Finally I am doing it! Going to Atlanta Motor Speedway on Sunday for the race. (though 40 percent chance of rain meh)

another lost cause.

totes jelly, as trife would say, galleri :(

snag a scanner, or at the very least something you can listen to the radio on. doubles as entertainment and hearing protection. most tracks have a local FM station that broadcasts the track announcer, and MRN/PRN is always broadcasting the race locally. Never been to ATL.

I usually go all out and rent FanVision. For just Sunday, the rental is $45 and an additional headset (so 2 people can listen to the same device) is another $15. Seems really expensive, but being able to listen to a team's last 5 min or so of radio communication is really cool. you can also pick up to 3 drivers, and while you are listening to the MRN broadcast, if any of those teams have radio communication it will cut in and play it for you. it is a scanner, an instant replay machine, has in-car camera views, and tons of other fluff like lap times and more. but like i said, it is expensive, and you have to wait in line to get them before the race, and wait in line after the race to turn them in. I usually camp so that isnt too big of a deal to me, but a day tripper it might be.

There are also places to rent cheaper scanners that dont have the video screen, i dont remember their prices, but for most you just type in the car number and the communication is live. THis is manual and not as imersive of an experience, but it is better than nothing.

A simple set of AM/FM Headsets work fine if you want to listen to the MRN broadcast, but make sure you look up the frequency.

Traffic is going to suck no matter how you slice it. you can usually park on speedway property for free, but it will take you 2 hours atleast to leave because you are so close to the track. Parking a half mile or more away will usually run you $20 but offer an easier escape. At least in charlotte anyways. If you park for free you might as well plan on tailgating and grilling after the race. It is a lot more fun than sitting in your car in a line that isnt moving wasting gas.

Sucks that you dont drink, that is usually the most fun part, but you can bring any drinks into the track as long as there is no glass and the cooler is smaller than 14x14x14 (they arnt too strict on those dimensions either in my experience). I also usually take a backpack with snacks and asprin, spare ear plugs, a poncho, and other random fluff in it. Beef. Jerky. Im not sure as to individual track policies on clear bags though, so you might want to google Atlanta's but Bruton owns both of them so i dont know why it would be too different.

Have a good time and enjoy the atmosphere. Join some random tailgates.

the drinking.. id be in a coma if i ever were actually to attend (which i plan on doing- both the race and the nice warm coma)

oh, and if you want to talk to the person next to you make sure your phone is charged and type messages out in notepad or some fluff or bring something to write with. within 10 laps of a green flag it will be hard to speak to each other because they will be spread all around the track. they do rent cute little scanners with 2 headsets and an intercom so you can talk to each other, but i have never rented them.

being manly and going no-earplugs is cool and all, but i prefer to not have a headache by half way. even on a mile and a half them fluffs are loud. over 4 hours it will get to you.

maybe for panica and other little girls


(sometimes the bars pa gives me a headache.. i retract my above statement)

(yet leave it, heh)

WORD ON THE STREET IS THAT BRAYDEN IS, INDEED, TOTES JELLY

also why havent they trademarked nascanner?
now ford'll sell my genius for millions and ill still be a poor minority :(

it is called FanVision because it isnt just for NASCAR, it is for the indy 500 as well!

nascanner sounds retarded.

people actually buy the FanVision devices and update the software every year. They are $200 without the subscription and extra batteries and headsets and other swag. Even then it is $20 for a subscription PER RACE lol. I dont go to enough races to make that financially reasonable.

yea because cascar sounds so not retarded. im a product of canadian stock car racing. you drive two hundred? WE DO A DOLLAR TWENTY !!

and you never will eith an attitude like that !

canadian racing not involving a moose?

im calling bullfluff.

litterally laughed out loud; I thought the same thing :p

races in Canada are more challenging because they're done on ice

always wanted to do an ice race, but it isnt too realistic locally.

hell, the most snow i have driven in was a foot, and that was back in highschool, and the city was basically shut down. i took my camaro to the local mega church and fluffed around in the massive unplowed parking lot all day. by the end i was an expert in driving in the snow. down here no one owns winter tires. and certainly no one owns studded ice tires.

no one owns studded tires here... a pretty good chunk have winter tires + summer/all season tires but way too many people have just all seasons

but the biggest issue where I drive isn't the roads themselves -- it's the blowing snow obstructing visibility/obscuring where the road goes in the country :p

the roads into and around the cities are just parking lots with tons of fender benders and single-car spin outs. the kind of snow that shuts things down in the south is like a regular tuesday in the winter here and it just makes things slower and your day crappier. especially because when you finishing driving home in the snow you need to shovel it too.

