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Jerry Shaw (Offline)
  #119 6/14/13 3:18 PM
Originally Posted by bmemmer:
I got a answer to all the complaining. Tommy would of gotten it in and it would of been a better track. Lol. There ya goes guys this post deleted. have a great end to midget week while I'm stuck in florida missing all the racing.

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I know you're saying that in jest, but it brings up an interesting point. I've noticed with Midget Week shows that have sprints on the bill and also with the wing/non wing 410 sprint shows that I've been to in the past, is that when you put two high horsepower/rpm classes on the same show so many times you have a track hoping for the best, when it comes to keeping a good racing surface for the entire night. Especially the ones that don't have the mechanism in place to do a thorough, mid-show track rework. Tommy and the O' Connors are no doubt the best examples of track operators that can bring out the heavy artillery and take back a track from what mother nature or a whole pack of these machines can do to a racing surface. Gas City and Lawrenceburg will do a rework and now even Bloomington is giving it a shot.

And it's not an exact science, either. Look at Putnamville two years ago. The track pretty much looked the same and Clauson and Larson (and Brad Kuhn, too) went out and waged a classic war. One that people will talk about for years. And even as slick as that track ended up last night, you've got to admit, watching Larson walk the tightrope, lap after lap in turn 2 was pretty riveting. He didn't leave anything on the table. And Bell sure had to earn that one.

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