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Originally Posted by Lincoln Chapple
Weir had a perfect opportunity to give payback last night and chose not to. He is a good definition of true Indiana sprint car racing.
If you really pay attention over the years, and cut through some of the theatrics, I would challenge you to find a cleaner racer than T-Mez. He will push guys to there limits, but if he puts anyone in a bad spot, it is more himself than his competitors.
Ballou, Cottle, Cockrum, Darland, T-Mez, Weir, Westfall, Cummins, Bilbee, Mattox, Shuman, Short….need more of them to keep the true grit of traditional sprint car racing….less of the holding soda cans, same old interviews, and BS personalities. I suppose times change.
I hope young men with the talent of Bibent and Rogers lean toward acting more like the above men, then some of the “stars of usac”, for the future of the product to the general public.
Racers will sort it out, but always fun to throw out an opinion.
Everyone that straps in to these things are a badass in my book, but alot less of them are the same badasses outside the cockpit.
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I agree with a lot of what you are saying with the exception of a few things:
We complain as race fans about lower purses for non wing shows and why does wing get all the money? Well one major thing is a big corporate sponsors! Getting that big corporate sponsorship entails holding up soda cans and sometimes generic interviews. I’m not saying I like that but sometimes it’s just the way it goes.
I agree with your selection of drivers who are hard nosed but I’ve seen a majority of them make some pretty boneheaded moves on the track. I watched Robert ballou punt Levi Jones into the entrance of turn 1 during the 1st smackdown and I seriously thought Levi was hurt severely. I’ve seen good ol DD throw some really questionable sliders in the past as well. Point being: JG is my favorite driver. I’ve watched him when he first started in the Baldwin 5, hell I’ve even helped scrap some mud off the car and get it shined up for the feature when he was with Hery. JG threw a stupid slider that was really never gonna work and he shouldn’t have thrown it. Every great driver has thrown some questionable sliders in their career. Do somethings need to change? Absolutely. I’m not ready to burn my JG shirts just yet.