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Skinny Hall was one of them I am getting older memory is not like it was I know Rick Hall was one of the b's later another one  Dave Buster Braham was one of them I grew up with Buster he was  friends with my older brother I think he was b2 Buster passed away in his 50's and was Greg McCandless uncle I used to know all of them but time and  age have dulled my memory Larry McCool might know but Walt probably either remembers or has record of it somewhere. 

BH Mercer put new red clay on this year it was good a bit dusty smooth except where they have had the drainage problem it got rough down low in turn 3 they did a good job but that turn 3 situation needs resolved they also are putting new led lighting up it's done on turn 3 Dirt Track Digest is supposed to be  doing live video at some point he is trying but they need more big blocks apparently the economy isn't going to help Mercer much a lot of teams probably will cut back on racing multiple tracks something must have  happened between the big blocks and management last year hopefully thing get smoothed out the weather hasn't helped much for them either they lost 4 shows in a row with 2 of them being big shows I wish Edward well he is trying. Hate to see them close up I am only 10 minutes from the track I love watching 410's there.

I agree their management style leaves a lot to be desired PR is a big part of it something must have happened must have been some kind of exchange because a half dozen or more teams seemed to have disappeared at the same time  I expect since they are paying $ 5000 to win Saturday and it is BRP sanctioned I imagine they will bury the hatchet for one race at least and run for the BRP points , sure hope they get things sorted out it's tough pulling a lot of fans without 410 sprints and big blocks being the featured class .

Hot Dog I too am a big fan of Mercer they do have problems but he owner is at least aware of the biggest problem which was the new clay he put on I spent some time talking to him awhile back it definitely didn't bond and was very rough he told me the clay was part of the deal with the purchase and most certainly was the wrong type of clay so he plowed it off mostly worked it in to the old surface and that's where we are dusty , sandy I probably have brown lung from going there all these years , these track conditions  have happened at most tracks over the years back when I worked on late models Lernerville was so rough they got down to 4 sprint cars then they didn't even run them they used to put calcium chloride on it to keep the dust down but it was too slippery many cars torn up in the features , Sharon was rougher

than a hogs back and they eventually took care of the track so Edward is aware , I see he had a nice crowd for the 410's I had to go to a wedding in New York so I missed it they also got some exposure on the Youngstown Fox channel last night at 10 for the Guy Griffin memorial at least he some advertising , I no newspapers may not be as relevant as the once were but Mike Leon always gets a press release out every week for Sharon but there was an editorial remark at the end that Mercer got nothing before press time so apparently they aren't doing much PR in print I hope Edward gets things together I hate to drive past my favorite track to go to Sharon , just my 2 cents worth.