Truck race considered at Eldora

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Seriously? I don't know. Judge for yourself. It'd be cool though.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- NASCAR may be considering adding a dirt race at Eldora Speedway to its Truck Series schedule.

Multiple sources within the series said they've been told a dirt track could be added to the schedule in 2013. Sources also said a Richard Childress Racing truck was prepared for a test at Eldora, owned by three-time Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart.

The test was scheduled to take place Monday or Tuesday, the sources said. Officials at Eldora could not be reached for comment.

Stewart has been asking NASCAR to add a race at his half-mile track in Rossburg, Ohio, for several years. It is the site of his annual Prelude to the Dream charity event.

NASCAR officials declined to address specifically whether Eldora was under consideration for a truck race, but the series is looking at potential venues it hasn't been to before.

"We've made several site visits over the past few months to look at possible future venues for our Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series," spokesman Kerry Tharp said on Tuesday. "We expect the 2013 schedules for both of those series to be finished up and released within the next couple of weeks."
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From here.
 
A return to the days when racing was literally in the drivers hands.All of these repaves and reconfigures are making the tracks more about handling less about driver. Short tracks and road courses are all they have left to show their skill.Eldora would be a great add.
 
MRM said:
I think it was in 1970 and Richard Petty won it.
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Yep.

The last dirt-track race for NASCAR's top series was the Home State 200, held on September 30, 1970, at the one-mile State Fairgrounds Speedway in Raleigh, North Carolina. Winner Richard Petty said afterward, "I hope a few dirt tracks are kept on the schedule. This is where our brand of racing started." But it was not to be. The age of the superspeedway had arrived, and there was no looking back.
 
Some more on this from sbnation.com

ARCA Series provides model for Truck Series to race at Eldora


Tuesday's ESPN.com report that NASCAR is considering bringing the Camping World Truck Series to Eldora Speedway in 2013 has brought into question whether or not the trucks can even compete on Eldora’s half-mile, high-banked clay surface.

The ARCA Racing Series competes at many of the same venues as the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, but it also competes on a pair of dirt tracks – at Springfield Raceway and the DuQuoin Fairgrounds Speedway.

The ARCA race car is merely a modified classic Sprint Cup Series chassis, leading many to believe the Truck Series’ transition from asphalt to dirt will not be as expensive or complicated as some are speculating.

Frank Kimmel, the nine-time ARCA Series champion, is one such believer.
Kimmel won the only dirt race of the season at Springfield and is ARCA’s career wins leader on dirt. He’s also a car owner, providing equipment for his nephew Will Kimmel. He disagreed with the notion it would be expensive for a Truck Series owner to prepare an entry for Eldora and said ARCA teams use the same cars on dirt they previously used on paved ovals.

“We use our short track car on the dirt tracks,” Kimmel told SB Nation. “It’s not expensive at all. The only adjustments we have to make during the transition is changing the springs and shocks and paying extra attention to our cooling system.”

Bill Venturini is one of the most successful owners in ARCA history and agreed with everything Kimmel said. He added his team used to prepare dirt-only cars as recently as 10 years ago, but that advances in technical innovation and rule changes have allowed his team to also use its short track cars on dirt.

Venturini told SB Nation the Truck Series could easily race on a track like Kansas this weekend and turn around the following week and race the same cars on the dirt at Eldora.

The only concern Venturini has lies in the surface of Eldora, which has more dirt clumps than both Springfield and DuQuoin. Eldora also has numerous bumps and divots, which a dirt Late Model car can easily navigate but is likely to flip the heavier Truck Series frame.

“A dry, slick dirt track just won’t work,” Venturini said. “With a late model, you can get crossed up (spinning-out loose) and still fight the car around the corners. That’s not the case with these heavier stock cars.

“But Tony Stewart knows how to groom a dirt track and I have no doubt that he could prepare the track to meet NASCAR’s standards. It’s a fantastic little facility and would provide a lot of action. Frankly, the Truck Series needs a track like Eldora.”
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Link to story.
 
If all the rumors are true, the Truck Series next year will be a lot of fun to watch. And racing at short tracks gives a lot of potential young talent a chance to go out and make a name for themselves. I like it!
 
This was rumored long before Stewart bought the track. I hope it is finally going to be true.
 
