[jozzy11]

I don't know. I may have become an old curmudgeon, but the feature Wednesday night seemed more like a demolition derby wanna be, with a few exceptions. I guess I am too old school in some ways from a time when a slide job was a dirty word. They are fine when they work right but so many times if the person being passed doesn't cram on the brakes it turns into a mess. I disagree with Justin Grant when he says that the responsibility for not crashing during a slide job is on the person being passed. To me, if you can't complete a slide job cleanly you are just reckless. If a driver is able to clear another driver and not interfere with the other driver, they are great. Just my opinion and I am sure a lot of people will disagree with an old curmudgeon.

[Rpracing1]

Originally Posted by jozzy11 I don't know. I may have become an old curmudgeon, but the feature Wednesday night seemed more like a demolition derby wanna be, with a few exceptions. I guess I am too old school in some ways from a time when a slide job was a dirty word. They are fine when they work right but so many times if the person being passed doesn't cram on the brakes it turns into a mess. I disagree with Justin Grant when he says that the responsibility for not crashing during a slide job is on the person being passed. To me, if you can't complete a slide job cleanly you are just reckless. If a driver is able to clear another driver and not interfere with the other driver, they are great. Just my opinion and I am sure a lot of people will disagree with an old curmudgeon.

This old curmudgeon gets it. 100%. From another Ofer.

[jdull99]

A few months ago, I watched the last few laps of the 2002 Chili Bowl. GREAT 3-car battle between Tony, Doty, & Kruseman. Not a slide job that I recall. I'd like to still call it the modern era, but it was certainly a different style of racing...just over two decades ago. I thought it was a great time in racing. Seemed like slide jobs were more as jozzy11 described them...