What A Blast!!!
Friday night I got a phone call from a guy I attended the Pennsylvania 500 with. He works as a foreman for a county owned garage. He buys a lot of Kendall oil. The regional Kendall rep. called him asked if he would like to have Kendall’s corporate VIP package for the NASCAR Watkins Glen race on Sunday.
My buddy then called me. OH HELL YEAH!!!
This is what the package included:
• Race Tickets
• Garage Passes
• Pit Passes
• Front and center for driver introductions
• All food and beverages. Breakfast and lunch.
• Seating in air conditioned tower with wait staff
• Hot lap around track in the Toyota official pace car (must sign waiver). This lap was NOT leading the field. But would be before the Nextel Cup cars are on the track. We did 90mph most of the way around. Me and my buddy told our driver not to back off, we wanted the tires squeeling and the engine revving high. He did just that. Here is video of the ride. Turn your speakers on- keep in mind this was recorded with Digital camera, not a video camera. The audio reflects that.
http://s45.photobucket.com/albums/f95/JeffD2/?action=view¤t=DSCN0553.flv
This was quite simply one of the best days of my life. I've documented everything that happened before the drop of the green flag in a slide show. Any NASCAR fans will appreciate the slide show. You'll see many people that you recognize. The show has 190 slides, so grab a coldy before you sit down.
Slide show-
http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/jeffd2dot/slideshow?.dir=/70d9re2&.src=ph
Here's one of me and the #20 in the garage area-