Last Sunday Justing (the neighbor kid) and I went to the fall NASCAR race at NHMS. This was the first NASCAR race (major) that I had attended and it was certainly exciting to be amongst the crowd and to see the race live. Here are a few of the pictures I took:
I had pit passes, so we got to go on hte track to see the pit boxes. This is a view down the entire line
Jeff Gordon is my man, so I had to take a picture of his pit stall
Se also crossed the track to get to our seats, and where all the people are is the finish line, where they were doing promotional stuff
We also wondered around the back and caught the color guard practicing
Our seats were toward the end of turn 4, about midway up, so we had an excellent view of the track; the first is toward the finish line, the second to the backstretch, and the third gives a sense of the size of the oval:
The flyover at the end of the National Anthem (couldn't hear the announcer, so don't know what it was. Maybe Cop Car can help me out:
The pace car leading the first several warm up laps before the start of the race:
And, here is a short video of the cars as they are headed for the start/finish line for the beginning of the race:
It looks like a B-17!
Posted by: DCE | September 29, 2013 at 09:54 AM
I agree with DCE. It may well be the replica "Memphis Belle" that has been touring the country. For $450, you too can take a flight on it. If it is the replica, it is not the original "Memphis Belle" (which is in a museum someplace - I forget where"), but an aircraft that did not see combat. Good photo(s)!
BTW: I was talking with one of Cessna's demo pilots at the gym, this morning, who told me that he is heading to NY this evening - carrying a NASCAR driver (female type). He says that he makes a lot of trips for NASCAR - don't know which model of aircraft he's taking, but probably one of the smaller jets (jets are all that he flies demo on.) I don't think he gave me the driver's name; but, I wouldn't have known anything about NACAR. (I told him that you were our family's expert.)
Posted by: Cop Car | September 30, 2013 at 01:16 PM
I agree with DCE. It may well be the replica "Memphis Belle" that has been touring the country. For $450, you too can take a flight on it. If it is the replica, it is not the original "Memphis Belle" (which is in a museum someplace - I forget where"), but an aircraft that did not see combat. Good photo(s)!
BTW: I was talking with one of Cessna's demo pilots at the gym, this morning, who told me that he is heading to NY this evening - carrying a NASCAR driver (female type). He says that he makes a lot of trips for NASCAR - don't know which model of aircraft he's taking, but probably one of the smaller jets (jets are all that he flies demo on.) I don't think he gave me the driver's name; but, I wouldn't have known anything about NACAR. (I told him that you were our family's expert.)
Re-posted to save Bogie the trouble of retrieving this comment from the spam folder.
Posted by: Cop Car | September 30, 2013 at 01:22 PM
And neither actually went to the spam folder - doesn't that just figure CC?
Posted by: bogie | October 06, 2013 at 07:04 AM