That particular weekend was an exceptional event. My daughter wanted to take me, as I was just kind of off and on a cane and thought I might enjoy getting out of the house, so she bought tickets to Sunday's race. She also had entered a photo captioning contest that one of the driver's sponsors had running for 4 hot passes for all 3 days, and won. She had bought tickets for just the Cup race on Sunday, but a cousin I have that runs a repair shop got tickets for the Xfinity series run on Saturday as a perk and passed them to us. We spent Friday all day in the infield because we didn't want to buy grandstand tickets to the truck races and the hot passes let us stay in. Saturday we had both the hot passes and the gifted tickets, so could go sit in the stands or stay in the infield area, same as Sunday. We were both worn out, and I was pretty miserable because of my leg/hip by the end of it all, but it was a once in a lifetime chance. Got to meet a lot of the drivers and a couple of team owners. All in all, it was fun. Got to know one of the security guys well enough he let me sit in his chair and rest when my leg was hurting.
<<<<<Met The King and got that pic of him and my daughter. Also met Michael Waltrip. Hilarious guy.....hoot to be around.
It did rain, and delay the race for about 5 hours, as I recall.....and got rather chilly. We found a pretty good spot under one of the tire canopies until it stopped raining and they started drying the track, then walked back to the Jeep to get dry shoes and socks and warm up a bit.
I'm with you, Mike.....I'll take the old cars over all these fakes now. The only improvement they really can claim is safety. But it's supposed to be risky, it's racing.