As noted earlier, Ken, official oldest child of NewMexiKen, is celebrating his birthday today. Yesterday he celebrated one of his birthday gifts:
The Audi Sportscar Experience has been created to allow you to enjoy the highest performance vehicles that Audi produces while increasing your skills so you can extract the most performance from your car. The Audi Sportscar Experience is for the enthusiast, the person who loves to drive and has an appreciation for the fine art of constantly improving his or her driving skills. Using a variety of vehicles from Audi’s R, RS and S categories, this program was developed to be the ultimate experience in an automobile.
His spouse reports: “Apparently, Ken had accidentally called me on his mobile. It was in his pocket while he was driving. So, I get this voice mail that is basically static and silence and then: ‘zooooooooooooom….zoooooooooooooooom.’ It went on and on and on.”
He was driving an Audi R8 at Sonoma’s Infineon Raceway.
Update: Here are photos of Audi R8s on the track taken by Ken’s passenger. Click images for larger versions.
My question to Ken: Why are these cars in front of you?
The pictures are of turn 6, a long 180-degree turn that drops at least 50 feet in elevation. Cars are probably going 75-80 mph at this point.
Happy Birthday, Ken! Sounds like an awesome experience!!