A company called Fast Track
rented the track a few days a week to
run a NASCAR school where average
people could see what driving a Win-
ston Cup stock car was like. On the
day before the convention began we
set up a special Fast Track school,
using Winston Cup cars provided by
the school. It consisted of four sessions
of 23 drivers and everyone got to do
ten laps at speed. Good sense and
healthy fear were their personal gov-
ernors. Every group received a class-
room chalk talk while the other one
was out on the track in one of eight
school cars. Three-lap rides were also
available. Drivers imagined that tal-
ent scouts for Roger Penske or Hen-
drick Motorsports were in a sky box.
The chances of that happening were
slim and none, and Slim just left town.
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