dpkimmel2001
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Okay, not really racing. Practicing. Gates open @ 1:00pm and you know who will be first in line.
Haulers lined up to enter.
Haulers lined up to enter.
Eldora - Let's go racing
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Kenny Schrader has arrived. Well, his truck anyway. 
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Eldora dirt race big for drivers
FOX Sports MEGAN ENGLEHART
Updated Jul 22, 2013 12:33 AM ET
The most anticipated NASCAR race in years isn’t the one immediately following a near-brawl between two hotheaded drivers.
It’s not the championship-deciding season finale, and it won’t be contested at a sparkling-new speedway in a major U.S. city or media market. Instead, the landmark event is a return to NASCAR’s roots with an old-fashioned roll in the dirt — a race that marks NASCAR’s first trip to a dirt track in more than four decades and one in which absolutely no one knows quite what to expect.
The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series stages its first-ever race on dirt on Wednesday, July 24 at Eldora Speedway (LIVE on SPEED at 9:30 p.m. ET; NCWTS Setup with Krista Voda at 9 p.m. ET), a half-mile oval track owned by three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Tony Stewart.
“With Sprint Cup Series drivers like Ryan Newman and dirt-track ‘ringers’ like Scott Bloomquist on the entry list, this is not just another race,” said Voda, NASCAR on FOX/SPEED host. “The championship implications and overall hype surrounding this event are huge. Drivers like Jeff Gordon and Clint Bowyer, who aren't even in the race, are making plans to be there. Eldora is the talk of the sport.”
Truck Series teams are taking the CarCash Mudsummer Classic every bit as seriously as the fans who sold it out. Most of the series frontrunners tested their truck on dirt once in the past month. Ty Dillon, on the other hand, put his truck through the paces twice, on top of dozens of past dirt Late Model and dirt Modified races, numerous wins and a couple of championships.
Others who have taken preparation for Eldora to the next level are Matt Crafton, who went the route of racing dirt Modifieds the past few months, and Joey Coulter, who started running a dirt Super Late Model last year and also has competed in four ARCA Racing Series dirt races.
Logic would suggest drivers with this type of experience would have the upper hand, but those who fall into that category contend that knowledge won’t readily transfer from a car to a truck.
“They’re quite a bit different,” Dillon said. “The suspension is so much different. You don’t have as much travel in a truck, so you can’t really drive them as hard. You have to have a little more finesse in a truck, and you don’t have as much to lean on with all the moving parts a dirt Late Model has as far as suspension is concerned.”
“The suspension on dirt cars is built to make them get into the race track when it goes real slick,” said Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Menards Toyota. “Trucks don’t have all that goofy rear steering that dirt cars have to make them have the grip they have in the back. These trucks are built to go in circles and be on asphalt, and the suspension isn’t really made for dirt running.”
“Dirt is a lot less predictable than asphalt and there (are) about 100 different ways that the staff at Eldora can prep the track, making it different from what we tested on,” said Coulter, driver of the No. 18 Darrell Gwynn Foundation Toyota. “The one thing I learned is how difficult it’s going to be to race on a surface that is so hard-packed and that slick.”
“Dirt-track speeds change so much depending on the conditions,” said Dillon, driver of the No. 3 Bass Pro Shops/Tracker Chevrolet. “Being able to know what you have to do to drive differently as far as the track slowing down or speeding up — due to it either drying out or getting more moisture in it — is important.”
“I saw what two trucks and two Late Models did to the track in the space of a couple hours (at a test), so I think it’s going to be impossible to keep a wet, tacky racetrack," said Johnny Sauter, driver of the No. 98 Carolina Nut/Curb Records Toyota. "I think when you get 30 trucks weighing 3,400 pounds piling around on the dirt, you just won’t be able to keep it a wet, tacky race track. We’ll beat the moisture out of it pretty quickly— you’re gonna have a dry-slick condition and he who can slide in a controlled slide the longest and has the most grip is gonna kick everybody’s butt.”
What is obvious, though, is that excluding the dirt-racing regulars entered in the event, Dillon is the hands-down favorite among his peers.
