What a Memorial Day weekend!
It started at 7 am Thursday Morning as we headed out to Charlotte for a five day weekend that would include a stay at the Hampton Inn, just down the street from the Nascar Hall of Fame. 

We went through Speed Street, which is an area of about ten blocks in Downtown Charlotte that had a CocaCola, Miller Lite, and Cheerios Stages for concerts that went on Thursday to Saturday night. There were plenty of people and food.
Then the real fun started Friday morning with the Coca Cola Track Walk at Charlotte Motor Speedway.



We had the opportunity to see Greg Biffle, Denny Hamlin, Tony Stewart, Jeff Burton, Ned Jarrett as we walked a mile and a half around the high banked Charlotte Motor Speedway. It was beautiful, hot, and a wonderful experience. I wish all tracks had this available for those that visited could have this opportunity as well! After the walk we had lunch that was provided by the track as well, enjoying an ice cold drink and a hamburger. I would love to do this everyday! 



Later that same evening….
We had the pleasure of going to a Kenny Wallace Fan Club event and talking with Kenny and his Wife Kim and family. This was an awesome night as we were able to be one family and get to know Kenny and his family! They also had games for members to play. One of them being a numbers game where you had to add up the number 36 from chips or tiles that were in a bag. I think the Ladies ended up being faster than the Gentlemen, but it was fun for my Mother In Law!
I definitely appreciate and thank Kim and Kenny taking the time for us all to join them in this wonderful event!
The next day, came an early morning for us to head to Charlotte Motor Speedway for the History 300. We arrived at the track around 12:30 and headed for the shops and merchandise trailers to do a little shopping! We watched some of practice and qualifying before the race.
The cast of Pawn Stars were the Grand Marshals and Rick Dale of Restoration Hardware was the Honorary Starter for the History 300.
The race itself was pretty action packed. There were seven cautions with seventeen on the lead lap, as Brad Keselowski swept the field for a great win! This ended up being one of the best races and finishes for Danica Patrick finishing thirteenth with a clean car. It was good to see her run without any issues or interactions. We did have Angela Cope’s engine blow up right in front of us and a car catching on fire after a smack in to the wall, as well as Travis Pastrana spinning three times.






We enjoyed the rest of the afternoon by heading to a park and walking around Downtown Charlotte to see some of the sites and grab dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings at Nascar Hall of Fame.
We left the hotel Sunday around 12:30, arriving around 1:30 at the track for the Coke 600. We stopped by to get our pit passes before heading down to the infield and stopping by the Tweetup. This had to be one of the best Tweetups ever as we had an appearance by two of your 2013 Hall of Fame Inductees Rusty Wallace and Leonard Wood. It was good to meet a fellow tweeter, @JenniferLynn_13
I did get a chance to talk to @bobpockrass about Charlotte and Kansas and what I thought about Charlotte. I told him that we are spoiled with how the track is set up and how fan friendly Kansas Speedway is compared to Charlotte Motor Speedway. I will tell you that @CLTMotorSpeedway needs to change how they do things and make it better for fans to be more comfortable on the track. It would be nice if CMS would allow fans to cross at the seats from the infield instead of having to go through a tunnel that has access as one way, but made it two way with no room to move, going up to turn four and walking all the way around to the main entrance where our seats were. Also CMS will want to look in to adding water bottle refill stations around the track where the food vendor stations are for fans to stay hydrated. Also CMS may want to check or change their food vendors as several fans got sick, as well as myself, from the polish sausage and Bojangles Chicken among other vendors. Other than that CMS is a beautiful facility that has aged, but not with beauty..lol! 



This was one of the best events for honoring and remembering our troops. There was a performance of NHRA Top Fuel Alcohol Dragsters that went down the last half of pit road towards pit exit. That was so cool to see for the first time! There were two different seven gun salutes, the first with cannons and the other with rifles. The cannons shook the track and stands like a small earthquake or aftershock! There wasn’t too much to the race Sunday as it mainly ran under green flag, with four cautions for debris and a first win this season for Kasey Kahne!
We had a fabulous and memorable weekend! I hope everyone enjoys the photos! =)


















































