Nascar track
 

Yesterday I got to do something I never thought possible. I got to drive on a nascar track Texas Motor Speedway and actually be doing over 100 mph. It was paced by a camaro and a few chevy pick up trucks to keep you in line lol. I was the last car behind all the camaros. It never went less then 70 and I was able to hit 115 a couple of times. I was actually with a camaro5 group and the only Firebird in the whole event. Here is some pictures and a video of it. Excuse my excitement if its sounds a bit corny but was having the time of my life. Ran out of memory so my codriver couldnt finish videoing the whole thing. Check the vid out!

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awesome.

very jealous

:drool:you car sounds bad ass, i normally hate boosted cars but i love yours. thats a dream of mine to drive dega or daytona, or even pocono

very cool AJ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
looks like a great time.............lucky you :lol:

Was amazing. I am sure you guys can hear my excitement lol. The car handled amazing!! I even felt some of the understeer on the banks. This track would definately be scary at 200 ++ for the nascar drivers.. Wish I had someone videoing me from the pits though. I would have loved to hear my ride from the outside. When I watched other cars from the pits. The loudest sounding cars were the Dodges, and the older Camaros. The new ones all sounded so quiet on the track

That's awesome!

your car sounds great!!

i used to love the banked roads of northern california so that track would be very sweet to ride on :D im also jealous of you, but not jealous enough to ruin your good times :D


although im pretty sure nascar speeds are more like 150-180 which are still kinda high but nowhere near as nutty as over 200 :nod:

Nah, they don't average 200 around a 1.5 mile cookie cutter track like Texas, but they will get pretty damn close at the end of the straightaways. Well in to the 190+ mph range

- Justin

Beyond AWESOME:drool: and how many of us would love to open our cars without fear of a speeding ticket. How did you hook up with this group and was there any charge to do this?

thats what tracks are for :nod:

It was a charity event and I only had to donate 30.00 and 10 for my picture on victory lane. I would have paid 100 easily lol. There doing another event on in Sept but wont be here for that lol. Found out about it on LS1Tech in the Texas members section.

Drive out to one and see if they will let you do a dozen laps. I realize "THATS what tracks are for" not that many of us will get that chance!:shock:

lol i was talking about road courses and drag strips which are available to 90 percent of the general public :nod: i too agree it would be awesome to get to tear around a nascar track...i do know there are small circle tracks that have amateur/non professional races though :nod:

yeah at texas they dive into the turns at right around 199 on new tires..... the better cars will break 200 on fresh tires...

woooo! I'm going fast! shake-n-bake!


looked really cool, AJ. I especially loved, "Smile for the camera.." "uh, yeah, haha I'm not taking my eyes off the road right now, man."

Great vid, thanks for sharing it

Congratz dude, this is amazing

Thanks man. I wanted to share my excitement with everyone hopefully I made everyone laugh too. I know I was like a little kid in a candy store lol.

damn looks like so much fun, very jealous. car sounds amazing an i'd put that pic in for COTM lol