Nevada, Las Vegas - Saturday, November 1, 2014 - Las Vegas Motor Speedway

We waited until mid-morning to leave for the drag races.  Had to wait for some rain and heavy winds to pass.  Since we didn’t get home until 11:30 last night and I was writing the blog after that, I didn’t mind sleeping in a bit this morning.  Looks like temperatures are going to be in the mid 60’s all day today.  Not bad for us, but for these desert dwellers it is darned cold J.

Las Vegas Motor Speedway is just 5 miles from where we are staying.

 

 

NASCAR also runs here.

 

 

Since our favorites are the Force drivers, we stopped in there first.

 

 

Courtney’s team is getting ready.

 

 

So is John’s.

 

 

We had to check out the Harley Davidson booth in Nitro Alley

 

 

Greg thought I should try out the competition Harley – nope, too many people standing around.

 

Love this 2015 CVO Screaming Eagle.  Price is just over $39,000 – didn’t love it that much.

See the piece that is inserted between the back and the seat?  We had a custom piece done to fit into the same spot on our 2010 bike when we bought it new.  In 2010 Harley decided to tilt the passenger seat back thinking it would be more comfortable, maybe so for long legged people, but short legged people like me then had to have the foot rests raised.  The slant on the seat also meant that your butt slid back in between the backrest and the seat at an uncomfortable angle.  Looks like Harley figured out the same fix we figured out in 2010.

 

 

Force’s booth in Nitro Alley.

 

 

Harley crew hard at work.

We had great seats thanks to Castrol.  They were about half way down the track so we could see the start and the finish.  We had plenty of room, everyone wasn’t packed in together.

Brittaney Force getting ready to run.

This is the view across the track where there is RV parking, at a pretty price.

 

Make a wish foundation brought things together today with the help of some NHRA teams to make a wish of being a drag racer come true for a 17 year old young man named Aaron.  There were two double seater race cars that came out to compete.  Aaron was in one car with a professional driver.  Two professional drivers were in the other car.  Aaron’s car came out the winner at 146 miles an hour.  He was awarded a trophy and the crowd stood up and cheered.  I think they really made Aaron’s wish come true.

Courtney Force getting ready to run.

John Force in his “American Made” color scheme getting ready to run.

As the sun started to set this evening there was beautiful color in the mountains across the way.

 

I really enjoy watching the cars in the evening because then you can see the flames shoot out when they go down the track.  Unfortunately, when I try to take a picture of that all I get is a blur because they are going so fast.

Great day at the track.  Tomorrow we’ll be hanging around here.  We’ll be leaving Monday morning headed for Mesa, AZ.  We’ll probably make one more overnight stop before we get there so we’ll pull into our winter home on Tuesday morning.