Originally Posted by treecitytornado:
People got tired of the King Winning all those races and championships for all those years too, but when you got your stuff together right and you are up on the wheel, it makes for a combination that is tough for anyone to beat.
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I would argue: that the best years of the WOO were when Stevie and Sammy would trade good slide jobs race after race for about a 15 yr period.
Sammy and Kevin on the front row? Seriously, it's time to change the lineup structure for the Chili Bowl. The worst racing surface, and worst race, that I've seen since I went there in 89'. They needed more track prep between more of the races.
I thinks its crazy how those 2 cars can hook up anywhere on the track.. nobody can even come close.. Larson was up front driving his ass off but they mean him down in no time..
The Swindell domination is preparation and skill, with maybe a speed secret or two thrown in the mix.
My beef with this years CB was track preparation. I've attended since the early 90's as a fan first and car owner more recently and never have I seen the track so poorly prepared. Tuesday night was the only decent racing surface when the A main rolled around. As the week progressed it got worse, up to the horrid tire eating mess for Saturday's A main.
I don't recall any serious track prep during the alphabets on Saturday which made some ugly races and ruined chances for advancement.
The track sucked after about 20 laps wish they would have took more time on track prep and not handing out awards, they have all kinds of time after the morning session to hand out those awards. They need to invert the top 12 (top 3 each night tues-fri) Sammy was just logging laps, he wasnt even trying to win, he was holding up the bottom after cautions for Kevin to pull away. I will say the place was ELECTRIC for the 1st 18 or so laps when Larson was trading sliders with the Swindells, the bleachers were shaking the crowd was going NUTS!!!
hey since the chilibowl only has body panel rules..why not set a weight rule for the midgets....i heard that swindells cars are 200lbs lighter than others
There is no magic in the Swindells cars, just light weight and a good setup. The weight advantage works out to about .1 sec for every 10 lbs. ( within reason, 200# won't make you 2 seconds quicker). But if your car is 50# heavier, that's a half second a lap. No way any driver or setup can make up that difference. I know that there are other flyweight cars there,but the drivers of those cars don't have the confidence that comes with Swindell domination so they probably try too hard.
In all my years off attending racing I've never let who was winning deter me from going to a track. I think of all those nights going to Lincoln Spedway knowing that there was a 75% chance of seeing Steve Smith Sr. or later Fred Rahmer win.
