The Pitstop
This isn’t quite in time for Father’s Day, mostly because it took me a little bit of time to get permission to use the photos, but these photos of club racer Mark Domo and his son Tyler working the pitlane at the recent Grand-Am Continental Challenge are timeless examples of how motorsports bring generations of men together.
Mark wrote to me that he and his son
… were given the honor of being part of the pit crew for the Grand Am races at MidOhio Sports Course.
It was a great opportunity to spend time with my son and to share some of my passion. It was my son’s first exposure to a race of this magnitude. While my boys accompany me to club racing events, neither of my boys had ever been to a pro racing event like this. We had Tyler help us with miscellaneous tasks in the paddock and had him operate the “lollipop” which makes the pit space more visible as the car pulls into pit row.
I can’t wait until my son’s old enough to work a pitlane with me… and by “work a pitlane with me” I mean “do tire changes during NASA enduros and help me from my wheelchair to the race car.”
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By the time your son is old enough to change a tire in the pit, science will have developed an exoskeleton for you to wear that will look like you when you were twenty. At least, that's what the Singularity proponents keep telling me. I keep asking, "I'll be like a twenty year old again - in all respects?" and look down at my crotch. They fall silent.
Nice use of HDR in the photos.