Monday 28th October - Daytona Speedway and Beach!

I have had THE most AMAZING DAY EVER!

Today I was lucky enough to be taken to the Daytona Motor Racing Speedway.  Home of the American racing series NASCAR!

As you all know I love transportation but I especially love NASCAR.  It has been my dream to visit Daytona and today my dream came true.  We took a tour which brought us onto the track itself.  The bends are so steeply banked.  The tour guide said then if you were going any slower than 70MPH you would just slide down to the bottom.  NASCAR racers take the turns at 190MPH!!!!  I got to have my photo taken on the podium on Victory Lane where Jimmie Johnson stood a few months ago after winning the Daytona 500 in his number 48 NASCAR.  When a driver wins the Daytona 500 the car is kept at the track for the following year to be displayed for all to see.  I got to see this years wining car and it even bears my favourite number...48!

We then carried on a couple of miles to the famous Daytona Beach.  The beach actually has a road down it that anybody can drive down.  

Wow...I hope you like the photos.  I am off to bed...I've got so much to dream about!

A few of the 250,000 seats around the track 

The famous Start / Finish line 

This is where the TV studios are 

Standing in Victory Lane in front of the Podium 

This is Jimmie Johnson's Victorious 2013 Winning car in the Daytona 500 

Looking at some of the past winners hand and foot prints in the Daytona 500 Hall of Fame 

This is Daytona Beach and the road down it! 

Here is the beach road again. 

William Newton - Daytona 2013 - Aged 5

Mummy wrote this in the sand

(Click on any of the photos to see them bigger) 

Daddy and I sat looking out into the Atlantic Ocean 

Posing at the entrance to the beach by the Pier 

Views of the beach from the Pier 

Another View 

End of the Pier at Daytona 

I didn't know that one of my Pear Class Classmates had a restaurant here!

(At Logan's Roadhouse for some dinner)