I went to the Kansas Speedway last night to watch practice and qually - there was free admittance and I'll bet two hundred people showed up. The weather was perfect - 70* and a slight breeze - and it ran till 10 pm, qually for both series was between 9 and 10.
Usually in August, it's 100* and a million percent humiditity - IOW absolutely miserable, that's why they switched to night racing - to make it a little more bearable- but the first two weeks of this August have averaged 73*!
I was disappointed that more people didn't show - considering it was frickin free - but last night was a Chiefs game, and in this town you don't schedule anything opposite a Chiefs game - which is also interesting considering their 2-12 record last year - one off MANY seasons in a row where they've been simply awful.
I had high hopes when they announced they were adding a road course to the oval - visions of the infield at Daytona coursing thru my brain, but it didn't quite turn out that way. Instead, at turn one they go left thru a short s and then straight to the other end of the track, where they do a 180 and come straight back to re-enter the oval about 100 feet from they turned into the infield - back onto the oval and all the way around to turn one again - they call it 6 turns total.
The Lambo's (a support race) were hitting 225 on the oval!
I think the races will be a lot of fun tho, especially turn 1.......
