I made it into the show 3 times (Atlanta '08, Zmax '09 and Bristol '10) but didn't get pick any of the times. At Atlanta, they did a small feature (3 minutes) that aired on All Out outtakes and at Zmax one pass we made was shown twice on the out takes show. At Bristol a couple of my friends were picked for the 64 car field and one made it to 16 and the other made it to 8. I will have to say that we thoughly enjoyed ourselves, but it was quite expenceve (travel, motels, ect). I did not care for this years format at all and it seemsed to me that a lot of racers had figured out how to get a edge. I saw several cars that had a small shot of NO2 that they used once they got picked. (made time runs without it and if they got picked, they had 50 hp shot to use if they were behind, because we were told that the allowance was .2 sec before "breaking out").
Always a crap shot as to who got picked though.
Just my thoughts.

Brian Dunnigan