My first trip to a Motocross Track!
Last weekend I had my first trip to a motocross track and let me tell you, it was amazing. It had to be one of the best times I have ever had. The first race was sheduled at 10:30 and since we were over 2 hours away we woke up at about 6:15 and planned to head out at 7:00 to get decent seats. I have to say it seemed like 2 days rather than 2 hours because I was so anxious to get there. About half way there we realized we forgot to have breakfast so we had to stop by at the nearest Mcdonalds and pick up some food. I normally just have a number 3, a double cheeseburger and fries but today I was starving. The day before all I had was half a plate of spaghetti for dinner. We hurridly ate and were out of their in about ten minutes. Finally about 9:20 or so we reached the Motocross track. I was urging my dad to walk faster because I just coudln’t wait any longer until he reminded me we still had over and hour to wait before the first race begun. The stadium around the track was huge and probably seated near 45,000. The next hour went by extremely fast because we walked around in the pit area and got a few autographs and learned a little bit about some of the drivers including my favorite, Gary Sanders who was currently 1st in the points with a comfortable lead. We left the pit area at 10:20 to go back to our seats. The announcer said there would be six heats with eight drivers in each heat and the top four of each heat would advance to the final race. The heats were only 10 laps with the final being 35. In the first heat Jason Williams who was currently fifth in points recieved first. Gary Sanders was in the sixth heat and dominated the whole pack winning by more than 7 seconds. The eighth heat race was intense and ended with Vince Johnson losing to Matt Redding by a quarter of a second but still advancing to the final. The final race had Matt Redding leading from laps 3-26 until Jason Williams sped past him on a turn. Gary was sitting back in fourth until lap 31 when he started to pick up the pace passing two opponents before lap 34. On the last stretch Gary was picking up on Jason Williams, I was getting so into the race I didnt even realize I was standing and the people behind me couldn’t see, me being 6’4″ and all they weren’t too happy about it. Gary couldn’t quite catch him and recieved second losing by only 1.2 seconds. All in all I had a good time but it would have been even better if Gary had won.
