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chris3racing · 03-08-2010, 11:54 AM

Pinks All Out can be a slow process depending on the cooperation between the racers and the production crew. They make announcements at the drivers meeting and over the PA system all during the day about antifreeze and leakage on to the track.

There are 450 to 520 cars, most of them the cars you would see at a stock/superstock race. The cars are divided into classes based on your, "all out" et. Each class is called to the staging lanes one at a time. Some of the classes at Z-Max had as many as 60 cars in them.

At Z-max they had over 300 tv production crew members. These folks were spread out on the track, in the staging lane, in the pit area and in the stands with the spectators. Remember the spectators section is typically sold out and in the case of Z-max, the standing room section was sold out. That was 30,000+ at $25 per person, except children under 12 years of age were free, they just had to pick-up a ticket for their seat. The production crew is doing interviews. As an example, Hemiparts, my son, was in his suit, helmet everything in place in the staging lanes. The camera crew came up and requested that we unbuckle the harness, get out of the car, remove coat and helmet. Then put everything back on, get in the car and re-buckle the harness. We had a camera guy outside and a camera guy with the passenger door open filming from inside the car. The young lady, driving a car pitted beside us, broke a connecting rod on her run and dumped oil on the track. The camera crew came to her pits and interviewed her and her family. All laughing and joking around during the interview. It would be good if a lot more of the film footage these guys do could be show; however, time on tv is short. You know like an show of nothing except the taping that was cut to make the two show segments.

Most everyone stayed overnight in the pit area. The staff was so cooperative. The staff members without their cameras were finished work for the day and were out going around though the pits talking with racers and their families. The grills were fired up once racing was stopped on Friday night and the feed was on. If you went to bed hungry that night it was your own fault. There was more food than could be eat. Just walking around through the pit area, not using the 4-wheeler, you got a chance to talk with people from all over the country. The car pitted on one side of us was a family from Ohio, the car across from us was from, I believe, Mississippi and the car on the opposite side was from New Jersey. There were some transmissions changed, universal joints change and rear gears changed and general mechanical work. Guys around a particular car all pitched in to help out the guy which you might have to race the next night for $10,000.

And one last comment. As someone mentioned the entry for one of these events is $60.00. Registration is done over the internet. Registration at Z-Max this year was scheduled to begin at 10:00 am. Within a matter of seconds the whole computer system was jammed. We had three separate computers working and all three locked up. The same thing happened at Virginia entry which was schedule for 7:00 pm. Both of these event were filled within 15 to 20 minutes. 460 entries.

03-08-2010, 11:54 AM	#9
chris3racing Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 528 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: PINKS vs Class Racing Pinks All Out can be a slow process depending on the cooperation between the racers and the production crew. They make announcements at the drivers meeting and over the PA system all during the day about antifreeze and leakage on to the track. There are 450 to 520 cars, most of them the cars you would see at a stock/superstock race. The cars are divided into classes based on your, "all out" et. Each class is called to the staging lanes one at a time. Some of the classes at Z-Max had as many as 60 cars in them. At Z-max they had over 300 tv production crew members. These folks were spread out on the track, in the staging lane, in the pit area and in the stands with the spectators. Remember the spectators section is typically sold out and in the case of Z-max, the standing room section was sold out. That was 30,000+ at $25 per person, except children under 12 years of age were free, they just had to pick-up a ticket for their seat. The production crew is doing interviews. As an example, Hemiparts, my son, was in his suit, helmet everything in place in the staging lanes. The camera crew came up and requested that we unbuckle the harness, get out of the car, remove coat and helmet. Then put everything back on, get in the car and re-buckle the harness. We had a camera guy outside and a camera guy with the passenger door open filming from inside the car. The young lady, driving a car pitted beside us, broke a connecting rod on her run and dumped oil on the track. The camera crew came to her pits and interviewed her and her family. All laughing and joking around during the interview. It would be good if a lot more of the film footage these guys do could be show; however, time on tv is short. You know like an show of nothing except the taping that was cut to make the two show segments. Most everyone stayed overnight in the pit area. The staff was so cooperative. The staff members without their cameras were finished work for the day and were out going around though the pits talking with racers and their families. The grills were fired up once racing was stopped on Friday night and the feed was on. If you went to bed hungry that night it was your own fault. There was more food than could be eat. Just walking around through the pit area, not using the 4-wheeler, you got a chance to talk with people from all over the country. The car pitted on one side of us was a family from Ohio, the car across from us was from, I believe, Mississippi and the car on the opposite side was from New Jersey. There were some transmissions changed, universal joints change and rear gears changed and general mechanical work. Guys around a particular car all pitched in to help out the guy which you might have to race the next night for $10,000. And one last comment. As someone mentioned the entry for one of these events is $60.00. Registration is done over the internet. Registration at Z-Max this year was scheduled to begin at 10:00 am. Within a matter of seconds the whole computer system was jammed. We had three separate computers working and all three locked up. The same thing happened at Virginia entry which was schedule for 7:00 pm. Both of these event were filled within 15 to 20 minutes. 460 entries.