Tuesday night, just as I was getting ready to leave, Andres and Pedro (Pres/CEO and CTO of Rovia, respectively) called up to the office saying that they were just about to leave, but then decided to go racing at F1 Boston. I hadn’t been there before, and it sounded pretty cool, so after some hedging, I decided to go for it. Carlos and Omar came along as well, so it was like a little work stress reliever.. It took us ages to get there, mostly because of the traffic, and once we got there we had to wait 2 hours for track time, but it was quite the fun time once we were on the track.

You drive go-karts, but it is an indoor track (they actually have 2), and the track has hills, overpasses, chicanes, etc. It was pretty wild… The races are 15 minutes long, 15 laps, rolling start. It was quite a lot of fun, even though I got severely trounced… :) The first race, I simply think that my car was lame, since I had the pedal to the floor the entire time (no braking), and the second time this guy (not from Rovia) kept ‘fighting’ with me, jumping the green flag (he got penalized for that), passing me on yellows when the corner marshalls weren’t looking, spinning me when he could… It sucked a lot…. :)

All in all, it was a ton of fun, and I will go back, but not too soon… It was quite a lot of money ($25 a race)…