madfinnhockey
05-28-2010, 10:19 AM
Im down in Charlotte this week visiting my son (Knute2), and having a blast. Yesterday he took me to his pit stop practice and taught me how to index (put on) a tire, and how to jack. It was fun, but his old body just can't do it, so don't expect to see me doing that for any pit crew ever! Then I watched their practice, must be nice to be young!
And at a lot of remaining races their organization (Over the Wall) will be sponsored by Sprint and will be at the races doing pit stop demonstrations for the fans, so that will get the guys a lot of exposure! They are doing it for the first time this Sat & Sun at Charlotte.
OTW shares a facility with Carl Long, and I met him and watched him and his company building some race cars for a new racing series to take place at a Va. track, that was interesting.
I got to see a few buildings that used to be cup garages but have since been abandoned, but there were still a few skeltons of cars in there, sheet metal, some old sheet metal forming tools, etc, but other wise, dark and dusty. And we saw old wood barn that they filmed parts of the Days of Thunder movie.
Met some people from Stewart Hass Racing and today they are giving us a back scenes tour of the shop, should be a blast, then its a Hall of Fame visit. Got my NASCARCamping.com tee shirt on, wonder if anyone will recognize it while I'm out and about?
Knute2 is doing well with his pit stop job, doing ARCA, Trucks and some Nationwide now, only 1 more step to go!
More later
And at a lot of remaining races their organization (Over the Wall) will be sponsored by Sprint and will be at the races doing pit stop demonstrations for the fans, so that will get the guys a lot of exposure! They are doing it for the first time this Sat & Sun at Charlotte.
OTW shares a facility with Carl Long, and I met him and watched him and his company building some race cars for a new racing series to take place at a Va. track, that was interesting.
I got to see a few buildings that used to be cup garages but have since been abandoned, but there were still a few skeltons of cars in there, sheet metal, some old sheet metal forming tools, etc, but other wise, dark and dusty. And we saw old wood barn that they filmed parts of the Days of Thunder movie.
Met some people from Stewart Hass Racing and today they are giving us a back scenes tour of the shop, should be a blast, then its a Hall of Fame visit. Got my NASCARCamping.com tee shirt on, wonder if anyone will recognize it while I'm out and about?
Knute2 is doing well with his pit stop job, doing ARCA, Trucks and some Nationwide now, only 1 more step to go!
More later