Welcome to MSIMA’s new food column. Someone wasn’t able to conscience me that an auto themed food column was a bad idea! (*from Pierce et all: we did, it was like talking to a stoned wall)

Hey you there. Yea I’m looking at you consumer. No no, you play your ass there. We’re talking about wind tunnel eats again.

Ah Aerodyn. The place where your homologation efforts go to be scrutinized by the very finest NASCAR has to offer. I’m not going to dabble in the NC wind tunnel rivalries, or bother talking technical about this place (in fear of waking up with my fingers removed by a certain ex-employee and friend). But I can talk about food!

Similar to Windshear, Aerodyn uses a local catering service with a bit of a twist; the teams are given menus to decide what is catered that day.

Yep, the dinning flavor is up the the team/manufacturer’s discretion. However, for you dear reader and potential intern in Motorsport, this can be very beneficial.

Off days are pretty simple. You could pack lunch, or try some of the many places Mooresville has to offer (such as Rice Fun, and take this as a full endorsement).

Test days often have enough food to feed the team and staff thrice over, which means there are enough leftovers to actual sustain you and your roommates until your body rejects it. And with teams rarely wanting to bother with taking home this much food, it’s either you or the trash, and you best not let it go to waste.

Because the teams choose what they want, it’s a bit like Russian roulette. Recently, we have gained intel that certain teams have gained a fine taste to the catered STEAK DINNERS brought in by the service. Personally, us at Mis-Shift have not tried this delicacy from the tunnel of wind, but apparently it is highly rated. One day you’ll be having Mexican from Hendrick, the next ice tea and a sandwich from Ford, the next Mexican from Hendrick, and again, Mexican from Hendrick.

What’s that? You want more than just build your own tacos from Hendrick? No worries, they got build your own fajitas as well!

There are two slight issues with trusting in the team’s infinite wisdom. The first is that a team might actually finish off most the food (SHR), and the second lies with a certain Chevy team and their addiction to food from south of the boarder.

You’d know when they were testing because our apartment was full of THE SAME Mexican food. Now as a student, you must never complain about getting free food… but at some point when the entire month becomes taco Tuesday… you do wish for a bullet to the head.

You learn to get creative with the same 6 ingredients I guess.

On the flip side of banking on race teams to unknowingly feed you, you’ll end up bringing home some damn good shit every week. From iced tea, a gallon jug of salsa, enough banana pudding to feed a first grade class twice around, or some pretty fine NC BBQ. You’ll get your desired variety one way or another, and in the quantity needed to make it last a week or more.

And on off days, well, you’re in Moorseville.

Something else that must be mentioned is the god-given snack cabinet. Do I hear king size candy bars? Any soda you could ever imagine? Aerodyn has it all, every bit of diabetus you could ever imagine. The Aerodyn snack cabinet is a holy place, and a place everyone should visit at least once.