Dega Baby!
// April 28th, 2009 // No Comments » // sports
So I went down to Talladega this year! Man was it awesome!! I haven’t been back to the track in about 10+ years! It brought back some good memories of Dad, Kevin, Brian and me camping for our first ever Nascar race!! This year it was Kevin, Gene (friend of Kevin), Michelle (friend of mine) and myself. We had to meet Kevin at 6:00am, which wasn’t fun! (I’m guessing Kevin is use to that since he has two kids!) We got down there around 8:50am and walked around. We saw a couple drivers signing autographs, which was really neat. It is soo cool, 150,000+ people all walking around and hanging out. Lots and lots of trailers (18 wheeler trailers). We got some ear plugs and we were talking to the sales lady and she told Michelle (her first Nascar race) that her ears were bleeding after her first race. This really scared Michelle. Somehow trusting me and going with the game plan, she continued with us. We all grabbed some food and made our way into the track. She loved it!! The race was awesome! A wreck in the first 7 laps knocked out 18 cars. Including Mark Martin and Jeff Gorden! I believe there was a total of 9 cautions. There was a big wreck with 9 laps to go coming off turn 3 into turn 4. Then the HUGE wreck on the last lap going into the checkered flag! Check it out here (video)!! Everyone was fine, expect 8 people got minor injuries. I’m glad the safey fence did an awesome job! All in All, it was a great day! Pictures will be posted soon on KG’s site.