Day 2 in the pits see Jeff the videoman leaving to go up above the announcers stand to set-up for the night.
The long look has the pits packed
More of the packedness.
And more color.
Bullet Blake Miller did not have a good weekend. He crashed in qualifying twice on Thursday, the second due to gas pedal stuck, and never did make it back to the front where he normally is.
The two Short cars driven by Brady Short and Jeff Bland.
Dean Mills, Bruce ST James and Dennis Rodriguez getting their picture taken.
Jon Stanbrough is hanging out with two photog's. He was runner-up two nights, then hit the wall on Saturday and was done.
Cody Williams moving to the track to fire up.
I don't know this driver, but suspect it's Brady Short?
Bud Kaeding moves along. He was fifth on Saturday after a so so first two days.
Jack SLash looking it all over from the top of a hauler.
Casey Riggs getting a push.
Tracy Hines
Peter Murphy gets ready to go.
Jonny Bates heads to the track.
Davey Pombo had a fun weekend. He was 13th in the Semi on Saturday night.
Cody Kershaw moves thru the busy pits.
Ripper moves his new Viper Chassis car along. He led the main for 21 laps before falling back to 7th at the end.
Justin Grant blew a motor the first night in this car.
Matthew Shedarowich made his way to fire up.
Richard VanderWeerd heads along the pits.
Nic Faas does his thing at the Ovals after spending the year back in Indiana.
Coleman "the Iceman" Gulick moves to track packing.
Austin Williams had success this long weekend finishing 15th in his first Ovals Main event.
Rusty Carlisle missed the first night, but came for the last two days.
Brian Camarillo came to run with the 410's.
Jimmy Crawford was back with a 14th in the Semi on Saturday.
Marty Hawkins had his problems with two crashes, but he hung in to run 12th in the C Main Saturday.
Jace VanderWeerd Ran 8th in the C Main on Saturday.
Darren Hagen ran a second car from the Alexander stable. He had some good and bad as he was the first car out in the Main on Saturday after running strong the 3 days.
Tony Jones was also struck with bad stuff. He was supposed to start on the front row of the main on Thursday, but the car stumbled to a stop and he went to the back. With all the broken stuff, he still made 16th place on Saturday.
Ludwig Solberg IV had some positive during the weekend. His wife was 3rd in the cornhole tournement!
Greg Bragg was 11th in the finali in the Moosemobile.
R J Johnson came over from Phoenix to give it a shot. He missed the transfer to the A Main on Saturday.
Cole Whitt ran strong all three days. He made the A Main on Saturday, but had a little problem and went out early.
Bryan Clauson won the opening night and ran 4th in the A Main on Saturday.
Kevin Swindell moves along here.
The winner! Damion gardner won his first Oval Nationals with some gutsy driving.
Dave Darland switched to this car for Friday, but hit the wall and missed the main.
David Cardey ran 17th on Saturday.
Austin Mero moves along.
Jeff Bland
Danny Sheridan had a consistent weekend with no crashes and he finished each race.
Garrett Hansen ran 10th in the Semi on Saturday to transfer. Then he came from 22nd to 6th for the hard charger of the race.
Kenny Perkins had some fun.
Chad Boat didn't have much fun as he was 23rd in the A Main on Saturday.
Bruce St James came across the desert to play.
Matt Mitchell moves toward the track.
The little red sucker moves to find the mud.
Jon Stanbrough ran second the first two nights.
Brent Camarillo just missed the main on Saturday.
Notice anything different in this photo? The car has no quad behind it, they are using manpower.
Ronnie Gardner had a great weekend getting 14th in his first Ovals A Main.
Steve Alexander gives Tony Jones his last bit of info.
Jonny Bates dad gives him support before he pushes off.
The new National USAC sprint car Champion Levi Jones. He closed out Dave Darland this weekend.
The Iceman gets in trouble here.
Announcer Chris Holt pirated my camera and took a few. Here he gets Jimmy Sills and a few others looking over the K-rail.
No Chris, she's not blond.
Ahh, nice goin' Chris.
Tony Jones on the hammer.
Nic Faas takes a pass.
Kevin Swindell gunning it.
R J Johnson gets around the track.
Dennis Rodriguez is trying to come up with the right answer here.
The Lightning Sprints ran the Ovals. Here Dan Hillberg does his thing.
"Okie" Toby Sampson is lovin' this racing!