"I know there is a truck with a ‘3’ on the side of it, and I know they’ve been testing,” Crafton said. “That dirt Late Model team is putting a lot of emphasis on making their truck go fast, so they definitely have the upper hand.”
“A guy like Ty Dillon, who continues to race on dirt, will have the best shot at winning,” said Brennan Newberry, driver of the No. 24 Qore-24 Chevrolet. “Some of the dirt ‘ringers’ will not be as good as you might think because they lack truck experience. Other than Ty, I would put (Ken) Schrader towards the top of the list.”
“As far as regulars, Ty Dillon has a lot of dirt experience, probably more than anybody else in the championship hunt,” said James Buescher, the reigning Truck Series champion. “You expect him to run well and he’s been to Eldora before with dirt Late Models.”
But the four-time champion in the group views the scales as tipped in the veterans’ favor.
“I always think I am the favorite to win,” said Hornaday, driver of the No. 9 Smokey Mountain Herbal Snuff/Anderson’s Maple Syrup Chevrolet. “Other than me, Ken Schrader will have a really good opportunity to win because of his dirt experience, truck experience and history of running ARCA cars on dirt.”
No one discounts the dirt “ringers’” capabilities, although some doubt whether they’ll adapt to a vehicle so foreign to them fast enough to beat the truck regulars to Victory Lane.
“There’s going to be some ‘ringers’ out there that are racing dirt all the time but yet aren’t really familiar with the Truck Series,” Townley said. “I think they’re going to struggle, too, because when I got into the truck, I just had gotten right out of the Late Model and oh, man … ”
The ever-modest Dillon, currently fourth in points, sheepishly acknowledges Eldora presents a golden opportunity to make up valuable ground in the championship.
“I’d like to think we have a great chance of winning,” he said. “It’s going to be a wild race. It’s going to be a difficult race, especially with a lot of guys who don’t have much dirt experience. Survival is going to be key to that race, and hopefully we are the favorite.”
However, those sporting a dirt-racing “yellow stripe” at Eldora aren’t waving the white flag against the Goliaths of the dirt.
“I think they’re going to be ahead of everyone, but at the same time, this is a whole different machine than they’re used to,” said Timothy Peters, driver of the No. 17 Parts Plus Toyota said. “So as far as being equal driving-wise, I think we’ll all be close. But where the leg up is, is they may have a little trick up their sleeve to make an adjustment that might help them a little quicker.”
“I caught on really fast and I kept up with (teammate) Kyle Larson and he races dirt every week,” Jeb Burton said. “He was definitely still a little better, but I was halfway decent there at the end, and that’s kind of what I’m going off of.”
If there is one key to success given all the unknowns, drivers say it boils down to emerging with the truck in one piece.
“Just to survive. It’s just going to be to finish,” Peters said. “There are so many variables that you can write a four-page letter on them, but it won’t matter until you hit the track the first time. If you can complete all the laps, you’ll have a good finish.”
“You just need to survive,” said Burton, who pilots the No. 4 Arrowhead Chevrolet. “I think there will be a lot of spinouts. If you spin out, then it’s probably going to kill you in the points. I think if you just keep it in a straight line, you’ll be fine.”
However, being “fine” and actually gaining ground in the championship point standings at Eldora could be two entirely different things.
“The different format will be the biggest curveball, I think — not so much the dirt versus pavement,” said Buescher, third in points. “The format — not having a lot of pit stops and those kinds of things — will have a bigger effect on the outcome of the race than being on dirt versus pavement.”
“Oh, it’s going to be huge,” points leader Crafton said. “Without a doubt, we’re going there to win the race, but we have to survive. Survival is going to be very, very big for us. It’s going to be for everybody.”
Following Eldora, coverage of the complete 2013 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season continues on SPEED on Aug. 3 from Pocono Raceway (1 p.m. ET), and beginning Aug. 17, on FOX Sports 1, America’s new sports network from Michigan International Speedway (12:30 p.m. ET).
