the world (MTR Subway and Buses + 18,163 Taxi‛s) they are cheap, reliable and easy to use.
Hong Kong - Some Facts - Population 7.5 Million people | 92% Ethnic Chinese | English is an Official Language along with Cantonese and Mandarin | 1,114 sq km or 430sq miles of diversity | 263 Islands | People | Street Scenes | Traffic Scenes | Nature Scenes | Animals | Buildings | Shopping | Gardens | The Countryside | Islands and the Ocean + Daily Life and anything interesting, all Districts, Hong Kong
☛.... and if you want to read about my personal views on Hong Kong, then go to my blog, link is shown below, I have lived in Hong Kong for over 50 years and completed 2,324 Private Tours of Hong Kong between 8th April 2011 and February 11th 2020
✚ www.j3consultantshongkong.com/j3c-blog
☛ Photography is simply a hobby for me, I do NOT sell my images and all of my images can be FREELY downloaded from this site in the original upload image size or 5 other sizes, please note that you DO NOT have to ask for permission to download and use any of my images!
Built by George IV in the early 19th century, this out-of-place building would look more at home in India than in a modern seaside English resort. It's gaudy and pretentious and pretty cool to see.
Source: livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/43885
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St Giles Cripplegate, Barbican, London
St Giles has the most startling setting of perhaps any English medieval church. A foundation of the 11th Century, the church was rebuilt after a fire in 1545, that is to say right at the very end of the Medieval period, and looks what it is, a big late Perpendicular East Anglian church, the tower rebuilt in the 17th Century but otherwise looking as if it might be beside the market place in a small Norfolk or Suffolk town. This is disingenuous of course, because the reason for it is the same in both cases, fabulous wealth on the eve of the Reformation.
This parish was particularly badly affected by the Great Plague of 1665, and Elizabeth and Wayland Young suggest this was because of the open drains running through the churchyard. St Giles was too far north to be burned in the Great Fire, but reaped a benefit from it because of the large number of people relocating to the parish from nearer the river. The drains were culverted, and there was plenty of money for repairs and refurbishments. In the 19th Century the church was made more Gothic than it was already with the addition of battlements along the aisles and clerestories.
Along with most of the area to the north of Cannon Street and the south of Old Street, St Giles was completely destroyed on the evening of 29th December 1940, when high winds and the lack of firewatchers due to the Christmas holidays conspired to fan the flames created by wave upon wave of German bombers. For more than ten years St Giles stood a ruin, as the City Corporation pondered what to do with the area. That St Giles would be rebuilt was not in question, but it would need to be as part of the unified whole envisaged for the area north of London Wall, the largest single bomb site in the whole of the British Isles. The usage of the area would need to be largely residential, as the Corporation was concerned about the depopulation of the City, but should also include spaces for arts, recreation and education. Cost was not a factor, there was plenty of money available.
The result was the largest single building project in England during those post-war years. The Corporation accepted the plans submitted in 1956 by its favourite architectural practice Chamberlin, Powell & Bon. The new area would be home to high-rise and low-rise residential buildings all linked together through gardens, with an arts centre at the core. Significantly, it wasn't intended that retail spaces would form a significant part of the scheme. In a brave and revolutionary gesture, the new scheme would be entirely traffic free, the road carried under the site through a tunnel. A revised plan of 1959 allowed for the walkways of the new scheme to be linked into the raised walkways planned to spread like a web throughout the City - although fortunately, apart from London Wall and Upper and Lower Thames Street, this web was never built. The new scheme took its name from the main street which had run through the site, which in turn was named for a medieval fortification to the north of the Wall. And so the Barbican began to rise from the ashes.
With the scheme underway St Giles could be restored, and it reopened in 1960 to the design of Godfrey Allen. Bearing in mind that the interior had been entirely destroyed, and considering the modernist city which was arising around it, the restoration was very conservative, the new interior replicating as far as possible what was there before, some of the furnishings coming from the demolished church of St Luke, Old Street, which had been put in storage. The east end of the chancel was new, but based on architectural details which had survived the 19th Century restoration. There is some decent post-war glass, and memorials to some of the church's worthies including John Milton.
