Fun stuff on Saturday Night

A buddy of mine, Steve Hearn, builds stock cars. He was kind enough to ask me if I wanted to do some hot laps prior to him racing last night. You can see me in the pictures of his car. Since I have never driven a stock car or driven on a banked oval dirt track, it was very exciting! The raw power of these cars is remarkable. I may have hit a top speed of 50 or 60 mph (the track is 3/8 mile long). I didn't do very much power sliding/drifting in the turns. They asked me why I didn't go faster or push the turns hard. I told them, it is a lot of fun if everyone gets to drive and race. If I had gone over the top and rolled the car, no racing, if I had spun out and hit the wall, no racing, if I hit another car, two cars no racing! Needless to say, I took it easy and there was lots of racing!!!!