[Zeke]

Listen, sniper, your points are valid and so are mine. You just took a pretty hard line on Danica but I can appreciate the logic.

So, let me tell another good backmarker story. Some 20 years ago there was an entry to the CART race from P.I.G. Racing. Yes, some cops had a start up team for the CART race, but they had been doing some local racing before. They showed up with one car on an open trailer behind a PU. The only such rig in the paddock. I don't know who drove, it was someone not even as good a Kevin Dobson, who himself couldn't drive at all. So, they basically were given a spot in the field since they bothered to enter. It wasn't on qualifying time, that I can tell you.

The car didn't last the whole race. Not many of these type of outfits do. But, I was so jealous of the operation. There they were driving in the LBGP and I was in the freakin' grandstands. People all around were making fun of the car. People, who if placed in one of those machines would crap their pants at Willow, not to even mention trying to drive a substandard car between those concrete walls.

I worked on the pit crew of an entry at the first shake down race here in LB that had what was called F 5000 at the time. Brian Redman won. Today's Atlantic cars turn in better lap times, but then again, the track has changed over the years.