Since those events ran for just the month of January, Peterson had to find a use for the track the rest of the time. Peterson approached Petty about using the track to host an Orlando version of the Driving Experience. Petty liked the idea so much that he gave Peterson a job. The Winston Experience is 16 laps, while the ''Ultimate Experience'' is a 30-lap sortie, where the driver goes up to nearly 130 mph. Jacksonville dentist Andrew Whitten took the ''Rookie Experience'' in June.
People have no idea of what race car drivers go through.
The city varies according to the team playing host to the camp. There are camps in Clearwater with the Phillies, St. Petersburg with the Devil Rays, and Jupiter with the Cardinals, among others. You're a raw, rangy lefty from the baseball-fertile hills of, say, Orange Park. You check with the catcher, wind up and deliver a blazing split-fingered fastball to . . . That's the lure that keeps customers coming to Dream Week Inc.'s annual fantasy baseball camps in Florida, which run in November, January and February.