Rather interestingly the most important race of the NASCAR calendar is this one
the first race of the season the Daytona 500 the most famous and iconic race in
the NASCAR calendar it's the most popular form of racing in the US and the
appeal is that these are cars that you can supposedly buy in a dealership hence
the term stock car racing even though these cars are anything but stock in
this form of racing pretty much anything can happen and that's really the appeal
1,000 fans pack into this day and costing 400 million dollars the
atmosphere is electric fans travel from all the way across America and even the
world to come and watch the Daytona 500 I mean what's there not to like fast
cars all our cars cheap beer there's plenty of food but the best thing about
NASCAR is the accessibility to the fans now you could pay for an ordinary ticket
and just watch the race and that's fine but you could pay a little bit more
money and enter the inner circle whereby you're in the same area as the drivers
you can see how the garages work you could even pass articles of clothing to
drivers and have them sign it for you you can get as close to the drivers as
is humanly possible pay a bit more money and have them Drive you around the track
which is pretty awesome you don't get that in that form you
don't get that in motorcycle racing you don't get that in the LeMans but you do
get that here at NASCAR device itself is electric stuff
all up to cover Dylan where we'll watch out there
Mustard's crashes blout thundering noise
a few accents here and there on the 2018 winner was a chap called Austin Dillon
and I got to see his car now obstinate Dillon's car is actually on display at
the Daytona Tour if you can't make the race itself I highly recommend paying
the $25 for the all-access tour which takes you around the track to the track
you can actually climb the track act like a complete tourist pretty much like
I did this is really kind of steep
it all takes you then on to the media center you're all the media converge
after the race to interview the drivers 200 journalists set in here you look at
these little things in front of you don't plug in their microphones or
laptop it also takes you into Victory Lane park where they award the winners
that trophy that Champaign and you know whatever it was pretty cool to see it
was pretty cool to be a part of you also get to climb into the stands and just
see how big this place actually is
I must admit there's a lot of walking on the tour and if you can't make the race
definitely definitely see the tour the day after or whenever you're here but
the highlights of the tour is seeing the winning car and the
winning car still all confetti still covered in champagne still dented up
with dings and whatever it's pretty cool
so I'm sold I want to come to the Daytona 500 what do I do
well believe it or not tickets are sold up to a year in advance so there's no
excuse for you not to get a ticket you are there interestingly the closer you
get to the action the cheaper the ticket in pretty much every other sport in the
world the closer you are to the action but more expensive than tickets but in
NASCAR it's completely different the closest you can get to the track the
tickets will cost you about about $100 the higher up you go the more you'll pay
tickets have been known to go through over $1,700 so that's really expensive I
think my pain $100 or so just to set foot broke and I actually like being
close to the action so that pretty much suited me down to a tee if you can't
make the race and you want to come to the stadium tour you don't need to book
just turn up just turn up at the gate pay you $25 from the all access tour I
probably wouldn't go for the Speedway tour I'd go for the oil access because
you get me more it's definitely worth the money even if you're not a racing
fan even if you know you're just passing Daytona to Daytona Beach it's definitely
worth 3 hours of your time and you'll have a great time if you have enjoyed
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don't be too tweets up me I'll be sure to reply and if I get enough tweets I
might go do it so guys thank you very much for watching we'll see you in the
next episode just the size of this place one side of
the stadium is actually shorter than the other and that's because of the
curvature of the earth that's how big this place actually is
Ninh Ly - www.ninh.co.uk - @NinhLyUK