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ABOUT THIS PAGE: Here you will find notes about each of the sound clips included on the CD. The photos posted were captured from my video recorder, at the approximate location where each sound clip was recorded from.
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Contents of Volume 1 (audio CD):
1. Jet Fly-over (on race day) 0.29m
Jet Fly-overs tend to really fire up the NASCAR crowd. It seemed appropriate to start the CD off with a short Jey Fly-over clip.
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| - the Daytona Experience - |
| NASCAR's season opens with the Daytona 500, a premier event watched around the World. Clips #2 through #11 help capture the experience of the week leading up to Sunday's big race. |
2. Cup Practice, up close at Turn 3 fence viewing area. 2.03m
Up close and personal. You can usually smell traces of racing fuel in the air from this vantage point. As with most practice sessions, the crowds are non-existant. You can walk right up to the chain-link fence and sit there for hours. The infield is open to tent campers and RV parking during the week leading up to Sunday's big race.
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3. Cup Practice, sounds from inside 'tent city' at Turn 3. 6.17m
Early in the morning, usually starting at around 9:00am, packs of cars stir up the sleeping campers. Even from deep inside 'tent city' (Turn 3), it's a crisp deep sound that trembles the ground a little. Many fans are still sleeping in their tents at this point. Others are busy cooking breakfast. Generally, the sounds of NASCAR come through loud and clear from this vantage point.
Special note about this clip; At approximately 3 minutes into the clip, you will hear a track announcer over the loud-speaker system for around 40 seconds, followed by another announcer of jabber jaw explaining why you were hearing the first bit of jabber jaw (yes, this is what goes on when nobody is in the grandstands). Use that announcer's voice to adjust your volume 'UP' to where the loud-speaker is rather loud and annoying. That will help set a true measurement of what it sounds like being at this event LIVE, in person. Once you calibrate your volume level, use that same level for clips #2, #3, #4. Yes, clip #2 is really that loud when standing up near the fence!
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4. Cup Practice, deep center of track. 8.05m
From this distance, you can clearly hear that Daytona super-speedway "sing" which is a sound all of it's own.
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5. Truck Practice, up close at Turn 3 fence viewing area. 4.47m
Night time Truck practice session.
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6. Truck race, pace lap at Turn 3 fence viewing area. 0.42m
When the sun goes down in the Daytona beach area, the wind calms to almost no wind at all. It's a magical time when compared to 'day' races at the speedway. The sounds generated come through louder, and clearer due to the wind not blowing the sound away.
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7. Truck race, under green, full field pass at Turn 3 fence. 0.23m
This clip came through loud and clear (very crisp). The microphones managed to pick up "a ground pounding" tremble that you would experience if standing there live. It's a sensation that starts 3 to 5 seconds before the trucks come into visual sight. I had to cut this clip short due to the loud speaker "almost too clearly" broadcasting copyrighted radio coverage.
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8. Truck race, deep center of track. 2.33m
Simply spectacular. In the night air, and from a distance, the sound carries and you can still feel a ground tremble sensation. Most who would be watching from this point are RVers parked further away from the race track surface, more towards the exact center of the infield. At this point in the race, many 'infield' race fans are sitting on top of their RVs, with portable TVs. Others are sitting in between their RVs, with large screen TVs, grills are fired up, and drinks are flowing. It's a more relaxed view point to experience a race at Daytona.
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9. Daytona 500, 'Gentlemen, Start Your Engines!' 1.01m
It's Sunday and time to race. This vantage point is from the pit roof which is part of the 'Fan Zone' -- several thousand gather to experience Daytona from the Fan Zone.
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10. Daytona 500, pace lap (from behind pits, Fan Zone). 0.49m
Same pit roof vantage point (Fan Zone).
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11. Daytona 500, going green (from behind pits, Fan Zone). 2.09m
The grandstand acts as a 'wind break' which helps push a nice harmony of race car sounds through the infield pit area. You'll notice the 'bounce' effect coming off the back-stretch (super stretch) grandstands when the cars pass that point of the track.
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| - Dover - |
12. Cup race, going to the green, from Turn 4 grandstands. 2.35m
As captured from the top most portion of the Turn 4 grandstands. The view is spectacular, and the sound comes through loud and clear up at that point in the grandstand.
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13. Cup race, long green run, Turn 4 grandstands. 10.43m
Same Turn 4 grandstand seat position, looking out to Turns 1 and 2. The concrete surface at Dover, as well as Bristol, certainly changes the tune of what you get to hear if comparing to other race tracks. And there are times where Dover will run "green" flag for a solid hour without cautions. This 10 minute clip was cut from a solid 60 minutes of green flag racing.
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| - Pocono - |
14. Cup race, coming onto the track for the first time. 1.47m
Somehow, Pocono always seems overcast and cool for a summertime race. It's a big track, 2 1/2 miles, but has a sound of it's own. The infield gates open almost at the point of sunrise on race day. And it's first come, first serve.
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15. Cup race, pace lap, as heard from near Turn 1. 0.49m
On such a large track, and with Pocono often having a brisk wind, the sound gets blown around. From this vantage point, you always know the cars are making their way down the front stretch when that giant wall of 150,000 fans in the grandstands start to stand. It's a 'wave' of fans standing as the pack of cars make their way down the front stretch.
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16. Cup race, green flag, as heard from near Turn 1. 2.50m
The view from this location only provides for the tail end of the grandstands, and then leading into Turn 1. The rest is all 'sound' as heard in this clip. Pocono's back stretch sends the cars off at an odd angle towards the tunnel turn, and then further towards turn 3 (only 3 turns at Pocono). What you can't see, you certainly can hear and it's a unique sound, only at Pocono.
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17. Cup race, pass under green while in Grandstands. 1.42m
Pocono view from in the grandstands, looking towards Turn 3.
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| Bristol, Richmond, more Pocono |
18. Bristol, it's noisy loud from any seat! 4.02m
Wow, and I can only say Wow!. This place is loud. It's a concrete track surface, surrounded by a bowl of grandstands. The sound these cars generate on such a short track (1/2 mile) will rattle the clothes on your body. My custom recording equipment was over powered by this track but still managed to pick up enough sound that defines 'what is' Bristol. The clip starts off with the cars going green from a caution lap.
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19. Richmond, coming to the green flag, Front Stretch. 2.39m
This isn't the right image showing the front stretch (this one is from Turn 2) but it is Richmond, at night!
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20. Pocono, approx 1 mile from track. 10.20m
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As recorded from the Pocono Camp Grounds. Just imagine lots of tents, bordered by the Long Pond creek-like swamp which separates the camping area from the back-side of the race track area. There is a building for showers and toilets next to the in-ground pool area. A real classic... even has a hole (a leak) in the pool where for years the management keeps a garden hose running to keep it filled with water... never a warm swim in that pool but always fresh water. |
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