Salt Lake City, Utah has a decent sized auto enthusiasts community for how small of a city and state it is. There's about 2.5 million people in all of Utah. Utah has 2 racing facilities, Rocky Mountain Raceway (RMR) with its 1/4 mile dragstrip and asphalt oval and Miller Motorsports Park with its 4+ mile road course. Last night I hit up the 2nd Midnight Drag and Drift event of the year. RMR has been holding Midnight Drags since about 2001 or so. It was touted as a way to get the young punks off the streets and have a safe and organized way to race. I raced my first Civic at a couple Midnight Drags back then. A couple years ago though, the Drift Enterprise of Utah started holding Midnight Drift events on the oval track. I thought this sign was kinda cool. "Section D" for DRIFT!!! The number of cars entered in the drag portion are probably 150-200. For the drift boys, there's only about 8-10 cars. The number of people watching the drag racing is probably somewhere around 1000+. The people watching drifting? 1, maybe 2. Ok, not that...
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