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I can only use the phrase "adding to perfection" as it pertains to this press release. Mike and Judy have spent the last 25 years and spent a lot of their blood, sweat, and tears into making a little dirt circle into one of the most cosmetically pleasing sights the eyes can see. When you pull into that spacious open parking lot at the bottom, you see the freshly manicured grass, the hillside with the old school wooden bleachers, that granted a lot of us hate, but wouldnt have it any other way. Then as you walk up the hill, you see the red clay...already prepared. A lot of tracks would still have the water truck, sheepsfoot..etc..etc going constantly. But not at Bloomington. When you get there, you already know the track is ready to race on. A last minute run around the track with the pack truck, and youre ready for hot laps. Mike treats that clay like it is his newborn child, and it shows. Although ive definitely had my share of run ins with them, I will forever be grateful for the opportunity they gave me to work with them as their story writer and sometimes announcing shows. They gave me a place to go to on Friday nights when I was a child, to witness men like Jeff Gordon, Rick Hood, Kevin Briscoe, Rick Ungar, Gary Trammel, Kerry Norris, Kevin Thomas, Derek Davidson, Auggie O'Banion, Chris Lafollette, Jon Stanbrough, and COUNTLESS others. Not to mention seeing a new crop of racers emerge at the 1/4 mile such as Cramer, Short, Bland, Barrow, Lil Briscoe, Holtsclaw, Niflis and others. Promoters can learn a thing or two (or five) from Mike and Judy, they will NOT play favorites, they wont bow down to others, and they do things their way, and its worked for 25 years to perfection.
Considering myself lucky to have known Mike and Judy,
Chris Nunn
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