Pocono's Sunday afternoon open track--awesome!

[Mike Thomas #828]

The blue group was out on the track and most of us were soloing....it was a great run and everybody had a great time dicing with each other....the laps just kept on clicking off and off and every time I passed the turn 5 flagging station as the session grew longer and longer---no checker.  The last thing I want to happen as I'm soloing is to miss a checker! Don't want to be that guy.  All of a sudden I come upon several cars on the track that I haven't seen all weekend...OK, haven't been black flagged yet..lets pit and see whats going on....met up with my blue pals....did you see a checker?  no me neither,  how bout you?   no. hmmmm...  I'm goin back down there.....you comin?  let's go....That was such a great learning experience... being on the track with drivers with all different levels of skill ...kept you on your toes...not to mention turning 25 or so consecutive laps....I was able to get into a such a zone...pitting for 5 minutes then turning 15 more laps....wow....I know that was only possible because most people ducked out early..but that has to happen more often on all of the tracks we run...I am looking forward to Pocono next year already because of the knowledge I've gained being able to run so many laps. I'm curious to hear comments from other people's experience that remained Sunday afternoon and their thoughts on the open track?  -Mike 828