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one thing that, you know, this vintage racetrack has, it has a lot of character in it. You know, it used to be the tunnel that we're going through. There wasn't a tunnel here to to get RVs and stuff in. It used to be a crossover gate right there. U, so this road right over here just would go straight up and there was a crossover gate. That one? That's it? Yeah. So if you were if you wanted to get here, you either had to get here early in the morning before cars got here or you had to get here late in the evening. When did the tunnels get dug out? That's probably that tunnel there. Now the the tunnels we went through a while ago have been here for many many years. That big tunnel there for an RV. That tunnel was built probably 17 18 years ago. Where was the um hauler parking and all that before the uh flip around? We'd always pull them in the garage. The haulers pulled straight into the garage. Fill the garage. Oh, yeah. We'd fill up the garage there. They just park right behind it. That's right. Park inside the garage. I mean, used to be I can remember in the ' 90s, you know, basically drivers or teams could rent the track and they would come in, they would bring 15 or 20 15 of them and they would split the the track rental pig. That'd be two or three weeks before the race, we'd have 15 to 20 cars here tested, but they would all be in here. They would all be pulled into the grass at an angle right here. Uh yeah, I can see how they fit now. You just have the back of the trailer on the pavement. Then we did the flip-flop. You know, it was good because we got a new, you know, had a new gas station and so there were some things that were that were brand new that were really cool, you know. Yeah, there is. And you can see this is a this is a much bigger garage than the other one. So there's a lot more room in here. All the trucks go up against over there. That is really cool that it's kind of the same thing just a little bit bigger. And the just a little bit bigger. It's the same the same type thing. And by moving it, you didn't have to tear the old stuff down. Normally if a track gets updated, you have to tear stuff down to put better things in the same spot. That's right. Those are restrooms in there. One little open room. Um, do they set up like a tent for inspections and stuff? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That'll be done. Some of the stuff's already being done right now. You can see down here. Uh,