Rusty Wallace Racing Experience

Glenn Gallo

Absolutely loved this experience! Staff was very helpful. Class was comprehensive...Everything was well run...I loved it! I just booked to the waiting list at Seekonk and Stafford...Hope something opens up!

Douglas G

It's hard not to have a good time driving a race car on the track, but there are some customer service issues with RWRE that could be fixed to make it a 5-star experience. When we arrived at the track, nobody there knew that we had changed our times a week prior. Same thing happened the second time out. We had a reservation for Sunday, but a tropical rainstorm was coming (Sunday was rained out). We were able to switch to Saturday due to someone else's cancellation, but once again, nobody at the track was expecting us on Saturday. As far as the cars go, it's unpredictable. The first time the blue #12 car at Dover had a super-fast motor, but the transmission had only 2 working gears, 2nd and 4th. Leaving the pits in 2nd required a lot of throttle and clutch slip, then the spotter yells at me not to be so aggressive leaving the pits. Duh. The car also had some handling issues, felt to me like looseness in the front end. It was very hard to understand what they're barking at you on these speakers you slip between your ears and the helmet, which ruins your lap because you slow down out of confusion. I heard others commenting on this also. There is no 2-way comms, so you can't respond. The second time I had a GREAT handling car, but the rev limiter came on much too soon. I was reeling people in on every turn, only to lose them on the straights. Since I had paid extra for the so-called faster "COT car", once back in the pits I inquired about why the rev limiter was set so low, and the unnecessarily rude response was "you need to drive better". NOT HELPFUL! At the end of the second day, my wife wanted to get the photo plaque for me, but their printer was broken. Since her video did not come out, they said they'd send the plaque by mail, but all we got 4 weeks later were three pictures in a flat envelope (no plaque to put them in). The other thing we found displeasing were the smelly well-used helmets, and watching our sweaty firesuits being sprayed with freshener and then given to another person to use right away.

lrb

Did event at Stafford motor speedway. Came into it having no clue how to drive a manual. Crew was very helpful getting me started

Bill Fiedler

I've raced with them twice and both times it was an amazing experience!