Weather - extremely humid, rain threatening all weekend - 70's to 80's
Have you ever went to see something and wondered what are we doing here??? Once we went to a Monster Truck Rally and that was similar to our night here at The Dirt Car Nationals held at Volusia Speedway.
My brother is an avid race fan and stopped on his way south to hang out with us for a couple of days and to take "us" to the races. Every year the park holds 12 days of consecutive race nights prior to the Daytona NASCAR race. World of Outlaws Late Model Series and Big Block Modified cars ran for their season finale. We stopped in early to pick up our tickets and walk through the pit. Teams were unloading their cars as you can see in the Stacker Trailers.
Both divisions have hot laps (warming up the car) and then a time trial lap. Based on those time trials it sets their spots for elimination races. In those races it was about 8 cars maximum with a couple of the front guys getting a race on for the win.
After all the elimination races they get them setup for the big 50 lap finale race. This is the race that blew us away. There were 27 cars lined up side by side running a 1/2 mile DIRT track at 90 to 100 miles per hour. No kidding 100 miles per hour. It was crazy, utter chaos! Noise and dirt blowing into the stands and sliding cars and more noise and dirt and sliding..... around the whole track. It was nuts!!! How they could run at that speed was incredible; these guys are the best in the Nation. We did not see 1 car crash; although still haven't figured out how they survived the race. We walked out exhilarated from quite a show and filthy dirty! What a night. In order to make this easy we camped at KOA Wildwood - not the best place but it was super convenient for us as my brother was right next door at the truckstop.
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Have you ever went to see something and wondered what are we doing here??? Once we went to a Monster Truck Rally and that was similar to our night here at The Dirt Car Nationals held at Volusia Speedway.
My brother is an avid race fan and stopped on his way south to hang out with us for a couple of days and to take "us" to the races. Every year the park holds 12 days of consecutive race nights prior to the Daytona NASCAR race. World of Outlaws Late Model Series and Big Block Modified cars ran for their season finale. We stopped in early to pick up our tickets and walk through the pit. Teams were unloading their cars as you can see in the Stacker Trailers.
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Both divisions have hot laps (warming up the car) and then a time trial lap. Based on those time trials it sets their spots for elimination races. In those races it was about 8 cars maximum with a couple of the front guys getting a race on for the win.
After all the elimination races they get them setup for the big 50 lap finale race. This is the race that blew us away. There were 27 cars lined up side by side running a 1/2 mile DIRT track at 90 to 100 miles per hour. No kidding 100 miles per hour. It was crazy, utter chaos! Noise and dirt blowing into the stands and sliding cars and more noise and dirt and sliding..... around the whole track. It was nuts!!! How they could run at that speed was incredible; these guys are the best in the Nation. We did not see 1 car crash; although still haven't figured out how they survived the race. We walked out exhilarated from quite a show and filthy dirty! What a night. In order to make this easy we camped at KOA Wildwood - not the best place but it was super convenient for us as my brother was right next door at the truckstop.
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