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Posted on 11/21/2008 5:30:10 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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Sure is a shame he didn't hack into a 480V line.
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Father, son travels range far and wide for NASCAR
Holland natives continuing quest to visit every Cup track
http://www.nascar.com/2009/news/features/01/13/father.son.holland.nascar/index.html
NASCAR fans, it’s been reported, travel an average of 250 miles for a race. For Simon and Peter van Hijkoop (pronounced high-kup), the average distanced traveled is almost 20 times as far. To be more exact, the father and son from Holland trek roughly 4,500 miles — one way — to watch their favorite drivers trade paint.
NASCAR fans since 2006, van Hijkoops have been to 13 Cup Series weekends together in the past three years; Simon first traveled on his own to Atlanta in 2006. They’ll continue their personal quest to visit every NASCAR track on the Sprint Cup circuit in February for the Daytona 500.
A longtime Formula One enthusiast, Simon van Hijkoop says NASCAR has many appealing qualities. “Action, accessibility and value,” said Simon, a former track official at the Zandvoort Circuit — home to the Grand Prix of Holland until 1985. “I am a big open-wheel fan — Formula One. I also follow the German Touring Cars and other racing series in Europe.
“But a few years ago a friend of mine went to Atlanta for a race and told me, ‘Simon, you must go to see NASCAR. It is amazing;’ so we decided to give it a try.”
In 2006, Simon heeded his friend’s advice and with the help of his son, Peter, booked his entire trip via the Internet. Simon soon was flying across the Big Pond on his way to the United States for his first taste of stock-car magic.
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To date, the van Hijkoops have visited Daytona, Atlanta, Talladega, Phoenix, Bristol, Texas and Richmond. Some of their most memorable experiences include walking up and down pit road at Richmond, meeting a NASCAR legend and gazing in awe at NASCAR’s modern-day coliseums like Bristol, Texas and Talladega. “Those places are huge — it is really amazing how many people there are,” Peter said. “But meeting Richard Petty was most exciting.”
Wow, I wonder if I could hitchhike with them. :)
FORT WORTH, Texas — To ease financial concerns for fans, Texas Motor Speedway has instituted a payment plan for its April Cup race weekend, while some tickets will be available for as low as $20.
Track president Eddie Gossage has instructed the ticket office to offer a flexible payment plan that will be tailored to each race fan. Fans are encouraged to contact the TMS ticket office at (817) 215-8500 and visit with a ticket representative to discuss a potential payment plan. Fans will have until March 20 to ensure payment is paid in full.
Official Web site, click here
“Everyone is feeling the impact of this economy but we want our fans to know we can make it easy for them by developing a customized payment program that best suits their needs,” Gossage said. “When we say we are fan-friendly, we’re putting our money where our mouth is by first cutting reserved seat prices to as low as $20 for NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races and now by tailoring a payment program. When you combine that with free parking and the ability to bring a cooler into the races with you, Texas Motor Speedway provides the most fan-friendly bargain in all of professional sports.”
The newly instituted payment plan is one of the many ways TMS is giving back to the fans this season. Fans can enjoy the excitement of Cup Series racing for only $20 with the “Backstretch Buster” seats for the Samsung 500. TMS offers one of the best values for the family in the 7-Eleven Family Four-Pack. The package includes four tickets for the April 5 race, four hot dogs and four Coca-Cola drinks for $159.
TMS also offers affordable prices for the entire season. Fans can catch all the excitement of the 2009 season, which includes two Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series races and one IRL IndyCar Series race for as low as $279.
I have lived in Eureka for 54 years and 9 months and didn't know the sun came up from Nov to May until this month...
It cooled off today, only 70
BTW, if anyone can get that new system to work good luck or else it’s my computer which keeps getting an error. And I just installed the new Java update. I guess I won’t play, and besides that they put Jr in “B” I guess - since I can’t get past “A”
is there a group and password set up for FRFL?
As soon as my gubmint check comes from Obama, I’ll buy them discount tickets for everyone!
No, I just started a dummy league to see the AB&C groups. They have changed it a LOT!
Whew! I shall be patient then .. Thanks!
They couldn’t do any worse then last year.
Here’s the dummy group if you want to see what they did.
AMP88(Group ID#2441) PW junior
a don-o thread
Marine Basic Graduation
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2164632/posts
this weekend he is going to watch his son graduate from Marine Basic training
WHOO HOO!!
Congrats!
Thanks!
One time in the backstretch was more than enough for me.
There were plenty of open seats on the frontstretch last race. If one entered from that side gates, they could easily get a good seat!
I haven’t sat there, but I would think you miss most of the action. Pitroad is what you want to see.
I think everyone needs to sit on the backstretch, front row, at least once. On the start and every following restart, the cars are still bunched and by the time they hit the backstretch, are running wide open.
That said, there will probably be many empty seats this year.
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