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Topic: What I think is wrong with Knoxville
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June 28, 2009 at
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First off, I love sprint car racing and have been going to Knoxville and many other midwest tracks for my 38 years of life. I know on the big half miles they tend to get spread out especially during the heats. I don't like it but that's the way it is. Sometimes we get lucky and have a decent race for the heat win.
I don't know if it's track prep or Capi's call but the racing is not as good as it used to be. Here we have this awesome, wide racetrack and the groove is not even half way up track in all the turns. What happened to running fairly close to the fence? There were even times when there was a middle groove coming out of turn 4.
This was clearly the case last night at the outlaw show. The groove not even half way up the track. It seems to me it's been this way at outlaw shows for the past 3-5 years or so. Not for sure about the weekly program. Don't get there much on the weekly basis but I do for the outlaws. Sorry for my rant. Thoughts or suggestions...
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June 28, 2009 at
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June 28, 2009 at
08:56:59 PM by darbo42
My opinion. I go to Knoxville every Saturday night and have been going to sprint car races all over the United States since the late 50's. The groove isn't where track prep puts it. It is where the drivers drive it. The shortest way is around the bottom half of the track so that's where they all go and feel comfortable. There is always someone who has the guts to push it up and go around the rim. Jac will run up there as will others, no matter where the "groove" is. Joely Saldana won the Kings Royal by putting his entire car above the berm. No one else would do it. Was the "groove" up there? No. All this talk about track prep and grooves amazes me. If a driver wants to just run behind the driver in front of him and stay there like so many of them do, then they will set a groove in the middle and end up where they start. If they want to go up, down, diamond, and anyplace else to make a pass, it is there. I listen on a scanner and last night they continually put the push trucks out in between races in order to smoothe the berm and open up the track. They also tell Randy where they want the guys to run while under yellow and pace laps and he leads them there in order to smoothe the track and widen it. If the drivers won't run up there it just won'd happen. Believe me, these officials are doing all they can and are after the track and the conditions all night long trying to make it better.
'nuff said.
My wife told me if I went to one more Sprint Car race
she would leave me.................I'm sure gonna miss
that ol' gal.
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June 29, 2009 at
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Sometimes it happens that way. Previous week was 2 grooves and racing everywhere.
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June 29, 2009 at
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Where were you June 20? Not at Knoxville...
If this post isn't results, stories or something c
constructive, it isn't me!
@BillWMedia
www.OpenWheel101.com
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June 29, 2009 at
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Amen Bill W. I have more in Hawkeye Ovals on this subject.
Eric Arnold
Social Media Manager & Track Historian
Knoxville Raceway
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