Arrival at Track and Setup

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What happens here

The driver, towing the GMC Yukon XL behind his pickup truck, drives into the Great Bend drag strip. He notes the unique history of the track, explaining it was an old B-29 military base from 1946, now converted into a drag strip. He then parks the truck and trailer in the designated 'truck and trailer area,' which is located far from the main track. He mentions that participants must leave their tow rigs here and cannot return to them after the driver's meeting at 2:45 PM, as the track goes live at 3:00 PM. He explains that caught drivers will be disqualified. He begins unloading some gear from the truck and mentions needing to move a 'center console' part from his personal truck ('Elvis') into the Yukon, as the original was stolen previously.

Goal: Arrive at the drag strip, park, and unload necessary equipment.

Tools and materials

Center Console — A replacement part for the Yukon
GMC Yukon XL GMC — The race vehicle to be unloaded
Pickup Truck — Towing the race vehicle
Trailer — Transporting the race vehicle

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over to the track we're pulling into the track now uh the towns airport is right over there this is actually the same complex um i was just telling her that the story behind this track is it was an old b-29 base for the military and in 1946 it was declared surplus and the town took control of it so that's why this is literally a huge concrete runway everything is wide open i think it's really cool it's been a drag strip since 1955 for maybe even earlier than that that's first nhra event was here in 1955. where the heck am i supposed to go here oh this is the track okay now i know where i'm at it's been a while oh it's jamie what's up where do i park this hog on that side okay that's what i thought they want you to go down by like the quarter mile on the trailer on the pit side right so so we'll go around that way all right yeah last time i was here it was dark it all looks different now that was jamie from pfi he's the one that um when i pass jared sketchy bird on the highway going through colorado he gave me jamie's number because he said he was down and do dino stuff which is how i ended up at efi with the escalade i never even talked to brent before i got there i think it's so cool that all the it looks like there's still runway markings on here so now we're back parked in the truck and trailer area way way way the frick down here all the way down here because everybody has to leave their tow rigs out here and then the track goes live at three o'clock after the driver's meeting at 2 45 you cannot come back here if they catch you back here you're disqualified um and the the rigs will sit here uh you know under 24 7 guard by somebody all week while we're all out doing stuff you gotta get everything unloaded gotta move the center console of elvis the insert over to uncle rob because when someone tried to steal elvis in january they stole the centerpiece just to take all my change which is stupid so uncle rob centerpiece is actually in elvis right now so i got to put it back in there move a couple things over lock it up and unload uncle rob and then we can go down there to the pits and hang out with everybody get in tech line we never did get the

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