And so it is only outside that St Giles is extraordinary. After twenty years of work the Barbican was opened in 1981, the last great post-war repair project to be completed. The church floats a great ship in a sea of concrete, an illusion furthered by its position beside one of the Barbican waterways. Some memorials have been reset in the brick and concrete. Beyond is the Barbican Centre, and above rise the great shafts of the towers. When they were built they were the tallest residential buildings in Europe, unashamedly modernist in their concrete jaggedness. And yet there is a pleasing harmony to the whole, the contrasting tower of St Giles sticking up perpendicularly to join them. Of course, you wouldn't want every church in this kind of setting, but I think it works here.
There was, of course, an emotional reasoning behind rescuing the City churches after the Blitz, because they had become emblematic of the 'London can take it' attitude. Wandering around the City I am struck that with the possible exception of 30 St Mary Axe, the Barbican towers are still the most refreshingly Modern buildings in the Square Mile, and they are now almost forty years old. Much of the corporate architecture along Bishopsgate is simply dire, especially the awful Heron Tower, and it is hard to remember that the NatWest Tower or whatever it is called now ever looked Modern.
(c) Simon Knott, December 2015
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Local Call number: P001.057m.r
Description: San Diego Pride 1991: People standing in front of the AIDS Foundation of San Diego booth (Peter Cooper is the third person fom the left)
Date: 1991
Collection/Accession: Zak Topor, L2001.05
The interior of Birmingham Cathedral.
We only had access to the main hall area down stairs. Upstairs was no access.
Went for a guided morning tour of St Philip's Cathedral with a group of photographers that are members of Birmingham We Are.
Built from 1715. Cathedral status 1905. Designed by Thomas Archer. J A Chatwin made alterations in the late 19th century.
Memorials in the cathedral.
memorial to William Westley Richards.
He died at Hall Hill, Edgbaston in 1865 aged 76 years.
Also his wife Harriet who died in 1863 aged 73 years.
Also their third son William who died in 1843 aged 16 years.
And George Seale their second son who died in 1863 aged 38 years.
Also Charles Richards their eldest son who died in 1871 aged 47 years.
And of Charles Westley Richards son of the above who died in 1871 aged 1 year and 3 months.
In 2019 is het 75 jaar geleden dat Operation Market Garden plaatsvond. Bij Ede is een grasveld ingericht als tijdelijk vliegveld zoals dat in 1944 was. Diverse historische warbirds, waaronder de Westland Lysander, diverse Mustangs, Hurricanes en Spitfires en een Buchon 109 waren aanwezig. Ook de B-25 van de KLuHV en B-17 Sally B zouden meedoen, maar beide waren helaas verhinderd. Het was deze dag schitterend weer met veel zon, helaas net aan de verkeerde kant waardoor veel tegen het licht in gefotografeerd moest worden. Maar desondanks een prachtige airshow waar we, als deze weer wordt herhaald, zeker bij aanwezig zullen zijn.
2019 marks 75 years since Operation Market Garden took place. At Ede, a lawn has been set up as a temporary airport as it was in 1944. Various historical warbirds, including the Westland Lysander, various Mustangs, Hurricanes and Spitfires and a Buchon 109 were present. The B-25 of the KLuHV and B-17 Sally B would also participate, but both were unfortunately unable to attend. The weather during this day was beautiful with a lot of sun. Unfortunately just on the wrong side, which meant that a lot had to be photographed against the light. But nevertheless a beautiful air show where we will be present if it is repeated again.
