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DAD (Offline)
  #21 4/7/16 2:12 PM
Originally Posted by Kellen Conover:
The lap times were the same, but you are also talking about a car that once you pulled out on the track you didn't lift as compared to one you had to. While I preferred the old track, it did race much larger than it was.

That being said and more to the point of the original post, i'm surprised that more people didn't contact Mr. Tobias when going the D2 route, seems like he has an entire bolt in/proven engine package there. I enjoy watching the Speedstr videos online.
Kellen

Now you went and told the rest of the story, those wings allowed flat out racing and we went just as fast in the turns as we did down the straits. The problem with that track was it was almost round when you got to the top and the turns and straightaway kind of blended together. Mini Sprints can still flat foot the big track too butt they just don't have enough HP to get up to Sprint Car speed.

Brownstown is another track that Mini Sprints can also approach Sprint Car lap times but that is for other reasons.

Honest Dad himself
Charles Nungester (Offline)
  #22 4/7/16 2:41 PM
Originally Posted by DAD:
Kellen

Now you went and told the rest of the story, those wings allowed flat out racing and we went just as fast in the turns as we did down the straits. The problem with that track was it was almost round when you got to the top and the turns and straightaway kind of blended together. Mini Sprints can still flat foot the big track too butt they just don't have enough HP to get up to Sprint Car speed.

Brownstown is another track that Mini Sprints can also approach Sprint Car lap times but that is for other reasons.

Honest Dad himself
With all due respect. Speed doesn't equal good racing anywhere in any class. The midgets sometimes out qualify the sprints at Eldora too, At least they can ride a cushion without dying for half a lap or run above it in some cases. Not saying the mini's can't have good racing but all out there running qualifying laps is not racing. I've seen it in all classes at some point. But on quarters and larger, Thats all I've ever seen in WINGED MINI SPRINTS.

On the smaller tracks where they have to lift, back it in, pull the left front, they can be cool.

THEY'LL never be shake the ground all you can do to control em Non Winged 410 sprint cars, with some moves like Tmez did in his heat from sixth to second in two laps last weekend. Like I said, put some tires in the middle of each end of the front straight at Burg and they'd probably put on a hell of a show. Tight corners and long straights. WOOHOO. As for old burg, new burg, Waynesfield. I honestly would rather watch puddles dry. No offense meant, but unless there was someone I knew or worked on the car myself. I can't get excited by em on a bigger track.

Any smaller type of car is going to be neat on a track like Action Track USA, That race I said I seen at Portsmouth OH on that narrow skinny 1/3rd mi. Gray play doh clay track, with straights so close they had a corner flagman on each end also ran a 410 All Star show that night. Keegan and others in a Winged Sprint there were flat out awesome to watch too. Totally backed in and wheel standing off the corners not flat footed straight as a arrow driving.

Charles Nungester
the visitor (Offline)
  #23 4/7/16 3:16 PM
Backitin...........The boy's in NY aren't a big fan of nonwing ......you could probably run with the Outlaw Midget Series ...I believe the lightning sprints have run with them before .
We will be trying to make the 4 wingless shows at Waynesfield .....thats all I know about that's even remotely close to us.........ARDC is letting lightning sprints run with them , but there is a wide HP gap there ..
And what did you do to be told not to come back ??????
Backitin (Offline)
  #24 4/7/16 3:37 PM
I used to be a bit crazy in my younger years, coming back from a speedway race in Quebec we decided to put on a fireworks show just short of the border. It didn't go well.
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Ty (Offline)
  #25 4/8/16 10:57 AM
I've seen the SpeedSTR's at both Grandview (1/3rd mile) and New Egypt (7/16ths mile) and both are too big for them to produce good racing. They are best when they are on 1/5th & 1/4th of a mile track as Kutztown and Path Valley are. Kutztown is a tad tight for the SpeedSTR's but most of the time they put on really good shows their.
Ty (Offline)
  #26 4/8/16 11:02 AM
Originally Posted by Charles Nungester:
You to youtube and check out Action Track USA. They run them and Non wing Micro 600s every week. I believe on Wednesday nights and have a packed house of cars and fans. Anyway some video of em is on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F4F_E6Z6X8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G37qvw-3jhU

Here is an updated video clip from the 2015 opener. The season is just over a month away from starting!
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