Full Throttle

No… this isn’t about the break-up of a 4 year old race team “marriage” or the even that team’s owner who may yet find himself as the poster child and antonym of “wedded bliss” in the future.

The Hall family of Bradenton, Fla, waited five long years on the Bristol will call list for two yearly opportunities to attend Bristol Motor Speedway’s bath tub imitation of an emptying whirlpool. (clogged with 40 or so “bars of soap” and a few rubber duckies.)

Their joy was shorted lived as was their marriage. The tickets, along with the the house and personal belongings, were part of the divorce settlement a year after getting the tickets.

“We waited so long to get the tickets, and we only had them about a year before we got divorced,” she said. “We both decided there was no way we are getting rid of these tickets, so we just found a way to make it work. He was at the spring race, I got the night race, and it will be vice versa next year.”

Joint custody, just like a child, with alternating and evenly divided Bristol “holidays.”

Ain’t divorce grand?

Speaking of which, these aren’t tickets in the cheap seats with the rabble-rousers, bottle throwers and newly minted Dale Jr haters, oh no! These are choice seats up in the elite row of sky boxes at a yearly cost of 6 grand per.

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