I raced there when it was paved and raced there when it was dirt, never got excited about going to this place. Way out in the boonies, just farm land and not many people. No big deal that this track...
The people that left early never left because of a bad show. They left because of the cold. Some people just never dressed for the cold as all of the hot weather we have had lately who would have...
Back in the day you drew a number for your heats and if you drew a big number you had to race hard to make the feature. Then along came USAC with qualifying with nothing but a stopwatch for getting...
I was there and Trammell dove a perfect race. Robert Ballou had fast time when he qualified, which was a track record. I think we will be hearing more about Trammell in the future.
The engines in sprint cars on dirt also depend on slowing down with the compression when going into the corners. With all of my racing experience I've found that engines with lots of power are not as...
There are many races coming up paying big money. Is there enough race cars for any of these tracks to have a full field of racers. Also is there enough paying race fans for all of these tracks to...
Most tracks take too much time between races. So, they have 8 classes and the racing can be done quickly if they only have heats and features. With 8 classes maybe one heat and feature for each...
Back in the day in my area there was Bloomington and Paragon, both had good car counts and lots of people came to watch. Then along came Lincoln Park and Paragons trouble started with low car counts...
Back in the day there was no such thing as counties or towns having an ambulance service. The tracks bought their own ambulance and hired a driver with some medical experience.
I don't like saying the bad word (RAIN) but it does not loo0k good for tonights race. The forcast is for thunder strorms most all day. Maybe they will know by noon.
(A track trying to run their business and make money running a race the same night as another track. If their event sucks, no one shows up. If it offers value, then customers attend.) I went and it...
The Sprints are just too safe to race, the real reason for so many racers. Back in the day more than enough race cars was almost unheard of. As I remember if 15 racers showed up it was one good show...
Lots of people look at Indiana Open Wheel to see who is racing and when the week before the weekend. There was nothing posted about Paragon last week. I was wandering why Paragon don't use this...
With Lincoln Park racing Sunday they should have an overflow of Sprints as no one else is racing. Sundays forecast is 60 degrees and sunny.
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The days of building a new racetrack are gone, just too many people against anything like a racetrack. Back in the day like in the fifties and sixties you could build anything you wanted to build...
Once these diehard fans of big track racing see the non-wing sprint cars racing on the 1/4 and 3/8 mile tracks with all of the racing action they don't go back to the big tracks. Racing is changing...
Back in the day the fair board thought they had a good promoter with the banker. The improvements to the racetrack were being done as needed. That was until they found out that what it cost for the...
Back in the day USAC ran only 1/2-mile tracks, so the engines they ran were 1/2-mile engines built to run 1/2-mile tracks. The engines now are 1/4- and 3/8-mile engines that won't last on a 1/2. It...
No rain all week except for Friday, a few showers. No rain on Saturday, just cool. Saturdays weather-48 degrees, 24% chance of rain. Wind WNW 13 mph. It looks like a race could happen. Dress like you...