Fotos Nuevas 8 de Marzo 2014
Parroquia: San Gabriel
Zona Pastoral: Poniente
Decanato: San Pedro Cholula
Dirección: 2 Norte 4
Colonia: Centro
Ciudad/Municipio: San Pedro Cholula, Puebla
CP.: 72600
Tel: (222) 247 00 28
Fax:
E-Mail:
Religiosos: Franciscanos O.F.M.
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Convento de San Gabriel
Situado en el centro de San Pedro Cholula, el conjunto monumental dedicado al arcángel San Gabriel muestra su importante mole formada por: la barda atrial, el atrio, las capillas posas, el templo, el claustro, la capilla de naturales y la capilla de la Tercera Orden. San Gabriel es uno de los templos más antiguos de México, pues su fundación se remota al siglo XVI, al año de 1549. el convento de San Gabriel se construye en 1549. Se puso la primera piedra el 7 de febrero, por mano de Fraile Martín de Hojacastro, tercer obispo de la Puebla de los Ángeles. Fue concluida y dedicada el 30 de abril de 1532, según se leía en una inscripción que hubo en el arco del coro, que hoy ha desaparecido.
Parish: San Gabriel
Pastoral Zone: West
Dean: San Pedro Cholula
Address: 2 North 4
Cologne Center
City / Town: San Pedro Cholula, Puebla
CP.: 72600
Tel: (222) 247 00 28
Fax:
E-Mail:
Religious: Franciscan O.F.M.
Convent of San Gabriel
Located in downtown San Pedro Cholula, the monument dedicated to the Archangel Gabriel shows his important mole consists of: the atrial wall, the atrium, the chapels, the church, the cloister, the chapel of natural and chapel third Order. San Gabriel is one of the oldest temples in Mexico, since its foundation goes back to the sixteenth century, the year of 1549. the convent of San Gabriel was built in 1549. It laid the foundation stone on February 7, by the hand of Friar Martin de Hojacastro, third Bishop of Puebla de los Angeles. Was completed and dedicated on April 30, 1532, as read in an inscription that was in the arch of the choir, which has now disappeared.
This is a photograph from the second annual running of the Killyon National School 5KM Road Race and Fun Run which was held at Hill-of-Down, Clonard, Co. Meath, Ireland at 11:00 on Sunday 21st June 2015. The race is held as a fundraiser for the local primary school. Killyon is actually a parish rather than a town or village. With that the race started and finished at the well known Hill-of-Down where the Royal Canal and Dublin Sligo rail line run parallel and cross under the Kinnegad (Westmeath) to Trim (Meath) road. The 5KM route took in a final KM on the beautiful towpath of the Royal canal and finished outside Moran's Pub beside the Canal. Overall the race was very well organised with excellent stewarding and organisation. There was a great spread of refreshments afterwards and participants and families mingled and chatted beside the canal. The race took place on Father's Day and the Summer solstice making the day with the longest duration of day light. The race attracted very good local support from the surrounding areas with local runners, joggers and walkers in attendance.
We have an extensive set of photographs from the start and finish of the race at www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157654448993629
Photographs from last year's (2014) race are also on our Flickr account at www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157644887755947
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As mentioned above we take these photographs as a hobby and as a voluntary contribution to the running community in Ireland. Very often we have actually ran in the same race and then switched to photographer mode after we finished the race. Consequently, we feel that we have no obligations to capture a photograph of every participant in the race. However, we do try our very best to capture as many participants as possible. But this is sometimes not possible for a variety of reasons:
►You were hidden behind another participant as you passed our camera
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►There were too many people - some races attract thousands of participants and as amateur photographs we cannot hope to capture photographs of everyone
►We simply missed you - sorry about that - we did our best!
You can email us petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com to enquire if we have a photograph of you which didn't make the final Flickr selection for the race. But we cannot promise that there will be photograph there. As alternatives we advise you to contact the race organisers to enquire if there were (1) other photographs taking photographs at the race event or if (2) there were professional commercial sports photographers taking photographs which might have some photographs of you available for purchase. You might find some links for further information above.
