Drag Race Day at the Zmax Dragway at Lowes Motor Speedway!!!

Holy CRAP we had a great time. We just got back from an entire day (9 hours) of drag racing at the new Zmax Dragway at the Lowe's Motor Speed. Funny, there's so much crap going on about the place with the owner, the local government and the neighbors that live within earshot that we were suprised that it didn't effect the attendance! Oddly enough, today was a sold out event! Guess noone gave a shit, lol. Check out this article for more info...

Anywho, since this is supposed to be a food related blog, let me tell you about the best place to get an affordable lunch. Let me tell you, it's not at the race track! But, if you want to get an 8 dollar shitty "pulled pork sammich", a 5 dollar corn dog or a 3 dollar bottled water, then the race track is your thing. But, if you're like most of us and the price of gas, food and the 120 bucks it takes to get INTO the race has left you a bit strapped, try packing a picnic like we did :) Besides, its kinda romantic, right?


TRADER JOE'S WOOPEE PIE?? Oh Yes :)


So, we got there around 11:00 this morning not really knowing what to expect as we've never been to a drag race. We waded through the thick traffic, found a parking spot (with help from some minimum wage, self important, bleach blond, over weight, sweaty, tobacco chewing, inbred, toothless whore of a parking attendant with too much power and a matching orange vest and flag), waded through the thousands of people, through a long tunnel, up a million stairs and to our seat and sat with a deep sigh, lol. After we settled in, we saw two fast looking cars called "Top Fuel" pull up to the line. They heated up the tires, burning out huge plumes of thick white smoke to make them stick to the track. We thought, "Wow, that was kinda loud!" but that was NOTHING!!! Both cars backed up to the starting line while their crews fiddled with the engines and stuff to get the cars ready to race, was kinda cool looking to see it all, I was amazed. Then, the starting lights went from yellow to green and.....let me tell you. Those cars were SO FUCKING LOUD that we thought there was something wrong. The literal ROAR from the engines pierced our ear drums so bad that it forced us to shove our fingers in our ears!!! Needless to say, we shoved ear plugs in our holes post haste :) .

They rumbled by us so much that we felt it in our bones!!! My empty plastic water bottle shook with the engines vibrations. "Unreal" is the only way to describe it!!! The smell, the heat of the engine, the rumble and the sound is truly an amazing experience. We saw right away why this was a sold out event.

The track was really impressive too, state of the art man. A must see if you're ever in the Charlotte area.





To help put it into perspective, here are a couple videos;

We were about 14 rows from the ground, at least 200 feet away and the rumble of the cars jiggled my bottle!!!