Cherokee

Cherokee Speedway:



Last night Dad, Dylan and I went to Cherokee Speedway. It was an "interesting" experience even though I've been there before. The track is 1/2 mile long. Here is a summary of the track

I have 5 ways to describe this:

1. DUSTY


2. Loud


3. Dangerous


4. Smoking & Drinking


5. Interesting

Right now, you are thinking Cherokee is a dangerous place that you would not want to spend an evening. You are probably right. Cherokee is a race track in Cherokee County, SC. It is a dirt track (hence DUSTY) with red clay being the dirt. They have several races each night. Renegades ( junky cars) are the cheapest cars in the whole circuit, and last night when we went to Cherokee 3 that's right 3 tires came off the cars right into the front of the grandstands. Now if you don't know, a tire can kill someone from a far distance away. EX. A man was working on his car in his DRIVEWAY, when a car somewhere in the area of 120 yards away lost a tire. Well this tire rolled said distance, and hit the man AND KILLED HIM. Now you know the lethal-ness of tires. Anyways, a car comes flying down the race way and loses a tire. Well, the raceway has fences, and walls. The tire comes over the fence (in height) and luckily lands back on the track. This happened three different times. That was scary, and nerve wracking. (hence dangerous). They also have "Young Guns": a under 16 race. A 12 yr. old won that last time. OH, yeah, a 17 yr. old won the Super Late Models last night!

Well, now to the Loud part.

That night just happened to be an All-Star night at the track. So, you have cars from all over the southeast coming to this track, and therefore more cars = more noise. They have late models, and super late models racing in the finale, (at separate times) and those cars are like modified Taurus', and Monte Carlo's, etc. Anyways, there were like 25 of each kind of car, and they made a DEAFENING noise not to mention the dust they kicked up. It was unreal.

Smoking & Drinking:

Fast and simple, almost everyone had a cigarette in one hand, and a beer in another (except for our family and about 50 others). To put this in perspective, there were at least 5 thousand people there, so the chances for inhaling second hand smoke are greatly increased.

Take a look:

Renegade

Young Gun

Super Late Models

Super Late Models