Originally Posted by SHORTBUS:
HEY TRENT,
GOT HOME AT 1:30.BEEN WATCHING THE WINGED WIENIES.ALL CRYING ABOUT HOW UNSAFE THE TRACK WAS AFTER THAT BUSTED THERE BUTTS TO MAKE THIS SHOW WORK.HAD TO BEG THEM TO RUN IS WHAT I HEARD.AND NO THEY WOULD NOT COME OUT AND HELP RUN THE TRACK IN.THEY ALL WANTED TO GO BACK HOME. :loser: :loser:
During the time when the track crew were working the asses off getting the winged drivers a track that was to their liking, about an hour and a half before they were actually out there on the track, the opportunity came to do some Non-Wing conversion, with a few of the frustrated wing devotees that were surrounding us. The point on the table was "Right now, if you gave us drivers like Robert Ballou, Jesse Hockett, Jon Stanbrough, Daron Clayton, Levi Jones, Hunter Schuerenberg, Dickie Gaines, etc., instead of sitting here wondering whether or not we were going to race or not, these guys would have already ran this thing in and you'd be watching racing." There was no real argument from these guys. Just agreement that that would be nicer than the current situation was.
Again, Novotney, Wolfe and their crew put in a Herculean effort to get this thing to where it could be run and DHK even went to the lengths of getting the city to give them a curfew extension, just so this huge crowd of people could see the show they came to see. And when it was ready, man did Tim Shaffer ever put a beatdown on the entire field. The Bloomington Speedway 4th of July race is where we would have rather been, but this turned out to be a pretty good Plan B. Better than I expected.
Jerry
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Winston Churchill