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Last year's race was a MAN-sized cushion at the very top of the track. It was thrilling in many aspects. I'd say the event has had as many sterling years as disappointing ones. Certainly at that track, a car with "the hookup" can just take off and hide (Benic, most years), and make mincemeat of the competition, but the sanction won't harm or alter the event from last year.
Get up as high in the stands as possible, because if you view the race from the infield, you will see 75% less of the action than you'd want to. Heats can be genuinely thrilling if you watch the mid-to-back of the field, as there are usually many "worlds-colliding" tussles taking place between a non-wing specialist, and a guy with wing-mounts atop his cage trying to make some hay in his only topless action of the year. Often, the complete unfamiliarity with the other guy means both guys will take it into the turns looking for the same real estate, and your knees will buckle a time or ten seeing how contact is (hopefully) narrowly avoided.
And, of course, if you can make it to the Front Row Challenge, it can be said with unqualified certainty that there is positively no infield that even comes close to the Osky Monday Night experience.
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