For Mike's birthday LAST YEAR (2005), the whole family went in to buy him race car driving lessons at the Texas Motorspeedway. Well...after weather delays and scheduling problems he finally got to do it! We had to be at the race track by 7:00 am on Saturday morning. They started off with a class on everything you'd need to know to drive a Nascar 150 mph.
Mike holds Brody before he gets on the race track.
Before they let him drive a car...they put the race car drivers in a 15-passenger van and drove them around the track at 100 mph showing them how to enter, exit, etc.
They put 11 racers on the track at a time. Mike was in the 2nd group out of 5 since he was from out of town and storms were brewing. He was in car #40. He did really well and actually passed 2 cars!
Caleb and Tyler were the paparazzi. They followed Mike everywhere he went taking video and still shots :) Notice the storm clouds in the distance. One more group of drives got to drive after Mike...then the rain hit and the rest of the lessons were cancelled for the day.
Mike holds Brody before he gets on the race track.Before they let him drive a car...they put the race car drivers in a 15-passenger van and drove them around the track at 100 mph showing them how to enter, exit, etc.
They put 11 racers on the track at a time. Mike was in the 2nd group out of 5 since he was from out of town and storms were brewing. He was in car #40. He did really well and actually passed 2 cars!
Caleb and Tyler were the paparazzi. They followed Mike everywhere he went taking video and still shots :) Notice the storm clouds in the distance. One more group of drives got to drive after Mike...then the rain hit and the rest of the lessons were cancelled for the day.
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Looks like Mike had a good time. I'm glad he finally got to do it.
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