Haubstadt update
 

Any updates from Tri Stay would be appreciated. On the shelf till next week due to graduation.

Car count? Track conditions?

Feature lineups attached

Feature starting at 8:10 cst

Kent Schmidt big fire on the front stretch. He was okay. Tri-State threw all they had at the fire and it wouldn't stop. Never seen anything like that in a sprint car.

Me neither. Scary. Glad he's ok and no one else got caught up in it.

C short won b short 2nd 98 morin 3rd

Short vs Short.....Carson schooled Brady on restart.....Nice showing for Morin with a 3 spot!

How did Cummins run in non wing?

Finished 4th after starting 12th

Congratulations to Morin racing. They had two great runs in there last two starts.

Whoever is in the 45...do us all a favor and pull off.

Thanks

Sigh

Thanks Loehr46 it was a great weekend! Time for a few cold ones!!

For the #45 haters, here is a little FYI a lot of people didn't know. He normally runs the racesaver series at Bloomington, IN. He runs a 305. This is his 2nd year running the sprint class. He's an amateur, self supported, weekend warrior driver. He is well aware he's out motored to run with MOWA and MCMS cars, but any seat time is valuable time. He showed up to run wing class but was approached by officials about running double duty to help the MSCS class out because there was a poor showing of numbers. He and his pit crew (I proudly being one of them) agreed to bust ass to make it work and support the good of the event and the show. There was no time to make major adjustments, or discuss any strategy other than wings on or wings off, run what you've got. He was out of the car 2 times once action started over a roughly 5hr night and ran well over 50 laps. He held a bottom line all night and didn't do anything stupid or crazy that would be out of his capability and possibly jeopardize other drivers safety or performance. He did a fantastic job of having driver and track awareness and brought it all home in one piece, which to a low budget driver is a success on any night win or lose. Everyone has to start somewhere and you can't get anywhere unless you step up and take what your given. He had multiple drivers, crew, and officials come to compliment and congratulate him on a good night, and express how surprised they were over his race etiquette and willingness to do what he did once they learned of the position he was in. I don't care if you dislike or disagree with what all I've just said, I just wanted to clear the air with some who like to voice opinions while being grand stand critics! Good night all!

And with everything that you have said. He is also one of the nicest guys in the sport you will ever meet. And I'm proud to call him a friend. Everyone should take the time to go talk with him and meet him. Eric keep your head up and race on.

Saw after races , Director of Competition Mo Will giving all of the Fire Crew either kudos , school, or maybe a combination of both. They were all attentively listing to Mr. Will.

That was a nasty fire situation. Never seen one keep flaring as it did. Glad all ok.

I thought under the circumstances, the #45 did a great job! Didn't stick his nose anywhere it didn't belong. Held a very consistent line. We all would have preferred 30 hot shoes trying for 22 spots, but that wasn't the case last night. I sat in the stands with another Racesaver driver that was encouraged by both the #45 and by the run of young Kendall Ruble. Might even give him the confidence to try it without the wing himself! Think about it... With TSS running limited support classes, the new drivers have to come from somewhere....

Question for (Nate) Do you race a sprint car?

Always thought the Racesaver engine package would be a great base for a non-wing class.

I'm sure he would donate the extra $30,000 to upgrade these 305 Racesavers to Allpro 410s? Typical clueless dumb ?&$.

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I do not currently race. I did when I was younger but then a couple guys got it inside their heads to run planes into things and a few wars kicked off and maybe I was some stupid country boy but felt an obligation there. Haven't been back in a race car since.

Nope, clueless would be donating a single dollar. I have no problem with young guys trying to learn. But the reason he was slow was not because he was driving a 305. A 305 running hard wouldn't be turning 20+ second laps at Tri-State. Ruble has proven that multiple times. If he's already got enough motor underneath him it doesn't take an investor on Shark Tank to know putting money into his program to upgrade him to a 410 would be a bad investment and anyone who would think so would be a "clueless dumb ?&$"

As I just said, I don't have an issue with a kid trying to learn. I knew he was in a 305 because I've seen him run at Bloomington. But if you're trying to learn and get seat time, I'm not sure that just rolling the bottom, and that's all he was doing was rolling the bottom, is the best way to go about it when there are cars lapping you within 2 laps of the green flag and basically your job for the rest of the feature is just stay out of the way.

There have been 13 different open practice events in Indiana in the last month on dirt quarter miles or bigger. I would think if he needs seat time to get comfortable in the car you'd want to put him on a track that he can actually go and at least try to get on the throttle and get some actual practice in.

Furthermore, by his crew member's own admission he said they were stretched so thin running both classes they really had no time to make adjustments. As admirable as running both classes is, in my opinion you are setting up a driver for failure by sticking him on the track in a car that he's not comfortable with.

Dakota Jackson also ran with MSCS on Saturday night in the same car he was using for MOWA. The only difference there was he would run a few laps an pull off so he could make sure his MOWA car could get the necessary attention and be competitive. I didn't see any issue with that. He helped out the MSCS with their car counts and still ran top five with MOWA. Not a bad trade off considering he still made a few bucks courtesy of MSCS.

Lastly, the reason I made the comment that got all this started was after he'd gone a few laps down in the MOWA feature there was a red. Once they got restarted he started in line behind the 2nd or 3rd place running cars up front. Now, the kid all night did make an effort to stay out of the way, but when they restarted cars scattered everywhere trying to get around him as he tried to dive back to the bottom to get out of the way, nothing happened but certainly could have. If you were there and didn't see it you weren't paying attention. At least fall to the back in that situation prior to the green instead of having half the field diving inside and out trying to get around.

I don't know the driver and I'm sure he's a nice kid and if I see him at the track I'll gladly go and talk to him. It's not personal. I'm never going to fault anyone for trying to learn because he does have more in the game than I do these days. Just not sure that Saturday was the best situation for him to do so.

Well Nate since you don't race in my opinion you should not post a comment like that
It's so much easier to sit in the stands an say what should an shouldn't be done
on the other hand maybe he should have went to the tail but he didn't them guys are way faster than him. Its there job to pass him they will an did

Everyone is entitled to their opinion and there's no problem with that as long as it's all done respectfully in my mind, everyone sees things different. Just to add since it was thrown out also Eric is not a "kid", he's in his early 30s out chasing a dream of racing sprint cars from when he started racing carts at a young age but you can only do so much and get so far when your a self supported team with your family and buddy's as your pit crew. Eric is also a veteran as well who didn't get to devote his life to racing due to serving his time in hell also. He's now trying to get back on that dream before time won't allow anymore. Also as I have the greatest respect to him as I do any veteran, Nate thank you for your service as well.

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Didn't know his age so sorry for calling him a kid. That said, you're right, its just an opinion and everyone's got one. It's not personal against him. As I said, I have no ill will against someone chasing their dream or trying to get seat time I just didn't think Saturday was the time or place for it. Good luck the rest of the season.

If a prerequisite to posting on this board is that you have to have raced, this forum would shut down. Lol.

So back to the racetrack. Place looked great from where I was setting. Great to see Tommy working hard keeping it a class track.

Wow...I was not there..but I will say this I've seen Kendall run at Bloomington quite a few times and he does a fine job!! Keep Ur Head up pal...

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My only concern was the Dewig Meats Giant cooker was MIA. I understand it was at Owensburg Ky for a BBQ Contest.
Otherwise a Great two nights at The Class Track.:6::6: