Dover Speedway
In my Denny Hamlin post, I mentioned that I attended the Dover 200 Busch Series race in September at Dover Speedway.
I really liked the "Monster Mile." I had a general admission ticket, and picked a seat in Turn One. The views were generally tremendous, although with the banked "self-cleaning" straightaways, I didn't have a clear view of some of the heavy impacts of the two early backstretch pileups.
The one-mile track is a nice size, and the speeds are over 30 MPH faster than another mile track, my "local" big-time track, the "Magic Mile" of NHIS in Loudon, NH. The speed and action were excellent at Dover.
I also liked the fact that the speedway is smack in the middle of a regular town. It's about two minutes north of the center of downtown Dover, the capital of Delaware. Malls, homes, and businesses surround the speedway, which began business as a horse racetrack. The facility still operates the horse track and a casino.
For some reason, I love visiting these older tracks that are right in town. New speedways, like Las Vegas Motor Speedway, are pre-planned facilities built miles from town, with their own exit ramps off the Interstate. But tracks like Dover and Daytona and Lowe's are part of the fabric of their towns.
Dover Speedway is a nice enough facility, and hosts the biggest of big-time U.S. auto racing, the NEXTEL Cup Series, but Dover has a pleasant small-time feel, and I like that. I'd love to return there.
Here are two photos, taken from my seat for the race. Click to enlarge.
I really liked the "Monster Mile." I had a general admission ticket, and picked a seat in Turn One. The views were generally tremendous, although with the banked "self-cleaning" straightaways, I didn't have a clear view of some of the heavy impacts of the two early backstretch pileups.
The one-mile track is a nice size, and the speeds are over 30 MPH faster than another mile track, my "local" big-time track, the "Magic Mile" of NHIS in Loudon, NH. The speed and action were excellent at Dover.
I also liked the fact that the speedway is smack in the middle of a regular town. It's about two minutes north of the center of downtown Dover, the capital of Delaware. Malls, homes, and businesses surround the speedway, which began business as a horse racetrack. The facility still operates the horse track and a casino.
For some reason, I love visiting these older tracks that are right in town. New speedways, like Las Vegas Motor Speedway, are pre-planned facilities built miles from town, with their own exit ramps off the Interstate. But tracks like Dover and Daytona and Lowe's are part of the fabric of their towns.
Dover Speedway is a nice enough facility, and hosts the biggest of big-time U.S. auto racing, the NEXTEL Cup Series, but Dover has a pleasant small-time feel, and I like that. I'd love to return there.
Here are two photos, taken from my seat for the race. Click to enlarge.
posted by Jon at 12:15 AM
1 Comments:
sweet! Maybe one day i will be able to go to a nascar race, ive never been to one yet.
Did i mention I beat Denny Hamlin in an online race about 5 months ago in Jr's DMP server? That was one of my greatest achievements in online racing.
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