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Originally posted by DEI37
That is sweet! After I get my car modified, I'll have to go down there, and try it out! What did it take to drive the two laps around the track? I like AMS, as it's a fast little track. I love racing and speed, so that would be right up my alley.
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Back when they reconfigured the track several years ago (right before the fall race) they had an open house and if you bought 25 bucks worth of stuff in the gift shop you got two laps around the track with one other vehicle and the pace car.
I was one of the first two vehicles out (the other was a dodge p/u) After signing the release forms and explaining that the speed limit was 60 mph and that we had to keep up with the pace car but we couldnt pass it, they let me and the other guy out. It was funny I had spent weeks trying to decide what music I was going to listen to while doing it and I finally decided on AC/DC's Highway to Hell. Well we came off pit road (which at AMS comes out in turn one) and by the time I had come out of turn two the pace car and the truck were going into turn 3 and I looked down (very briefly mind you I was scared shitless hehehe) and saw I was already doing 90 and all my mind told me was that I was supposed to be keeping up with the pace car so I was accelerating when I went into turn 3 and then I decided I didnt really wanna die so I slowed it down some (yeah yeah, make fun of me, I'm a wussy chick
) needless to say they were both finished with both laps before I was and I had the track to myself, which was totally cool!!!! It took all I had not to go back and spend more money in the gift shop, but I didnt want to press my luck, between the banking and the walls at AMS it terrified me, but in a good way
Side note...while said tape (before I had a cd player in the car) was playing, I didnt hear one note of it
