There is no racing ever at Lime Rock on Sunday...an agreement with the local residents to keep peace with neighbors whose houses surround the track and are quite close to it. So the September event there involves practice and races on Friday and Saturday, with a car show on Sunday and then, if it is Labor Day weekend, more racing on Monday.
It was after practice on Friday. The track had shut down...one of my favorite times of day, when the racing tension and noise are gone. If they have gone well, things always seem very mellow and Zen-like. And no time more so than when, wandering around the paddock, I came upon this little vignette.
"A most unusual sight at sundown.
Little concrete madonna on the grass
facing Big Bend.
Bagpier in kilt, shirt, tie, and tam
marching to-and-fro
before her playing hymns
Whie a group scattered or buried
some racer's ashes under the turf
on the inside of the turn
Odd
haunting
Moving"
No comments:
Post a Comment