I went down to Capitol the Friday night before the Mopar race at MIR this year. They were supposed to run a Gambler's race (prepped track that night). The tube chassis Tempest that runs there fairly often oiled the track down on a burnout. They pushed the car off in front of the staging lanes. The track crew got the oil cleaned up, and then went back to prepping the track. They sprayed the glue down and were following right behind it with an implement tire laid on it's side being drug with a chain...right over the glue. One pass down the lane with the glue, with the tire right behind it. Looping between the two lanes. The tire was literally skipping across the pavement. In the meantime, the group of people with the Tempest were working on "repairing" the oil leak at the front of the staging lanes...while the car continued pissing oil all over the place. Once they got that fixed up, they brought out two butane torches. One person went in from the driver's side, and the other the passenger's side to start heating the nitrous bottles. Mind you this was at the front of the staging lanes with about 250 people standing around in a 100' radius, not to mention the cars in the lanes. When they gave the call to fire, the Tempest proceeded to oil the track down again on the burnout. At that point, myself and the one other guy in the staging lane for the Gambler's decided it was best to call it a night. We both headed back to load up. Needless to say, I will not be going back there any time soon.

Also, for what it's worth, the timing system is off. Don't know if the length isn't right, or if it's just the half-ass portable system they're using, but it's off. Not much, but enough to notice. I would have to go back and look at my slips, but I know my 60's and 1/4 times were funny. EVerything was normal next day at MIR.