Did you all see it? The most exciting, dangerously breath-taking race at Bloomington last night? No, it wasn't the sprint feature or the mini-sprint feature.....

It was the "RACE TO GET THE HELL OUT OF BLOOMINGTON SPEEDWAY"!

Normally, I miss this exciting race but I got to witness it first hand last night. I had gotten to the track late having drove from Indy after work so I had to park in the grass near the track entrance. After the sprint car feature was over I grabbed both kids in hand and headed on the long dark walk back to the car. Those with the late pill draw were already warming their motors in their anticipation to take that one lap dash out of the parking lot. As I rounded the backstretch (the grass off to the left of the entrance road) Out of nowhere comes the guy in the 1980 something red Ford F150 who was slide jobbing cars left and right. I warned the girls to stay close because he was looking for every lane he could force his way into, at that moment the perfect opening developed when a Honda Accord slid into the parade lap of cars exiting. You could see the maniacal zeal in his eyes and he had one goal in mind - making that checkered flag to leave the track. How could you see this? Well I could because I could see it off the glint from his crew chief's (passenger) Bud Light and they missed running over me and kids by mere inches as they took the corner at about 40 mph to try to beat a Chevy for position. As I hollered "slow down" (bad form I know at a race track and all) they nicely gave me the one finger Indiana salute and squeezed into position narrowly missing a Nissan in the process.

Oh but the show wasn't over yet folks - just as we were strapped into our extra safe Toyota here came the guy about to get lapped. He and the maybe 8 people he had crammed into his car decided that honking was a great technique to force people out of his way. As I approached the checkered flag to turn right out of the track I slowed to allow a car coming at speed from the left to go by another full size truck whipped around me and pulled out to the right in front of the oncoming car narrowly missing me and that vehicle.....he gassed it and moved on down the road. Like I said, it was a crazy race I can't believe some of you missed it!

Please watch out for people leaving the track - especially kids. I had ahold of mine but I saw several running around on their own leaving and they don't look for cars that are pulling out of parking spots. Secondly, if it's that important to you to be the first one out of the parking lot do us all a favor and leave with 5 laps to go in the feature. Then we can avoid your obnoxious honking and the risk of getting ran over.

Note to the Bloomington track folks, for those big shows that are highly attended - it may be worth it to hire some off duty police officials to help control traffic flow. Not complaining at all, obviously it's a good problem if you have people parked all the way to the track entrance. I'll even help you start this fund, you can use my $25 from the KISS show as I've already lost the ticket and can't collect on my raincheck. LOL.

Sacha