Nascar: How To Decide What Vacation Package Is Best For You?
As a first step you must determine your objective. You basically have two choices:
1) To see a NASCAR race; or
2) To experience all that NASCAR has to offer which is much more than a “race”.
If you just want to “see a race” then you have a few options. You can book a hotel and race tickets on-line and drive to track; or you can book a NASCAR tour package that includes a hotel room, race tickets and transfers to and from the race track at scheduled times (once per race). There are also bus tours that you can book as well. When you decide to stay in a hotel, no matter what approach you are taking, you have selected the objective of your NASCAR vacation, and that is to see a NASCAR race!
This is nothing wrong with this approach and you will have a great time at the race. I’ve done it myself, but staying in a hotel located 45 to 90 minutes from the track is all about seeing a race. When you stay in a hotel, you do the same things you do in every other vacation: complain about the pool temperature being too cold; go out for dinner and drinks and sit in your hotel room watching TV. Add in a race or two, and that is your NASCAR experience.
You also have to deal with fatigue as transportation to and from the race track is very draining, especially after the race when it takes 2 or 3 times longer to get back your hotel. One tour operator was putting their race fans in an Atlanta hotel for the race in Talladega. That’s a lot of miles to cover, especially if you are taking in both the Sprint Cup and Nationwide races. Ask yourself how much time you want to spend on a bus or in a car and at the hotel? This is another option – RV camping.
If you truly want to experience NASCAR racing at its finest consider an RV camping package. Many race fans choose camping rather than staying in a “nearby” hotel because of the atmosphere created in the campground mingling and partying with 1,000’s of fellow NASCAR fans. You don’t get this at a hotel. It also has many advantages primarily related to staying within walk distance of the track, and the number of events. There are also numerous activities at the campground including “Redneck” games such as ladder (hillbilly) golf, corn-hole and ring toss.
I know what you are going to say, camping has its downside and you are right. There is a lot of very time consuming preparation work prior to the race and at the campsite. Finding the right campsite, renting an RV, RV training, parking and setting up the RV, purchasing camping necessities, running the generator, pumping out the holding tank, cooking and cleaning. The list goes on and on. For a novice camper, this can be very challenging, and this is why many NASCAR fans simply choose the hotel route, but you now have an option — RV camping tour operators.
One such company is Garner Travel American Express. There goal is to provide you with an “all-inclusive” camping and race vacation package that is guaranteed to be the ultimate NASCAR experience! They pride themselves in the ability to deliver a no-hassle and worry free approach that allows you to fully enjoy your NASCAR vacation.
On-site staff deliver and set-up the RV, connect the water and other hook-ups, start and maintain the generator, stock the refrigerator, put beer on ice for your arrival, prepare your breakfast and dinner and attend to all your ends including daily trips to town. If this is not enough they also host two all you can drink tailgate parties.
They believe that the best way to experience a race is to be at the track, and we deliver by offering you an “all inclusive” vacation that puts you at the track for 4 nights and 5 days.
Don’t settle for NASCAR tour packages where you spend more time at your hotel than the track. Let Garner Travel American Express (Redneck Camping Tours) provide you with the ultimate NASCAR experience that combines NASCAR racing with RV camping. Even if you are not a big fan of camping, our luxury motorhomes have all the comforts of home.
Garner Travel’s redneck camping tour team has a combined experience of more than 15 years in camping at “redneck” NASCAR race tracks across the United States, and Garner Travel has been in operation for more than 20 years. This Garner Travel partnership gives you all the advantages of travel agency and the benefits of on-site experienced, knowledgeable and professional staff that know camping and NASCAR. They are some of NASCAR’s biggest fans!
They will provide you with an “all-inclusive” camping and race vacation package that is guaranteed to be the ultimate NASCAR vacation experience, and our goal is to make it a NASCAR vacation package that you’ll want to repeat!
If you are a diehard race fan or a first-timer, take advantage of this unique opportunity that no race fan should live without. You will have the time of your life!
Brad DeFoe is an avivd NASCAR fan and believes every NASCAR fan should go to at least one race.? Once you’re hooked you can’t get it out of your system.? Trust me!
Nascar All Star Race 2010 updates
Nascar All Star Race 2010 updates: Nascar all star Race was prepared on saturday night. Nascar all star race has planed to take place at charlotte Motor Sppedway on May 22nd, 2010. This race Kurt Busch is win After finishing the Nascar all star racing event on Nascar Race 2010. This is the good event for all. Nascar Race was at 1.4 miles charlotte Motor Speedway in charlotte.
Nascar all star Race 2010 winners are:
1.Kurt Busch
2.Martin Truex Jr.
3.Joey Logano
4.Denny Hamlin
5.Tony Stewart
6.Kevin Harvick
7.Brad Keselowski
8.Matt Kenseth
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Nascar Star Race first winner is Kurt Busch.Kurt Busch was able to maintain a perfect lead and able to control his car.NASCAR Sprint All star race tickets are available on $39 to $75.
