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November 02, 2008 at
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November 02, 2008 at
07:28:24 PM by bahdubbieracer
I am tickled to death with the WoO event... I am not much of a late model fan, but it's cool to see both together at a beautiful venue...
The positives: great venue, super reasonable prices, and the security MADE the idiots in the front row that kept standing leave... but...
Seriously, they guy who was running the track left with Humpy Wheeler and you could tell...
I am not sure who the overweight ding-dongs were that we're on the fire crew... but uh, when a car goes the length of the back stretch on fire, stops, there is an alcohol fire, the guy is trying to get out, Work'N'Woody's son is the 1st there (coming the full length of the back stretch) , he did a good job trying to help but he didn't have a fire suit on and had a mini extinguisher, the guy gets out of the car, rolls on the ground for awhile before the fire 4 wheeler or truck ever rolls, is ABSOLUTELY not tolerable... the car was stopped for about 45-60 seconds before fire crews rolled... I might be overally critical having been a racetrack and regular fireman, but yikes... it was kind of scary...
last night, while towing a late model, I thought the guy was going to flip the tractor, friday the track was, well, mediocre, but they lept working it and ran in the cushion and it got better... last night the track was fine, but I am not sure we needed to spend 10-20 minutes running in the groove, not the cushion, not the inside, the dead middle of the track (they didn't put water down either)... it was odd...
and lastly, I DO NOT NEED TO HEAR THE ENTIRE SOUND TRACK TO TOP GUN (ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES EVER), MON-A --- MON-A, THE TWIST, A MEDLEY OF 80S ROCK, THE CHICKEN DANCE, ETC. AS LOUD AS POSSIBLE ON THE P.A.... the music is cool and trying to get ppl involved is even better... just at medium volume...
I wish Earl still did Eldora's track prep.
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November 02, 2008 at
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I will say it was alittle loud for the bottom rows ,,,you are right there but if you moved up tothe top row it was hard to hear. 40 rows up is the reason us in the lower rows got blasted. But all in all for I,m guessing 20,000 people they did a great job!!! As far as the track conditions I couldn't do better.Yes the fire crew was a little slow on the fire for sure ,,,,,,,scared me as well!
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November 02, 2008 at
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I like this event a bunch but the flagman has got to get his crap together before he kills someone. He was a lot better Saturday but the other nights he was on a mission to hurt someone. HOW do you let a car stalled on TOP of the turn 4 exit for a lap and a half and just point to the car with a flag while waving the white and then the checkered flag?
Life's short, race hard!!!
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November 03, 2008 at
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They should have done the breaking the vault dash earlier in the night when there was more moisture in the track, it would have gave the guys on the outside a chance.
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November 03, 2008 at
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I work on the 81 car that caught fire, and I was in turn three when the car went by the opening in the fence on fire. Myself and a member of Chad Kemenah's team yelled for the fire crew to move because he was on fire, and they sat on the grass in front of the truck eating hot dogs. They were not even in the truck ready to go. One of the Outlaws officials told us that they were not allowed to move to respond to the fire until they were called, thats why they didn't move. If not for Eric from Workin Woody, Craig would have suffered way more serious burns that the second degreee burns on his hand. Maybe we are spoiled here in PA but our tracks have fire extinguishers in every corner with track workers trained to use them. I expected more from a facility like LOWES. The spray cans that Eric and his helper carried are very effective, even for their small size, they do work.
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November 03, 2008 at
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Did we learn nothing from Wolfgang? Racers, when you go to the track, DEMAND extinguishers at every corner, a fireman or crew at each end in their vehicles ready to go asap during any on track event, ie. hot laps, quals, staging. Don't race, if you are not comfortable with safety precautions. And fans, when these racers boycott the event because conditions are not met, don't bitch and call them whiners.
Sean
Tucson
!!SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL TRACKS!!
!!Get Well Shane!!
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November 04, 2008 at
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AMEN.
Speaking of weird tales of fire crews, at Aberdeen, South Dakota this summer an infield corner worker put out a small fire on a car and the leader of a local volunteer department that was manning the race threw a hissy fit, because the corner worker wasn't wearing full firefighter style protective gear. He said the infield workers would need full gear to protect them from EXPLODING RACECARS. (His words. This goober had obviously seen too many bad racing movies, where the car blows itself to smithereens one second before or after the driver gets out.). He said they would leave unless all of the infield extinguishers were removed and stored behind the main grandstands. So they did stored them.
The NEXT week, and car pulled off with a front brake caliper on fire and the firecrew took it's own sweet time wandering over, and then stood around doing nothing until the car's driver forcibly yanked an extinguisher away from one of them and put the fire out. By then he was so POed that he sprayed the feet of the fire crew. Who then promptly left. Fortunately, another rural volunteer department was called in and racing resumed within an hour. The next week one of the new crew volunteered to train all of the infield workers and the extinguishers were put back in the infield.
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