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Eldora dirt race big for drivers
FOX Sports MEGAN ENGLEHART
Updated Jul 22, 2013 12:33 AM ET
The most anticipated NASCAR race in years isn’t the one immediately following a near-brawl between two hotheaded drivers.
It’s not the championship-deciding season finale, and it won’t be contested at a sparkling-new speedway in a major U.S. city or media market. Instead, the landmark event is a return to NASCAR’s roots with an old-fashioned roll in the dirt — a race that marks NASCAR’s first trip to a dirt track in more than four decades and one in which absolutely no one knows quite what to expect.
The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series stages its first-ever race on dirt on Wednesday, July 24 at Eldora Speedway (LIVE on SPEED at 9:30 p.m. ET; NCWTS Setup with Krista Voda at 9 p.m. ET), a half-mile oval track owned by three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Tony Stewart.
“With Sprint Cup Series drivers like Ryan Newman and dirt-track ‘ringers’ like Scott Bloomquist on the entry list, this is not just another race,” said Voda, NASCAR on FOX/SPEED host. “The championship implications and overall hype surrounding this event are huge. Drivers like Jeff Gordon and Clint Bowyer, who aren't even in the race, are making plans to be there. Eldora is the talk of the sport.”
Truck Series teams are taking the CarCash Mudsummer Classic every bit as seriously as the fans who sold it out. Most of the series frontrunners tested their truck on dirt once in the past month. Ty Dillon, on the other hand, put his truck through the paces twice, on top of dozens of past dirt Late Model and dirt Modified races, numerous wins and a couple of championships.
Others who have taken preparation for Eldora to the next level are Matt Crafton, who went the route of racing dirt Modifieds the past few months, and Joey Coulter, who started running a dirt Super Late Model last year and also has competed in four ARCA Racing Series dirt races.
Logic would suggest drivers with this type of experience would have the upper hand, but those who fall into that category contend that knowledge won’t readily transfer from a car to a truck.
“They’re quite a bit different,” Dillon said. “The suspension is so much different. You don’t have as much travel in a truck, so you can’t really drive them as hard. You have to have a little more finesse in a truck, and you don’t have as much to lean on with all the moving parts a dirt Late Model has as far as suspension is concerned.”
“The suspension on dirt cars is built to make them get into the race track when it goes real slick,” said Crafton, driver of the No. 88 Menards Toyota. “Trucks don’t have all that goofy rear steering that dirt cars have to make them have the grip they have in the back. These trucks are built to go in circles and be on asphalt, and the suspension isn’t really made for dirt running.”
“Dirt is a lot less predictable than asphalt and there (are) about 100 different ways that the staff at Eldora can prep the track, making it different from what we tested on,” said Coulter, driver of the No. 18 Darrell Gwynn Foundation Toyota. “The one thing I learned is how difficult it’s going to be to race on a surface that is so hard-packed and that slick.”
“Dirt-track speeds change so much depending on the conditions,” said Dillon, driver of the No. 3 Bass Pro Shops/Tracker Chevrolet. “Being able to know what you have to do to drive differently as far as the track slowing down or speeding up — due to it either drying out or getting more moisture in it — is important.”
“I saw what two trucks and two Late Models did to the track in the space of a couple hours (at a test), so I think it’s going to be impossible to keep a wet, tacky racetrack," said Johnny Sauter, driver of the No. 98 Carolina Nut/Curb Records Toyota. "I think when you get 30 trucks weighing 3,400 pounds piling around on the dirt, you just won’t be able to keep it a wet, tacky race track. We’ll beat the moisture out of it pretty quickly— you’re gonna have a dry-slick condition and he who can slide in a controlled slide the longest and has the most grip is gonna kick everybody’s butt.”
What is obvious, though, is that excluding the dirt-racing regulars entered in the event, Dillon is the hands-down favorite among his peers.
"I know there is a truck with a ‘3’ on the side of it, and I know they’ve been testing,” Crafton said. “That dirt Late Model team is putting a lot of emphasis on making their truck go fast, so they definitely have the upper hand.”
