[Larry Hill]

The 3 mugs of beer is the famous Ron Ortiz!

Man is it cold out there! First run 46 degrees! On our gauges -651 density altitude. Wind blowing, too. 72 cars went down including factory showdown cars. A couple of -1.14 under. Lots of indexes were up wrong, so it may take a while before DRC times are up. Lots of cars way off the throttle before the finish line. We run again shortly. It looked like Skinner blew something up but there was no cleanup so maybe tire smoke, but it looked a lot worse than that. Mickey Whaley got up so high, he had to get out of it. I hope he didn't hurt anything. Bryan Phillips had a really nice wheelie also. Billy Leber is driving Scot Lamar's stocker. Michael Iacono is driving the stocker that Doug Patrick had. They announced that it was Randy Wilkes driving one of Marion Stephenson's cars. Don't know if that is so or not.