Important lesson

[bbones]

When they are close enough to knock the hat off your head, you are too close. 160+ mph...18 inches away as they came past me. I hope someone out there got a shot of it.

http://studio819.smugmug.com/photos/39512371-L.jpg

I spent the next morning thinking about it a bit more and how crazy my placement was. But at the time I was laughing my ass off.