“A guy like Ty Dillon, who continues to race on dirt, will have the best shot at winning,” said Brennan Newberry, driver of the No. 24 Qore-24 Chevrolet. “Some of the dirt ‘ringers’ will not be as good as you might think because they lack truck experience. Other than Ty, I would put (Ken) Schrader towards the top of the list.”
“As far as regulars, Ty Dillon has a lot of dirt experience, probably more than anybody else in the championship hunt,” said James Buescher, the reigning Truck Series champion. “You expect him to run well and he’s been to Eldora before with dirt Late Models.”
But the four-time champion in the group views the scales as tipped in the veterans’ favor.
“I always think I am the favorite to win,” said Hornaday, driver of the No. 9 Smokey Mountain Herbal Snuff/Anderson’s Maple Syrup Chevrolet. “Other than me, Ken Schrader will have a really good opportunity to win because of his dirt experience, truck experience and history of running ARCA cars on dirt.”
No one discounts the dirt “ringers’” capabilities, although some doubt whether they’ll adapt to a vehicle so foreign to them fast enough to beat the truck regulars to Victory Lane.
“There’s going to be some ‘ringers’ out there that are racing dirt all the time but yet aren’t really familiar with the Truck Series,” Townley said. “I think they’re going to struggle, too, because when I got into the truck, I just had gotten right out of the Late Model and oh, man … ”
The ever-modest Dillon, currently fourth in points, sheepishly acknowledges Eldora presents a golden opportunity to make up valuable ground in the championship.
“I’d like to think we have a great chance of winning,” he said. “It’s going to be a wild race. It’s going to be a difficult race, especially with a lot of guys who don’t have much dirt experience. Survival is going to be key to that race, and hopefully we are the favorite.”
However, those sporting a dirt-racing “yellow stripe” at Eldora aren’t waving the white flag against the Goliaths of the dirt.
“I think they’re going to be ahead of everyone, but at the same time, this is a whole different machine than they’re used to,” said Timothy Peters, driver of the No. 17 Parts Plus Toyota said. “So as far as being equal driving-wise, I think we’ll all be close. But where the leg up is, is they may have a little trick up their sleeve to make an adjustment that might help them a little quicker.”
“I caught on really fast and I kept up with (teammate) Kyle Larson and he races dirt every week,” Jeb Burton said. “He was definitely still a little better, but I was halfway decent there at the end, and that’s kind of what I’m going off of.”
If there is one key to success given all the unknowns, drivers say it boils down to emerging with the truck in one piece.
“Just to survive. It’s just going to be to finish,” Peters said. “There are so many variables that you can write a four-page letter on them, but it won’t matter until you hit the track the first time. If you can complete all the laps, you’ll have a good finish.”
“You just need to survive,” said Burton, who pilots the No. 4 Arrowhead Chevrolet. “I think there will be a lot of spinouts. If you spin out, then it’s probably going to kill you in the points. I think if you just keep it in a straight line, you’ll be fine.”
However, being “fine” and actually gaining ground in the championship point standings at Eldora could be two entirely different things.
“The different format will be the biggest curveball, I think — not so much the dirt versus pavement,” said Buescher, third in points. “The format — not having a lot of pit stops and those kinds of things — will have a bigger effect on the outcome of the race than being on dirt versus pavement.”
“Oh, it’s going to be huge,” points leader Crafton said. “Without a doubt, we’re going there to win the race, but we have to survive. Survival is going to be very, very big for us. It’s going to be for everybody.”
Following Eldora, coverage of the complete 2013 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season continues on SPEED on Aug. 3 from Pocono Raceway (1 p.m. ET), and beginning Aug. 17, on FOX Sports 1, America’s new sports network from Michigan International Speedway (12:30 p.m. ET).
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Track conditions may decide who wins Eldora
July 22, 2013, David Caraviello, NASCAR.com
Depending on how conditions play out, the victory could go to a dirt veteran or rookie
When Tony Stewart and Austin Dillon tested NASCAR race trucks last fall at Eldora Speedway, they experienced both extremes of the half-mile dirt oval. The first day the track was wet, the surface was rough, and the vehicles were wide open. The second day the track was dry, the surface was hard and slick, and the trucks wanted to spin out on every lap.
