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Hi everyone
I just got back from the american sprint car tour meeting this afternoon,and I am very excited about all that is going to happen. 2010 is going to be a wonderful year for sprint car owners and drivers in this new series. John Gurly and JT Stapp are doing a great job of getting lots of race tracks and unbelieveable payouts for their members. I know that this will become a premier series in very short order. Affordable engines,good drivers,and one of the best purse structures I have seen anywhere,ASCT is the real deal....if you have been on the fence with wait and see, it is time to go racing, my friends. If you are interested,please check our their webpage,www.americansprintcartour.com, or you can click on their link from our page,www.cae-engines.com Good luck to all, and God Bless Curt |
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Sprints at Shadyhill????:18:
That should be interesting. Good luck in fender land. |
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Provisionals???????????????
I wish you all nothing but the best..I mean that sincerely. BUT.....I've only seen one or two sprint cars with iron blocks in the last 5 years. I have 2 cars sitting in the garage right now. I'd love to race with you guys. I have aluminum blocks. They'll sit, probably, for another year. Too bad you did not make any allowance for alum blocks. When alum motors were first out, you had to carry (2) 50 lb weights. Why didn't you do something like this? Anybody that would want to race with you, to get the experience, will have to buy an iron block motor. Then, if they want to go race anywhere else, and be competitive, they'll have to buy another motor. I don't see any economy in that. Seems like you're closing off your field to a significant majority of the existing sprint cars already out there. Iron blocks only seems like a niche market inside of an already small niche market. |
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Originally Posted by Danny Burton: |
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Originally Posted by Danny Burton: The promoter had indicated that the promoter before him, had installed them there, a few years before he took possession of the track. This guy was even willing to possibly help with building some catch fence before the lights, but they are sooo close to the track, that that wouldn't work either. Then add the fact that it is a looong and steep way down, if you go over the wall (no catch fence) in turn 1! We truly just felt that it would not be to safe of an enviroment for Sprint Cars. I want to reiterate that the promoter is great guy, the track in itself is just fine, but it is my opinion that it is not a safe place to run open wheel cars. I also want to say that I am all for the steel block series, and wish I could help support it with a car :(, but that's just not in the cards for us at the moment. If whoever is running the series has not visited the racetrack, you should. Unless something has changed in the last 2 years, the chances of a car meeting one of these poles, or landing in a creek that is a long way down over turn 1, are very real. Thanks for reading ---------- Post added at 05:57 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:29 PM ---------- Take a look here: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sour...03895&t=h&z=18 You can see the pole locations from the shadows. You can't really tell how big the drop off (turn 1) is by the pic, but I promise you that it is significant. |
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Originally Posted by Crankin: |
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Here is a small portion of the tracks that we are close to signing or talking to.
Indiana tracks-Montpelier, Shady Hill, Chandler, Paragon, Gas City, Terre Haute, Putnamville, Illinois tracks- Spoon River, Charleston, Jacksonville, Farmer City, Lincoln, Granit City, Flora, Macon, Fairbury, Freeport, Highland, Kankakee, Lasalle, Danville. Kentucky-Windyhollow, Soggybottoms, Bardstown, Ponderosa, Western Ky, Ky Lake, Paducah, Richmond, Florence, Wisconsin tracks-Wilmont. Michigan tracks- Butler, Hartford, ThunderBird, Ohio tracks- Moler, Skyline, K.C, Portsmouth, Peebles, Lima, Millstream, Midway, TN tracks- Clarksville. Please forgive my spelling I did this in a hurry. JOHN GURLEY GURLEY MOTORSPORTS INC. AMERICAN SPRINT CAR TOUR INC. |
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Originally Posted by john3g: |
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Originally Posted by nathans1012: The last time they ran Sprint Cars there, the lights were inside the track. Got that info from the guy who won the race, Ray Kenens, and the promoter. John, as also mentioned, was willing to "help" by putting up SOME catch fencing, but he certainly wasn't going to do the whole track... AS WOULD BE NEEDED!.. Way too costly Either way, AS ALSO MENTIONED, the fence would not be effective for stopping a car from getting into a pole, as the poles are too close to the racing surface! It MIGHT deflect a car going down the backstrech, but it certainly would not do anything at the entrance to either turns 1 or 3. |
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Originally Posted by nathans1012: This is just my personal opinion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1YW1axGorU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H4fBIpe0Zk |
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