And you do as the city officials ask of you right? The race can wait until the sprinkler cycle is over or so the ordnance says.
The lawn care official who was at home probably got a chuckle out of it anyway, he may have even been a fan of Montoya even. But the end had one driver happy in name and spirit.
Now even though there was rough driving involved I think the night ended rather well.
Wonder if the Richmond track was on one of those odd / even watering days like we get here in Charlotte during hot weather?
One year at Charlotte they had to red flag the race when a sewer line ruptured and raw sewage was coming out of the backstretch grandstand and across the backstretch.
But, I have never seen sprinklers go off during the event.
Also, at Charlotte, all during the summer, track superintendent Harvey Walters used to have big sprinklers shooting water on turn 4 all day during hot weather to try to keep the asphalt from buckling where it kept rippling.
Anyting to differentiate yourself and get a little extra PR I guess!
And I can't even program my sprinkler system!!!! About five years ago, Ann and I had an automated sprinkler system installed for the front yard. The control, inside our house, is supposed to set the days, the times, the length, the zone and everything else. The guy installing the systems programmed it for Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, early in the morning, for 30 minutes a zone. While it never worked exactly how it was supposed to, when we lost all power during a storm a couple of years ago and the battery back up failed, I could not figure out how to reprogram it. I read the instruction book over and over, looked at all the little pictures, tried and tried and tried. Could not get it. I called "the man" and he sent an employee to program it. Didn't work right. Called again, came back did it again, didn't work right. Long story short, we have had half a dozen landscape guys with irrigation knowledge here and it still isn't programmed. I've tried to run it manualy and can get zone one to run 10 minutes and that's it. They say "it ain't rocket science". I know they are right because rocket science is easier.
