George has always wanted to go to the NW Nationals in Seattle. So this year we decided to go. Marc is a huge fan and said if we ever went to give him a call. It was a little inconvenient since it was the day after our Family Reunion. I'm glad that Marc and Judy came to show us the rope's :) It was kind of funny before the nitro dragsters Marc had told Judy to watch George and I not the race. I guess we put on quite a show. The alcohol cars were really really loud but the nitro cars were......super deduper loud :) The cars get up to 325 miles per hour in 3.1 seconds. So yeah just a little impressive. We all had ear plugs in and it was still really loud. Our seats rumbled, the percussion from the exhaust hit us like a brick wall, it actually made us move backwards, it actually kind of hurt me. George says it makes his sub woofer seem nonexistent or puts it to shame :)
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| George, Lora, Judy, Marc |
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One of the perks of going to the races is that everyone gets to walk around the Pits or Nitro Alley. The cars are being worked on and started up (really loud and made our eyes water) but interesting.
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| George Young and John Force |
The drivers come out and sign things and take pictures with the fans. George was most excited by the Force family. I had no idea who they were. I know more now :)
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| Courtney Force and Lora Young |
We had seats really close to the starting line, where the Christmas Tree is. We had little black specks all over us after the races. We aren't sure if it was oil or pieces of tire or what but like I said when the Nitro cars went we were hit with a wall of something :)
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| picture of black specks from ?? Oil or tires |
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| Nitro Alley, the Pits |
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| Alexis DeJoria's car, married to Jesse James (dressed in black at back of car) |
I totally think Jesse James is a scum bag but he was there watching his wife race. I think I will leave it at that.
George got quite a few signatures, totally made his day :)
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| Brandon Bernstein and George Young |
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| George and Lora |
The last day as we were leaving the Force cars were out and we could walk right up to them. Look in them and everything. I was impressed that they would let that happen. It was definitely an experience. I am glad we did it and had more fun than I thought I would. I would do it again. Maybe next year :)
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| John Force's Car |
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| Me touching John Force's car :) |
