Rocky Mountain Raceways’ Night Of Fire: Let The Racing Commence!


Rocky Mountain Raceways’ Night Of Fire: Let The Racing Commence!

Coming into the early evening hours of Saturday in Salt Lake City, we were looking at a few distinct and equally important issues. One was a wildfire that was just due westward of the track that we were monitoring as the smoke plume grew from the backside of a hill. Then there was the wind, which had finally started to calm down, and the surface of the track itself, which the track crew was now proceeding to drag and prepare for the cars to come out and play. And then there was the crowd…I can’t accurately describe what was going on except that they just kept coming in. Rocky Mountain Raceways doesn’t have that large of a grandstand area compared to, say, Gateway or Route 66. But cars kept flowing in and people just kept appearing out of nowhere. You had radio station folks at the entrance entertaining the people who were trying to get in, you had the stands which had gone from a few people to just a few seats left and rapidly filling up, and you had cars…EVERYWHERE. They filled the parking lot. They filled the sides of the frontage street for a mile and a half and were parking in the grass, in parking lots that nobody was actively guarding…there may have been people parked on the shoulder of I-80 for all I know!

If you want to know what was about to go down, here’s how this started: once cars started to go, I had a voice yell out directly at me: “Hey, BangShift! Hey!” Naturally, I’ve got to look, and what I get told is that the white Camaro is intending to bed in the track properly. What did that mean? Half-track burnout, that’s what. He went for broke and then some and the roar from the crowd…oh, readers, it was amazing. Absolutely amazing. You could physically feel the sound from the crowd.

But the event is called “Night of Fire” and nobody wants to see a ton of fire from the drag cars, right? So stick around, because more is on the way…


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