Good show. Jesse needed six laps or so to get by the very wide car of Wayne Anderson. Bresnahan looked good, but not good enough to give them a run for their money.
Additionally, they elected to run the mini stock feature conventionally for half the race. Then they reversed the direction of the cars for the second half.
Interesting, but here is the deal: I typically sit somewhere behind the flag stand, but I just happened to arrive late and moved down closer to turn one. Not a bad perspective. BUT, their frontstretch wall ends (!) just past the stands and then has a perpendicular wall heading back towards the concession stand. Works great usually but these guys were headed right towards a flat concrete wall with a sharp point on the corner.
Still worse yet, the turn one wall is set back. That is, when running clockwise, if a car got into the turn one armco it would funnel them directly into the concrete bunker.
And it would be big, very big, if things went wrong. And then there was me, directly in line to absorb a nice chunk of shrapnel. I moved, but was the only one to do so, and thankfully, the event ran without incident.
Here is a little quote from an attorney’s website: “Under Florida Law, ‘Culpable Negligence’ is a serious criminal offense that may be classified as a misdemeanor or felony. Culpable negligence is a charge that assigns criminal liability for gross acts of negligence that expose others to harm or the threat of harm.”
That doesn’t sound so good…
In other news, for those that like them, they had three intermissions. One “regular”, one for a kid’s foot race, and then a third meet-and-greet for the late models.
Again, the racing was good, John Berti was very personable, and the chicken tenders basket was also very good.
Oh, and the scoring tower complete with lap times is cutting edge.
Make it on over there when ya can.
