Personal Narrative Essay: Race Track Oklahoma Sports Park

Let’s drive fast, make a left turn and repeat this process. Now, continue to do this for hours sounds exciting, right? Many people would be hesitant to consider driving a car around a dirt track for several hours on a hot Saturday afternoon as an actual sport. But then some find it interesting and this is where the story begins.
So here we are at our home town race track Oklahoma Sports Park on another Saturday night like usually spend Saturday nights. Getting the cars ready and warmed up before the races as well as the track during a few hot laps. After that, we’re on to the drivers meeting where we go over the same old, rules for the new drivers that occasionally stop by. Then it’s off to start the races where you will start to smell of burning gasoline, burning alcohol, burning rubber from the tires, and a feeling of the bleachers vibrating under you from the power of the cars. Now and then you may have chunks of dirt fly up and hit …show more content…
Ryan was positioned in the back. The green flag was waved, and the race was on. After a few laps he had managed to make up to the front where another driver spun him out and during that one of the tires blew out. So, it was off to the pits to hurry and change his tire before they started the race again and right before they threw the green flag again he was back out on the track. Three laps into the race, Ryan was in first place, but there was another wreck which a caution was thrown. Now, they had decided to make a call Ryan had jumped the start so instead of sending him to the very back they sent him three positions back. He ended up getting back into second place before they threw the checkered flag. There was more drama than normally has ever been which we believed it had something to do with the producer. Eventually declined her offer due to the fact we would broadcast as someone we are not. In the end, it was a tough situation to