Dirt Track Date

This years fair theme

I totally forgot to tell you about my once a year tradition of being a 'white trash' dirt track date.

The Ventura County Fair opened this year on my birthday! We go the first two nights to see the race cars. There are VRA Sprints and Dwarf Cars plus IMCA Modifieds (I have no idea what all means other than cars that race around the track! I'm a blonde - that's my excuse and I am sticking to it!

VRA Sprint Cars

IMCA Modified

Dwarf kids race

Dwarf cars!

Demolition Derby - the REAL reason I go! Whoo Hoo!!

The first day is dollar day! Everyone and their cousin is there because before 3 PM you get in for a buck. We checked out the Gem and Mineral Exhibit, Photography and Cultural Arts. Managed to check out the Giant Kaleidoscopes in the Kids Hall and checked out the vendors and the junk they are trying to sell. Same stuff every year. Stupid me wore tennis shoes and because we had to walk a ways I got a blister so the second stop was to first aid for a band aid. I tried to be a good sport but it hurt! I ended up buying a pair of flip flops from one of the outside vendors. I didn't care what they cost and it was worth the $10 I spent for them! Ah relief! We headed for the raceway and waited to get in. The first night the kids race so the families and friends of the drivers are there and if you don't get there and get a seat you don't get in. They told us the second night after giving us wristbands that they had 3000 seats for almost 6000 people!

The reason I like to go both nights is to see which cars in the demolition derby are able to limp home, get re hammered out and return to try again the next night. Also the bigger cars are out on a 1/5 of a mile track. They had over 40 cars competing! They also had $1000 for the DD each night so it was an all out smash em crash em night! There were side bets from the drivers as 3 of the top points leaders put themselves in the back of the lineup and the one who made it the furthest to the front of the pack won the pot of $500. If they won the race another $100 was thrown in. These guys went all out. It was probably the best 2 nights of racing I have seen at the fair.

I did get the announcer to play the song "Dirt Track Date" by Southern Culture on the Skids. A complete white trash country tune about going to the racetrack. That is Brendan and my inside joke about me being a dirt track date. Ate the fair food - corn, cinnamon roll, nachos, pretzels YUM! Fireworks are at 10 PM and they are awesome!

So there is the story of my birthday and my being a dirt track date - both only happen once a year! LOL