Richard Petty Driving Experience

We were thinking of having a go at this in WDW at the end of the month although it seems quite expensive. Has anyone on here done it and if so what were your thoughts?

Miopyk

Whilst I've not done it at WDW I've done the Richard Petty experience at Daytona. One word - AWESOME . Not cheap as you say, but something you'll not forget. I whooped my way around the track (apparently at 160+ mph ) .Any reason to do it at WDW and not Daytona? Lots of other things to see at the Daytona track too.
DL

Depends on ones experience of racing cars really.

My brother has a racing licence and races single seaters in the UK. Being a poor student he cant afford to do it as often as he would like so my parents looked into and decided that it was bit, dare I say it, tame.

It is expensive and from speaking to others who have done similar driving experiences at Silverstone, Mercedez Benz World, Porsche Driving Centre etc in the UK as well as the Petty one the general view was that there is too much "safety" around the WDW experience. And of course the car you are given is not very exotic either.

Sorry to put a downer on it, IMHO you are better off saving your pennies and doing it in the UK. And IIRC its only an oval track, ie its more NASCAR than F1.

However if you are a racing fan then I do recommend the NASCAR experience at Daytona.

Thanks for your replies, in my time I've owned and driven all sorts of exotica and being a bit of a petrol head I saw this and thought I'd give it a go. However I didn't want to do it and feel let down by the experience. On the basis of your replies I think I'll give it a miss and maybe look at doing a day trip to Daytona.

Thanks

Miopyk

Great..
Will look forward to what you thought.. Thinking of doing this in August..
Well not me, i'll at the finish line waving my flag !!

Although not Richard Petty, later this month (24th) I am off to the Ferrari Driving school at Maranello to play with some nice shiny red cars, I will let you know how that experience is when I get back.

Iain