A fun time at MIR

[Chris1529]

I will second Angela's motion regarding the attendants.

I did see a sign indicating MIR will have new restroom facilities for 2008.

[Bruce Noland]

Angela,

You will find bathroom attendants at other tracks as well. I did not have the same experience with the attendants.

[Angela Macy]

Well the 20 plus that I have been to in my drag racing life have not. What other tracks have bathroom attendants? In fact, I have never been anywhere in my 29 plus years of life that someone has turned the sink on for me and handed me a towel.

[Real Racer]

Originally Posted by Angela Macy

Well the 20 plus that I have been to in my drag racing life have not. What other tracks have bathroom attendants? In fact, I have never been anywhere in my 29 plus years of life that someone has turned the sink on for me and handed me a towel.

Norwalk.

Although in the dozens of times I have raced there, we have never been solicited for a tip.

[Angela Macy]

I've was at Norwalk last year and my husband raced there for years before moving to NC. The difference is the bathrooms there were spotless, the people were doing their job as janitors keeping the place clean and stocked, and like you said, no they were not begging for a tip. They got out of your way and did their job. They did not jump in front of you and turn on the sink and hand you a towel then give you that expecting look, which would then be followed with a hateful look if you bypassed their tip basket.

[Chip THELEGEND Johnson]

Angela,
Buy my trailer and you won't have to worry about the bathroom attendents ever again.

I enjoyed MIR as always. My only problem is parking. There was a lot of wasted room there and they packed us like sardines.
Chip

[Angela Macy]

Buy your trailer? You just bought that trailer!! Going to buy a toter home like I told you to, eh?

Where we were parked was nice - last spot in the corner. Had privacy and wasn't smushed in with anyone, they could have technically fit another trailer beside us but they didn't. BUT as nice as this spot was, we were told that young men were hanging out around the back of our trailer, and had came out of the woods behind us. I suspect they walked through the woods and came to the track, not paying. When we went to leave Saturday night we noticed some young guys hanging out looking suspicious. So I called the track and reported this and they assured me they'd have security patrol the area. That made me feel a lot better, my $160 grill was in the back of the truck, and it was still there the next morning.

Somehow though, as much privacy as we had, word spread real quick that Tim Sloan was in our pit Friday morning. Where is my confused smiley face at??

[Michael Beard]

'Attendants' at Norwalk are actually Norwalk staff. A number of 'big' tracks will employ the kind of bathroom attendants that Angela is talking about for their bigger spectator shows. Those attendants supposedly work solely for tips and are not paid by the tracks.

I've run into it at Maple Grove and Englishtown, but there are very few IHRA tracks that operate that way. MIR is one.

[John Warehime]

The Spot-A-Pots were clean, use those. The attendants are a pain in the *** at all tracks. I leave them a quarter or whatever change I have. Maple Grove, Atco, and E-town have these folks too, also not needed.
The racing was great, MIR is anice track. I drew a tough first round, but, I had a great time.

[Tom Briggs7100]

Great news about "Unk" announcing S/ss again when did he start doing IHRA National events??