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Class of 2015 Senior Sam
Photography: Rochelle Marie Photography
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This retro collage cover for the Korean VHS release of "The Emerald of Artatama" (1969) promises "Soul Dancing' and plays up the pic's exotic Egyptian locales. Released on the Paekrok label, a three-shift-factory steadfast purveyor of exotic B pix and grindhouse fare. Very very rare now.
A series of shots dedicated to the Dannee and Sam\Sanguine first so called “Night to Remember” something that Dannee indeed always to remember the first and only evening when that mysterious Sam challenged her into contest and his brew her so drunk that her memory of whole night was like erased… until recently when with some unexpected “help” she remembered everything…
Everything about their romantic rendezvous was perfect - the jokes, their travel to misty Grove, where Dannee in attempt to refresh jumped into waterfall and how Sam carried her back, gave her a new dress, then the dancing and the romantic atmosphere, when it was just two of them, two people enjoying themselves, free from responsibilities, doubts and fears at least for a while.
However those joking words of Sam about Dannee losing her dress to an uneven battle with the dirt, that kind compliment about her looking like a golden dragoness in her new scaled dress turned darker as his sympathy and tenderness vanished to savage desire, those moments he never spoke with her about of finally revealed… As his darker lustful side emerged with her immense fear what it might lead too… Dannee managed to soothe his fierce desire in other way then being defiled but for her it has been humiliation, then came the fear and almost despair when she realized she wasn't in Skyrim, but in Oblivion, at the mercy of the Daedric Prince, realizing that she truly didn't know who that mysterious Sam was and trusted him so easily but before she could further torment herself he found her.
He didn’t know what to say, she looked so lost and sad, such a contrast to him. It has been so long he felt himself so happy… she gave him such intense satisfaction he didn’t feel for years, like tidal wave, drowning out anything else in the world. It felt so raw and intimate and personal, even more intimate than if he had taken her. He should have been touching her too, take her to his home, to his bed, he thought guiltily, he should be offering her pleasure in return and giving her the comfort and touch she so desperately needs. But he was drunk and everything was happening all at once, the sensations so overwhelming and new that they destroyed any possibility of coherent thought at that time… But it wasn’t only physical satisfaction, she made him happy even by her company. He felt something coiled lazily deep inside him, something that’s just waiting to be given a chance, and here he is, giving it a chance. He’s letting someone in. But apparently Dannee had different opinion… He tried to comfort her until he realized it would no good, he still could make it up for her, make her smile again, make her really happy but first thing was to erase this whole evening from her mind, because it seems no matter what he will say will help her now, nothing but something like spell, that would not be strong enough to erase her entire memory of the night, but it would suffice in blurring it enough to make her second guess its truth, perhaps labeling it as just another unbidden fantasy without anything that may hurt her feelings…
One magic trick and Dannee found that she was at some new magical looking place with her friend, Sam who looked at her with something like affection, like he craves so much more than her touch and company, like he craves her more than anything else in the entire world…
“Why do you look at me like this, Sam?” The last thing she remembered how he brought her here to breathe a fresh air…
“It is just… you made me so happy, and you are so beautiful, dearie, body and soul.”
The First Presbyterian Church of Lambertville, located at 31 North Union Street, was built in 1854, replacing an earlier building that dating from the 1820's. The church was built adjacent to graveyard holds the burial grounds of many war heroes, including George Coryell, a Revolutionary War lietenant and pallbearer of George Washington, and Sam Holcombe, one of General Washington's spies.
