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Sprint Week Points Battle - Who you got? (3) (484)
Posted By stp6237
Re: Sprint Week Points Battle - Who you got?
8/1/25, 12:37 PM
Being from PA and knowing the owners of #39 from my days of working with URC, go and get it Briggs Danner! Great racing all week long. Thank goodness for Flo Racing so I can watch all of the USAC...
Terre Haute (24) (2,976)
Posted By stp6237
Re: Terre Haute
8/1/25, 12:24 PM
That is why non wing sprint car racing is much better than wing racing especially on a full half mile racetrack. Being from Pennsylvania I have seen many wing races at Williams Grove, Port Royal,...
Site Issues (9) (3,152)
Posted By stp6237
Re: Site Issues
7/14/25, 5:22 PM
I was having all sorts of issues with IOW for a period of time. Took way too long to load, could not go past page 2 in multi-page posts. However, it took longer to type in indianiaopenwheel.com...
USAC East Coast Sprint Cars - 2025 Schedule (1) (11,763)
Posted By stp6237
Re: USAC East Coast Sprint Cars - 2025 Schedule
12/31/24, 3:14 PM
Thanks for posting
Sticky: USAC National Tours - 2025 Combined Schedules (10) (91,545)
Posted By stp6237
Re: USAC National Tours - 2025 Combined Schedules
12/31/24, 2:58 PM
Wow, thanks for posting this. What a list!
Sticky: USAC National Tours - 2025 Combined Schedules (10) (91,545)
Posted By stp6237
Re: USAC National Tours - 2025 Combined Schedules
12/26/24, 4:21 PM
Thank you for posting, BEST POST 0F THE YEAR, as always!
OT: RIP bloomquist (18) (4,454)
Posted By stp6237
Re: OT: RIP bloomquist
8/16/24, 11:20 AM
Sad news, Rest in peace
Flo Racing Issues (7) (2,442)
Posted By stp6237
Re: Flo Racing Issues
7/19/24, 7:04 AM
I got home from taking my wife to the movies at 8:50, took 10 minutes to load on my computer, and then starting buffering like crazy. Actually caused my computer to freeze up during 1st yellow flag...
Usac: Port royal usac silver crown results: June 15, 2024 (4) (2,490)
Posted By stp6237
Re: Usac: Port royal usac silver crown results: June 15, 202
6/16/24, 1:19 PM
Now we need USAC Eastern Storm for Silver Crown cars. Williams Grove on a Friday, Port Royal on Saturday, and Selinsgrove on Sunday. Need for the tracks to promote the event, not to just organize...
RIP Former Eldora & Gas City Promoter Jerry Gappens (15) (4,122)
Posted By stp6237
Re: RIP Former Eldora & Gas City Promoter Jerry Gappens
5/30/24, 12:40 PM
I had the pleasure of getting to know Jerry when he was working at National Speed Sport News when I was shooting for the paper. When the paper was still in Ridgewood, New Jersey I would meet up with...
Usac: Sunday’s kokomo gp called off due to rain (10) (3,902)
Posted By stp6237
Re: Usac: Sunday’s kokomo gp called off due to rain
4/28/24, 10:35 AM
Nuts!
USAC announces Jason Smith as new president (15) (5,575)
Posted By stp6237
Re: USAC announces Jason Smith as new president
4/12/24, 8:57 AM
I have always felt that if I owned a race car I would race where the purse was the highest for 4th, 5th and 6th. There can only be one winner who may get $10,000, but in many cases these "front...
Iow slow? (54) (11,778)
Posted By stp6237
Re: Iow slow?
3/29/24, 9:02 AM
Also slow here in Philadelphia, PA area, but I don't have my school van runs back until Tuesday so I have time to wait. So far no issue with Flo and there are a few races I plan to watch tonight and...
Lessons on Promotion (22) (6,284)
Posted By stp6237
Re: Lessons on Promotion
2/24/24, 2:12 PM
In the old days of open wheel racing there we true promoters, not race organizers. I grew up in Columbia, PA in Western Lancaster county which put the family within one to one half hour drive to...
Photo Identification (19) (5,091)
Posted By stp6237
Re: Photo Identification
12/28/23, 5:32 PM
Who ever it is, and where ever it is, it is one beautiful racecar, excellent photo and a its a dirt track that has a cushion. That boys and girls is what racing should be all about. I know we can't...
Silver Crown at WWTR (10) (3,575)
Posted By stp6237
Re: Silver Crown at WWTR
8/26/23, 3:15 PM
Richie, thank you for the update. I thought it might be wrong on Flo's schedule especially when I saw the promo for the event on Flo during last night Smackdown broadcast. Thank again Richie
Silver Crown at WWTR (10) (3,575)
Posted By stp6237
Re: Silver Crown at WWTR
8/26/23, 2:31 PM
So the big question is, is the race on flo at 7:00 AM or rebroadcast on tape delay at 7:00 PM. Trying to get my day organized around church and racing. Thanks
Prayers For Carson (30) (8,645)
Posted By stp6237
Re: Prayers For Carson
6/14/23, 9:21 AM
It all comes down to what are the requirements to get insurance coverage. When I worked with ARDC we raced at a few tracks in the south. At one track I was told that we could run our...
How many would attend? (24) (7,482)
Posted By stp6237
Re: How many would attend?
2/26/23, 10:48 AM
With winged cars and only one division, the track does not widen out. You need a support division OR qualifying laps before the heats will be more than what we saw on Thursday night at Lincoln. ...
SprintCarRatings.com : 410 Wing Track stats (17) (1,310)
Posted By stp6237
Re: SprintCarRatings.com : 410 Wing Track stats
1/20/23, 12:08 AM
Wow! Great stats, How long did it take you to do all of this? It will take me a few days to digest all of this info, thanks for your effort!
Bloomington (59) (19,155)
Posted By stp6237
Re: Bloomington
9/6/22, 11:40 AM
I live in PA and enjoy going to Bloomington and LPS when we come out to Indiana for the 500 we usually hit at least one of the tracks if not both. This year we went to IRP on Friday because of the...
As the dust settles (19) (5,659)
Posted By stp6237
Re: As the dust settles
8/2/22, 1:19 PM
I have said in the past that the first thing I was going to do when I retired, was to go to Indiana Sprint Week. Well, dang it I retired as a teacher in 2016, and I still have not gone out for the...
Gas city (83) (26,915)
Posted By stp6237
Re: Gas city
7/23/22, 10:10 AM
We have a saying here in PA about fences between combatants that goes; "The bigger the fence, the braver the dog!" A while back at Williams Grove, Kramer Williamson took out Allen Klinger during a...
So is there a real, lasting tire option for full up sprints? (37) (9,297)
Posted By stp6237
Re: So is there a real, lasting tire option for full up spri
4/16/22, 9:39 AM
I am not an economics professor, but in my opinion, the fact that Continental now owns the Hoosier brand, along several other brands, Hoosier is now more beholding to the stockholders of Continental...
Will your schedule change? (98) (20,284)
Posted By stp6237
Re: Will your schedule change?
3/8/22, 10:25 AM
I live in the Philadelphia, PA suburb area in Montgomery County. The closest tracks to me are Grandview in PA and Bridgeport and New Egypt in NJ. All three main attraction are NE type modifieds,...