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Monday, October 12, 2009

Nascar and the Fan Walk.

We went to the Speedway on October 4th for the Sprint Cup Challenge and did the Fan Walk. Call it a Fan Marathon. The Kansas Speedway lets fans walk under the track to visit the crew areas in the center of the raceway. My husband and I got the fanwalk tickets with our Sprint Challenge Cup tickets. He won the Nascar tickets through a raffle at his work. Great seats, fourth turn. For those of you who don't know what that means, the fourth turn is where the cars go from Pace Car speed to RACE speed. Intense.
Video Below.

When my husband won the tickets, we decided it was a once in lifetime thing because we would never spend that much money for tickets. Pricey little tickets they are.

The speedway is a local great tourist attraction and we were really excited about going to see what Nascar is all about. We buffed up on race facts and watched the Nascar 101 videos on Nascar's website and packed our lunch for the 12 hour day. Yea, we're that cheap.
What we didn't know was the amount of walking involved. Holy Moly. From our car to the Stadium, then you tour all these booths collecting cool trinkets for FREE. So of course, we had to go to each one.

And then the fan walk --

(around the stadium from our seats, down five flights of steps, through a tunnel, up several flights of steps, walk around the cars and drivers, then down several flights of steps, through the tunnel, UP five flights of steps, and around the stadium back to our seats). Totally worth it.

Watching them test the cars to see if they meet specs before the race. Watching all the highly involved fans. A completely different sub-culture in our backyard that we never witnessed before.
Many sore muscles and much sunburn later, we have lots of fun memories. So glad I've been losing weight or I NEVER could have done it.
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It was FUN! Another thing that losing weight has helped me be able to do.
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These videos are taken from our seats. Zoom Zoom.
And the winner was Number 14, Tony Stewart. Here's the final line-up on the tower. Jeff Gordon was second and Greg Biffle was third. All three turned in a great competition to the finish line.

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