Box break - 1997 Upper Deck Victory Circle Racing

THE PRODUCT: 1 boxes of 1997 Upper Deck Victory Circle Racing

This is a retail box, but I'm not completely sure what the differences are between the retail and hobby boxes are.  I think the insertion ratios are the same.

1997 Upper Deck Victory Circle Racing retail box

Each box contains 28 packs.  Each pack contains 10 cards.

1997 Upper Deck Victory Circle racing retail pack

THE BIG HITS: A Piece of the Action relic inserts

Inserted into these packs at a rate of 1:699 are early relic cards.  The "A Piece of the Action" set consists of nine cards.  Each card includes a race-used swatch of a racing suit, racing glove, or shoes from a NASCAR driver.

THE CONTENTS

At a rate of 1:699 packs, I had a 4% chance of finding a relic insert in this box.  I didn't find one.  What I did get was a near complete set of cards.  The full set is 120 base cards.  I got 118 different base cards with lots of duplicates.

The base cards consist of essentially three subsets.  The main set is the first 50 cards.  These are standard shots of drivers.

6 - Mark Martin

The next 50 cards are of the driver's cars.

56 - Mark Martin's Car

The last 20 cards are mostly Local Legend tribute cards listing the hometowns of different drivers.

109 - Mark Martin

The other cards in the packs were all inserts.  These are pretty standard fare, although all have horizontal formats.  The Predictor card has a die cut.

Championship Reflections '96 - 4 - Dale Earnhardt
Generation Excitement - 3 - Johnny Benson
Predictor - 1 - Jeff Gordon

 
CONCLUSION

I have never opened a box of racing cards.  These were alright, but they would have been better with a relic card.