Eldora Million

[virtualbalboa]

I am a huge fan of Kyle Larson, especially on dirt...but, this is one race I hope he doesn't win.

I feel like I did watching the first High Limit race Gio Scelzi won - this is a race that will put you on the map and will totally make your career. Also can re-write an established legacy for some of the guys who are showing up here as gunslingers looking to win One Last Time (like Daryn Pittman or Kraig Kinser, who won WoO titles so long enough ago it's easy to forget).

 

[StandOnIt]

Breaking Down The Eldora Million Thursday Heat Lineups - FloRacing

Six heat races will determine the lineup for Thursday's 50-lap, $1,002,023-to-win Eldora Million at Eldora Speedway.

www.floracing.com

 

[StandOnIt]

I feel like I did watching the first High Limit race Gio Scelzi won - this is a race that will put you on the map and will totally make your career. Also can re-write an established legacy for some of the guys who are showing up here as gunslingers looking to win One Last Time (like Daryn Pittman or Kraig Kinser, who won WoO titles so long enough ago it's easy to forget).

In the Heat race breakdown above, there is at least one driver or more in every heat that can win the Million. It's too tough to call as far as I am concerned. It's going to be something else. Starts at 5:00 CST.

 

[aunty dive]

 

[aunty dive]

 

[acmerocket]

heat 2 looks the hardest. larsons looks pretty easy,but it racing

 

[aunty dive]

 

[Clutch]

Great view of the track from up high at Eldora.
Beautiful setting

 

[Clutch]

First time seeing Khane in a car for quite some time during hot laps

 

[gnomesayin]

Patience is in short supply and everyone is trying to win the million on the first lap of the first heat.

 

[virtualbalboa]

Good lord are they tearing up a lot of equipment already. Bacon, Haudenschild, and Veal all with busted rides and Heat #1 isn't even done.

 

[Clutch]

Patience is in short supply and everyone is trying to win the million on the first lap of the first heat.

Feel sorry for Haudenschild

 

[virtualbalboa]

At this pace the feature will roll off at 230AM LOL

 

[virtualbalboa]

Justin Whittall must be the happiest man in Ohio. The worst he can do tonight is collect $6K to start.

 

[Clutch]

Crazy start to heat 2

 

[FLRacingFan]

Good lord, man.

 

[virtualbalboa]

Hafertepe Jr. went hero move into turn 1 on the start and wiped out Ian Madsen. Shaffer's car at minimum needs a front wing. The damage bill for tonight is gonna be astronomical.

 

[kkfan91]

Guys it's win a million not tear up a million dollars worth of sprint cars

 

[gnomesayin]

Hafertepe was definitely the cause of that and suffered the worst outcome.

There are guys starting deep in these heat races who expected to fare a lot better, and feel like their best shot now is banzai moves on the starts.

 

[KTMLew01]

Front axle prices are shooting up.

 

[virtualbalboa]

We're not getting a single clean heat, are we?

 

[StandOnIt]

They are pushing the edge, tonight's the night. A million or bust

 

[virtualbalboa]

Someone unplug Flo and plug it back in again.

 

[kkfan91]

Someone unplug Flo and plug it back in again.

Ok so wasn't just me

 

[virtualbalboa]

Standing ovation in my living room (party: 1) that they managed to get through 10 laps without binning more cars.

 

[virtualbalboa]

I thought we were getting out of this and into the features but no, Connor Morrell did a good job tearing the back end of the car up.

 

[aunty dive]

Snapped the rear axle.

You don’t see that very often.

 

[virtualbalboa]

I have never heard anyone outside the racing world (and I interact with hundreds of people and am a huge music nerd) ever organically ask me my opinion on Whiskey Myers. I have no idea who actually listens to Whiskey Myers, I don't know if it is a band or a person, and I have a strong, strong suspicion that I would not care for whatever it is Whiskey Myers is. I'm guessing it is a group of Millennials/Zoomers cosplaying 38 Special/Molly Hatchet but I almost feel as though finding out isn't worth it regardless of how easy it would be.

 

[kkfan91]

I have never heard anyone outside the racing world (and I interact with hundreds of people and am a huge music nerd) ever organically ask me my opinion on Whiskey Myers. I have no idea who actually listens to Whiskey Myers, I don't know if it is a band or a person, and I have a strong, strong suspicion that I would not care for whatever it is Whiskey Myers is. I'm guessing it is a group of Millennials/Zoomers cosplaying 38 Special/Molly Hatchet but I almost feel as though finding out isn't worth it regardless of how easy it would be.

I just want to know why they bought a national ad for a county fair in Ohio

 

[Clutch]

Time to head to work.
Can I still call in sick?

 

[StandOnIt]

Sheldon rolls it in to stay alive

 

[FLRacingFan]

Good charge from Haudenschild in the first C.

 

[aunty dive]

100 K to the winner of the 50 / 50

Happy spectator.

 

[virtualbalboa]

I didn't talk about it anywhere really, but this past weekend I was one of a counted 19 attendees at Mottville Speedway in Southwestern Michigan. I don't like to say bad things about places that are trying to hang onto life, but I can say it was probably the worst athletic facility I've visited anywhere in the world and I've been to 57 countries. There was a 50/50 raffle there at Mottville, and the amount for the 50/50 raffle tonight at Eldora is literally >10,000 times what the winner of that raffle got.

 

[gnomesayin]

This is a case in which if they're going to do two C features, I think splitting into two Bs would provide the guys at the back a more realistic shot of advancing.

 

[virtualbalboa]

Just to further blow people's minds when it comes to money: Kasey Kahne I'm sure could be running SRX right now and probably would have gotten a better payday than the $975 he earned finishing 4th in the C-Main here.

 

[gnomesayin]

Never mind. The fast guys are flying and able to pass freely. Good stuff.

 

[gnomesayin]

I want Pittman and Sheldon to make the show, don't make me pick.

 

[kkfan91]

And that ends Sheldon's run from the C

 

[virtualbalboa]

I like Sheldon a lot so that's a bummer to see. He was trying his best and putting on a show.