(Captain Blowdri and Clint Bowyer’s race car @ Las Vegas Motor Speedway)
Last weekend was my annual trek to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the NASCAR race weekend. In addition to the Nationwide Series and Sprint Cup Series races at this facility, there were two nights of lightening fast World of Outlaws Sprint Car races on the 1/2 mile clay track, located behind turn four and to the west of the NHRA drag strip on this world class racing complex, consisting of 1200 acres.
I have only missed one race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway since NASCAR started racing there in 1998. This year the weather cooperated and was quite nice, in the mid 70’s during the daytime. In the past, the weather was always of come concern. The heat has been as high as in the mid 80’s one year, however in 2006, it snowed on us Friday night in our RV’s! The weather in Las Vegas in the last of February/first of March is a crap shoot!
This year I purchased two weekend passes to the Neon Garage. What a great idea! The Neon Garage passes let you out into the infield. That pass gives you access to pit road, the limited garage area, as well to an entertainment area that is really cool!
One of the many cool things about going to the NASCAR races in Vegas is the fact that the race track lies just across the street and a little NW of Nellis AFB. During this time of the year, there is a wide a varied conglomeration of both US Air Force and NATO allies aircraft transiting to and through Nellis AFB. But the treat of the whole weekend is watching the USAF precision flight team, known more commonly as the USAF Thunderbirds, practice and prepare for their upcoming yearly tour.
It is quite a show for all the race fans to watch on a daily basis!
For both the Nationwide race on Saturday, and the Sprint Cup race on Sunday, the dominate race car did not win the race! Saturday “Blazingly Bad” Brad Keselowski had a sure win until he experienced a right front tire blowing out in the middle of turns 1 and 2 on the very last lap. Luckily for him, he was able to hustle the car around to squeek in a third place finish. On Sunday Tony Stewart was the dominating race car for most all of the race, however, some misguided pit strategy extremely late in the race relegated him to a second place finish!
There is just something magical about this place!
Check out this video! Viva Las Vegas!
ROGER, WILCO OVER AND OUT!