Thread: Word is getting around!

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I have always been mad about the fact that drag racing doesn't get the news coverage it deserves. Sometimes you might find results of a big event in a newspaper in tiny print down in a remote corner of the sports section, but that would be it.

If somebody at a drag meet ran in the two's at 350 mph they would probably not get mentioned. You could probably read more about the Iditerod Dogsled Races in Alaska than about drag racing.

Anyway, our daughter lives and works in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and we just returned from a visit with her. While there we took a drive to Abu Dhabi which is another oil-rich state.

I had always wanted to go to Abu Dhabi because I like the sound of the name (I also wanted to go to Timbuktu and Vladivostok for the same reason).

Well, we went into a really fancy big mall to find some lunch, and in the big middle of the entry area was this lighted display. It was about eight feet tall and was promoting an event at a big Formula 1 racecourse they have. I don't know whose blue car that is.

Since I don't exactly understand Arabic I had to get an interpreter to read me the writing at the top. It says "Feel The Heat".

Yep, In the desert. Close to the Persian Gulf.

I feel better now.


Jim