I had only seen Silver Crown cars at Eldora and Manzanita before last Friday. Let me tell you shooting against the rail during daylight, during hot laps was fun.

I rarely ever shoot on the straightaways, but during qualifying I was standing near the frontstretch, and those cars were hauling it!

So come feature time, I made my usual trip to the turns and what a rush those things flying by were. We have a track north of where I live called Merrittville (no relation to Dave), where you're right on the rail, but the sheer size of the Fairgrounds is so much faster. Nose to tail or not, those cars all rushing by under the lights was awesome, scary, fast and I had a great time. Once these tracks or races are gone, all the complainers will be crying about how the old timers talk about champ cars, and the miles that people would race on back in the day. So if they only race there once a year, I say go support them. If it stinks that bad, it will just make your regular Friday night show that much better the next weekend.