OK so Archie and I had never been to a NASCAR race and decided to start with the premiere event the Daytona 500. We arrived early were parked like cattle, shuttled onto transport pods of various sorts ( I think they commandeer every public transportation bus including school buses for this event) then taken to the track. It is BIG and confusing, and hard to find people who work there to direct you to the right grandstand. We could not find ours well it was on the OTHER side a half mile away so we had to leave go find another shuttle to get there but Harry Connick Jr sang the Star Spangled Banner and that rocked. Outside the track we were greeted with all the colorful trailers of the drivers like Jeff Gordon #24's trailer above (GO JEFF, DRIVE IT LIKE YOU STOLE IT!)
It is amazing how difficult (nay impossible ) it is to take photos of cars doing over 150 miles an hour. We were pretty close to the track as you can see, I had to wear earplugs for the entire race.
A race that started at 1 in the afternoon and was supposed to be over with during daylight hours.................................
Obviously as this photo of a wrecked car right in front of our bleachers attested to it did not finish on time. Yes those are flames licking underneat that car.
Wrecks in the daylight too and yes there is an infield lake that some poor waterskier was skiing on the entire time the race went on. TOO COLD FOR ME!
Then the sun set and it was lovely ( but cold) and a couple of hours were spent patching a hole in turn one. I think they could have called the Van Buren County TN highway Dept and gotten it fixed faster.
Alls well that ends well, we had a great time, got to yell and scream with all the NASCAR fans, had great seats, maybe we'll go to Taladega next!
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