We always try to do something the day after school lets out to signify that it is the beginning of our summer break. In years past we have taken trips to Binder Park Zoo, this year we decided to take the boys to the track. MIS (Michigan International Speedway) is hosting the Nascar Sprint Cup race this Sunday and today was practice and qualifying. We thought it would be great fun to take the boys out there and give them their first little taste of what its like at the track.
I was pleasantly surprised at the number of kids we saw. I hadn't expected today to be such a family day, but it was great. There weren't too many people, although the crowd was decent, and that made it easy to maneuver around with the boys. They did such a good job of holding hands and following directions (It was the car ride home that got tricky).
We walked around outside the track for a while looking at all the trucks. I love seeing things through the eyes of children. The boys were in awe of all the stuff we saw. Ethan was able to get his picture taken in a Tony Stewart car and we got another bag of free stuff (different stuff) from the Sprint/Nextel truck. Ethan kept asking when we were going to see the cars so eventually we just had to give up the search for the DLP truck (at Lowe's Motor Speedway we saw a 3-D movie trailer and were hoping the boys could see it) and take them into the stands.
It ended up being perfect because we only had to wait about 10 minutes for the qualifying laps to start. We were able to watch the crews push the cars out of the garage area and line them up on pit road. We were also able to watch some of the drivers come out to do their qualifying laps.
This is Kyle Busch heading out to his car.
This is Mark Martin climbing out of the #8 after his qualifying run.
I was pleasantly surprised at the number of kids we saw. I hadn't expected today to be such a family day, but it was great. There weren't too many people, although the crowd was decent, and that made it easy to maneuver around with the boys. They did such a good job of holding hands and following directions (It was the car ride home that got tricky).
We walked around outside the track for a while looking at all the trucks. I love seeing things through the eyes of children. The boys were in awe of all the stuff we saw. Ethan was able to get his picture taken in a Tony Stewart car and we got another bag of free stuff (different stuff) from the Sprint/Nextel truck. Ethan kept asking when we were going to see the cars so eventually we just had to give up the search for the DLP truck (at Lowe's Motor Speedway we saw a 3-D movie trailer and were hoping the boys could see it) and take them into the stands.
It ended up being perfect because we only had to wait about 10 minutes for the qualifying laps to start. We were able to watch the crews push the cars out of the garage area and line them up on pit road. We were also able to watch some of the drivers come out to do their qualifying laps.
This is Kyle Busch heading out to his car.
This is Mark Martin climbing out of the #8 after his qualifying run.
Chad, Brad, these pics are for you!!
This is Kurt Busch talking to some of his crew after he finished his laps.
This is Ryan Newman heading out to his car. Unfortunately, the rain that had been predicted showed up after only 11 drivers qualified. We decided to head out and come home. We were disappointed that we didn't see Jimmie do his thing and we missed seeing the ARCA race, but we were grateful that we left when we did. The closer we got to home the worse the skies looked and by the time we made it to Albion the downpour was in full swing.
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