NASCAR

My turn to blog! So this weekend I went to my first NASCAR race. I went to the Nextel All-star challenge at Lowe's Motor Speedway. It was fun! I got to sit in the suites so I was away from the crazy crowd. It was fun though, the Speedway is so big. One lap is 1 1/2 miles. In the middle of the track (the infield) they have all the trucks that brought in the race cars and the garages. They also have a camp ground which people bring their campers/trailers in and camp out all week. Apparently there is a waiting list to get to camp out there. I've been to the Speedway before when it was empty and got to go into the infield but its VERY different when there's an actual race going on. There are over 200,000 people there.

We were in a great suite which was close to the finish and we also got to see a really crazy wreck - 12 cars were involved. Basically the race is set up in heats where they do 50 laps then the top few go on and do 30 laps then the final race is like 12 cars that do 20 laps. I even got to go onto the "roof" and see everything from above.

Don't worry I'm not turning into a redneck. It was just something cool to experience once in my life. At least I went to the short race, after like lap 20 i started to lose interest and then the crash happened. yay crashes! The race next weekend - the coca-cola 600 is 400 laps!! Good thing I'm not going to that one.

Yesterday I went out on my friend's boat to Lake Norman, so pretty outside.

-RD