Personally I was very sad to see this track go the way of the big corporate NHRA way and it loose it's IHRA Event. It was there that day that I fell in love with IHRA. It was also so sad to see the old tower fall. There was a pictorial of the demolition of the tower in one of the Drag mags of the day. I think Super Stock & DI. I guess that doing that and turning it into an NHRA MEGA TRACK is better then the other alternative Burton Smith was thinking about doing. Now as we speak, Smith and his Speedway Motorsports, Inc are in the process of killing the uniqueness of Phoenix International Raceway and turn it into another one of his cookie cutter tracks.
To me, that day was the perfect drag race.
I also miss the coverage that you, Bret and your team did on ESPN. By the following year I was back here in Phoenix and I taped the coverage of the 94 event you guys did on ESPN. I still have it and watch it. I need to get it transferred onto DVD. That was one of the best sportsman coverage I ever saw on TV. So glad I got it on tape. You guys were PRO with it. You did that piece on Racing Radios making it to the sportsman ranks. Also the thing on all of the drivers getting radial keratotomy for better reaction times.
Back then my buddy that I went to that race with use to say to me. "THESE, are the Good 'Ol Days". And I would reply, "The 90's, are you crazy. I would kill for it to be like the late 70's again." Wow, he was right. 1993 was the "Good 'Ol Days"
Again thanks Wayne for the vid. And thanks Bret for your inside stories. Wayne, you got anymore videos from that weekend?