[slufan83]

(04-02-2011 03:10 PM)r and k sports cards Wrote:  slufan83, when you go to your first race, NASCAR will be a whole different thing to you then. My first race was here in Phoenix. What made it a little different for me was, I got married at the track, in front of the track bar, on the stage where the band plays. But just hearing the cars start up and seeing them do the pace laps and then the start of the race, GOD was it SO COOL. Of course, Jimmie Johnson won the race and the championship at that race. All he had to do in FL. was start his engine and hes was the champion again.
But to walk around with all of the fans, talk to a lot of them. See everything that is going on. Buying stuff from your drivers trailer and the fumes from the cars, HUMMMMM....LOL, then there is the tailgating, that is something in it's self.
Just go to a race and you will look at NASCAR all together different, trust me.
Ray

Well thanks for making me want to go that much more haha! Gateway is actually only about 45min from me, but I want to save my first Nascar experience to be a Cup race. I've been watching since I was just a little kid, but have just never gone to a race. I grew up watching with my dad and we were big Rusty Wallace and Mark Martin fans. It's a shame we couldn't make it to one before he passed away back in 2005.