Nascar ...

My good girlfriends cousin races in NASCAR and this year her family had two extra tickets. She was nice enough to ask if we wanted to join them. Her cousin is Matt Kenseth and he drives Best Buy's car number 17. This race he was still sponsored by Best Buy, but has a special "Zest" car. He wasn't hard to miss at all in his aqua blue race car. He won the Daytona 500 a few weeks prior so we were really excited to see him race here in Las Vegas.




We found out a few days prior that our other friends Brandon and Christina were also going to the race, so we rode together and roamed the grounds before finding our seats with my friend and her family.




Matt started out the race at positin 11 (he had a really goo trial) and within 45 minutes he passed his tenth car to take the number one spot. Unfortunatly he only stayed there for about 20/30 laps until the pace car and yellow flag came out. Almost every car pitted, but a few and he dropped down to 3rd. It was really neat since we got to listen in on the radio conversations of Matt and his crew as the whole race went on.





Finally the last 10 laps came and he was in a three way tie for second and he went too high and hit the wall. nothing too bad, but just enought to fall way behind. We had a blast though. It was our first Nascar race and hopefully we can make it to next years.