Nascar All Star Race 2010 updates: Nascar all star Race was prepared on saturday night. Nascar all star race has planed to take place at charlotte Motor Sppedway on May 22nd, 2010. This race Kurt Busch is win After finishing the Nascar all star racing event on Nascar Race 2010. This is the good event for all. Nascar Race was at 1.4 miles charlotte Motor Speedway in charlotte.
Nascar all star Race 2010 winners are:
1.Kurt Busch
2.Martin Truex Jr.
3.Joey Logano
4.Denny Hamlin
5.Tony Stewart
6.Kevin Harvick
7.Brad Keselowski
8.Matt Kenseth
Nascar Star Race first winner is Kurt Busch.Kurt Busch was able to maintain a perfect lead and able to control his car.NASCAR Sprint All star race tickets are available on $39 to $75.
Joey on Papyrus’s NASCAR Racing
NASCAR Racing 1, the first of the successful Papyrus NASCAR franchise, came out in 1994, and was pretty much the first NASCAR game released that was worth writing home about, especially compared to other gems such as Bill Elliott’s NASCAR Challenge (featured in another video), Days of Thunder, and Richard Petty’s Talladega. For starters, there was a legitimate field of cars – 38 opponents, compared to 11 in one, and who knows how much in the others. The tracks were actually resembled their real-life counterparts – such as Talladega, the track we look at here (although, notably, the track is actually way off – check out how tight the tri-oval is!). We run a few laps at Talladega, featuring the (sometimes) profane commentary of myself (I’m trying to cut down, I swear) as I run up through the field. As you will hear, I am no Ken Squier. In addition, I will also talk (inaccurately, I’m sure) about some of the issues that sim-racers faced in the days of NASCAR 1 and its immediate successors, such as the lack of a certain track in northeast Florida, and what modders did to get around that. I’m sure I missed the boat by miles on that, but hopefully I covered it somewhat accurately. I’m still hoping for an NR2003 edition of Alex Santantonio’s USA International Speedway, which was a Daytona substitute. I also apologize for the sudden (and profane) end to the clip. I realized I was at the end of the video (I did the audio after I did the video), so I had to end it. This was all …
A New Race Car Combines The Best Ideas With The Latest Technology
When the 2004 Taurus made its debut at Daytona, it represented Ford’s most synergistic effort in race car design to date. This synergy comes from all corners of the Ford empire and includes solid representation from not only the NASCAR ranks but also the real world production side.
The prior version of Taurus, originally presented to the public in the 1998 Daytona 500, has provided excellent results. But its humble beginnings came after public, and, at times, cantankerous battles between various team entities that wanted to leave their mark on that specific iteration.
“A lot of times you can build a car that just suits one team’s purpose,” said Ford Racing’s NASCAR Field Manager Robin Pemberton, on a pitfall of this type of engineering exercise. Pemberton is in a position to know, as he was one of the principals of a three-team entity that worked on the ’98 Taurus while working at Penske South Racing.
“I think the last couple times we had Penske doing one version, Yates doing one and Roush doing one,” recalled Pemberton shaking his head. “During that (’98) project, NASCAR would cut templates off of cars and they were different cars that were constructed in different ways and not all the templates fit all the cars at the same time.
“It was almost impossible.”
With lessons learned from 1998, Ford Racing’s Greg Specht knew that he wanted to approach the car design issue differently. With a heftier engineering staff at his disposal, all he needed was word that the production staff wanted a new car developed for the NASCAR circuit.
The call for a new Taurus came approximately 20 months prior to its first on-track experience and included conversations between Ford Racing and Ford production. The result is a race car that is representative of what consumers see on the showroom floor.
“What we have in ’04 is a re-freshening of the Taurus, so that kicks off a process,” recalled Specht. “After the decision was made, we say to the production guys, ‘OK, what are your thoughts? Show us your sketches and drawings,’ and so on and so forth.
“With their ideas and goals in place, we went back and started looking at the race car and say, ‘OK, now what do we need to do to the race car to have it look like the production car?’”
Having the production car designers more intimately involved from the start is also something new to the process, as the value of the NASCAR fan base becomes a key factor.
“In the recent past, racing considerations haven’t influenced their (production’s) thinking a lot anyway,” explained Specht. “Even going back to the Thunderbird, what they did in the design studio was not affected that much by what was happening on the race track. However, it is starting to change in that they’re asking for [Ford Racing’s] input a lot earlier on in the process and some ideas that will actually improve the production car and truck.
“That happened with the new F-150, in fact, because since aero was such a big thing on the race track, we spent a lot more time in the wind tunnel with our race trucks than the production engineers do with the production truck,” continued Specht. “So we know a lot more about balance and downforce and drag and the subtle little things that you can do to increase those characteristics.”
Once the basic design concepts were developed, then the aero process began. This is the playground of Ford Racing’s lead aerodynamicist, Bernie Marcus, who spent a considerable amount of time working out the nuances of the new car by using hand sketches and computer modeling before any consideration was given to forming actual metal fenders, hoods and decklids.
