Chase Burks November 2013
I was lucky enough to attend this years Texas 500 Sprint Chase For The Cup Event at Texas Motor Speedway courtesy of Chevrolet Trackside Experience. Jimmie Johnson led a majority of the race and won the Sprint Chase For The Cup. Danica Patrick spoke with us and relayed some info about her and how she is very involved with her family, she says that teamwork is the number one thing she looks for in her crew. The event started at 7:30 with a test drive of a new 2014 Chevy Silverado, which was very luxurious. The handling was great along with it's acceleration. These pictures are of the model cars they had:
New Technology and Cars
Chevrolet is a very integral part of the races considering a majority of the cars are Chevy's. They have some brand new technology that they are installing in several vehicles such as the shutters that go behind the radiator that shut at a certain speed so that the car or truck gets better gas mileage, they have also cut some of the weight out of the vehicles and are using an aluminum (the same as ships are made from) to make cars and trucks which makes them light and more durable. The all new Chevy Cruze gets an estimated 46 MPG Hwy, which is astounding. A Chevy rep stated that "Media crews were given the Cruze to test drive, one crew went over 800 miles on one tank of gas."
We got to take a tour of the garage and the pits, they have spare parts for just about everything, new engines, transmissions, plenty of tires, etc. Their trailers are loaded down with spare parts so that they can stay in the race. The garage is very busy, almost no room to walk and cars are being pushed from every direction, checked and readied for the race. The pits are just about the same with the pit crews getting tires ready by gluing the lug nuts to the rims so that when they need a change they can get it done within seconds.
The events details are listed in this pic:
Video of 2 laps which is 3 miles in 0:54 seconds: (WARNING: Video is very loud)
Overall the event was very fun and we had a great time. Chevrolet was very accommodating, they fed us, gave us a bag of goodies as well as a shirt. Thank You so much Chevrolet for this wonderful experience.
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Can't wait to do this again!!!
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