Such are the unknowns at Eldora, which on Wednesday night will host a Camping World Truck Series event that will be NASCAR’s first national race on dirt in more than four decades. The field will feature a mix of dirt veterans, dirt ringers, and circuit regulars for whom the surface is as foreign as the moon. The track itself presents a huge variable that will likely force everyone -- even those for whom dirt is second nature -- to adapt.
That much was evident in the under-the-radar test last October at Eldora, where Stewart and Dillon shook down vehicles to see just how practical a race there might be. A little rain, and the conditions might play into the hands of the dirt experts. If it stays dry, the surface might perform much more like asphalt, opening the door for even a dirt-track rookie to potentially break through. As for which it might be -- not even experts on the subject know for certain.
“I don't know totally 100 percent what to expect,” Dillon said. “I was very lucky to be able to make some of the first laps at Eldora in a truck, and from my experience in dirt late model where you have a ton of grip and a ton of side bite, the truck is a heavy car with a smaller Goodyear tire that we're going to be running. So you're going to see a lot of guys sliding around out there. And as far as passing and stuff, I don't know what to expect. It's kind of determined by the track, how the track is run in, if it's going to be hard and slick. If it rains the day before, it could be wet and wide open, and you could see some wild stuff.”
This from a driver who started in dirt late models -- so just imagine what the learning curve will be like for someone more accustomed to pavement. Teams have a pair of practice sessions scheduled for Tuesday evening, and another Wednesday afternoon before a slate of six qualifying races that will set the stage for the main event. Only the top 20 trucks in owners’ points are locked into the 30-vehicle field, meaning the rest will have to race their way into the 150-lap feature.
“The heat races are definitely going to be wild for the guys that are trying to get in the race and slide-jobbing, and hopefully you see some of that stuff that dirt tracks are famous for,” Dillon said. “I think you will. It's just a matter of keeping everybody calm at the beginning to not have a ton of cautions, and making sure that the guys with less experience are talking to the guys that have some dirt experience out there.”
A regular on the Nationwide circuit, Dillon is one of several dirt-race specialists entered in the event -- a list that also includes dirt late model king Scott Bloomquist, NASCAR veterans Kenny Wallace and Ken Schrader, Sprint Cup Series driver Ryan Newman, rising Nationwide star Kyle Larson, and multiple-time Eldora winner Tracy Hines. For the Truck Series regulars more familiar with asphalt, Dillon said the keys will be to keep an open mind, ask questions, and watch drivers with more experience on the surface.
Series points leader Matt Crafton tried to get up to speed with a recent six-hour test session. Crafton raced some on dirt in his youth, and has competed in about 10 events this year in a dirt-modified car. But he knows he’ll still be playing catch-up to drivers like Austin Dillon and younger brother Ty, who cut their teeth in dirt late model cars fielded out of the Richard Childress Racing shop.
“It’s just about knowing how the track changes, and what it’s going to do,” Crafton said. “That’s the whole key. The whole RCR group, they’re (definitely going to have) an advantage because if you look at their shop, they have a late model dirt team. That’s definitely going to play into their hands. I’m not giving it to them by any means, but we better go in there swinging if we want to keep up with them.”
So much depends on the conditions. Stewart, who purchased the Eldora track in 2004, knows the surface will test many in the field. But the three-time Sprint Cup champion also believes they’ll adapt quickly, especially if the track stays dry and performs a little more like asphalt.
“I think it's going to be a big challenge for the teams and drivers. Obviously, (I) never ran the trucks on dirt. When we went and did the test there, we actually battled a little bit of weather ourselves. The track conditions were very, very sticky. But I think when the track slicks off there, it will slow the pace down a little bit, make it a little more comfortable for some of those guys,” said Stewart, who is not competing in the event.
“Even though it sounds like slicker would be more trouble, I think when the pace slows down due to a slick track like that, they'll run more like pavement. They'll run straighter through the corners and not sideways as much. But I think they'll enjoy it. It's a neat facility. … It gives you a lot of options of where you can go and what you can do. I think it gives those guys an opportunity. The practice day on Tuesday should help a lot of those teams be able to get acclimated before they come back to the track on Wednesday.”
