It wasn't technically a rain delay but it was rain related at the Big E.

It was 1984 or 1985 and it was the Thursday evening prior to the World 100. (This was a previous life prior to being baptized into open wheel racing so give me a little latitude.)

The car I was working on as many were in that day were still on open trailors. Our cars bumper was about four feet off the ground when loaded and hung off the back about three feet. Anyway I was the odd man out when it came for a real bed so I made a make shift spot with a cot under the fuel cell. We knew rains were coming and we took a big blue tarp and tied it to some bars on the drivers door, wrapped it around the back of the car to some bars on the other side of the car. When in place it created a nice little area under the car where my bed fit perfectly and it was protected from the rains that lasted about three hours. I actually remember telling myself to not try to go to sleep because this was a once in a lifetime memory. Stay awake and enjoy the moment. When the rain stopped I was treated at 2am with a front row seat to watchng CJ Rayburn, Jeff Purvis and Ray Baker changing engines and then firing it up and waking the entire north fourty around 4am :emote20:

To this day that is one of my fondest memories of Eldora. :thumb:


There was a rain delay story at the Kings Royal one year that involved the 50/50 girls who were shall I say very eager to have their picture taken. Anyway the story goes that we took about four complete rolls of film of the girls or so they thought. We actually had no film and we kept taking pictures with an empty camera. Every 24 shots the photographer would turn around and act like he was changing the film and come back for more picutres. :applaud: This went on for about a half hour before some of Darke County's finest got involved.

Anyway that too was a different life and it certainly involved a high amount of alchohol. :doh: