Originally Posted by opnwhlmnd:
Derek won that race on my advice. That was back in the McCreary SD, short for synthetic development, tire days. He was pitted next to me and was putting an SD 33 tire on for the feature. I told him that the track wouldn't go away enough to need the hard tire and the SD 23 soft compound would last 25 laps. He was the only one that ran the soft tire and won the race. I still have the t-shirt he gave me as his way of saying thanks.
SCFR has went way downhill since those days.
I was really good friends with his uncle Marty, who you probably met. He died of ALS a couple years ago.