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I was at the race last night. I had money on Ed Carpenter.

It was a good race with a close finish.

Does anyone know how the "push to pass" works? In typical American motorsports fashion, they announce a technology without really explaining other that "twelve seconds of speed boost". How?

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The parking at Chicagoland is a complete and total cluster f***. I was back to my car after the race near 11:00. I didn't get out of the parking lot until 1:00. I didn't get home until 3:00.

At the NASCAR race, they finally devised a parking system that works, whereby if you came into the track from the east entrance, you parked on the east side of the track and so on. I was out of the parking lot and on the road 10 minutes after the race. It was the ONLY time at this track that the parking crew had a flicker of a clue.

Nope, this time they funneled ALL of the cars, no matter how they came in to the east parking lot, when that was full, they moved to the next parking lot, and so on. The result? After the race everyone is trying to get to their exit and within 10 minutes there is total gridlock. I watched the cars line up in the parking lot and sit for an hour before there was ANY movement out of the lot.