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雨

昨晩は物凄い雨が降ってました。友達の家に誕生日パーティーのお祝いで行ったのですが、帰りは雨のドライビング。アメリカの道は水履けがわるいので、高速道路ではアクアプレーンしまくり・・・。ちょっとビビリながらの運転でした！？！（笑）

It rained pretty heavily last night. I was at my friend's house celebrating his birthday but the drive home was pretty miserable. The roads here aren't designed to accommodate the rain and when it rains...the freeway literally turns in to a river!?! Obviously it was a rough drive home doing some aqua plane on 110fwy but was able to get home safely with all my years of training as a race driver!?!

今日も雨はなんだか降ったり止んだり。フォンタナで行われてるレースも中断したりでなかなか終わらず大変です・・・。レースを見ながらトレーニングしようと思って行ったのですが、レースが始まる前にトレーニングは終わってしまいました！？！（笑）なんだか、雨で延期や中断になるレースってドライバーにとったらけっこう大変なんですよね。心の準備がしにくいと言うか・・・、トイレのタイミングを調整するのが大変と言うか。今日はNASCARの選手が大変だな〜って人ごとの様に思っていながら、去年のIndy500の事を思い出す一日でした。

The weather was slightly better in LA but not in Fontana area where the NASCAR race was held. It was delayed...stopped...resume...stopped...and still waiting to finish. It really is tough for the driver when you have that kind of situation because you don't know when to be ready and you certainly have to pace your self on the hydration and plan your restroom before you get back in to the car. It's probably the only time I was happy actually not racing today...seeing all the NASCAR drivers trying to figure out what the plan was. However, it definitely reminded me of the 500 from last year when we had to deal with similar weather situation.