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June 07, 2023 at
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Posted By: Murphy on June 07 2023 at 06:30:26 PM
Track question- when a dirt track produces a hole like that, is there any fix to it? I imagine taking one of those Wirtgen machines they use around here on road repair jobs. Those babies eat the top layer of asphalt or concrete off a street like it's nothing. Could something like that be used to take off the edges around a hole?
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You don't need a milling machine to take large area of clay up and redo that part of the track.
The why it has been there for 20 years is because the people who own and work the track don't pay for broken parts that it causes. Things like that are hard on parts even if you don't wreck in it.
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June 07, 2023 at
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Posted By: Joe V on June 07 2023 at 12:50:56 PM
Sounds like socialism to me!
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Oh boy... doesn't have anything to do with "socialism"
Its about making a free enterprise competition more entertaining, maybe more profitable, by appealing to the fans
Why do you think the worst teams in stick & ball sports get the 1st draft picks? More competition, better entertainment
Back in the day, when I started going to dirt track races in the 1960s, points leader would start all the way in the back. It was entertaining as hell... home built cars, different engines. At the track I went to, Eastside Speedway in Waynesboro, Va., the big gun, Smokey Stover, won 22 out of 24 races in 1962, STARTING FROMTHE BACK. Beats the hell out of "Follow the leader"
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June 07, 2023 at
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Posted By: larsonfan on June 07 2023 at 02:58:23 PM
Marks didn't get screwed by a rough track. The dip was there the entire night, and I saw no one else get upside down becasue of it.
I'll say it again - these guys see that the 57 is right behind them, and they drive differently and press.
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"Screwed" was probably the wrong word.
Yea, I know, everybody had the same track to work with
I just don't think obvious hazards like that hole should be left on a track, flipped the leader who was running a great race
Obvious safety issue too.....
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June 11, 2023 at
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Posted By: revjimk on June 07 2023 at 09:34:52 PM
"Screwed" was probably the wrong word.
Yea, I know, everybody had the same track to work with
I just don't think obvious hazards like that hole should be left on a track, flipped the leader who was running a great race
Obvious safety issue too.....
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Safety issue or not they all had the same track to race on....it is not like Marks didn't know the hole was there.
Marks was running away from Larson when he hit the hole and flipped.
Did Marks think he had to run that hard to stay in front of Larson so he couldn't pass him later in the feature?
That is the only question in my mind.
Let's go Sprint Car Racing!
Knoxville - Best Track In the USA!
Eldora - 2nd Best Track in the USA!
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June 11, 2023 at
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How did we get to the point where every retard in this country cries "socialism" about seemingly everything?
Your analogy of sports and the draft is a good one. Ditto the NFL with a salary cap, do NFL fans flood message boards squawking about "socialism".
For those of us that grew up in the 70's going to tracks we saw inverted starts and tons of passing through the field, and I will guess the points leaders of that era starting 16rh or further back every week weren't crying about "socialism".
Husets scrapped time trials for one year around 2006??? and inverted the feature. Jake Peters, Terry McCarl and Mark Dobmeier started 14,15,16 and made up the top 3 most of those weeks. The racing was fantastic, possibly the best ever produced there. Even at that time fans and I assume the racers weren't crying about Communistic Socialism. My how times have changed.
The worst president of my lifetime:
Ronald Reagan
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