Re: The Bristol Experience

If memory serves, I believe they're planning to cover the track with dirt and let the SprintCar guys go at it sometime this season. Now THAT should be interesting! Cheers, Steve B. Alan Orton <[email hidden]> wrote: > Bristol is a cool track. The Banking is pretty wild isn't it.<

3 days and 1800 miles later and I am back home from my adventure to the Bristol Motor Speedway to see yesterday's Nascar Winston Cup race. All I can say is WOW. BMS is MASSIVE. For a 1/2 mile track you can't imagine how huge this place is. I got to go courtesy of Dupont so I was fortunate enough to get to go down on the track and walk around the pit's. Extreme banking man. I made a point of examining the transition between turn 4 and the front stretch to see how smooth it was. It was like walking on holy ground for me ;) What a perfect day for a race. Beautiful blue sky, clear and crisp. 135,000 people packed every seat in the house. It was quite a site. Oh yeah, the females in TN are beautiful as well :D Had a blast the night before the race in town with all the locals and visitors alike getting quite blasted :P During the race the sound of the cars was deafening. I'm not complaining though. It was awesome. At one point a car slammed into the wall in turn 3. Not only could you hear it - you could feel it. For a while I focused only on the transition I checked out earlier. As each car came around the corner it was so cool to see how hard these guys were working just to hang on to their cars. Many times the backend would start to break loose (these guys were driving on the edge) and I would see them fight to keep control and avoid contact with the wall. Whenever I see the physics of these cars in action like this it makes me dream of Kaemmer's forthcoming Nascar simulation... It was really a blast taking in the entire Bristol experience. If you are into Nascar racing, and you get the chance to go see a race at Bristol Motor Speedway, don't hesitate. GO. You won't regret it! --David Cook

Bristol is a cool track. The Banking is pretty wild isn't it. I had the opportunity to ride around the track and it was pretty scary when first hitting the banking, you think your going to flip over.. well it didn't help that I was in a Ford Aerostar full of camping gear. :) This was several years back before they put the concrete and new stands in, there was nobody there and they just let people on the drag strip or the oval to drive around on with your own car, I don't think they will let you now though. :( I want to go to a race there, it would really be a show. Glad you liked the race, it looked good on TV but must have been 1000 times better being there. David L. Cook wrote:

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> > 3 days and 1800 miles later and I am back home from my adventure to the > Bristol Motor Speedway to see yesterday's Nascar Winston Cup race. > > All I can say is WOW. BMS is MASSIVE. For a 1/2 mile track you can't > imagine how huge this place is. I got to go courtesy of Dupont so I was > fortunate enough to get to go down on the track and walk around the > pit's. Extreme banking man. I made a point of examining the transition > between turn 4 and the front stretch to see how smooth it was. It was > like walking on holy ground for me ;) > > What a perfect day for a race. Beautiful blue sky, clear and crisp. > 135,000 people packed every seat in the house. It was quite a site. Oh > yeah, the females in TN are beautiful as well :D Had a blast the night > before the race in town with all the locals and visitors alike getting > quite blasted :P > > During the race the sound of the cars was deafening. I'm not complaining > though. It was awesome. At one point a car slammed into the wall in > turn 3. Not only could you hear it - you could feel it. > > For a while I focused only on the transition I checked out earlier. As > each car came around the corner it was so cool to see how hard these guys > were working just to hang on to their cars. Many times the backend would > start to break loose (these guys were driving on the edge) and I would > see them fight to keep control and avoid contact with the wall. Whenever > I see the physics of these cars in action like this it makes me dream of > Kaemmer's forthcoming Nascar simulation... > > It was really a blast taking in the entire Bristol experience. If you > are into Nascar racing, and you get the chance to go see a race at > Bristol Motor Speedway, don't hesitate. GO. You won't regret it! > > --David Cook

Yeah, they had a sprint car do some laps before the race. I think it's going to be the World of Outlaws series. That will definitely be one to see! --David Cook Steve Blankenship <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> If memory serves, I believe they're planning to cover the track with dirt > and let the SprintCar guys go at it sometime this season. Now THAT should > be interesting! > > Cheers, > > Steve B. > > Alan Orton <[email hidden]> wrote: > > Bristol is a cool track. The Banking is pretty wild isn't it.< > >

Yeah, they're going to be about 20mph FASTER than the Cup cars. That will be wild. -- Ken's Sig 3.01 "Who is the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?" - Obi-Wan Kenobi Go #43 and #44! volksy (at) yahoo (dot) com David L. Cook <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:yU5E4.13823$[email hidden]... > Yeah, they had a sprint car do some laps before the race. I think it's > going to be the World of Outlaws series. That will definitely be one to > see! > > --David Cook > > Steve Blankenship <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > If memory serves, I believe they're planning to cover the track with dirt > > and let the SprintCar guys go at it sometime this season. Now THAT should > > be interesting! > > > > Cheers, > > > > Steve B. > > > > Alan Orton <[email hidden]> wrote: > > > Bristol is a cool track. The Banking is pretty wild isn't it.< > > > > > >

On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 02:54:50 GMT, [email hidden] (David L. Cook) wrote: Oh, you lucky one, and all you lucky people in USA, having a real chance to see Nascar in real. Uli, a poor guy from Germany (having no Oval track around in Europe) >3 days and 1800 miles later and I am back home from my adventure to the >Bristol Motor Speedway to see yesterday's Nascar Winston Cup race. > >All I can say is WOW. ...-- Uli Winkelmann un sing www.koelsche-sick.de

Hi Uli, nicht mehr lange, und (ooops) There is a new Pocono-like oval near Berlin. Think it must be complete soon. I heard rumors that CART will coming to that place and <dreammode on> NASCAR . On my vacation in 98 to the states, i saw the Winston 500 in Talladega. Iwill never forget this day in my life. Absolutely fantastic. It was a hot sunday and there were 175.000 people. I shot 4 rolls of film in 3 hours. I also went to the CART-race in Houston/TX, i am still wet. Mark Aprile Pointsleader (after 2 races, hehe) of Germanys only? N3 league. http://www.fortunecity.de/wolkenkratzer/mars/686/index.html Uli Winkelmann <[email hidden]> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: [email hidden]...

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> On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 02:54:50 GMT, [email hidden] (David L. Cook) > wrote: > > Oh, you lucky one, and all you lucky people in USA, having a real > chance to see Nascar in real. > > Uli, a poor guy from Germany (having no Oval track around in Europe)