6 replies to this topic

[Express Man]

Anybody have any results from down south?

[Cool1]

Pittman, Lanigan, and Friesen

[jlandonl]

Needed to take out a bank loan to buy food and drink last night. Makes the deals at ppms look great

[bhhracing]

ouch!

[The Legend]

All that post just did is cause ppms raise their price to similar levels lol

[Don88]

Gotta take your own food & drinks to the dirt track!!  Hell, water was $5.00 per bottle!!!! that's a 4-500% mark up!!!!

Racing was great though, got my tickets for next year....

[dirtstudent2]

It's a dirt race and dust from the track is not going to stop me from going.  It will proly kill me from years of it, but it won't stop me from going.

 

This was my first time there and I was told they put new dirt on the track this year.  I have not watched many dirt races in NC, but have watched a lot on red Georgia clay which appears to me, to be different then what they used.  My question is for those of you who have been there a lot.  Did the new clay dust less, more or about the same?  And more important the first day of qualifying was preceded by rain.  Yet the times were initially just in the 12's but not record times, and then tapered off in the second qualifying secession to 13's.  Would you say the new dirt is faster or slower then before?

 

Sure wish they'd do less BS for the fans and get to the racing.  The racing part of the show moved along well enough, but except for accolades to Steve Kinser, the show dragged it out so long I started to feel like I was at N.E. track in Ohio.  I paid $7 for a waffle cone crammed with ice cream and $8 for a steak burger loaded to the hilt with onions peppers and stuff.  I'd pay the same for the same at PPMS, but I won't pay what they charge for what they sell.  What's really great I got to talk ideas with a great sprint car driver who is into trying innovation on his cars.  Someone who said they had two cars at the race and both were #15, about how the back of the car works.  And a well know driver not racing to work on the car he built, about why a 4 wheel drift happens.  Three days of racing, the conversation and meeting new race fans addicted as much as I am, for me sure made the trip worth while.