Jean-Claude Nolla, Ambassador, Permanent Observer of France to the OAS
Date: February 11, 2015
Place: Washington, DC
Credit: Maria Patricia Leiva/OAS
Welcome to Raglan Commons, A Residential Tiny Sim & part of the Raglan Shire community! Stroll along the pathways & public parks, Visit whats become the cultural center of Raglan Shire :)
Taken at Raglan Commons - Residential Sim of Tinies, Tinys & Tiny folk, Raglan Commons (84, 6, 3008)
A folding pictorial map of the area covered by the Southern Region of the newly branded British Rail and giving details of resorts, destinations and attractions that could be reach by their services. It also gives details of fares such as the bargain "Leg-Room Special" fares alongside mid-week, Holiday Runabout, Rail Rovers and Group Travel. Their also still, just, advertising Camping Coaches as well as Continental services via the BR ferry routes.
The folder is not dated but the two route diagrams - maps - shown are dated to 1966. They show that various branch lines have already been pruned under the Beeching "Axe" and, of course, there have been many subsequent changes to routes and service patterns particularly in the London Suburban area such as Tramlink and Thameslink.
This is the diagramattic version of the Southern's extensive suburban network that covered much of South London and the adjacent Home Counties. Largely electrically operated this was one of the world's largest and busiest suburban and commuting networks serving the main city termini of Victoria, Waterloo, Charing Cross, Holborn Viaduct, Cannon Street and London Bridge. There have been some substantial changes over the years such as Thameslink, Tramlink between Wimbledon and Croydon and some other losses.
Nearly 600 graduates receive diplomas during College of DuPage's 51st annual Commencement. Pictured: College of DuPage President Dr. Ann Rondeau.
Five P-51's fly in an impressive echelon formation in preperation for recovery at Rickenbacker International Airport.
Signs of the Dublin Airport. I love the "running man" signs denoting emergency exits. You can see two of them on the left. Most signs are in English and Gaelic, as seen in the center of the image. Finally, note that there is a church somewhere in the airport. When I first noticed that, I had flashbacks to Las Vegas casinos.
Jean Michel Arrighi, Secretary for Legal Affairs of the Organization of American States
Date: May 31, 2018
Place: Washington DC
Credit: Juan Manuel Herrera/OAS
A well preserved ruin of a mantlet castle on the Czech-Austrian border, founded around 1358. It stands over the river Thaya, which today marks the border between both states, and is located in the most protected zone of a nature preserve. Many important nobles owned it, and it was many times extended, the old oval part was joined by the younger front part with a new gate in 15th Century, the actual size was reached in the 16th Century. It was captured and devastated by Swedish armies in 1645, after this abandoned and only used for storage purposes. New owners at the beginning of the 19th Century reconstructed the newer part to serve as a hunting lodge and home for the local forester, the Czech tourist club opened the castle to the public in the 20th Century and used it as a hostel. After 1948 the castle ended deep in a prohibited military area, part of the Cold War iron curtain, nobody outside of the army had seen it for the next 40 years. It opened to public again in 1992, and is home to many protected an rare animal and botanical species.
St Nicholas was the bishop of Myra. He is the patron saint of Russia and Greece, many individual cities, and many groups (such as sailors, travellers, penitent thieves, children, widows, and more). His legacy morphed into the character that we now call Santa Claus. This church was not only the basilica he presided at, it is also where his grave is (or should I say, was – about 1,000 years ago, his remains were upped by some Italians and now lie in a couple of churches in Italy).
Oops, looks like Ted is visiting churches, again. This one is Igreja e Mosteiro de São Francisco (Church of Saint Francis in Évora).
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The sides of the nave contain twelve open chapels, built between the buttresses of the wall. This is one of the chapels.
This church was built in Gothic style (with some Manueline influences) between 1475 and the 1550s to the design of Martim Lourenço,
The single, groin-vaulted nave is accentuated by the white mortar on the walls and the columns.
This is the largest nave of this kind to be found in Portuguese churches.
Elliston Rahming, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of The Bahamas to the OAS
Date: April 24, 2017
Place: Washington DC
Credit: Juan Manuel Herrera/OAS
Focusing on continued collaboration between College of DuPage, area business, community groups and others, COD Interim President Dr. Brian W. Caputo welcomed more than 200 local leaders and other constituents at the College’s second annual community breakfast.
