You know, to get down there with the guys, just to be a fan and see things for myself." I'm always running around and usually I'm already in the winner's circle while they're still doing semis and finals, so I want to be able to watch the races. "Once we got so crazy with Lights out and No Mercy, I don't get a chance to watch many passes anymore. With Lights Out and No Mercy, obviously we're in business and we want to make money, but with Sweet 16, it's more of a way for us to, you know, thank the racers and to decompress," Long explains. "We've got about 125 cars, so I expect we'll have about six- to seven-hundred people on the property based on about four people per car. There's also an element of self interest, he freely admits, explaining the decision to limit attendance beyond the race teams this year to "only about a hundred" paying spectators. "It's basically a really big test session that pays about $115,000," Long says. While Long's recently completed Lights Out and No Mercy events each fall at the same track attract huge crowds for the radial racing set, Sweet 16 is designed as a celebration of speed and good times for the race teams themselves. By design, few spectators will be on hand to watch the country's best radial-tired racers pull out all the stops in going after big money and literal crowns and thrones for the winners. 25-27), at South Georgia Motorsports Park (SGMP). Currently among the most unique annual drag racing events in the country is promoter Donald "Duck" Long's Sweet 16 V, set for this weekend (Mar.
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