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Originally Posted by ISF
I was at the first one, too (was at the first dirt open wheel race there, as well). A friend and neighbor was racing a DLM at that time. The dirt track was considerably longer than it is now and the dirt contained a lot of gravel. IIRC there were some people in the stands who got hit kinda' nastily with rocks. The lower rows of the were empty and you could hear the gravel hitting the aluminum bleachers.
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Yep. Felt like getting hit and peged by pea gravel. The old track made the dirt track at Charlotte and Texas look small and their both 4/10s miles.