Re: 34 Drivers Just Barely Makes A "Bump Day"
 

Originally Posted by SUPERDUKE:
Your Right The Same Fans That Go To Go Kart Races Are The Ones That Pack The Speedway On The First Day Of Time Trials To Watch There Former 4 Horsepower Briggs & Stranton Driver Race!

And the Knoxville Nats are filled with quarter midget fans?????????


A 125 6-Speed shifter Kart is more then a lawn mower it is a 100+ mph race car

Re: 34 Drivers Just Barely Makes A "Bump Day"
 

And You Still Have No Ideal What The American Race Fans Want To See!

Re: 34 Drivers Just Barely Makes A "Bump Day"
 

Race Car?

Re: 34 Drivers Just Barely Makes A "Bump Day"
 

Originally Posted by SUPERDUKE:
And You Still Have No Ideal What The American Race Fans Want To See!

They want to see a great race, side by side action and everyone to safely return home to their families at the end of the day

Re: 34 Drivers Just Barely Makes A "Bump Day"
 

Hold on!! Scrub Radius???? You don't have to be a "racing School" educated foreigner to know about scrub radius. I'm an old circle tracker and I know all about scrub radius. I designed my first race car (a center-steer modified) so that the "scrub" of scrub radius was essentially eliminated. I did it by designing and building the front wheels in such a way that the center of the tire patch was in the exact same spot as the king pin would be if (theoretically) extended to the ground. That made the tire "pivot" on, rather than "scrape", the ground as you turned the steering wheel. It was manual steering and with the car sitting still in the garage, you could turn the front wheels and it was so easy it almost felt like the drag link was disconnected. Glad you brought that up, smb! Brought back memories of when we used to build our own cars out in the garage!!!:)

PS....there's a picture of that old modified on my web-site. Click on "auto racing" at the top of the home page and scroll down.

Re: 34 Drivers Just Barely Makes A "Bump Day"
 

Then They Should Go To The Little 500

Re: 34 Drivers Just Barely Makes A "Bump Day"
 

Originally Posted by SUPERDUKE:
Then They Should Go To The Little 500

I will agree with that. The Little 500 is a great race and every race fan should see it at least once

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Do any of you people remember a kid named Travis Greg(g)?? Travis and his brother Jason were "regulars" in the sprint car division at Lawrenceburg Speedway around the year 2000 and on. They weren't USAC, ASCoC or WOO drivers. They just ran locally for the most part. Well, a couple of years ago Travis came up with the funding to drive a season with Sam Schmidt Motorsports in the Infinity Pro Series of the IRL. In his very first race he qualified up front and he ran with the lead group (he did this the whole season!). I believe he even won a race, or two, that year. Travis was as good as any of them. However, once the funding dried up, he disappeared. That's the way it works in openwheel these days. These guys running sprint cars can adapt and be competitive in the Indy Cars. It's a matter of funding rather than talent. NASCAR has the $$$ to hire these kids on merit whereas, in openwheel those same kids have to bring a suitcase full of money to even get a sniff. I'm not going to disagree, though, that they should attend one of the openwheel driving schools. It can only help make the transition easier but, there is no doubt that they are capable of succeeding at that level.

PS..there is a pic of Travis in his sprinter at Lawrenceburg (circa 2004) on my web site, as well. Click "auto racing" and I believe it's the 2nd pic down (yellow #81)

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Originally Posted by cecil98:
Do any of you people remember a kid named Travis Greg(g)??

Yes ...Travis Gregg last drove in 2007 Indy Pro but maybe only a couple of events.
Drove partial season schedules in each of the last 4 years.
Was a consistantly good qualifier with front row starts and probably a couple wins.
I have not seen him mentioned anywhere as a 2008 competitor.

Paul

Re: 34 Drivers Just Barely Makes A "Bump Day"
 

Originally Posted by SUPERDUKE:
Hawker Your Right! Now Tell Aj Foyt Al & Bobby & Al Jr Unser Johnny Rutherford Pancho Carter Gary Bettenhausen Rick Mears Parnelli Jones And Ruby Mcelreath Andretti Mccuskey Sneva Vukovich Johncock Snider Mosley Dickson Richmond Kunzman Dallenbach Sessions Polard Grim Hulse Kenyon Foster Ward Boyd Tingelstad Branson Williams ! That They Had No Business In The Indy 500!

Nobody said that the drivers you list had no business in the 500. They were all lucky enough to be racing Indy cars during the transition to the rear engine car. The learning curve was the same for everyone. But look at the indy 500 results as the years rolled by after the introduction of the rear engine car. Sprint and midget turned Indy 500 drivers were shuffled out in favor of drivers who tailored their careers to drive Indy type cars.