2018 Kings Royal Delights
 

I am somewhat surprised no one has started a KR thread, but....

One of the coolest things I ever saw at a track was last night for the National Anthem. The girl got up to sing and dedicated the song to all members of the service. Then, as she started singing (quite beautifully), two guys on horseback came out onto the track from the Turn 3 fence. The horses were galloping with one guy holding an American flag and the other holding a POW-MIA flag. It was great.

Prior to that, after hot laps, the crew got out to scrape the mud off of the walls in Turns 1 and 3. Eldora had one of their push trucks hook up a vertical scraper to the left front fender and drove clockwise through Turns 2 and 1, scraping the wall vice just having crew members use individual scrapers and making stripes. I looked at the guy sitting next to me and we both agreed that it was about time that someone came up with a more easier way to perform this process.

Every time Rico passed a car. By far the fan's favorite.

And finally, Donny Schatz wins is third KR in a row. As he got out of his car, the noise level rose tenfold. I haven't heard fans that loud since Sammy was in his prime. :)

Thanks for the show, Eldora. More than worth the trip.

Mike, I had been thinking about a Kings thread and never got around to it. Glad you did. Sounds like a great overall weekend. Ironically if Sweet didn't have to pass his teammate twice he probably writes a different ending to the story. I followed as much as I could on Twitter, TJslideways was tweeting like he was on the microphone calling the race's and did a great job. One thing that struck me and while I wasn't there was the car count. You sure would think there ought to be more than 51 cars at a prestigious race of this caliber. I know there's a lot of factors in all of it, but you sure would think Pennsylvania and Iowa would take a weekend off for the Kings Royal. I'm sure that would raise the car count by 20. Sounds like you had a good time, wish I could have been there with you. Hopefully we can catch up at Plymouth Friday

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That has been a tradition at the World 100 for many years. Cool that they did it at the KR too.

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They clearly cut off the 50/50, it might have hit 70g's

The racing has never been better

Rico is a Rock Star

Great night, Loved it.

Biggest crowd in the history of the Kings Royal they announced. Might have been the biggest crowd in the history of the Friday race too, looked massive as well.

I thought they might as a tribute to JJ make the race 41 laps, which would have certainly given Sweet a great shot to win. Was exciting nonetheless.

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The 41 laps woulda been Earth shaking. Sweet woulda passed Donny, the crowd woulda loved it (most of em) but we'll never know . . . . . kinda like how high did the 50/50 really get?

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$50199 was the winners half

they hit the 50k mark before 9 pm then cut it off because the printers couldn't keep up. bet people were pissed. didn't get it all printed until about 2 hours after the race and then they drew the number...would have liked to see what bell had for Donny.

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They use a wall scraper at Premier Speedway in Warrnambool Australia. First time I saw it,way back in 19994 I wondered why I'd never seen one here. I had the people that run the track send me some pics of the scraper which I passed onto a track here that scrapes the wall often. Nothing ever became of it though.

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Yeah. Both the Friday and Saturday 50/50s was more than the winning drivers' payout.

flagboy55, I will look for you Friday.

I would love to see photos of the wall scraper from Australia if you still have them. Also, if anyone has photos of the one used at the KR, please let me know!

The photos they sent me a few years ago it wasn’t mounted. It was laying on the ground. I don’t know if I still have them.

It’s kind of like a snow plow mounted vertically with springs and can pivot to match the angle of the wall

It doesn't work that good missed a lot dirt really. I have not been to the KR in 3 years but I will definitely be going back.🏁

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The first draft of a new idea usually requires improving upon. I just thought it was interesting to see someone try something different. They also made sure that the "Eldora" signs on the wall were free of mud, too.

The scraper at Premier Speedway works good. One trip around the track and the wall is clean. If it didn’t work good there, I wouldn’t have recommended it to the track here.

BTG send me a message with your e-mail address and I’ll send a couple photos

Practice makes perfect for the wall when Nascar trucks racing events Wednesday night. Lol.
Our racing family's had a great weekend at Eldora and looking forward to see you guys at indiana sprint week racing events. Have fun and enjoy all the great things that we all love. Thanks.

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Did you bounce off any walls and get upside down Rick? I heard earlier this year you were having problems maintaining......

I drew up plans for a wall scraper about 5 years ago. It went in the receiver on the back of a truck where the ball hitch goes. Stuck out past the side of the truck and was sort of spring loaded. Just thought it was alot of work for only a few people to use.

Pevely uses a wall scraper

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Have they ever used enough water on the NASCAR night for any wall scrapping needing to be done?

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I completely agree Mike it was a great night and Schatz showed once again why he is the best right now! But The Big Cat was coming on strong at the end and Donny knew it! Rico put on a great show charging from the 24th starting position to a 9th place finish just think if he could have had just a little bit better starting spot! The opening ceremonies were awesome! But there was one thing about the weekend that I completely disliked and that how they are now doing the 50/50! I believe if you aren't present at the racetrack you shouldn't be able to win the money. But that's a whole different story for another time and place! People on here might not like wings but this years Kings Royal didn't disappoint on the track one bit! :32::)


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