Can it actually be confirmed--Eyewitness Confirmed--that this practice session that supposedly included Steve Kinser took place? As in: Any photographers allowed to document it? Any attendees not presumably sworn to some kind of secrecy able to confirm? Any representative of either Manzanita or Steve Kinser Racing inclined to speak for the record?
Because until any of the above happens, I'll have to presume it's all funhouse speculation. Let's face it: It is in neither SKR nor Manzanita's interests to keep mum on this development if it IS, in fact, a development. Because it would immediately draw HUGE attention to an already-illustrious event, sell all remaining tickets, ratchet up to mega-event status a race that could use a transcendent storyline that it currently lacks (no offense to the return of JJ Yeley) and guarantee the attendance of some notable racing personalities that would be merely speculated to appear otherwise. To this last point I venture that quite a few Cup persons would wish to witness this Return of The King.
Call me a pessimist, but I'll believe it when I hear, read or see it...
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