Saturday the All Star Race was not a disappointment either.


When practice was fi nished, Carl Edwards was sitting on the pole with Kyle Busch sitting beside him on the fi rst row. Kyle Busch won the 1st


un-fortunately crashed in the 2nd Kasey Kane who also won the 3rd fi nishing 2nd


in both segments. Kevin Harvick won the fourth


segment only to lose the fi nal 10-lap dash for the cash to Jamie McMurray. Aſt er qualifying and before driver introductions, we were entertained by “Train”. With Sunday being a free day, Liz and I veg out by going


shopping at the Bass Pro Shop as well as the Walmart. We had two full days touring the race shops of Richard Childress, which


segment pulling away from Jeff Gordon but segment which was won by segment with Kevin Harvick


Dale Earnhardt’s fi rst championship car & Danny Weldon’s 2011 Indy winner


included his Museum and Winery, Rousch-Fenway, Stewart- Hass, Michael Waltrip, Hendrick Motor Sports and Museum, Dale Jrs. Nationwide Race Shop and Dale Earnhardt Industries. We saw where all the racecars get worked on. It was great! We west to Dale Earnhardt Plaza in downtown Kannapolis,


Dale’s hometown where we took a caravan photo in front of his statue. We meet Martha Earnhardt at the Mike Curb Museum. She signed a cookbook we purchased, that her and Jeff Gordon’s mother co-wrote. She was a very nice lady. T e Mike Curb Museum was very interesting because it has a very good collection of Race Cars as well as Music. Mike Curb was into both forms of entertainment. Our next stop was lunch at Lancaster’s BBQ which was a very


fi lling meal. I took Pamela and Parker over to the Speedway to pick up


our Pit Passes. Liz and I went to the track early, with Parker and Pamela. Liz went to our seats, Pamela, Parker and I went into the Pits but cannot go anywhere because of the Nationwide practice. T e qualifying for the Coke-a-Cola 600 was pretty interesting. It was set up in three heats. In the 1st


heat everyone is


out on the track for a 25 minutes session, in the second heat the top 24 of the 1st


the top 12 in the 2nd


had the fastest lap of the 2nd 4th


. Jimmy Johnson won the pole for the 600 on Sunday. On Friday the 23rd


Me, racing at Daytona!


heat go out for 15 minutes, and in the third heat heat go out for fi ve minutes. Danica Patrick heat, but in the 3rd heat qualifi ed


we went by Charter Bus to the NASCAR


Hall of Fame, a great place with lots of interactive stuff . T ere was a place to participate in a Pit Stop, set up the chassis, select tire pressures as well a simulated Sprint Cup Race. To do the


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