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As someone who likes Gas City a lot but doesn't count it as his favorite by any means, I've got to say that tonight's show was incredible. It was in the top three of my 2008 races, easily. The track was smooth and tacky as hell all night, the show was run quickly and the racing was out of this world. Some highlights:
Showing up and seeing 44(!) cars in the pits.
Realizing that of those 44, about 2/3 were potential winners. I mean, you walk into a racetrack for an October weekly show the night before a big, $10,000-to-win race that's over three hours away and you don't really expect to see Sweet, Bacon, Stanbrough, Gardner, Windom, Weir, Clayton, Schuerenberg, Hines, Darland, Shuman, Hagen, Whitt and several others all in attendance. But they were tonight.
Hines and Windom's heat race battle.
Whitt and Christian's heat race battle.
Seeing Chris Gurley and Mark Clark barely hold off Scotty Weir for the transfer in B1.
Gardner and Clayton rubbing and leaning on each other as much as possible, short of jumping a wheel, in B2 before Gardner pulled a Gardner and dumped it. Then lost his helmet.
Stanbrough feeding Clayton a wheel.
Weir and Clayton being added to the A lineup.
Laps 10-23 of the A. Those 14 laps were just as good as probably anything I've ever seen.
Before the A, Kirk turned to me and said, "Are we going to be here next year?" I hope so, but with the economy and whatnot it's hard to say. Gas City has closed once, so I guess there is precedent for the unthinkable. As I write this, all I can think about is that, if that was the last time at Gas City, it was a damn good way to go out.
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