Originally Posted by retired14:
If anyone finds out where one can purchase a DVD of the entire Sprint Week, would you please post it here, or email me, or send up smoke signals, or something. I am not a computer geek, so please go easy on me for asking such a question. It is kinda hard to teach this old dog new tricks. Thank you.:22:

I would think jackslash.com would make one. They put out awesome videos. I'm not computer enough to link you or anything but I'm sure someone on here can help you more. Nevertheless I'm sure there will be one.

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Due to unfortunate issues (which ain't none of yer beeznus :D), I attended only the LPS show. I have only two complaints: I wish I had been able to get to them all, and I sure wish the 2e's engine had not "laid down" on Shane.
Here is my question to the dust gripers: did you not notice that the grass along the sides of the roads you used to get to the ISW race tracks was brown, not green? We are in the midst of a wicked drought, ya know!

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Heck Steve, I was only able to make it to one show myself, Haubstadt.:15: Now even though there are those on here that will tell you it's the most incredibly prepared track in the country, she was a tad dusty (gritty) on Saturday as well....according to the top of my beer cans.:3:
Now I'm not complaining, because I got to visit with many great friends and witnessed a great drive by Clayton in the B and an incredible job by Bryan Clauson in the A.
I too wished I coulda made 'em all!!

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Only God himself could have poured enough water on LPS to keep the dust down and he did that on Thursday.

Those of you that think you can do any better, go ahead, lets see you try

For the first time ever I went to all 7 ISW races. Also the first time ever to the burg and TSS. Seen some awesome racing! I give every track credit for trying but mother nature won at every track. Unless you guys that complained went to every ISW race dont complain about 1, THEY WERE ALL VERY DUSTY! I don't see why so many haters for LPS, it wasn't the worst and didn't see many people hating on the rest! The biggest dust problem was guys sliding over the cushion coming outa 2. There was standing water in the infield, they obviously watered it as much as possible!

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We do it that way at Paragon Speedway if leader is scored the lap counts, can not take a lap away from leader, if so leader would have to run 26 or 31 or 41 laps or sometimes more, duh

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Coondog, thanks for the explanation of the yellows. I don't agree with it, but that's the way it is. As far as the track, sprints were the only thing running that night. They had a lot of time to have someone go out and grade, water, whatever they needed to do. They seemed more concerned about watering the drive to the parking lot. I did see a lot of people leaving about 5 laps into the feature and they didn't look happy. I went to Gas City on the first night. They had two other classes and still took the time to to work the track and it was great for the feature.

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Has Haubstadt changed its surface in the last couple years? It sure looks different now, a lighter color and more powdery.

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...maybe i have you all beat. i went to all 9 nights of ISW & loved it everynight. 7 nights got dusty and 2 nights got soaked, but loved every minute of the week. Almost threw my shoulder out patting myself on the back for making it to all the tracks this year but i should be ashamed, living in central Indiana and this was my first time i made it to all the races, won't miss them again. Now a weekend for the taxicabs and sporty cars, then back to sprint car racing, and about 50 weeks from now everyone come back and let's do it again. bob:22:

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I just got off the phone with Jason McCord, and USAC will have a DVD of the entire sprint week in about a month he said. Just call the USAC office and the lady that answers the phone will direct you to the person who will take your order. I didn't ask the price, as I am gonna buy it, anyhow. So, now we know the rest of the story. LOL:5:

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Originally Posted by Bill Gardner:
JT, Joe started working on the track at 11:30pm Saturday night after the races. Worked until 3:40am. Got a couple hours of sleep and back up at 6am and worked all day.

It is what it is...

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I have lived in L-ville all my life, I used to have a shop 3 blocks from Churchill Downs That is a big old dirt 4 legged type race track. I have been there one time in my life and really can't remember too much about that day for some reason.

It seems to me that dirt race track owner could take some lessons from those people. They run 7 days a week on that track in season and keep that thing in perfect shape rain or drought.

I read an article about how the they constructed the track. They start out with a couple of feet of rock with drain tiles and irrigation system installed then they put several feet of special horse dirt on top of that. If it rains the water drains off if it is dry the irrigation system takes over. Then all they do is go over it with a drag to clean up all the poop and they are ready to go.

Granted they don't apply as much hp to their track, and horses do not dig up ruts but it would be a great place to start.

Or you could just enroll in the tri-state track maintenance class.

Honest Dad himself:6::6:

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Went to all except Gas City and Kokomo and found something to like and not to like at each one, but I had a good time watching the races and visiting with friends, and that's what really counts!

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Originally Posted by DAD:
I have lived in L-ville all my life, I used to have a shop 3 blocks from Churchill Downs That is a big old dirt 4 legged type race track. I have been there one time in my life and really can't remember too much about that day for some reason.

It seems to me that dirt race track owner could take some lessons from those people. They run 7 days a week on that track in season and keep that thing in perfect shape rain or drought.

I read an article about how the they constructed the track. They start out with a couple of feet of rock with drain tiles and irrigation system installed then they put several feet of special horse dirt on top of that. If it rains the water drains off if it is dry the irrigation system takes over. Then all they do is go over it with a drag to clean up all the poop and they are ready to go.

Granted they don't apply as much hp to their track, and horses do not dig up ruts but it would be a great place to start.

Or you could just enroll in the tri-state track maintenance class.

Honest Dad himself:6::6:

That right there is the funniest thing i have read in a long time.:5: I think we need to make the cars wear horseshoes instead of tires also.:5:

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Originally Posted by wallsracing:
was you even there...or u just reading all this:3:

omg!:24:

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Did I miss it or did no one write an article about Dave Darland starting and winning his 500th USAC feature?
Have other drivers done this? I am just curious.

If anyone has seen an article about it, could you please share it?
Thank you in advance! :)