# Places you've been. . . **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 8, 2019, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879 "2019-09-08T14:38:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 233
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879/233 "2019-09-18T19:10:40Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Nice, all around. Davey Hamilton isn’t quite a Mario, but doing two laps around the brickyard has to be an experience. Davey was very nice and the ride was incredible. Here’s what I wrote in a previous thread: > [@The BMW HPDE track thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bmw-hpde-track-thread/789698/37): > > I’ve done the Mario Andretti Driving Experience at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and two Indy Racing Experiences at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway: one where you drive an Indy car with a detuned engine that can go about 120 mph tops, and the other in a full-powered two-seater where a pro driver takes you at around 180+. Driving (or riding in) a real race car is great fun and gives you a hint of what pro race drivers have to be able to do. Although driving the detuned car was fun, and being able to say you actually drove a race car around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is pretty cool, I’ve gone faster in my own car (on track, of course). > > But riding in the two-seater was AMAZING! My driver was Davey Hamilton, who ran the 500 eleven times, finishing 4th in 1998. Even though the pros go 40+ mph faster in races, at “only” 180 mph the G-forces in the turns are incredible! The aero downforce gives the car a grip in the corners you just can’t believe. It was light years beyond anything I’ve experienced in any of my other track driving! Unfortunately, it was only two laps, less than two minutes! But probably one of the most memorable things I’ve done in a car. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-been/839879)._