The Brasington Grandstand and Hurricane Hugo

here's another cool thing too. Um if you go back and look at old photos of this place, there used to be a tin roof that went all the way down this racetrack. It was all it covered the entire Calvin grandstand. And you talking about loud when those cars and you they had those big big engines in them. They were very very loud. They would come out of turn four and they would come through here and it was so so super loud. I mean, I can remember being there. You had to have the headphones on to try to help with the with the sound um to protect your ears. We had that until 1989. Hurricane Hugo came and hit the east coast. And while we were not right there because it was really down in Myrtle Beach where it really really hit here, it messed up the foundation. There was so much wind that it messed up the foundations of that roof and so we had to tear it down. Also, while you see Brazington, Grand Brazington is over on the outside of turn one. now forever. It was right outside of turn number two and it and it was an old wooden stand. Uh you see that's concrete barriers up there. Uh concrete seating. But the