IHRA at Columbus.

[Jeff Niceswanger]

Originally Posted by CMcAllister

Watching the final rounds this morning...

Racers have nothing but good to say. Of course they're the ones that got on camera.

Other than a few hiccups, looked good from here, for a first race..

I remember when Bader took it over. We ran some of those races and had a great time. I'm cautiously optimistic that they can reclaim some of that legitimacy and get the participation.

Few observations as I spent every day there. The track workers and staff remind you of the old Norwalk days back when Bader was showing people how it's supposed to done. We didn't get a homemade bag of cookies when we pulled out of the gate and headed home like that, but the hospitality was thru the roof. I was walking back from the starting line and hospitality stopped and picked me up, delivered me to my pit spot. That storm yesterday was torrential. And their drying time was Nascar style. It was fast, A ton of people out there with blowers, brooms, squeegees, tractors...Plus two new kick *** track dryers and a HELOCOPTER! I expected another hour. Larry Eagle was talking to the staging lane pit steward about how hot it was, and Larry made the commit that you must really want to do this for minimum wage. He said, WHAT? "I make 5 times that". And their staging lane choice is like a NFL game. The pit steward had the coin, (a big weird looking coin with a #1 on one side and a #3 on the other) he asks who wants what lane, he flips it. I'm sure when the car counts go up this will be tough to do, but it sure was different. I mentioned in one of previous post the lack of fuel checks, but at the National Event they did them. There were some glitches. The lights went out a couple times. Andy was talking to the electrical contractor the next morning and he said. "Yes, we had to get all these new lights up and this was all temporary wiring running to the poles.... it's all to be buried underground. We just had to hurry like heck to get it up and running for this event". Anyway, you guys need to support this, it will be something we don't want to get away...