Richard Petty Driving Experience

ErbemanErbeman Registered Users Posts: 926 Major grins
edited July 2, 2010 in Sports
I just did this for the 2nd time and it was a freaking blast!! I did it a few years ago in Las Vegas. This time I did it in Dallas at the Texas Motor Speedway for my Fathers day gift. I have done a ride-along both times where they have a passenger seat in a stock car and a pro driver takes you for a 3 lap ride of your life reaching speeds in the 165 mph area. I stepped up this time and did the Kings experience which is 18 laps, then they offered 8 more laps for $199 and my wife jumped on it and surprised me when I got out of the car, saying don't take the suit off, you're going again. It was so damn fun! My top speed of the day was 144mph and I did that riding my instructors butt the whole way as you can see from these pics. I'm driving the #10 car. The rest of the pics were ones that I took while standing around.

My wife took these first 4 pics of me.

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My turn with the camera!!


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Come see my Photos at:
http://www.RussErbePhotography.com :thumb
http://www.sportsshooter.com/erbeman



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  • BCSPhotoguyBCSPhotoguy Registered Users Posts: 265 Major grins
    edited June 30, 2010
    Nice gift! Nice addition to go along with it!!! Must have been a blast!
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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,940 moderator
    edited June 30, 2010
    Your wife is a wonderful person and you're one lucky dude!
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  • ErbemanErbeman Registered Users Posts: 926 Major grins
    edited June 30, 2010
    ian408 wrote: »
    Your wife is a wonderful person and you're one lucky dude!

    Yes and yes!
    Come see my Photos at:
    http://www.RussErbePhotography.com :thumb
    http://www.sportsshooter.com/erbeman



    D700, D300, Nikkor 35-70 F/2.8, Nikkor 50mm F/1.8, Nikkor 70-200 AF-S VR F/2.8, Nikkor AF-S 1.7 teleconverter II,(2) Profoto D1 500 Air,SB-900, SB-600, (2)MB-D10, MacBook Pro
  • rhondavidrhondavid Registered Users Posts: 433 Major grins
    edited July 2, 2010
    My oldest daughter, son in law and grandkids gave me a ride for my birthday back in March. Got the three lap ride around Talladega bumping 175 mph and what a rush. I am definitely ready to that again except like you be the one behind the wheel.

    Oh yeah.
    David

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  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited July 2, 2010
    I did the ride-along at the Disney speedway a couple of years ago. To me, we were flying around that track at 155 MPH. For the driver, it was a Sunday drive to church...
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