I had never been to a NASCAR race before, and neither had hubby, and know nothing about it basically aside from watching the occasional race on TV, he wanted to go to one for the longest time. So his best friend Jay, who he grew up with here in Pittsburgh, but now lives in Richmond, VA (where I grew up and how Doug and I met thru him) got us tickets for Doug’s birthday which was on the 7th of Sept.
Well it was a blast. Went down to the racetrack around 2pm, walked around, saw all the trailers etc and the people losing their minds at them filming for the Speed Channel on site. Saw many drunk rednecks, too many fat chicks wearing too tight clothing. Saw three people getting arrested etc…
I wore my Steelers T-shirt and had countless people shouting “Go Steelers” at me!!! 
We had the Penn State game on the camping TV for the tailgate party playing (too bad the game sucked), cooked up some eats, drank lots of beer…you get the picture…
We had 4th row tickets on turn 2 (where all the wrecks happen) :eek: It was hella LOUD omg I was so glad my dad gave me ear thingys (I want to call them ear muffs!) I did wish I had a headset that I could hear the announcers/drivers on b/c w/o sound it’s pretty surreal, and quiet! LOL I had no idea what was going on, just cars going fast in a circle and an occasional wreck. And the smell…ah the smell…yessssssssss…Here are the pics…
Doug’s friend Jay with a random Steelers fan who was wearing a Monogohelia something or other hat who is from Pgh…(like jay and doug the hubby are)
Inside (man it’s HUGE! 110,000 people) :eek2:
I was the quick draw on the fly over :naughty:
The “parade” of cars before the start…
yep the dude in front of us had a “steelers” lanyard on :steelers: LOL
Goin too quick, should have changed my shutter speed!!! Oh well…
Doug, and me, in my princess leia ear thingys
tried to take a short vid w/ my camera, it was so freakin loud that the camera didn’t record the sound very well
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