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Life in the
Fast Lane:
a Peek Inside
the RVs of
NASCAR’s
Finest

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ASCAR DRIVERS FACE A GRUELING SCHEDULE, SPEND-

ing more time at the track than they do at home; the 2022

NASCAR schedule will cover 39 weekends this year, with

up to 19 consecutive weeks of racing.

With such a demanding schedule, stock-car racing’s

brightest stars aren’t put up in luxurious hotels. Instead,

drivers turn their RVs into a slice of home that can be parked

in a private area inside each race track—and they’re nothing like the

ordinary motor coaches you’d find in RV parks around the country.

Builds for some of the top stars in the sport—think Richard Petty,

Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Chase Elliot, and the Busch brothers—

range from $800,000 to $2 million in total for the crème de la crème

of mobile living, according to Kasey Hess, director of motorsports