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Port Royal Speedway BREAKING NEWS:

Fans, you asked for it and now you're gonna get it. On Saturday, June 17th, the always exciting USAC non-wing sprint cars will make their yearly stop and for the first time ever at Port Royal Speedway, our mighty 410 sprint cars will be on the show with them. This makes for a one-night sprint car extravaganza you will NOT want to miss!

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How many races do they run each year at Port Royal? Hard to believe they can't run just one show a year without the tin. Winged cars will slick over the track & make the non wingers put on a bad show. Sorry Port Royal, you just lost my money as I'm not supporting your poor decision. :7:

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I'm going to Jennerstown to see the ISMA Supers Mods that night. I just think the winged 410 are going to burn up the track for the USAC sprints.

Guess you've never been to ISW then. One dry slick track after another.

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Oh I've seen a ton of ISW races, been coming out to Indiana since 1996. What you won't see in Indiana is trucks with street tires pack the track for hours before hot laps. You won't see a grader out on the track after heat races to knock down a cushion and then those same street tire wielding trucks pack it back down as hard as asphalt. That's how they prep a track for winged 410's in Central PA.

I've seen far more tracks look like this when the racing start in Indiana,

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then like this for winged 410's.

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So you are telling me I can see 2 sprint car races for the price of 1? And two different disciplines at that? How dare you! LMAO. I love this idea; made my initial visit to Port for the WoO show in October and the track was in good shape all night. Thank you to the promoters at Port Royal for trying something different!

I'm tryin to figure out why you praised the show in the initial post and one minute later slammed them?

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The Eastern Storm is on my bucket list for sure!! :8:

The initial post was the Port Royal press release.

What Jeff is trying to make you understand is one discipline will most likely be adversely affecting the other. I'll let you figure which one.

The only track during ISW that is always dry and slick is Terre Haute

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Buddy You forgot to add dusty :8:

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You people need to remember THAT is the only 1/2 mile during ISW and it is in the middle of July which is in the middle of summer in Indiana.

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Wingers & traditional on one night sounds good to me. I'm gonna try to go. Plus its a week later than previous years & maybe that will be luckier with weather
Only been going about 7 years & still don't really understand track prep or conditions, other than if its good or bad, but maybe I'll learn something.... they race both styles at Eldora on the same nite, right?

Yes, they do at Eldora in May the last few years. Plus the 4-Crown on the Saturday portion now and the Sprintacular in October.

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Yep, I knew that, I was there for the 1st time this past summer. Track was good, but they took a 2 hr. delay for track prep.
Rhetorical question...

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OK here's my beef with adding the winged cars. Central PA fans can see winged 410's run from late Feb. until early November. Well over a 100 chances per season. We get a small hand full of USAC Sprints a year here. Why mess with what has been working the past 10 years?

Wow ******** about more sprint car racing I've seen everything now

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I've seen more bad races on a heavy tacky track than on a wide slick track, but the cars are slower. One of the best races i ever saw was ISW at Brownstown. The track slicked over, couldn't do track prep as weather was coming, and the cars were at a snail pace. But I slaw 3 cars side by side battling for first and another cars 4-6 battling side by side. I liked it, maybe others didn't.

MY FAVORITE shows on the west coast are at Tulare Thunderbowl with the winged KOW 410 and 360 WC USAC. It's a wing area, and most fans come for the wings, but both divisions put on great shows most weekends if weather doesn't ruin the track ie TOO MUCH rain which seems to happen at their WOO shows. Don't hate this non wing fan of 45 years, typically the wing show is as good or better than wing show, but I HAVE SEEN SOME awesome non wing shows. Best weekend I ever saw, was Kyle Larson almost sweeping the double header two nights in a row. In the non wing, he crashed and had to use a backup car, started last in semi, transferred, started last in the main and won. The race he lost, he was winning going away and motor blew with about 5 laps to go and I think Rico won.

Hell, I might consider to flying to this race, would love to see the wings in PA and see USAC. Win win as fan, at least I hope one of the mains will be good (unless it rains and its too heavy ;) )

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I was seriously considering coming over for Eastern Storm 2017, last east swing for me was 2012. But the Wing & Non-Wing deal at Port Royal is a NO GO. Why the hell have Non-Wing (Traditional) Sprint Cars and Wing Sprint Cars TRY and race on the same track *? Two VERY different race cars that require different racing surfaces (Track Prep) to enable the BEST racing for each type of race car.

A good non-racer PR idea.................

I'll be giving it a miss.


*Folk will no doubt feel the urge to remind me of the Eldora deal. Well I've never been, and have little interest in going from the reports i have from those that have been (not the racing media). Bucket list's are one thing, BUT good racing is another. I'll stick with ISW and get what I want.

**I've never been to knoxville and have no interest of ever going. For Non-Wing Sprint Cars; Indiana & California are the deal with a few other states coming through.

No Wings, Just Ruts & Guts.

Non-Wing is the only Sprint Car Racing Formula worthy or calling RACING.

Those that get it, know it.

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To those griping about the wing cars running the same nite as USAC at port (or anywhere else) the answer is simple and it is usually the answer to most questions......money! Obviously the promotor feels he can stand a better chance with both.

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I can see your point, but for me its about a 5 hr. drive to Central Pa. tracks, so I like "more bang for the buck". I've been to Pa. Speedweek lots of times, only once to Eastern Storm (too many rainouts), & its cool to see some variety. USAC/ARDC midget week is great too, especially at little Path Valley. I hear even smaller Lanco was awesome last year, but had to miss it.
If naysayers are right about track conditions, I'll find out....

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Port Royal hasn't given USAC a good track since Darland won and even that wasn't the best. It's been a typical winged Central PA type track surface, packed down (no cushion) with push cars/trucks. Now they're going to put winged 410's on it to slick it over even more. Some of you are saying they do both divisions at Eldora, but Port Royal isn't Eldora, it doesn't have the banking or the shape of Eldora, so it will be low, slow & single file for the non wingers. David is right. Central PA has 100 plus races with wings a season, why can't they just give the non wing their own night once a year? If they want the local weekly fans to have interest, maybe they should pony up bonus dollars for the locals to take the tin off & show their talents. Nor-Cal winged guys take the tin off when CRA comes to their tracks, why can't the Posse do the same?