Track conditions may decide who wins Eldora
July 22, 2013, David Caraviello, NASCAR.com
Depending on how conditions play out, the victory could go to a dirt veteran or rookie
When Tony Stewart and Austin Dillon tested NASCAR race trucks last fall at Eldora Speedway, they experienced both extremes of the half-mile dirt oval. The first day the track was wet, the surface was rough, and the vehicles were wide open. The second day the track was dry, the surface was hard and slick, and the trucks wanted to spin out on every lap.
Such are the unknowns at Eldora, which on Wednesday night will host a Camping World Truck Series event that will be NASCAR’s first national race on dirt in more than four decades. The field will feature a mix of dirt veterans, dirt ringers, and circuit regulars for whom the surface is as foreign as the moon. The track itself presents a huge variable that will likely force everyone -- even those for whom dirt is second nature -- to adapt.
That much was evident in the under-the-radar test last October at Eldora, where Stewart and Dillon shook down vehicles to see just how practical a race there might be. A little rain, and the conditions might play into the hands of the dirt experts. If it stays dry, the surface might perform much more like asphalt, opening the door for even a dirt-track rookie to potentially break through. As for which it might be -- not even experts on the subject know for certain.
“I don't know totally 100 percent what to expect,” Dillon said. “I was very lucky to be able to make some of the first laps at Eldora in a truck, and from my experience in dirt late model where you have a ton of grip and a ton of side bite, the truck is a heavy car with a smaller Goodyear tire that we're going to be running. So you're going to see a lot of guys sliding around out there. And as far as passing and stuff, I don't know what to expect. It's kind of determined by the track, how the track is run in, if it's going to be hard and slick. If it rains the day before, it could be wet and wide open, and you could see some wild stuff.”
This from a driver who started in dirt late models -- so just imagine what the learning curve will be like for someone more accustomed to pavement. Teams have a pair of practice sessions scheduled for Tuesday evening, and another Wednesday afternoon before a slate of six qualifying races that will set the stage for the main event. Only the top 20 trucks in owners’ points are locked into the 30-vehicle field, meaning the rest will have to race their way into the 150-lap feature.
“The heat races are definitely going to be wild for the guys that are trying to get in the race and slide-jobbing, and hopefully you see some of that stuff that dirt tracks are famous for,” Dillon said. “I think you will. It's just a matter of keeping everybody calm at the beginning to not have a ton of cautions, and making sure that the guys with less experience are talking to the guys that have some dirt experience out there.”
A regular on the Nationwide circuit, Dillon is one of several dirt-race specialists entered in the event -- a list that also includes dirt late model king Scott Bloomquist, NASCAR veterans Kenny Wallace and Ken Schrader, Sprint Cup Series driver Ryan Newman, rising Nationwide star Kyle Larson, and multiple-time Eldora winner Tracy Hines. For the Truck Series regulars more familiar with asphalt, Dillon said the keys will be to keep an open mind, ask questions, and watch drivers with more experience on the surface.
Series points leader Matt Crafton tried to get up to speed with a recent six-hour test session. Crafton raced some on dirt in his youth, and has competed in about 10 events this year in a dirt-modified car. But he knows he’ll still be playing catch-up to drivers like Austin Dillon and younger brother Ty, who cut their teeth in dirt late model cars fielded out of the Richard Childress Racing shop.
“It’s just about knowing how the track changes, and what it’s going to do,” Crafton said. “That’s the whole key. The whole RCR group, they’re (definitely going to have) an advantage because if you look at their shop, they have a late model dirt team. That’s definitely going to play into their hands. I’m not giving it to them by any means, but we better go in there swinging if we want to keep up with them.”
So much depends on the conditions. Stewart, who purchased the Eldora track in 2004, knows the surface will test many in the field. But the three-time Sprint Cup champion also believes they’ll adapt quickly, especially if the track stays dry and performs a little more like asphalt.
