Richard Petty Driving Experience
Buckle up and get ready for the ride of your life at Walt Disney World ® Speedway! Richard Petty Driving Experience in Orlando puts you right into all of the fast-paced, adrenaline pumping, and pulse-pounding action of NASCAR!

Put on your driving suit and get ready for a day you will never forget. For over ten years, guests to the Central Florida area have been visiting this race track for the chance to live out their racing dreams. The cars at Richard Petty Driving Experience are real stock car racecars, filled with powerful V-8 engines and over 600 horsepower engines.

Ride-Along
With Richard Petty Driving Experience, you can either ride shotgun with a real life racecar driver or get behind the wheel yourself! With the Ride-Along Program, guests can ride in a two-seater stock car with a professional instructor for three unforgettable laps around the mile-long track (reaching speeds up to 165 mph). Let the wind blow in your hair and hold on tight!

Rookie Experience
If you are looking to make your fantasy of being a professional race car driver a reality, Richard Petty Driving Experience can make it happen. Take command of the wheel with the Rookie Experience! During the Rookie Experience you will be in full control as you put the pedal to the metal and whip around the track for eight exciting laps! Make sure to take tons of pictures! When else will you ever get the chance to say you drove a real-life racecar?

Richard Petty Junior Ride Along
During your Orlando vacation this year, give your child the thrill of riding shotgun in a stock racing car while an experienced driver takes them through an actual race track at over 100 mph!  The Richard Petty Junior Ride Along Experience at Walt Disney World lets kids between the ages of 6 and 14 feel what it’s like for Jeff Gordon or Richard Petty to zip around a track at top speeds.  But don’t worry parents, this is completely safe.  The drivers have decades of experience driving these cars and take plenty of safety precautions that they will explain to you throughout the Ride Along.

As soon as you walk into the building, your child’s experience begins.  Your little one will be pumped up as the crew will immediately issues them their real-life racing suit and helmet.  You’ll love it too, because these miniature suits make for amazing photo opportunities, including one very special one with a life-size cutout of Richard Petty himself.  After that, venture out on to the track and one of the members of the pit crew will help your son or daughter into the window of their race car.  The vehicles are made especially for kids, with custom aluminum racing seats and a five-point safety harness, so maximum comfort and safety can be achieved.  Once they are all strapped in, a real NASCAR driver will send them flying down the track for a 3-lap tour around the track reaching speeds of up to 120 mph!