"I wanna see a wreck!"

This past weekend, Aaron and I traveled down to New Hampshire Motorspeedway for the NASCAR race. I have been to two races before (Watkins Glen & Lowe's Motorspeedway) but it was Aaron's first race. I was really excited to go but I think I was more excited for Aaron to go. We really like watching it on tv but when you go you can smell the burt tires, hear the loud roar of the cars flying by... It is just better seeing it all in person!

Saturday morning we got up bright and early to head to the speedway. We parked and headed right over to the Army 'tent'. It wasn't really a tent per say, but they did have a lot of stuff set up to help in their recruiting efforts. That night we watched a bit of the Craftsmen Truck Series. I had never seen the trucks race before but we deicded to stay since the weather for Sunday wasn't looking so good. We figured we might as well see some kind of racing while we were there just in case.

Rain. That is the first thing we saw when we got up and what we continued to see up until race time. I don't know how it happened but when it was time to drop the checkered flag the track was dry and the race began on time.

We had a blast! It helped a lot once we got ear pluggs that is for sure! We also had a great time because we got to not only watch the race but we also got to tour the pits, tour the garage area and meet the Army car driver, Aric Almirola, in the Army hospitality tent.

Here are some pics from our NASCAR adventure:

The speedway.

Almirola and I.

Pre-race car inspection in the garage area.

Gordon's car in the garage area. We almost got hit a couple of times by crew members pushing cars.

I spotted Joe Gibbs in the #11 Fed Ex hospitality tent. He owns a bunch of teams through his Joe Gibbs racing team.

Babe and I watching the race from turn #4.

Let's go racing!

Round and round they go!

Greg Biffle won the race. Here is his victory burn out!

Even though the race started out really slow (There were no cautions for a long time and I kept telling Aaron that I wanted to see a wreck!) the race was great. There were some wrecks towards the end to help make it interesting. But don't worry, no one was hurt. Also between the rain drops over the two days, we met some really great people. We seem to be able to make friends where ever we go!

I took a lot of pictures that weekend but I won't torture you further. All in all, the weekend deserves two thumbs up!