So - my review, which is worth what I paid.
We drove up Saturday after my son finished at a UIL contest and stayed at my aunt's house in Azle, which is about 40 minutes south west of the track.
Got up Sunday morning and got to the track. By the time we got parked (I think 6th row from the front), it was 9:58 and the gates opened at 10. Made it up to our suite and got checked in and I ended up with someone elses Hot Pass. Nascar has this whole system where you upload a picture of yourself, a copy of your license, etc. and then the hard passes, I'm fairly certain, are just given to the team and they hand write each person's name on it. Apparently they just doubled up on someone and skipped mine so the guy grabbed some hand sanitizer, sharpie off, new name on, away we go.
Breakfast and booze started the minute we got in the suite. The one thing I wished they had there was hard booze in the suites but I've been in multiples, including non team suites, and there is just beer and 2 wines. About 11am, Daniel Suarez came in and spoke with us and did pictures. He is once again one of the nicest people you could ever meet. It may all be a show (I don't think so) but I enjoy hearing him each time. We then had a little break and then went down in groups for a pit/garage tour. We did it last time so the wife decided to stay back but I took our 18 year old son on his first visit and he enjoyed it. The first Super Truck race of that day (*) was going on while we were on pit. Went back up and Tony Stewart showed up and talked and did pictures. From this point forward, Tony has 1 Nascar race he can attend and 99 other dirt track type things he is driving in. I asked the Stewart-Haas guys about Gene Haas and he was in Bahrain for that race, unfortunately. After Tony, lunch was served and then we hurried down to sign the start finish and watch the start of the race from the pit box. My wife and son finished up the day in the suite and I bumped back and forth between our pit box and the suite. We stayed afterwards to watch the second Super Truck race and then headed home.
I enjoy the spectacle, but if I wasn't getting schmoozed in a suite with hot pit passes - I wouldn't pay. The racing is.. kinda boring. The cars are all so good now, the drivers are all so good. All the passes are either made with a slow car acting as a pick or in the pits. I could have a good time in their stands with a cooler of booze or maybe in a RV in the infield, but it just doesn't really call to me. Overall - a good day and I'll beg the vendor again in about 18 months to do it again.
(*) Super Trucks. My wife watched the first race from the suite and said "I love Super Trucks". I was like - told you. We got to see a truck flip on the dirt ramp during warmups and 3 trucks get in various states in the first race. And then second race, wtf. We ended up with one of them not quite completing the jump, rolling down the ramp and ending up sitting on the barrier. And then while they are attending to him, everyone else is stopped, the ambulance and tow trucks are dealing with that drive, and Robby Gordon is going full speed around the track without a care in the world and we're like "He's going to stop, right". Yeah. He did the big jump and that tow truck hauled ass and at the bare minimum probably saved Robby from taking a trip to the infield care center. Apparently Robby's radio was not working so he didn't know there was a bad accident and to stop.
MotoGP in 13 days.