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Originally Posted by Revolution Racing
The short answer is that it DOES work. Or at the very least, it CAN work. This applies equally to Midgets, by the way. Now, the longer answer (there is ALWAYS a 'longer answer'), is that it would change some things, and if there is one thing that Sprint cars guys - and especially Midget guys - just don't do well with, it's change. Salem and Winchester were mentioned earlier in this thread. If sprinters went to a combo formula, those would be two tracks that would be off the menu for sure. Look at it this way, the reason that the pavement car evolved was so that we could run on larger and larger tracks. Sprinters at Salem, Midgets at Phoenix... man I love watching that stuff but if we went to a combo formula we'd be watching pavement shows on 1/3 mile tracks or smaller.
Don't forget about what has happened in the engine compartment over the last couple of decades - power is way up today compared to the combo car days. This also adds a lot to the equation.
I guess what I'm saying all boils down to this - If our choice is to say goodbye to pavement racing, or just to say goddbye to it on all of those big, beautiful and incredibly dangerous tracks, my vote is to keep pavement alive. One way to do that would be to bring back the combo car, and run short tracks. Its pretty clear that nobody has an appetite for slowing down the engines at the top levels (myself included), so this may be the best option we have.
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Restrict the engines back to 1990's numbers then...was a "golden era" for those of us born b4 the 70s...
ARCA has rules for their stock cars to be very close to pavement cars I believe? For dirt AND road coarses...
Guess now we know why that last date was maybe cancelled this fall???