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Originally Posted by cecil98
Went to the King's Royal last night. It was the first wing race I've been to at Eldora in five years. The hot lap sessions are incredible when viewed from the turn 1 or turn 3 inside wall. That was the highlight of the evening. There were 34 cars there for $50k to win. The heat races were dreadful. Evenly spaced high speed parades. Maybe two or three passes that meant anything, if that. Once the pass was complete, that was it. There were very few, if any, sustained battles for a position. Dust wasn't bad at all. Great crowd. Daryn Pittman won because Saldana had a tire go down (not sure of the cause). Saldana was gone until that happened.
Steve Kinser threw a monumental temper tantrum over Donny Schatz being given an extra qualifying lap after getting a terrible time on his first two laps. He (Schatz)claimed another car on the track interfered. Steve pushed an official and loaded the car up. He later calmed down a little and ran. Started 18th(?) in the featch and wound up 4th or 5th(?) due to passing several of the slower cars running at the back-to-mid field and the rest of his positions came through attrition. He was the only one that seemed to be passing with the exception of the leaders lapping traffic. Went up to watch some buddies run. I they go back, I'll probably go back to support them. If not, I've seen all I need to see.
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I really don't get it Cecil. I used to follow them religiously and they used to get about 60 cars for that race. Seems all winged races are severely down in car count. What I don't get is the fact that 30 thousand people will travel to see maybe 15 guys truelly capable of winning it and won't visit ISW where there are 40 that could win on any given night and a car count over 50.
The money's going in the wrong direction and should be USAC and MSCS, Not WOO.
Chuck, who sees Wings going the way of indiana except maybe in PA and NOR Cali.
20 races per rebuild vs 6-10 and a new flat top everytime you dump it.