they red flag races for mist in the air, let alone actual precipitation, and you want ice racing?

oh, i think they call it skiing.

ya'll laugh all you want, when i tm and become a bajillionaire with nascanner i'll have the last laugh !

and, also, i think if i'd said that up is the opposite of down pang still would've read it and said to himself, sounds retarded..
not because i wasn't correct, but because, well, we make our own beds :(

actually, the saturday series did some races on road courses with rain tires. it was the funniest fluff i have ever seen.

and they dont generally red flag for mist. I was at an October race in Charlotte a decade or so ago where the weather was ~4c and a misty off and on drizzle and it was only yellow flagged a couple times and red once for 20 min for weather. tht was a cold race. i wasnt prepared for the rain, was drinking ice cold beer in 4c, and the cars generate more wind. but it was still fun as fluff.

infact, during a red flag for rain you will see the jet driers out there, then all the pace and cleaning vehicles out there turning laps too. even that little bit helps dry the track. hell, before jet driers they drug tired behind trucks to dry tracks. imagine drying a mile and a half track like that!

some of the tracks have a new air pump system that is complex, and has its own massive diesel generators towed along with them, but it can dry the track fast as fluff. i read a story that the concord airport got the track jet driers out there to clear the ice and snow off the runway before the Daytona 500 this year. all they are is a Vietnam era helicopter jet engine on the back of a truck. 95% of all race teams fly out of that airport to the tracks.


edit: the NASCAR Air Titian http://closefinishes.com/...ult/files/Air%20Titan.jpg

this is what hapens when you throw the green on a wet track:

http://youtu.be/O_x5tRewLp0?t=3m22s

it was the 2001 allstar race, so they stopped the race, let the teams get their backup cars out, and restarted it. only time that has ever happened

before i got to your infact, your last paragraph before your edit, i was literally thinking how cool it is to watch the jet driers out there blasting the track. i also very much enjoy the similar concept in the nfl, where they have those massive heaters for the players on the sidelines (and through years of smoking and gthl hockey i also love the idea of oxygen tanks..)

for the tires to dry the track, because it would cause friction and create heat, evaporating the water? even in the eighties you'd have to think they'd have better technology than that. or was it the most effective against most cost effective that they did it? i was barely alive, so i never knew that until now (again, nascar in canada is like the fourteenth sport, just below CIS badminton)

the jet driers were introduced in the mid 70s i think.

usually when it is misting they will yellow the track and let the cars run caution laps. the 5-600c temps in the exhaust help dry the track along with the friction of the cars tires. seen it happen many times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y-G77t2YhM

that is more like dirt track racing down here.

ah, i guess i misunderstood somewhere along the line; i hadn't realized the jet driers had been used for forty some odd years by now

man, i was at the 50th Coca-Cola 600 a few years back, and it was a frekin washout. They did the dope ass military demonstration with airborne troops and helicopters and fluff they do every year and then the bottom fell out. All i can say is i never wanted to hear a jet dryer ever again. they are loud and shreikey and one sounded like it was about to blow up the entire time making me cringe on every pass. them things burn like 200 gallons of JP-5 an hour, each. it was a monsoon for 2 hours before they called the race. the race started at noon the next day, really early for a bunch of hungover campers. that race was called after about 350 miles of off and on red flags for rain. it was a fluffty race, but i was wasted for every bit of it so it was fun.

of course. i fell down two flights of stairs one time, but i was wasted for every bit of.. i guess i shouldn't finish that thought


which is of course a lie, i don't climbs stairs when i drink. fluff that noise.

lol

on a slightly related note, trife first kissed a woman, his half sister, at the track.

true story. he was twenty four.

(now my slightly related note is not at all related, because somebody decided to edit their post :(.. but don't worry, trife and his gee eff sure were ! )

my drunk ass friend rolled his ankle really bad after a race to the point he couldn't walk on it. we found a church group piling into a prison van and got a ride back to out campsite from them. weird fluff happens at the track bro.

if they bring out the jet dryers... make sure you watch out for juan pablo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qEwBi1NyBI

Shake N Bake

yea except temperature is well below 0 (celsius) and cars are 4wheel drives (and also 4wheel steering) and studded tyres.

here's some local https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSwCCbCHLFE

and here's some testing ferrari and porsche on snow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fd9xTxOXm8

I know all about your stupid ice racing marshal. No need to try to hijack a thread with it.