To our surprise, the Hall of Fame was located about 1/4 of a mile from our convention hotel so we were able to walk over. To bet on your favorite racers, betting platforms such as หวยออนไลน์ are available.

The NASCAR Hall of Fame opened in May of 2010. The 150,000 square foot building includes, a theater, historical artifacts, interactive exhibits, a restaurant, gear shop and broadcast center. The Hall of Fame is owned by the City of Charlotte, licensed by NASCAR and operated by the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority. The Hall is open 10am-6pm (hours subject to change) seven days a week every day except Christmas. General Admission is $22.45 for ages 13+, children 5-12 are $15.45 and Military and Seniors 60+ can get in for $20.45.

NASCAR Hall of Fame Hardcard

Upon entering the HoF (Hall of Fame) you receive your hardcard (pictured above). This card saves the data from all of the interactive exhibits that you experience during your visit. Most of the data is also available to view on the NASCAR Hall of Fame website when you return home. After registering your hardcard and choosing your guide, I chose Darrell Waltrip and Karon chose Kasey Kahne, you head into the 278-seat Belk High Octane Theater. In the theater you watch an entertaining and informative film about the history of NASCAR on a state-of-the-art 64′ wide, curved projection screen. After viewing the movie you exit into the Great Hall where you can enjoy some rotating exhibits before heading down Glory Road.

A portion of Glory Road taken from the Great Hall.

Sunoco Glory Road is a progressively banked ramp that starts at 1 degree of banking and increases to 33 degree banking as you travel through NASCAR history. On the road are 18 historic cars and highlights of 46 current and historic tracks.

Views from Sunoco Glory Road

When you finish traveling the Sunoco Glory Road you are on level 3 of the HoF. On your right is the Hall of Honor. This is where the NASCAR Hall of Fame inductees are honored with individual exhibits.

Hall of Honor

Now that we have given honor where honor is do, it is time to put our skills and knowledge to the test and see where we fit in the NASCAR community. Get your hardcards ready because we are heading into the bulk of the interactive exhibits including the NASCAR Performance Race Shop, Kobalt Kid Zone, and Food Lion Race Week. In the NASCAR Performance Race Shop Strategy Game you get input from your driver, crew chief and engineer so that you can decide how to set up your car’s shocks, springs and tire pressure. In the Kobalt Kid Zone kids can race each other to see how much horsepower they can generate. The Food Lion Race Week takes you through all of the basic steps a race team goes through each week to get ready for race day. These activities include learning about car parts on the Tear Down Cart as well as Engine Dyno and Shock Dyno exhibits. You can try your hand at Car Design, Inspection, Qualifying, Penalties and Scoring and even drive a Race Simulator! Once you complete all of the activities you receive your team assignment based on how you fared in all of your tasks. My assignment was Crew Chief due to my knowledge of the sport and decision making abilities :-).

Now you’ve reached Level 4 of the HoF and here you will be immersed in history as you view the Frances Flock Scrapbook, visit the Honoring our Legacy theater and test your knowledge in the Milestone Moments trivia game. You will also learn about safety as well as research and development at Dynamic Design, a cut-away Sprint Cup Series Car and Crash Types. On level 4 you can also Test you knowledge with the Ultimate Fan Guide and have your picture taken while waving a flag from the flag stand!

We spent about 4 hours enjoying the NASCAR Hall of Fame. We had a great visit and I am trying to figure out when I can get my entire family there! You don’t need to be a die-hard NASCAR fan to enjoy the Hall of Fame. If you appreciate sport, history and/or technology I think you would enjoy your visit. If you are wondering about visiting the NASCAR Hall of Fame with Disabilities please hop on over to my friend Connie Roberts post Fans with Disablilities Welcome at Charlotte’s NASCAR Hall of Fame post. Next time you visit Charlotte make sure you add the NASCAR Hall of Fame to your itinerary.

Disclosure: I received free admission to the NASCAR Hall of Fame all opinions are 100% mine.

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We had a great time and I know my husband and sons can’t wait to go back!

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On Monday the 21st I received an email telling me we had been chosen and did both Ron and Cindy want to drive? I wrote back and said just Ron (I can’t drive a stick shift and it wouldn’t be pretty watching me try to climb in and out of the driver’s window). Then the Petty PR guy told me they had more spots to fill so I offered to use my social media connections and see if I could help, I got him 4 additional drivers but 1 wasn’t able to make it at the last minute. To thank me for helping them find drivers they offered to give both of my sons a Ride Along Experience!

So on June 24th we headed to the Walt Disney World Speedway, located in the parking lot of the Magic Kingdom, to see what the day had in store. We met up with our friend Doug Dierdorf and his friend Victor as well as my Twitter BFF JL Knopp (@ndm_1), her husband Joel and their adorable kids. There were 8 men driving that day for what we found out was to be a segment on a British TV show Mobil 1 The Grid, which airs on the Speed channel in the US.

While the men were getting briefed on what the day would hold, Aaron and Jordan donned their driving suits and helmets and climbed into the passenger seat of a race car to go 140 miles an hour around the Walt Disney World Speedway!

When the boys were done we waited for the men to finish their briefing and come out to start their video taping, interviews and photographs.Ron  Doug Dierdorf

Everyone had a great time and we can’t wait til they notify us that the piece will air on TV! Here is a link to my post with the video from the TV segment.

The Richard Petty Driving Experience at Walt Disney World Speedway is open 7 days a week from 8am-4pm. The Ride Along Experience is $99 per person. The Rookie Experience (8 laps) is $449 per person. You can call 1-800-237-3889 or visit DrivePetty.com for complete details.

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Yesterday, Carl took a wild ride at Talladega. In case you didn’t see it, check this out.

Today, Carl was in Washington DC for the Ford Fusion Hybrid 1000 mile challenge. When he completed the challenge he took part in a Twitter conference about the Ford Fusion Hybrid. I submitted a question (my Twitter handle is @MomMaven) and Carl answered my question and it was posted on the video of the conference! To some people, this may not be a big deal but I thought it was, and I still am very excited. Here is the video of the conference.

Are you a NASCAR fan? Who is your favorite driver? Leave me a comment and let me know!

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