Go Karting at VIR With Tony Stewart

There seems to be a perpetual sense of adventure following me and my life around, and for that I suppose I both lucky and thankful. It's also one of the reasons why I decided to start writing about all the fun stuff I'm fortunate enough to experience.

Take for instance this past weekend. On Saturday I headed down to VIR in Danville, VA [right on the NC/VA border] to participate in an endurance go kart race. Our race got delayed a little bit because of a private party going on just prior to our group. When we finally get called in and over to the team/drivers meeting, the track marshall informs us that we had 12 teams scheduled to compete in the event, but hoped we didn't mind that they were going to run a 13th team....and that team was going to be Tony Stewart and his NASCAR crew. In case you don't know who Tony Stewart is, click this link for more detailed info, but in short, he's a world class driver and current pilot of the #14 Office Depot car in the NASCAR Sprint Cup series. ......He's good.

Since no one on our team really knew how the event was gonna play out, I did the first driving stint for our team. Unfortunately Tony Stewart didn't hop into a kart and get onto the track until after I was done driving so we were never on the track at the same time, but I was able to get some good helmet camera footage with the GoPro and was able to take some pictures of the other folks on my team battling with Tony on the track.

It was a really cool event, and ended up making for an even better story. Below are some of the pictures from the day, and the video I put together of me driving. I feel the need, the need for speed! Enjoy.

My roommate Chris trying to hold off Tony on the straight

Ha, next time by [Tony's team did have the fastest kart though, not totally fair]
Tony passing my friend Mike
Paparazzi picture time at the end
And here's the video:

[Endurance Karting at VIR]