 As the sport grew, and the cars and teams became larger and more sophisticated, work space was increasingly limited in the garages.Amenities were simple, corridors were heavily congested, and by the 1980s, the cars and teams had outgrown the aging facility.With car counts swelling in the 1970s and early 1980s to sometimes over 100 entries, some smaller teams were left out and forced to work out of tents.