Forum: HoseHeads Sprint Car General Forum (go)
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Nice to hear about plenty of rubber down stuff this early in the year.  I guess its getting to the point where a lot of folks don't know any different.  The promoters are going to be able to just roll without proper moisture full time pretty soon. 

Luna's Ford engine style that won 2 WoO titles and 3 
Kings Royals before a weight rule against the best EVER
in their prime and now DOMINATES super dirt late model
racing is no longer allowed/wanted in a WoO sprint
car.... Was Luna a miracle worker?

It's a well known fact that when you still have frost in the ground you can't dump a pile of water onto the racetrack. It will really rut up and you will have those ruts for most of the year then. It's not that nobody knows any different but that most know what to expect for this early in the year. Maybe you'd rather wait for the racing to get started when the frost is finally gone. Not sure where you're at, but here the frost was over six feet deep this year. It's gonna take a while for it to be gone.

 Well I blame the tire manufacturers way more than bad track prep. How hard would it really be to go back to a early 90s

rubber formula and square tires?

Up here in Minnesota and western Wisconsin the Stock Car and Modified guys are always chomping at the bit to go racing.  Tracks have pushed their openers up to early April in the southern half of our area.  They were supposed to open this weekend but pushed it back a week because of a foot of snow last Thursday night into Friday AM.  If the tracks cancel the racers complain and a lot of times if they open as scheduled the clay rolls up in the turns on account of the frost and busts up wheels, tires and suspension parts.  When that happens they complain that the tracks opened too soon but if they cancel they blast them for that.  It's the same deal every year the first couple of weeks.  I don't know where you're at but we had water pipes freezing around here so the frost was deeper than it is a lot of years.

Fortunately they have enough sense to not schedule any Sprint specials until early May.  If they had Sprints at some of these places on the first weekend we'd be picking up parts in the next county. 

Stan Meissner

The Dunkin's started working on the track at Knoxville around March 21st and started adding water to it 5 days ago. I do not remember that track getting rough on opening night too often. Then again how many tracks have a crew working on them almost a month before opening night!  About 10 days after the Dunkin's started working on Knoxville raceway Oskaloosa posted a pic of their track on twitter and it had not been touched since the snow melted.

Come to Devils Bowl Speedway...I never seems to be a problem here!

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