It's truly breathtaking the first time you experience it standing right behind the starting line. You feel the pressure waves hit your chest and then they are either gone or spinning wildly right in front of you.
The nitro really stings your eyes, nose throat and lungs. The track is so sticky that you need to tighten up your shoes before you go on it or they will get pulled off.
Sitting there on the wall right behind the starting line with our crew chief, Connie Kaletta and Don Prudholm and getting to be on the track was quite an experience. Well worth the expense of having to do it for free.
And we got to eat in Jegs Coughlins gormet trailer. He hired the Ex. Chef from The Inn at Little Washington (*****) and gave him a huge budget to feed his crew and a few hundred of his closest friends over the weekends. Very well done.