In Daytona Beach you are allowed to drive on the beach! For $5 a day you can drive up and down the beach and park your car right there. Its very convenient and cool to do. Before we went to the famous Daytona racetrack we decided to drive on the beach before it got crowded. We got there right for when it opened and we were only one of a few cars there. There were proper traffic lanes and a fixed speed limit of 10 miles/hour. We were told by the bartender the night before that many people don’t like driving on the beach because it’s not the best thing for the car, but whatever it is you don’t want to do in your own car can be done in a rental car guilt free!!! We did some donuts and hand brake slides for fun, because it’s not our car. After our fun, we drove for our tour of Daytona racetrack.
Having no interest in racing and NASCAR whatsoever, it was quite interesting to see the racetrack. I had no idea that they can fit 250,000 people on the property for a race. Our tour guide drove us around the racetrack, into the pit area and many other places. The tour ended with a tour of the press box which is the best seat in the house and you can actually see the entire track. All of the other bleacher seats only give you a limited view of the track, and if you blink you might miss the car you are looking for. The turns on the track were unbelievable – a 31 degree incline and 40 feet high. If you don’t hit the 70 mile/hr (over 110 km/h) minimum speed requirement to make a turn you will slide down the track. The tour would have been more enjoyable if the guide was able to answer my questions. This guy after all was a NASCAR fan. I asked him how many g-forces a driven can encounter when making a turn. The guide paused for a second and said that he “doesn’t think they measure that”. The tour would have been more enjoyable if they had some kind of technical tour as opposed to the guy rambling on about drivers I have never heard of before.
This was our last stop on our first half of the vacation. From Daytona we drove to Orlando where we would spend the next 5 days and 4 nights at Disney World for the 98th AEPi convention!
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