Members of the Wyoming Army National Guard present military honors at the memorial service for the crew of Consolidated B-24J Liberator number 42-95559 outside of Casper, Wyo., July 24, 2021.(U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Stew Dyer)
Sigil of the Lockheart Company occupying the Sol system. These inhuman mercs never die, even when the poisonous vapors of the martian biosphere they adapted to breath were filtered out, and there New Babylon brethren became trapped in unknown alien space after the space time rift collapsed ending the golden age.
Mooresville, NC - If there was ever a time to put down some dominate numbers and come away with a couple of segment victories, this was the weekend. It was the Optima "Search for the Ultimate Street Car's" first double points event of the season and it worked out very well for Kyle Tucker and his Detroit Speed 1970 Camaro Test Car at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, MI. See all the pics here goo.gl/s8eWXN
As usual, the Detroit Speed sponsored Autocross and the Wilwood Speed Stop Challenge were the first segments Saturday morning and provided lots of action whether you were participating or if you were just hanging out in the pits amongst the crowd.
Kyle and the Detroit Speed 1970 Camaro were on point from the get go, laying down times hovering in the mid to high :13's until he put down his best time on his second to last run (:13.60) which was enough to claim the top spot and 50 points for the segment victory. Not to rest on his laurels, Kyle was also pushing hard on the autocross and ended up with 2nd place and another 44 points to add to his weekend collection. Detroit Speed dealer and good friend, Billy Utley took the top spot in the autocross driving his DSE "Equipped" 1972 Chevy Nova.
The road rally took place at the end of the day and took off from the speedway and ended at the Lingenfelter Design Collection in Brighton, MI. Thanks for their hospitality, great food, and beautiful cars to look at. It was, also, 5 minutes from Kyle and Stacy's house where Detroit Speed got its start. It was pretty neat to head back and see where it all started.
Sunday was more of the same from Kyle and the DSE 1970 Camaro Test Car. The Hot Lap Challenge gave the drivers a chance to really open up their cars with a 1.9 mile inside road course at Michigan. Kyle's first run of the day would have been good enough to capture first place and the full 50 points but he ended up besting that and put down a blistering 1:23.076 a few sessions later that no one was able to come close to.
Congratulations are in order for Mr. Billy Utley. Billy topped the GTV Class and was awarded his invitation to the season ending event in Las Vegas for the 2nd year in a row! Congrats Billy! We would also like to congratulate Bryan Johnson on his podium finish in the GT class and our very own Project Foreman, Chris Porter, on his podium finish in the GTV class.
Rick Hoback, driving his C5 Corvette, had good runs on the road course on Sunday. Unfortunately, due to another commitment, he could only attend on Sunday. Thanks Rick for flying the DSE flag proudly! Rick wasn't the only one flying the flag, DSE “Equipped" cars were out in full force and ran hard all weekend. If you have been following the Optima events in person or on social media, one thing you will notice is all the "63" images and decals around. The decal is for Todd Rumpke, our friend who drives the Snoopy C6 Corvette. He is in a difficult battle right now, and at the end of the day, we are all a family out there and would do anything to support a friend and fellow driver.
Optima Search for the Ultimate Street Car Michigan Highlights:
• Kyle won the Speed Stop Challenge taking the maximum 50 points during this double points weekend
• Kyle claimed the top spot during the Sunday Hot Lap Challenge
• Kyle finished a close 2nd in the Detroit Speed Sponsored Autocross, finishing just behind Billy Utley.
• Dealer and close friend, Billy Utley, clinched his invite to the season ending event in Las Vegas with a 1st overall in the GTV class in his DSE "Equipped" 1972 Nova
It was another fun weekend full of friends and racing and we eagerly await the next Optima event as it is taking place in our back yard. We look forward to seeing everyone at Charlotte Motor Speedway July 25th - 26th for the next event in the Optima "Search for the Ultimate Street Car" series.