Hats off to Eldora!

scottyCbus · 5/14/18, 7:44 AM

I was there both nights and Friday night sucked but Saturday night they redeemed themselves and put on an awesome show and it was done before the sun was even down. Schatz won the WoO both nights but Saturday Schuhart was right there if Donny would have made just even a little mistake but he didn't. The USAC feature Windom was leading the whole time but 2 thru 6th were battling and Sunshine was gaining on Windom but couldn't catch him. Overall for the price and just the shear fun you can have and I did for sure the Let's do Two weekend is hard to beat.

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Scott McCloskey " BunkHouse Gang"

brsteg · 5/14/18, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by scottyCbus

I was there both nights and Friday night sucked but Saturday night they redeemed themselves and put on an awesome show and it was done before the sun was even down. Schatz won the WoO both nights but Saturday Schuhart was right there if Donny would have made just even a little mistake but he didn't. The USAC feature Windom was leading the whole time but 2 thru 6th were battling and Sunshine was gaining on Windom but couldn't catch him. Overall for the price and just the shear fun you can have and I did for sure the Let's do Two weekend is hard to beat.

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Scott McCloskey " BunkHouse Gang"

I don't know what race you were at Friday but I saw good racing both nights at Eldora. I will give you that the USAC Heats Friday much more resembled winged car heat races, but the feature made up for that. Then Saturday was great not good racing in USAC.
Both WoO features were entertaining with Friday being their better race.

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Originally Posted by Dick Monahan

I just watched the video of Friday night's show. I think I heard the announcer say that the track has been reconfigured. Is that true? What have they done?

They haven't done anything over the winter as far as re-configuring the track. It was slightly re-configured in 2014, took at little of the lip off the top to even the lanes out some.

What they did do over the winter was plant winter wheat on the track. Apparently that helped get the PH level back where it needed to be so maybe it won't dust up as much now. (Place will still make some dust though; but last few years it's been VERY bad.) This info from the Open Red Podcast with Roger Slack, if I understood him correctly.

-To me it seemed the track held together much better than it had in last few years.

motorhead748 · 5/14/18, 2:34 PM

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Originally Posted by scottyCbus

I was there both nights and Friday night sucked but Saturday night they redeemed themselves and put on an awesome show and it was done before the sun was even down. Schatz won the WoO both nights but Saturday Schuhart was right there if Donny would have made just even a little mistake but he didn't. The USAC feature Windom was leading the whole time but 2 thru 6th were battling and Sunshine was gaining on Windom but couldn't catch him. Overall for the price and just the shear fun you can have and I did for sure the Let's do Two weekend is hard to beat.

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Scott McCloskey " BunkHouse Gang"

I was there both nites and thought both were good. Maybe even as good as I've seen there in a while.

i love dirt track racing · 5/14/18, 3:48 PM

Our racing family's had a great time. Nothing like seeing both woo /usac on a great weekend at Eldora. Have fun and enjoy all the great things that we all love. Thanks.

BrentTFunk · 5/14/18, 5:48 PM

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Originally Posted by scottyCbus

I was there both nights and Friday night sucked but Saturday night they redeemed themselves and put on an awesome show and it was done before the sun was even down. Schatz won the WoO both nights but Saturday Schuhart was right there if Donny would have made just even a little mistake but he didn't. The USAC feature Windom was leading the whole time but 2 thru 6th were battling and Sunshine was gaining on Windom but couldn't catch him. Overall for the price and just the shear fun you can have and I did for sure the Let's do Two weekend is hard to beat.

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Scott McCloskey " BunkHouse Gang"

I enjoyed both nights, but I thought Friday was a little better. Thought the track was as good as I have ever seen.

ChetC · 5/15/18, 12:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Dick Monahan

I just watched the video of Friday night's show. I think I heard the announcer say that the track has been reconfigured. Is that true? What have they done?

I was referencing the fact that the USAC track record, held by Jerry Coons Jr., dates back to (2006) before the track was “reconfigured” and some of the banking was removed.