Renting a private jet to a NASCAR race is the most comfortable, stylish and secure way to go from tarmac to trackside. There are 36 championship-points events held at 23 tracks across 20 states. In total, there are more than 1,500 events across 11 official series, taking place at 37. Semi-retired NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. And his family were confirmed to have escaped a plane crash in Tennessee, officials said Thursday. First responders were alerted that Earnhardt’s private jet, a Cessna Citation, ran off the end of the runway after landing at the Elizabethton Municipal Airport at 3:38 p.m. Local time Thursday. That’s why most of the top tier drivers own private jets, and race teams operate fleets of small aircraft to transport pit crew members and team executives to the racetrack each week. Dale Earnhardt, Jr. Owns a LearJet 60, which is the top of the LearJet line, and their largest jet.
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PORT ORANGE — A Spruce Creek Fly-In luxury home owned by not one, but two, NASCAR legends could be yours for a cool $1.295 million.
NASCAR team owner Richard Childress and his wife Judy have put their mansion at 1900 Seclusion Drive up for sale, confirmed the property's listing agent, Rachel McGrath, an agent with Premier Sotheby's International Realty.
'It's an incredible home. It used to belong to (NASCAR Hall of Fame driver) Mark Martin,' said McGrath. 'The Childresses are selling because they've got a 17,000-square-foot home in North Carolina and they're not spending any time here. They haven't been here since February (for the Daytona 500), but they love it.'
The Childresses bought the home for $995,000 from Martin in 2013. The house is next door to another former NASCAR driver, Mike Skinner.
McGrath said the Childresses also paid an additional $400,000 for the home's furnishings. Those furnishings are also available to whoever buys the property for an additional sum.
Martin had the four-bedroom, four-and-a-half bath house custom built in 2002. It offers 4,793 square feet of living space, a large covered patio and a three-car garage.
The two-story home features a foyer with a sitting room and a curved staircase leading up to a second floor where several bedroom suites are located. The first floor includes the master bedroom suite as well as a great room, chef's kitchen and dining room and a covered patio that looks out on to a lake as well as a golf course.
'This is not a (aircraft) hangar home,' said McGrath. 'They (the Childresses) bought it for the view and the high quality construction.'
The Spruce Creek Fly-In community is a gated residential airpark that includes a 4,000-foot-long lighted runway and a GPS approach.
'This extraordinary home presents a unique opportunity to own private property in an exclusive fly-in community,' said McGrath. 'With its stunning interior design and sought-after location, this residence offers a unique living experience for a passionate aviator and discerning buyer.'
Ryan Adams, an agent with Adams, Cameron & Co. Realtors, said the Childress property could be especially appealing to prospective buyers who are NASCAR fans.
'We don't have many celebrity homes in our area since John Travolta left town several years ago,' said Adams, referring to the movie star whose home here was also in the Spruce Creek Fly-In community.
'I think there's a percentage of the market where that (the property's NASCAR connection) presents a 'wow' factor,' Adams said.
'As far as trying to sell a luxury home in the million-dollar-plus range, I can't imagine a better time,' he said. 'Our inventory is down and demand is up. 'We've had a domino effect just within the last month where a number of luxury homes have been put under contract.
'If you drive along John Anderson Drive in Ormond Beach right now, you'd see seven or eight sale pending or sold signs for riverfront homes all in the million-dollar range,' he said.
Childress is the owner, chairman and CEO of Richard Childress Racing and was a NASCAR driver himself in the 1970s. He was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2017. He has two grandsons who are currently NASCAR drivers, Austin and Ty Dillon.
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The Childress's home in Davidson County, North Carolina, is one of the largest mansions in that area. Their primary residence there is also near the Richard Childress Racing Museum in Lexington, North Carolina, as well as the Childress Vineyards Winery.
Business travel can be a grind, But for NASCAR drivers and race teams who are on the road for 36 races per year travel is unavoidable.
If these teams had to rely on commercial airline schedules travel would be a nightmare, if not a logistical impossibility. That’s why most of the top tier drivers own private jets, and race teams operate fleets of small aircraft to transport pit crew members and team executives to the racetrack each week.
Dale Earnhardt, Jr. owns a LearJet 60, which is the top of the LearJet line, and their largest jet. It’s a business jet that can seat up to 10 passengers.
Thanks to the jet Earnhardt can leave his home in North Carolina and be at the racetrack in Daytona or Texas a couple of hours later — about the time it would take to drive to a major airport and clear security.
NASCAR rookie and former Formula One driver Juan Pablo Montoya also owns a LearJet 60. 2006 champion Jimmie Johnson owns a Learjet 31A, and Jeff Gordon owns a British Aerospace Hawker 800.
Most of the drivers leave the flying to professional pilots, but Mark Martin is a licensed pilot who often pilots his own Cessna Citation. Martin lives in a unique community near Daytona Beach called Spruce Creek. It’s a fly in community with it’s own airport. Residents have aircraft hangars in the yard where most of us have garages. Martin can literally park his jet in the garage.
The race teams operate larger planes to ferry the pit crews and team executives to the track. Roush Racing operates a fleet of planes, including a Boeing 737 and several smaller business jets. Dale Earnhardt, Inc. flies it’s pit crew on an Embraer 120, a mid-size turbo-prop that seats 30 passengers.
While cars have vanity license plates, NASCAR teams have vanity aircraft registration numbers. Dale Jr’s Learjet is N8JR, and Jeff Gordon’s Hawker is N24JG. The corporate Embraer at Dale Earnhardt, Inc. is N500DE.
NASCAR has come to rely on private jet travel so much that many tracks are located right next to airports. Daytona International Speedway is located right next to Daytona Beach International Airport where private jets and commercial flights arrive daily.
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While most tracks are not located so close to a major international airport, some tracks have built their own airports. Right next to Atlanta Motor Speedway sits Tara Field, a small general aviation airstrip that sees little traffic until race week, when more than 600 planes descend on this tiny airfield.
However, some tracks are not as convenient, but when that happens expect the NASCAR drivers to come up with a solution. When NASCAR descends on a track like Dover Delaware some drivers like Dale Earnhardt bypass race traffic by flying from the airport to the racetrack in a chartered helicopter, landing directly in he infield.
Some people consider private air travel a luxury, but with the hectic schedule of today’s drivers it is a necessity. Following a Sunday afternoon race a driver can hop on his jet and be home by Sunday night. This means they can meet with the crew chiefs and team owners Monday morning to review the previous race, and develop a strategy for the following race. During the week drivers are often on the jet again, meeting with sponsors, shooting TV commercials, making public appearances, and testing. Without a jet this schedule would be impossible. Most drivers agree that having a private jet gives them one to two days per week of productive time, or just allows an occasional day off.
You can see pictures of these jets at JetJit.com and get more detailed information on each airplane.
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