Since the girls are done with their performances, and we don’t have anything else to do, Kris and I decided to drive up to Daytona and take a tour of the Speedway before calling it a trip and heading back to my parents’ house for our last night in Florida. We were going to stop when we were there in December, but it was late in the day and the girls really could have cared less, so we put it off.
Obviously, the racetrack is huge. And I didn’t know exactly what we’d be seeing. The description of the tour didn’t really get specific. And with the Daytona 500 only being a week away, I thought there may be a lot of things/areas on lockdown preparing for the race. But I was wrong.
We were in a tram being towed by a big Chevy pickup truck (at least I think it was a Chevy). We got to see the winner’s circle, some of the inside track areas (there is actually a smaller track on the infield) the driver’s meeting area, a press area where they do the press conferences after the race, some of the garage areas, and then up into the remodeled stands. Like I said, the track is HUGE! And there was actually some sort of “driver’s experience” you can take. For the sum of something like $157 and change you can sit in the passenger seat of a race car while a professional driver takes you around the track and nearly 200 mph. There were actually people doing it while we were there. I had at first thought that it may have been some race team Yeah, it would have been fun, but not for that much. Maybe that is a birthday present/Christmas present idea for Kris.
Overall, not a bad little 90 minute tour.
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