Rusty Wallace Racing Experience

Rusty Wallace race experience, South Sound Speedway, Rochester, Wa
Purchased a Groupon for a chance to «drive a nascar». Once purchased, you find that on short tracks you get to drive a late model style car. Completed my experience on Sunday October 6, 2014.
Pros: Well organized, very safe, cars are set up good, location was good.
Cons: you won’t go fast, they yell at you the entire time you’re on the track, if you have ever driven on a racetrack or have any drivers training, don’t bother! Experience is not what’s advertised.
The hour long «drivers training» is really 20 minutes of how if you don’t follow their strict rules they will kick you out. Fair enough, this can be dangerous. Then 20 minutes about how you’re really not going to drive fast, disgusted as training. I understand if they didn’t take safety precautions the cars would all be wrecked and probably a lot of hurt people.
My issue is you have to coast through the turns and accelerate in the straights, but they use cones to mark where you can step on it and have to slow down. I estimate you coast on about 60% of the track. If you don’t follow the rules, they will kick you out. In my case we had a VERY slow driver, so I got to follow him for much of my 10 laps. Why, you can only pass when they say and in the straights. Again, I know this is for safety.
They have a «personal spotter» for each driver. We had one for three cars and they yelled commands constantly, but most of the commands I didn’t know who they were talking to, even though we had car numbers.
My recommendation: if you have never driven remotely fast or only owned a slow car, this is for you. Or just do the ride along experience, they rip it for you in a real NASCAR. The cost is probably in line since the cars are expensive, but you still don’t get to drive fast, so keep that in mind. Oh, DON’T bother with the insurance unless you are a really bad driver. It’s so regulated you would have to purposefully wreck the car. It’s an easy $ 60 in their pocket.