Required us to cheerlead. rachel: they made me do a coin toss, i made them cheer lead. pete: we did voluntarily. we have a lot of great stuff coming up on the program as we mentioned hitting the infield. nascar fans from across the country of course packing talladega alabama for today s geico 500. we talked to a bunch of them in the infield how they re getting ready. watch this. [cheering] pete: talladega where unmemorable memories are made. this is our 23rd year. that is all you have to say. dega. pete: what does that mean? if you know you know. if you don t i m sorry. pete: big kyle busch fan. big kyle busch fan. pete: how do you make this possible? well, a little bit of buffets
It's race weekend at Talladega Superspeedway! WVTM 13's Ryan Hennessy introduces you to some pumped up NASCAR fans, including a man who turned a school bus into party bus and took it on the road for the hours-long trek to Talladega.
Look, in a little more than 24 hours, the grandstand behind me on the grounds at talladega super speedway will be packed with a little more than 100,000 fans with their eyes set on nascar s geico 500. the track is little more than 175,000 people so we won t be quite at full capacity, but that s not stopping the fun for fans already here. rv s are loaded with grills, american flags and excited fans who have been here partying for days. one thing everyone will have on their eyes, will have their eyes on, rather, nascar s new next gen car. this season is the debut for the car and so far, it s performing really well. the body of the car is fully symmetrical with experts saying it reduces the aerodynamic force and puts the emphasis on the race car setup and driver controlled. that s one of the new features
Nascar s geico 500. you can bet a lot of eyes are going to be on nascar s next gen car and how it will perform tomorrow. this is its debut season and so far we re told the cars are performing pretty good. it s got a lot of knew new features, with a fully symmetrical body and if you want to in one piece. we re talking about the largest oval track, 2.6 miles and speeds are known to exceed well over 200 miles per hour. the perfect ingredient for a pileup or the big one, as folks here at dega refer to it, but that s not what they have to focus on today. that s a preview for some. right now the focus is on fun and plenty of good weather. you can see folks out here playing a nice game of
Cornhole. don t know who is winning, but seems like this young lady is doing a pretty good job. you ve got the families out, walking around and enjoying the warm weather today. all the wonderful food and all the fan activities that nascar is providing today and the fan experience. so, lots of fun for nascar fans this weekend at talladega and it should be a good one tomorrow at nascar s geico 500. back to you, aishah. aishah: maybe you should get in on that cornhole and you d be good at it. and the big race tomorrow 2:30 p.m. eastern, watch all of it and more on fox sports. griff. griff: the russian war casting a dark shadow on the holy orthodox easter holiday. we sit down with a priest with more on the faith in ukraine next. we called and got $96,602.