Your Big Moment Runs on Private Work | Drag Racing Lessons

Thank you.

It's a beautiful, wonderful overcast day.

The perfect temperature, not too cold, not too hot.

Perfect to make sure that that rubber doesn't melt on the track and it's also not too sticky either.

So let me take you to the pits because racing is like half of what you're there to see.

The pits and the paddock are so much fun.

Every team that you see has a huge trailer where they work out of like a garage.

And when you walk from one pit to the next, it feels like you're spinning a radio dial.

The crews have their own individual cultures.

You've got one crew that had smooth sailing R&B a couple of tenths down.

You've got Motown playing.

and if you go even one more over you're gonna find some classic rock that you can tell like even the people that walk by are like yeah and you can just see each team's personality the way that they move around the car they're all very serious as they're working on these cars tearing the engine down to the bolts putting it back together in between rounds every crew had a rhythm and the music showed you what their culture was you can hear it here for yourself

Let's go.

And then you walk back toward the bleachers and you can feel the air around you changing.

You can smell the sulfur.

To me, it smells like a beautiful morning at the range.

You can feel the hot rubber, that nitro smell, right? It like gets into your nostrils and it stings the inside of your nose.

You're in the car hours later and you can just still smell it on you.

Different engines all around the facility are firing up and being shut down.

And from time to time, you can't have a conversation with the people around you because that's kind of the whole point.

You want to experience something other than people talking.

And the crowd.

Monday, a work day.

Those stands were packed.

The drivers noticed it.