Mark Wright’s Blog

You can always tell when it is getting close to Long Beach Grand Prix time.  Streets start getting blocked off, bleachers are erected and barricades are everywhere on the course.  The Grand Prix is one of the funnest events I have been to since I’ve been here. 

This week is the Formula Drift competition.  For those who don’t know, drifting is a form of racing where most of it is done in a slide.  It is actually pretty cool.  I hope to be attending the event this weekend as well as attending the Grand Prix the next week.  However, there is one problem with this, the noise.

Both events are run through the streets of downtown Long Beach.  It would be an understatement to say that these cars are very loud.  The Blue Sand offices are on the 10^th floor of a complex in downtown Long Beach.  You would think being that high up and in an office you wouldn’t be able to hear them.  That is not the case.  It is only Tuesday and already the cars are on the track practicing. 

You are fighting a few impulses.  First you want to stop and look at them and second you want the noise to cease.  It will only get worse over the next couple of weeks.  While my thoughts are on website design and SEO, all you can hear sometimes is the roar of engines. 

The Indy Cars will be even worse.  I can hear those from my apartment complex and on that weekend, it usually is my alarm clock.  The engines are different so instead of a roar it sounds more like a herd of angry bees. 

It is worth the aggravation because the events are truly top notch.  As a racing fan, I love nothing more than the roar of the engines, just not when I am trying to work.