Six and one half hours of bumper-to-bumper, all out racing (with intervals of extreme boredom while they dried the track, or tried to) added up to one wet day in NC. The Coca Cola 600 rolled off a day late and was able to get in only 227 laps. They had one period of about one hour of track drying around lap 70, and another of about 2 hours at lap 170. Finally they reached 201 laps, an official race distance, and it was not raining. 26 laps later was a different story. They tried to get the track dry 3 times during the next 3 hours but to no avail. The rain kept coming; not an all out deluge like we had had on Sunday that had delayed it in the first place, or like on Saturday, when they called the Nationwide Series Carquest 300 after 170 of 200 laps, but just a steady drizzle.
During this time, fans slowly but surely started filtering out of the stands, and only the diehard fans with no pressing appointments or with their homes near enough by to be able to be home before midnight, stayed on. Finally NASCAR called it. Of course, that was the signal for the rain to stop and the sun to come out.
I returned my scanner that I had rented for the weekend and started the long walk back to the RV. By this time many of the RVs in the campgrounds have left. Some left this morning and I saw more leaving at each red flag period. We will still be here tonight and will head out in the morning, up into Virginia. The next place we have to be is in Danbury on June 1st for some Dr. appointments.
