My friends knew Carson Baird, so we were able to get "crew" passes and had access to the pits, the track during pre race stuff, etc. Carson had been series champ in his division the previous year, but this day he had a tire go down on the front straight and visited the escape road at turn 1.

This was the year that the Car and Driver guys were running their Mazda rotary racer, and doing quite well with it. Pat Bedard won their race. On the GT side, I don't remember whether it was Michael Keyser (Yellow 911) or the Brumos gang that won it