New appreciaton for Nascar

Posted on April 9, 2005
Filed Under Cool Stuff

My company put together an awesome team building experience this past week. They took several of us out to Las Vegas Motor Speedway to take part in the Richard Petty Driving Experience. The program is about 5 hours long and includes about 90 minutes of instruction plus you get to drive the car two separate times. We did the “Kings Experience” which let us drive 8 laps the first round and 10 the second. You are to follow your lead car at a distance of 4 car lengths. I tell you what, at 130MPH+, 4 car lengths feels more like you are in the guys back seat.

After the driving is all done, they give everybody a sheet that tells you your lap time, average MPH and your top speed. Since we are all a bunch of competitive guys, of course there was bragging rights due to the guy with the best scores. Several of us had the same top speed of 137 but I took top prize with the best lap speed. 1.5 miles in 44.24 seconds. I won’t be challenging Jeff Gordon to a race any time soon, but, it was good enough to take top honors in our group!