It is not about the Burg, it is 100% about USAC. 70 cars in Indiana have a yearly budget of about $50,000. Going up against USAC cars with $500,000 to $1,000,000 budgets is hard. Why go to a race...
That was crew failure, not nut failure. I tighten my axle nuts every time it goes on the track whether I loosened them or not. 44 years, never lost an axle nut.
Occasional top heavy purses really screws a tracks loyal racers. A few top guys come to cherry pick and the local guy that was getting 8th and $400 is now getting 11th and $250. :7::21:
Having non-wing as a support class is a stupid suggestion for 2 reasons. The first is that the classes of cars like two different tracks. Wings like it drier and non-wing like it wetter. The wings go...
You can not just show up to a NASCAR race, although easier than F1, you still have to have their approval of the equipment and Brett Bodine has to approve the driver. If you don't have any "narrow...
I was listening to the competition meeting when they brought up the weight rule. Soooo, you have to add weight to make the minimum. You also spend thousands on titanium bolts and carbon fiber seats...
Question: Why do big paying races get less cars?
Answer: Lack of purse clarity. Sure there are two sprint car races in the state of indiana in the next two weeks that pay $20K each to the winner....
1. You turn them back in every time you buy a drum of fuel.
2. You keep them and refill them at places that sell methanol out of a fuel pump. This is the cheaper option.
I think it isn't they they don't like the track, their payout from 2nd on back does not break even. You have to win. $720 for a set of rears that you will wipe out.
Circle City Raceway has changed their schedule. They have taken virtually all of the "Local" Non-wing sprints off their schedule and put steel block sprints in place for some of them. They are going...
