Embracing my inner adrenaline junkie

This may be a surprise to a few of you, but I am somewhat of a closet adrenaline junkie. Not in the crazy I must jump out of aeroplanes or swim with sharks kind of way, but I've always had an innate love of fast cars and the idea of being able to race them. Of course the closest I've gotten to indulging my passion in the past was by watching V8 supercars, monster trucks and nascar races on tv as often as possible. Oh I forgot... I've also watched all the Fast and Furious movies a gazillion times (because fast cars + Vin Diesel = heaven). 

I know... total adrenaline junkie, right? 

Anyway last year my mum was asking me what I wanted for Christmas (like she does every year) and as usual I couldn't think of anything, so I thought what the hell I'll throw out something that I've really been wanting to do for years. I really want to do a V8 hot lap, you should get me that for Christmas. Not expecting it to ever happen of course. 

A couple of days later she told me that she'd bought me and T a V8 hot lap experience for Christmas. Holy Shit! Christmas couldn't come fast enough.

But, then I did what I always do when I get a voucher... I put off using it for ages because I kept coming up with reasons for why I couldn't go. T's working heaps this month, bub's got dr and hospital appointments next month, it'll be raining too much that month... etc etc. It's not that I didn't want to do it, I really wanted to do it. At the same time though I was letting my fear outweigh my excitement. Then all of a sudden it was mid August and I realised I better get around to using the vouchers before they expire so I finally booked our hot laps.

I was so nervous on the way to the track, but it was mainly because it was the first time we'd left bub for a whole day and this mummy was having some serious separation anxiety. Then I started freaking out that something would go wrong and she might end up an orphan - yep thats how crazy dramatic my anxiety disorder is. But of course then we got to the track and I saw the cars and the excitement went into overdrive.

It just got even more exciting when we got all geared up in our race suits... totally felt like a real race car driver haha.

When we got in the car the driver just assumed T was the rev head so put him in the front seat (that came back to bite him in the ass later). Getting strapped in I couldn't help but assume its what bub feels like in her car seat - so many straps and buckles and my feet couldn't touch the ground when I was in the seat. It was basically an adult booster seat.

The hot laps were AH-MAZING! I thought I would crap myself once we actually started moving, but it was the opposite. I got such an adrenaline rush. The only times I got scared were when he slowed down for the corners and we went from 160k/h down to 40k/h right as we entered the corner, and the corners were quite sharp. There were a few farrrrk the cars gonna roll moments, but they were far outweighed by the omg this is freaking awesome moments. And of course once we got out all I could think was can we do that again.

{post race selfie}

We paid for the laps to be recorded on a usb stick, mainly because I wanted proof I did it. Turns out that video was even better than I thought it would be. What I didn't know at the time was that T was actually really scared of the hot laps. Of course he acted all manly and tough beforehand, and I couldn't see his face during the laps because I was behind him. The video revealed all though. It's hilarious! I'm in the back with the biggest smile on my face the entire time and he's in the front looking like he's going to spew. I'm now thinking he kissed my forehead in the photo above because he was so glad to be out of the car and thankful that we didn't die. Such a tough man haha.

I've got the video and screenshots of it on my computer, but in the interest of preserving my relationship I'm not game enough to post them on here. I am keeping them as future retribution should he ever really annoy me though. Props to him for doing the laps with me even though he didn't want to. I'd really love to do it again, but I don't think I'd ever get him to do it again. Besides I have a massage voucher that expires this month so I should probably do that first.

Would you ever do V8 hot laps?

Toni x

Linking with Grace, Ann, Sonia and Bel.