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9/1/14, 10:37 PM |
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Race Count This Year: 41 Race Count Last Year: 28 Join Date: Feb 2014 Posts: 487 |
Stuck around today for the ARCA race . I had never been to one . That sucked ! I don't count passing lapped cars as passing. Thinking stock car people go see this stuff just to say they were at the races. This thing was soooo far from the race that the silver crown race was ..... My girlfriend said it perfectly " sounds like racing and smells like racing but it's not racing." God bless those teams , owners , and drivers but give me open wheel please.
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9/1/14, 11:34 PM |
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Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 76 |
Right there with you;nothing like them silver crown cars echoing off of the aluminum bleachers at DuQuoin!!!
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9/2/14, 7:38 AM |
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Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 4,272 |
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9/2/14, 3:06 PM | #4 | |
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Join Date: May 2013 Posts: 343 |
It would be nice if they could run the Silver Crown cars Saturday night & then run the ARCA race on Sunday night. I think it would help the racing tremendously. That late summer sun cooks all the moisture out of the track for the afternoon races and makes it dry slick & dusty. It would be nice not getting bbq'd in the stands as well. But I guess a concert has more profit potential to it. Racing sure has to fight an uphill battle every step of the way!
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9/2/14, 5:17 PM |
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Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 1,828 |
Many moons ago, they ran an ARCA race at the Vigo County Fair (THAT). It was one of the best races I've ever seen. Cover the first two with a blanket after the whole distance.
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9/2/14, 6:24 PM |
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Join Date: Jul 2014 Posts: 280 |
Give me open wheels or real dirt late models any day over arca or nascrap
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9/2/14, 8:37 PM |
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Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 3,044 |
I love the Silver Crown cars as much or more than anyone and far and away prefer open wheel cars to ARCA or modifieds on dirt, or most anything else that races on dirt. Generic unlimited dirt late models don't do anything for me either.
That said, the race Labor Day Monday afternoon is the worst ARCA race I've seen at Du Quoin and I've seen 20 of them dating back to 1994. I'm not making excuses for the ARCA guys and have no particular allegiance to the sanction or the participants, but believe me when I tell you Monday was by far the exception and absolutely not the rule. Those guys, a lot more often than not, put on a great show at Du Quoin. And that goes for Springfield, as well. The ARCA dirt races should not be judged by this year's race at Du Quoin.
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9/2/14, 9:15 PM |
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Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 493 |
I have seen a few ARCA races. I have no knowlege about what engines... etc....they run.
When I was growing up I used to see the IMCA stock cars at fairgrounds tracks and seemed the races were always competitive and exciting. Drivers like Ernie Derr, Don White, Ramo Stott, Lenny Funk and others were some of the big names. But it seemed real exciting. It seemed exciting to me because they seemed so much like street cars that raced. Maybe they had all kinds of "modifications" and I just didn't realize it at the time. I can't remember seeing a USAC stock car race, maybe they were similar. I also remember the fairs would have the IMCA sprint cars the same week end and a bunch of the drivers that raced at Knoxville would race IMCA also. Drivers were people such as Jerry Blundy, Jim Moughan, Hank Smith, Ray Lee Goodwin, Lonnie Jenson, Dick Sutcliff. No roll cages, you held your breath every lap, it would wear me out to watch.
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