No Racing at Twin Cities March 19th
 

I just got the official text on my phone. No practice at TCRP Wed. March 16th and No Racing on Sat. March 19th. Get ready for April 1st and 2nd.
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Wow, 7 days early, with sun and mid 60's forcast thursday through saturday. Not life or death if we dont race, but probably would have been a good turn out.....



We hot lapped there 3 hours later, would have never believed it would happen ha

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This is sad. Great forecast ahead. I call lack of effort and bullcrap.
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Well folks there has been some bad flooding in the area this past week. Look at the location on Google Earth.... a creek is beside the place and a decent flood would have it under water. Cut them some slack....

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just more of mason fleetwoods bs i wish someone would take that track over who doesnt want to run just hornets and mini stocks and actually wants to promote a track and hold races

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Originally Posted by 1021gpa:
just more of mason fleetwoods bs i wish someone would take that track over who doesnt want to run just hornets and mini stocks and actually wants to promote a track and hold races

I'll just bet Mason would appreciate your help,and advice, why don't you just trot over there, and show him how you'd do it, right Mason, course any monitary help would be appreciated also, and you could also be of great help, keeping mother nature calm. His phone number is on the webite. Show us how much you care! Bob:)

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It's easy to complain about someone , until you walk a mile in their shoes.

People always complain about a promoter or tarck owner. But remember , they are the ones who take the risk. Their money , their time.

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Originally Posted by ThrottleHead:
Well folks there has been some bad flooding in the area this past week. Look at the location on Google Earth.... a creek is beside the place and a decent flood would have it under water. Cut them some slack....

Don,

With all due respect, it would take a TON of rain to have the river come up into the pits and racetrack. It would have to be 30 or more feet above floodstage. The Muscatatuck River runs swift, and does not stay up for long.

I am not the Mason Fleetwood, and I don't know his situation. However, I do not live far from the track, and have not seen much activity that direction (i try to drive by daily on lunch break when its close to a sprint car race). I would attribute this to the equipment setting out all winter, and as I said before a lack of effort. Unless it has rained, the track is rarely tacky. Last year during Sprint Week there had been a ton of rain and it had a curb and was hooked up, but the other shows were dry slick early. I have never seen a bad sprint car race at TCRP, no matter the conditions, EVER. I commend the Fleetwoods for supporting sprint car racing in late model land, but I wish they would have given it a try. The forecast looks way to good for the week ahead.

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WOW! Bob what a response, I will probably be ditching for some poor old farmer, HA HA at almost 7 $ corn. I'll see if I can come down and ditch for Fleetwood maybe my boss will donate the tile ....NOT if you know my boss. Just messing with you all. Good luck Mason. Hope to see the track soon, if I get my honey do list completed. Jeff

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Originally Posted by lovindirt:
WOW! Bob what a response, I will probably be ditching for some poor old farmer, HA HA at almost 7 $ corn. I'll see if I can come down and ditch for Fleetwood maybe my boss will donate the tile ....NOT if you know my boss. Just messing with you all. Good luck Mason. Hope to see the track soon, if I get my honey do list completed. Jeff

Wait till your next round of breakfast cereal! Yes, the old Muskatuck does get up, no doubt about it, it does it's most damage to the pits, plus what water rushes from somewhere, down thru the pits, and into the river, that's the killer part, then last year, they had a downspout that no one else had, damn near washed out turn 1, and was all summer trying to get the clay to stay in there. I'd rather watch sprints run there, as about anywhere, there really isn't a bad seat in the place. Bob:)

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Chill out people , the season will be here soon. It is a hard place for big rig to wiggle in to and it is by the creek , and it is march . I'm one of the first ones that want to race but a couple a more weeks and things will be lot better . Give them time to get the track in great shape. Hard to work on a flooded race track with the water cresting 100 ' away from the track. Sorry don't want to be negetive about opening practice . Would like to See Sprints race weekly there , bigger races in there,and a weekly sunday night show, its a beautiful place around there . You have that country setting there ,Its like going back in time when you drive into the place ,reminds me of the tracks when I first started going to the races years ago,:16:22: its great . Would be a great place to run on Sunday nights. With Kokomo I think being the only place in a 150 miles running on sunday , could draw some big crowds after a few weeks of running and people talking about it. Would get 35 sprints and a lot of support class racers very sunday night and a big crowd

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Originally Posted by axsom#11:
Chill out people , the season will be here soon. It is a hard place for big rig to wiggle in to and it is by the creek , and it is march . I'm one of the first ones that want to race but a couple a more weeks and things will be lot better . Give them time to get the track in great shape. Hard to work on a flooded race track with the water cresting 100 ' away from the track. Sorry don't want to be negetive about opening practice . Would like to See Sprints race weekly there , bigger races in there,and a weekly sunday night show, its a beautiful place around there . You have that country setting there ,Its like going back in time when you drive into the place ,reminds me of the tracks when I first started going to the races years ago,:16:22: its great . Would be a great place to run on Sunday nights. With Kokomo I think being the only place in a 150 miles running on sunday , could draw some big crowds after a few weeks of running and people talking about it. Would get 35 sprints and a lot of support class racers very sunday night and a big crowd

If you think they would get 35 sprint cars on sundays nights I have same land in the Everglades you might be interested in. Maybe for a big money show once but not every week, 20 maybe 25 if they are lucky and many less after sprintweek. There is not enough $ out there for that many to run 3 nights a week.

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You may be right , with the economy being the shape its in . If you ran 3 to 4 big show and then weeklys , you would start getting car in . Southern indiana boys have to drive way up north to run on sunday , when they could run in there own area , and save a bunch on GAS money . Just a thought :22::8:

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Hoover, If Kokomo doesn't run in August I'd like to see North Vernon run a couple Sundays then.Be fun to see the turnout.

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It is very much in the top 3; for tracks for me, and I really don't care how hard and dry slick it gets, seems to be less wrecks on a smooth dry slick one at least thats what I have noticed over the years. Some screw up but really not to many. Sh-- happens you know. But anyways I really wish they had a weekly sprint program also, but fuel is really killing every one of us. Even the ones who use it daily as a fuel on the job. You can only raise your prices so much then they start balking. I really wish these places would lower the gates and see if the crowds and cars come back any at all.. One week of trying to get them back won't get it. They have to know that the promotor is really trying to help with out cutting his own throat. I think 25 30 and 35 is crazy.. I remember Jack Hewitt getting mad at GC because gate was so high and he won feature and drove off track backwards without stopping to get his trophy and speak.. Wow! some mad people. Not to mention any more names. But that made for an interesting evening.
Jeff
Mason run you a tile ditch every 50 foot across the pits and dump it into the creek and put stone over the tile after ditching and it will do wonders for the pits. Just a suggestion. Not that we would travel 3 hours to do it. But I'm sure their is a ditcher close bye who would willingly do it..

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Probably afraid they wouldn't have any dust. On Wednesday I drove through the Muscatatuck River bottoms on the way to the track,crossed the river at 6 different locations, and the water level was down 8 to 10 feet from the top of the banks at Euler's Ford which is way below the track. Water wasn't even muddy,sandbars had dried up, and the water depth under the bridge looked to be only about 2 or 3ft. and you could see the bottom with ease. It's quite possible that with all the sun, wind and steep banking that the track surface could need watering by today. Pits could be wet, but it's about a 20-30ft drop off of turn 1 to the river. If the infield had any water it could have been pumped out days ago. Management's call, they can cancel all the races if they choose to. Cancelling a whole week in advance seems a little premature though.