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Old Sep 4th, 2002 | 07:33 AM
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Meg
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Race car driving experiences

Is there another option other than Richard Petty? Anybody been to the RPetty Experience in LV? Thanks.
 
Old Sep 4th, 2002 | 07:55 AM
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Are we to assume you only want a NASCAR experience? Try contacting the race tracks themselves to see what they have to offer.
If you want open an open wheel experience Darek Daly has a school in LV. Skip Barber has an excellent traveling school that visits serveral road racing circuits. Road Atl has a porsche driving school.
 
Old Sep 4th, 2002 | 09:02 AM
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Meg,

I my wife gave me the Richard Petty Driving Experience as a birthday present. I did 8 laps at Charlotte (Lowes Motor Speedway), and it was a great experience. There is a straightforward training session, and then you follow a lead car around for your laps.

I gradually built up to an average lap speed of just over the 145 MPH limit. It really was a constant 145 MPH rather than an average, because you don't let up going through the turns. I think that point is what made the experience so unique.

It was scary, amazing, and unbelievable to take the car through a sharp, banked curve at 145 MPH. All of your senses and previous driving experiences tell you that you'll never make the turn, but you do.

I would love to try other types of classes, such as a road racing course, as leanne suggested.

 
Old Sep 4th, 2002 | 09:02 AM
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sorry, that should have been: My wife gave me . . .
 
Old Sep 4th, 2002 | 12:05 PM
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My Dad is a NASCAR fan, and we all gave him the Petty school as a Christmas gift. He had SO much fun! He did it at the Texas Motor Speedway, but since the school travels, I'm sure it would be just as good in Vegas.
 
Old Sep 5th, 2002 | 06:01 PM
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The only other one I know of:

www.drivingadventure.com
 
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