Historic Automobile Races

For the first scout community service project of this year, we worked the admissions booth at the Laguna Seca racecourse. The event this weekend is the Rolex Monterey Historic Automobile Races, which has a fair featuring historic cars in the middle of the loop, with a race going on on the outside.

We had the 6:30 shift so I had to get up before 6:00 to make it there on time. We shared the shift with Sam Pontarolo, Matt Helms, and their families. At 9:00 the Ryans (Michael and Mackenzie) and Liam Cunningham came, and at 10:00 Jason Gnibus and his family arrived. Our job was to direct traffic and check for and sell tickets (for $55 apiece) to the customers as they drove through.




At 10:30 when our shift ended, we got free tickets for volunteering and went to the show. They had a display on a recreational airplane (the ICON A5) that ran on car fuel and got over 20 mpg. Very cool. I also got some photos of the cars going around on the racetrack. I had to set the ISO really high on my camera for them to come out clear. We also got a really good cheese quesadilla and looked at the old cars.