The "parade lap" before the start of a Pine Brook main event, circa 1970. We guess 1970 because Larry Michaels' car (#39, outside of the third row) has a roll cage, while no other car in the shot is so equipped. Roll cages were being phased in at the time. (Click the photo for an enlarged view.)
Weekly feature races at Pine Brook were 35 laps in distance and started 16 cars. 18 cars would start the extra-distance races that punctuated the racing season. In the track's later years, during the promotional tenure of Jack Bellinato, sometimes 20 cars would take the green.
The group of people at the upper left of the shot are gathered around a table on the roof of the box office building. That rooftop is what passed for a "press box" at Pine Brook. No one brought their car to the races in an enclosed trailer, either. Simpler times...
This is a Dave Innes photo from the collection of Gary Mondschein.