[StoOgE]

So,

After (mostly) having recovered from the race weekend, I have to give the organizers and the city some really big kudos for pulling it off without a hitch.

I parked at the expo center and made it to the track in less than an hour (including parking) every day and never took more than 2 hours to make it home after the race. Much much better than I thought it would be.

The race itself was amazing (with tons of on track passing!), the facilities aren't ready, but everything still went well.

Of some interest to people here, there is a 250 foot observation tower at the track that you can go up. I think it costs 30 bucks or so to go up, but it seems like it would be a good view.

The Fan Fest downtown was a bit disapointing. There were tons of race fans downtown, but it seemed like all of the Austinites decided to stay as far away as possible from downtown this weekend.. 6th street hardly had anyone on it. the bars around the fan fest (3rd/4th) were packed, but a lot more people should have come out.

It was certainly not the cluster some were predicting.