World Of Outlaws Sprint Car Series 2019 Schedule POSTED.
 

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.

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Kokomo,Dirt Track At IMS,Indiana State Fairgrounds mile would be cool to see the TBA date at one of those tracks

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Putting dirt on the big ole half-mile at Nashville? Awesome!!!

The Nashville race is not on the big track. They are using the 1/4 on the inside of the larger track.

https://speedsport.com/sprints-midge...get-nashville/

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!

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Originally Posted by hoosierhillbilly:
The Nashville race is not on the big track. They are using the 1/4 on the inside of the larger track.

https://speedsport.com/sprints-midge...get-nashville/

BUMMER! But still cool!!!

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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.

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.

Thanks.

I’m no mathematician so I’m unaware of how to calculate the speed, but in ISF’s defense the article I found reports the same speed he provided.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mot...-07/16401/amp/

Edit: sorry I missed the part about basing the average speed on the precise measurement of the track. I’m guessing that article is offering the speed for if the track were exactly one mile, though I guess a track’s size can depend on the line you’re running which is an entirely different conversation lol.

Google Maps is what WoO and many others use to calculate track length! My Screenshot of Johnny Gibson explained this in my previous post.
This pic shows the Speed Conversion of the Springfield 1.03 mile oval.
Thanks.

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Originally Posted by treecitytornado:
Google Maps is what WoO and many others use to calculate track length! My Screenshot of Johnny Gibson explained this in my previous post.
This pic shows the Speed Conversion of the Springfield 1.03 mile oval.
Thanks.

Hate to burst your bubble but thats not Johnny Gibson posting that...............

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Originally Posted by treecitytornado:
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.

Thanks.

Then you need to take the issue up with the people at Springfield. The measurement they use shows the speed at just over 145 mph. The Springfield people use the same measurement for the trotters, etc. The official sign listing of all track records off of turn 4 at Springfield clearly states the time and the 145+ mph as being the number they use. I’m inclined to go with the number used by the WoO and Springfield. Sorry, until there is an official correction in track size the 145+ mph number used by the Springfield people is probably the benchmark. If there is a credible and official source successfully disputing the official Springfield number I will happily digress.:27:

Originally Posted by Andrew S. Quinn:
Hate to burst your bubble but thats not Johnny Gibson posting that...............

It was actually Johnny who made that comment. The person who posted it to Facebook did a copy and paste from Johnny Gibson's Twitter account.

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Sammy Who???? Never heard of him.

Hate to burst your bubble, Andrew, but Johnny is in the pic with Sammy and posted the correct world record! Thanks for coming into work!