“I think it's going to be a big challenge for the teams and drivers. Obviously, (I) never ran the trucks on dirt. When we went and did the test there, we actually battled a little bit of weather ourselves. The track conditions were very, very sticky. But I think when the track slicks off there, it will slow the pace down a little bit, make it a little more comfortable for some of those guys,” said Stewart, who is not competing in the event.
“Even though it sounds like slicker would be more trouble, I think when the pace slows down due to a slick track like that, they'll run more like pavement. They'll run straighter through the corners and not sideways as much. But I think they'll enjoy it. It's a neat facility. … It gives you a lot of options of where you can go and what you can do. I think it gives those guys an opportunity. The practice day on Tuesday should help a lot of those teams be able to get acclimated before they come back to the track on Wednesday.”
klemmabyna
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kenny winning this race would set off quite a celebration in my house!
Dang, y'all are up and at 'em early.
Sticking this thread for today's action.
We'll stick tomorrow's separately.
Sticking this thread for today's action.
We'll stick tomorrow's separately.
I'm trying to figure out how to adapt windshield wipers and washers to my goggles, on the fence in turn 4 should be a blast.
Just take a squirt bottle and a roll of paper towels.
dpkimmel2001
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Better go to Walmart!Just take a squirt bottle and a roll of paper towels.
klemmabyna
Team Owner
I'm trying to figure out how to adapt windshield wipers and washers to my goggles, on the fence in turn 4 should be a blast.
you need some tear offs:
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I don't know how well they are preparing the track, but with that many trucks and that kind of HP it's probably going to get pretty dusty. Might want to take some ear muffs not only for noise but to keep from having to dig the dirt out of your ears after the race. I have been to many dirt tracks and carried a clear plastic tarp to set under until the dust cleared. Wish I was there, I know it'll be an exciting race.
I thought the whole idea was to get as dirty as possible so they could take it home and preserve it.
racer8
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They also make roll offs, just pull the cord and it pulls a clear film across your goggles.you need some tear offs:
MRM
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My guess is they'll have the track packer pretty hard to where there won't be much mud slinging, be more dusty than anything else.
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A good idea but just too damn weird for me to wear.They also make roll offs, just pull the cord and it pulls a clear film across your goggles.
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Yep.I thought the whole idea was to get as dirty as possible so they could take it home and preserve it.
dpkimmel2001
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SlicedBread22
3x!
So is this the pre race thread? LOL... Im gona have to say Newman either takes the checkers or takes a bunch of cars to the wreckers. I don't like him but I think he can get the job done. Although Im really not sure what to expect in this thing.
There are several drivers there that are much better than Newman is on dirt.
Tennessee Racing
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Tennessee Racing
Formerly Stewart Fan
Yep, Bloomquist is a God on dirt.
mike honcho
Knuckleheads
I'm going out on a limb here to say Newman will take out 0 CARS in THIS race.
ted@economy
in the interest of equal time
I'm hearin that Tony has a contract with the Hersey Corp. from Hersey Penn. . They have undertaken to flavor that dirt with a chocolate coating for tomorrow nights race . Keep your mouths open and let us know .
mike honcho
Knuckleheads
You wanted pictures TRL, here's some more.
Nice but I thought it's supposed to be Jorts and Crocs not flip flops you silly gator?
mike honcho
Knuckleheads
A good idea but just too damn weird for me to wear.
adapt some can coolers on top the rollers and you could carry 2 more beers.
FenderBumper
The "good old days" ??
We got to see Johali and his lovely (who is a legendary cook), dpkimmel and his lovely wife, and they all are having a blast. You guys should get Matt to name your group to help the bonding process.
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I don't dress him, if he wants to wear flip flops it's okay with me.
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And we were.
SlicedBread22
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LOLOLOL Good point..
mike honcho
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I don't dress him, if he wants to wear flip flops it's okay with me.
Hey wait HUH????? Is this Mrs.Johali?????If it is nice to meet you ma'am.
mike honcho
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Beer- check, tickets- check, Panama hat- check, sunglasses- check, white event T shirt- check, time to get dirty.
Ok now I'm getting confused.Need pics of who is who?????
mike, the Panama hat is Johali.