Surprised to see it posted before PRI. 92 shows is a normal slate, but hopefully Mother Nature will let them get in closer to 80 plus. Last year only 71 of 95 scheduled were run.
Back on the Indy Mile would be awesome and Springfield too! Even throw DuQuoin in for a Triple Crown! Sammy Swindell has the World Record on dirt at Springfield in 1998 at over 150mph average lap!
Originally Posted by treecitytornado:
Back on the Indy Mile would be awesome and Springfield too! Even throw DuQuoin in for a Triple Crown! Sammy Swindell has the World Record on dirt at Springfield in 1998 at over 150mph average lap!
Sammy does, in fact, hold the world record for the fastest average lap speed ever officially recorded on a dirt track. However, that world record is not 150+ MPH. Sammy turned The Springfield Mile at 24.717 seconds which equate's to a 145.637 MPH average lap speed. To my knowledge no radar gun was used that day to get Sammy's straightaway speeds getting into turn's #1 and #3 but it's been conservatively estimated that he was entering those turns at 170+ MPH. Now that folks, is cookin'!!
Sorry for the thread hijack but I just wanted to clarify Sammy's world record.
Silver Crown Championship Dirt Cars properly driven on a one mile dirt track are classic poetry in motion. Using that analogy, Jack Hewitt is one of the greatest poets of all time.
Sorry, but I was correct. Springfield is just over a mile in length. 1.03 miles in length. Lap Time was 24.710, which is 150.061 MPH, on June 7th of 1998. The last WoO show, ever on a mile plus,track!
You are right in the fact of 170-180 MPH on the straightaways. Champ Cars are doing close to 160 at DuQuoin, on a GoPro with MPH on.
I don't post things, like World Records, unless I know my facts. Especially when it's about one of my All-time favorite drivers.
