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    Last week I got to experience a great part of American culture. For the last 50 years Florida has been home to what has been named “The Great American Race”. That’s right race fans I got Hotpasses for the Daytona 500. The lovely folks over at Supra boats have been working with a few Nascar drivers for the past few years and they were able to pull in a favor to get my fiance (Kaley) and I infield passes. As neither one of us had ever been to a race before we were excited and curious on what the day would unfold. The day started out with us leaving our home town of Groveland (which is about an hour and a half drive to Daytona) at 8 AM. Everything was smooth sailing until around Deltona (3/4 the way there) where we came to a dead stop on I-4. Who knew that a race where almost 500 thousand people attend that there would be traffic? We sat on I-4 for around 3 to 4 hours less then 30 min from the track. Let me just say this. If you like BBQ and beer you should start going to Nascar races. With that being said you can imagine what the walk to the track was like. There were people everywhere. Just hanging out drinking and eating. Kaley and I met up with CWB team mate and fellow redneck event fan Corey Bradley. Corey was gong to be riding at the race for some promotional stuff that is too top secret to talk about. So we are walking through the huge crowd with Corey carrying his board and we are hearing things like. “What the hell did you bring your boogie board to the race for?” and ”There is no snow in there”. So for the record don’t carry your wakeboard through a crowd of drunk rednecks. Before the race started we got to go down on the track and sign the wall. I couldn’t think of anything better to write then “We love you Dale”. Standing on the track was pretty amazing I had heard that it was steep but its hard to believe how steep until you are climbing up it. We were standing on the straight away which took some convincing cause it looked a lot like a turn to me but they told us that you cant climb up the turns its to steep. After signing the wall it was time to get off the track and get ready for the National Anthem and the jet fly by. I have never been so proud to be and American then when we where listening to the Star Spangled Banner and watching those jets fly over head it was a pretty awesome moment. So awesome that the guy next to us threw his hands in the air and started screaming USA..WHOO..USA..WHOO..USA. 

The race was awesome. The sound of the cars and the fans is something that everyone should experience. I will definitely be going to the race next year. Until then Godbless America and GO # 9.       I dont know why this dang pic wont turn right?????? guess because its nascar or somethin…….    DT