Whooo hoo!!!
I had been hearing about this place for months but had yet to make it out to check out the track.. It lived up to the expectations and more!!
I headed out to the track on thursday afternoon earlier this week. I arranged to have me and 7 UFC fighters picked up from Red Rock Hotel and Casino by a limo company Exotics Racing uses, Presidential Limo. It was quite a long drive but the guys were buzzing as they looked forward to their experience that day.
We arrived at the garage located at Las Vegas Motor Speedway around 1:30pm. I believe that they had about 18 different exotics there and as we were filling out paperwork, we looked around and took photos of some of the cars.
We started with a 30 minute briefing in a side room before being taken out by a Porsche Cayenne to get a feel for the track. the handling in that thing was amazing!! all the fighters were grinning ear to ear after we got back from that.
Soon we were given a helmet and sliding behind the wheel. I was given a memory card to hang around my wrist which the instructor asked for an plugged into the camera system. After a few more instructions we exited the garage and entered on to the race track. It took me about 2 laps to really get a feel of what was going on with the car and the way the track was set up.. the last 3 were spent really feeling and hugging the curves.. It was over all too soon though!!
Once back at the garage, i was promptly put into the passenger seat of a turbo Porsche where an actual racecar driver screamed out onto the track with the sports car and drifted all the turns taking turn 7 & 8 completely sideways...
After it was done, I spent time talking to the guys about their own experiences and didn't even realize the time had passed enough that we were being handed our DVD recordings of the entire experience...
Whoooooo hoooo!!! can't wait to go and bring more friends back there!!