by Ricky R.
I am going to pick up my cousin, and two of my friends will meet us at the track. We are going to Sacramento Raceway to watch different types of drag racing. There will be different types of category cars. That means some cars are faster than others. They decide by ET, which means time that the car leaves the starting line and crosses the finish line, and speed.
We plan to arrive at 10 a.m. and leave when the races are over. Everything is wide open so we can go talk with the drivers before, during, and after their race. We will sit in the stands during the race. We can smell the rubber from the tires and the fuel from the cars. We bought hamburgers for lunch and ate down in the pits together. After we ate, the races continued, and we started watching the different categories of racing.
We saw one accident. It was a small tire category. The car left the starting line, went sideways, and hit the concrete barrier. The driver was unhurt.
My favorite car categories are the Pro Mods. The body of the car is fiberglass and the chassis is made of steel. The driver is enclosed behind a roll cage. The driver has to wear fire clothing when driving to protect him from flames. It is not required for drivers to wear this fire clothing in every car category. But because of the type of fuel they run in the Pro Mod cars, there is more of a chance of fire.
At the end of the day, we loaded up our chairs and canopy into my friend’s truck, and drove home. We had a wonderful day at the races!