You trust us at BangShift to get you the best, highest-quality information and entertainment to you in a timely manner, and one way or the other, we will do it! The opening of the National Corvette Museum’s Motorsports Park racetrack is easily the highlight of this weekend’s events, and for good reason. With four miles of paved track, a straightaway over 4000′ in length and all of the kinks and curves that one would ever want in a road course, the NCM group has something they should be very proud of. But you want to see the track now? Well…that’s shot for the time being. For the weekend the track is split into two sections: One for the Chevrolet Ride and Drive event, and one for parade laps, C7.R laps, and a particularly interesting thing where Corvette owners pay $50 to let a pro driver hammer their personal ride around the track with the owner riding shotgun. Since the parade laps sold out in two hours and I don’t own a Corvette, I did the Ride and Drive event…twice. I did it yesterday and flat-out forgot to film anything. Blame the heat. I woke up this morning with one very sore neck, but I couldn’t go out there again and not get you guys footage.

The way it works is pretty much like any ride and drive event: you get to drive the vanilla offerings, and a pro takes you out in what you really want to drive. In both of my drives, I got a new Chevy Malibu. Not a bad car, small for me, but bless that air conditioner because I was no-shit shivering after my two laps. Then you wait in line #2 and once you’re up, you are led out to a waiting Stingray with a driver from Ron Fellows Driving School at the wheel. These guys are former F1, IndyCar, NASCAR, and from what I saw, they were given the golden ticket to get away with murder on the track. My first driver asked me what I was wanting to see. I said, “Scare me.” He laughed, then stuck his foot to the floor and only lifted enough to keep us from hitting a retaining wall. By far and wide the best ride and drive I’ve been on since 2010. Hey, it’s hard to compete with a jumping Ford Raptor!