Interesting side note: when I was fresh out of college I lived literally a mile away from that speedway. I drove by it on Monday nights when I went to play poker. The track is HUGE, and on race days I couldn't leave my house, the streets were so jam-packed.
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Date: 2010-02-02 06:31 pm (UTC)Interesting side note: when I was fresh out of college I lived literally a mile away from that speedway. I drove by it on Monday nights when I went to play poker. The track is HUGE, and on race days I couldn't leave my house, the streets were so jam-packed.
(That speedway, btw, seats 250,000.)
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Date: 2010-02-02 10:34 pm (UTC)I once drove through Charlotte, NC, on a Nascar weekend. Not a single hotel room for a hundred miles.
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Date: 2010-02-03 04:36 am (UTC)