INDY 500
Almost a month ago I had a pleasure to drive INDY 500 racing car. Let me tell you, what an amazing experience, one in a lifetime, it was so worth it even thought it did cost $399 + TAX for just 8 LAPS. Amazingly this car had no instruments like speedometer or rpm or anything, it just had on/off switch, starter and gears which were set for the high gear only, imagine breaking such gear shift? It had 3 pedals, very small tiny steering wheel and almost no space to move. If you big or claustrophobic don’t even attempt to get into such small tiny space. It was around 5PM that we got on track and drove those toys, sun was quite low but it was quite warm and comfortable, no rain, just perfect driving conditions. Track is 1 mile long, triangular shape, and had just 8 lapses, first round was just to try to feel this car, but then I had gas pedal pressed almost to the floor, on curves it was handling so nicely at high speeds, it was just amazing, never ever did I experience such amazing driving. Instructor was driving ahead of us, more or less showing us the path, even with such great car handling abilities if you rook a curve at wrong approach you could end up someplace unpleasant. Amazingly they had no accidents so far, but they are there in Orlando since November of 2008, so they are quite new. Anyway as I said, it is quite worth to try it, after all how often can you afford to drive such expensive racing car. They also had NASCAR driving, but we took a ride along with the race driver, that was quite nice experience as well.
This is the car that I had a chance to drive at Orlando’s race track:
