10:00pm Oct 27th
This point in the night is when most of our regulars come out and do some practicing to get ready for the 100-lap race at 11:00 pm. A lot of great talent showed up to meet Mark and give their support and donations to the March of Dimes. They also had a lot of fun racing against Mark and giving him some pointers along the way in hopes that they would get there mugs on TV as being the best drivers in Texas.

12:15am Oct 28th
The home stretch has begun. Mark has made it to the top of the hill and now just has to coast his way down to noon. We did not want Mark to get lonely in the middle of the night so we brought along a bunch of our friends to stay up all night with Mark. It was not hard at all to get people to come out in the middle of the night and race for countless hours. So from 12:30-2:30 in the morning we had a Coke Party. Coke-a-Cola donated signs, posters of NASCAR Winston cup drivers, t-shirts for all that showed up, pins, drinks, and cozies. The two-hour Coke party was a huge success. The people who showed up for the Coke party stayed all night long and partied. We even had one driver's club member bring his family along with him and all the comforts of home, in his motor home.



8:00am Oct 28th
Now if this is not a true race fanatic, I do not know who is. Sigi Rodriguez on the right raced with Mark for 12 solid hours. He showed up for the Midnight Madness race and stayed until 9:30am or so. But the funny thing about it is that Sigi is from Dallas. He came out to Houston to race all night with Mark and then had to drive like 4 hours back to Dallas the next day. Is this a race fan or what?