At any one time there was usually about 60-70 on the track. Sometimes less, especially at night. With driver error (more than mechanical) there were a lot of cars off track and it was usually fly around the track, yellow flag, half a lap, local yellow, watch a car fly off, wait, yellow flag, etc. You could tell some people weren't really prepared for the road course. That Merkur was a neat car. I tucked in behind him for a few laps until I felt like passing. Their driver was pretty good. I checked out the car after the race and saw that he had to write "I will not pass under yellow" 100 times on the car. Then there was "Even though I wrote I will not pass under yellow 100 times, I still passed under yellow." He must've done it about 4 times I'm guessing. Every year we end up saying, ok just one more year. I'll let you know if we end up short, it's a distinct possibility. I won't say any more than that.