5:45PM Terre Haute

Joe Kidd
#31 7/5/08 2:07 PM

Originally Posted by Jerry Shaw:
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

Thats BS. They could have run Kokomo in a couple of weeks ago but the drivers decided and voted to go home. :rolleyes:

tonyj (Offline)
#32 7/5/08 2:20 PM

Winged wienies huh? Compare the lap times at any track of your choosing, & you might see why the need for a better surface. I like non wing racing, but can understand, & appreciate, the difference in the speed a winged car carries versus a traditional sprint car. Even Hockett said (on The Jackslash Show ) running his winged 360 makes him a better driver, because it is then easier to run slower with his non wing car. I'm amazed at the amount of people "hatin' on" the winged driver's....let's support SPRINT CAR racing, as a whole!

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