Life as We Know it : NASCAR

I bought the tickets in July and on November 14th the long wait was finally over. Ethan and I attended our first NASCAR event.
OH! MY! GOODNESS!!! Talk about an experience!! It was literally one of the coolest things I have ever done. I absolutely loved it.

The main event was on Sunday so we didn't get to see the one NASCAR name I know race, Jeff Gordon, but instead, we watched the truck race. These trucks were probably about the size of Mini Coopers and fast.

Everything I know about NASCAR stems from Lightning McQueen so it was fun to try to figure out what was going on. I didn't know this but the entire race is won and lost by crashes and my goodness were there a lot. They totally prepare on crashing a lot. Every crash they would have all the cars slow down behind the pace car as they cleaned everything up. It was crazy. And talk about loud! I mean LOUD!!!! I'm just glad we had our ear plugs other wise we would have been hurting.

Some of the fans! I loved it! The race hasn't started yet so no one has their gear on yet

We think 88 was their son because he was in first most of the way and then wrecked bad. I mean BAD! His truck got flattened in the back. As soon as he hit the turn wrong they left. They didn't even stay to see if he was going to race again. It was like they couldn't watch or didn't want to.

I love this video because you can see the sparks coming off of some of the cars. So fun fact. When they do a pit stop they get all new tires. I didn't know that. They get new tires because the tires start to MELT! Not like ice cream on a hot sidewalk but the tar starts to loosen. At one point one of the pit crew guys show us the tar build up that they scrape off the old tires. Crazy right?! ALSO the trucks fish tail on purpose when they are going slow so that no one will pass them. the race continues even when they drive slow like during clean ups and stuff.

The stadium was HUGE with the track being a mile long. The seats fill half of the track and the inside is full of about 200 campers. Maybe more. I'm not a good camper counter. The middle also has the pit crews and such. We sat by the start finish line so we got to see the pit crews in action. It was super fun.