Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Talledega Motor Speedway


From Sept. 30 - October 6th we were in Talladega AL at the racetrack. It is said there are 30,000+ RVs staying at or around the track for the races. We were in the family camps that have 1000s of RVs. The Sprint cup race was exciting and controversial. They are still talking about "who" won the race. About 15 laps before the end, a bunch of cars were taken out by a bump draft gone wrong by Carl Edwards #99, one of the chase drivers. (#88 was taken out by Carl's wreck). After the restart, Tony Stewart took the led and defended the number one spot. #6 Regan Smith tried to pass him below the yellow line (not allowed at the superspeedways). For a while at the end of the race, no one knew who won. It was exciting and crazy. Since we also cheer for Tony, we were happy NASCAR ruled that Smith violated the rules and he was black flagged.
We arrived in Charlotte NC today after spending a day at a repair shop. Seems our house batteries on the RV were bad and had to be replaced. We will be in Charlotte for the week.

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