Marcus didn’t have a wide-open field in which to draw from because of NASCAR’s “aero-matching” rules, but he closed in on the starting point for the new car by using electronic models and 40-percent clay models.
“I think the reason everything went so well is because we also included NASCAR early on and that was very different from the past,” Specht offered. “The previous programs that I’ve been involved in, we’d go off in the corner and do our jobs. The day it was due, we handed it to NASCAR and said, ‘OK, here’s our car. Can we have your approval for this?’”
“We took a very different approach this time around, and before we started fabricating the car and after we went to the teams and had an idea of what we wanted to do. We brought NASCAR up to Dearborn to our design studio and met with our production car designers and walked NASCAR through. ‘Here’s the production car. Here’s what we’re thinking of doing with the race car to match the production car. What do you think?’
This approach resulted in success. The very first time the 2004 Taurus competed in a NASCAR race, Dale Jarrett drove one to victory in the Budweiser Shootout at Daytona International Speedway in early February.
“The piece that we’re ending up with is a very good race car,” said Specht, “and it goes to show that two heads are better than one.”
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NASCAR Racing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway
This is a compilation video from a day of racing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway with the Richard Petty Driving Experience. After a brief classroom training and a van tour around the track, they strapped each driver into a 700 horsepower NASCAR race car and let him rip around the track solo behind a pace car instructor. I was doing 136MPH in the turns.
The Nascar Coca Cola 600 Race: Everything You Need to Know to Have the Time of Your Life
NASCAR is one of the most well enjoyed of the American pastimes, and for good reason. While many people have heard of the NASCAR Daytona 500 race, there are other races to attend as wellmany of them just as popular as the Daytona 500 itself. One of these races is the Coca Cola 600, a 600 mile race held at the Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Concord, NC the weekend of Memorial Day. This is a stock car race, one of the things that attracts die hard fans of NASCAR stock car racing from all around the world. As a matter of fact, this race falls into the top five of all of the NASCAR races put together, something that is rather high honors in the racing world. The hotels in the area fill up in one to two nights; the camp grounds are reserved well in advance and packed to the brim with enthusiastic campers and racing fans.
A Bit of History on the NASCAR Coca Cola 600 Race
Like every other true NASCAR race, the Coca Cola 600 does have some history behind it. It has gone through several name changes, from the World 600 to the Coca Cola or Coke 600. From there it was changed to the Coca Cola Racing Family 600, and then was put back to the near original Coca Cola 600.
This race was designed to offset some of the popularity that the Indian 500 race was experiencing, and it succeeded in doing so. To date, the NASCAR Coca Cola 600 race has better television ratings and a higher viewership on television than the Indianapolis 500. These races occur on the same weekend of Memorial Day, making it prime time for true racing fans across the world. The races have even been scheduled in a way that allows fans to make it from the NASCAR Coca Cola 600 to the Indianapolis 500 and be able to participate in both races, something that wasn’t made clear if it would be possible in the beginning. Nowadays, the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca Cola 600 are held on the same day. Of course, this makes a problem for some drivers who are not able to do over 1000 miles in one day, but those who have the grit and are determined to be successful have been known to do both races with ease, leaving the first race to make it to the second just in time.
Camping at the NASCAR Coca Cola 600
One of the best things about the time when the Coca Cola 600 rolls around is that it gives die hard NASCAR fans a chance to get in one place together and cut up. This can include anything, from drinking to games and other activities. Music, friends, funthis is the type of thing that a successful NASCAR campout consists of. If you have never partaken in NASCAR camping before, the NASCAR Coca Cola 600 is a great place to start. Although the weather tends to be a little warm and sticky, those who have RVs should not have much of a problem dealing with the heat.
There are many different ways to camp out at this race. RVs with a hookup is obviously the most effective and pleasurable way to go about camping at a race like that. There are other ways to go about it as well, like RV camping without the hook up and even tent camping. Depending on what your camping style is there are many ways to enjoy the race, some of them even from the infield.
Of course, the NASCAR Coca Cola 600 is one of the most popular races on the NASCAR schedule, so reservations for camping spots anywhere even close to the infield are going to be in high demand. Make your reservations as early as possible to avoid disappointment as these things tend to fill up very fast. If you are excited about the event, think about the thousands and thousands of others who are excited about it as well.
The Coca Cola 600 is a huge event for racing fans all over. It is one of the hottest commodities on the NASCAR 600 schedule. It draws fans from all over the globe to the hot Carolinas and even more to their television sets, glued to the screen for lap after lap of NASCAR fun.
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FreeTrack v2.2 NASCAR Racing 2003 Season head tracking
www.free-track.net FreeTrack is a free head tracking program that can be used with any Windows compatible video device, typically a webcam, in addition to the Nintendo Wii Remote. It can measure head rotation and translation, together a total of six degrees of freedom (6dof) and can output to FreeTrack and TrackIR interfaces as well as mouse, keyboard and joystick controls. This video demonstrates the stability and responsiveness of FreeTrack v2.2, using a cheap 30fps Logitech webcam, in NASCAR Racing 2003 Season (AI driver). More details en.wikipedia.org www.free-track.net