I hope so that be awesome, wasn't IROC rumored to be going there before they closed up.
 
And another article.

Eldora Speedway could be added to the NASCAR Truck Series schedule for 2013, according to ESPN.com. Multiple sources in the Truck Series said they have been told the half-mile dirt track in Darke County could host a race, ESPN reported.
Sources also said a Richard Childress Racing truck was prepared to test at Eldora on Monday or Tuesday.
The track is owned by three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart and hosts the “Prelude to the Dream” in June, a charity race featuring NASCAR drivers.
“We’ve made several visits over the past few months to look at possible future venues for our Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series,” spokesman Kerry Tharp said. “We expect the 2013 schedules for both of those series to be finished up and released within the next couple of weeks.”
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http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/sports/motor-sports/eldora-may-get-trucks-race-in-2013/nSfpG/
 
Road courses are ok as long as they get rid of ringers and have the regulars step up or man up as the case may be for some.
 
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...w=270&bih=422&sei=3xJ_UL2sC4fm0gH4zYHQDw#i=29

(I don't know if the image above worked, of not just Google Eldora trophy queens.)

The first order of business in going Eldorado is to get tarted with some fine trophy queens. As in ones that look like real desirable women. The quest isn't a sin, and women do have legs, knees, necks, and lots more that don't need to be hid behind some nunish burquaish getup.

Check out the Eldora babes Brian, get out of your mansion and walk the Daytona Beaches , even kiss a woman. Open your eyes and put them in Victory lane the way the good Lord made them naturally look.
 
Greg, you have just for some reason reminded me of those Paige Duke pics.....:wub:
 
Man if this happens the party at the infield of talladega will look like childs play compared to the one that the people at eldora will put on. If they can touch how crazy the world 100 weekend gets they will be doing alright.
 
So when are they going to pave it and actually make it a race track???

:D I'm just kidding! That was for you VaDirt;)
 
BiffleRules said:
Road courses are ok as long as they get rid of ringers and have the regulars step up or man up as the case may be for some.
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Back in the day , drivers like Jimmy Spencer and a lot of others hated the road racing and needed ringers to run their cars . Don't see them as much of a factor in todays racing . The drivers today are quite capable of giving the ringers a run for their money.
 
I would be excited about it and go also if the assholes hadnt of scrapped the prelude, now I'm not interested. Somebody else will buy the ticket though it would be nice if nobody showed up.
 
Johali said:
I would be excited about it and go also if the assholes hadnt of scrapped the prelude, now I'm not interested. Somebody else will buy the ticket though it would be nice if nobody showed up.
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I've never been there for the Prelude event but I'd go in a heartbeat for the trucks if that event takes place so I'll buy your ticket Johali. ;)
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
I've never been there for the Prelude event but I'd go in a heartbeat for the trucks if that event takes place so I'll buy your ticket Johali. ;)
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Your welcome and that makes two BLs you owe me at a race next year when we are in our jorts and crocs under our respective awnings thumbing our noses at the masses trundling by. :D
 
Johali said:
Your welcome and that makes two BLs you owe me at a race next year when we are in our jorts and crocs under our respective awnings thumbing our noses at the masses trundling by. :D
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Not a problem. Get that RV loaded now and head up to Martinsville for next weeks race or as I like to call it, "the first race in the Chase'. There are several open campsites where I stay. I also have an extra unused seat next to me on Sunday for the race. It's normally occupied by my a good friend of mine named Bud Cooler. He's normally gone well before the finish of the race so there will be plenty of room.

I've got plenty of adult beverages to go around. It will be five Bud Light 30's, a case of Blast, one bottle Rum and a bottle of Vodka along with plenty of mix/ice. The party starts Wednesday and will end somewhere around 9pm Sunday in the Martinsville parking lot after we've had a chance to watch the Steelers game.

If you can't make this one, we'll see you at Bristol next spring. ;)
 
Looks like there's no legs to this story.....

As far as the ESPN.com report that the Camping World Truck Series could hold a race on Eldora's dirt next season, Stewart indicated he'd love for it to happen – but it doesn't sound like talks have been very serious.
"Trust me, I would be ecstatic if we could get any NASCAR race at Eldora," he said. "That would be great. I've talked to NASCAR, and they've been looking at all kinds of different tracks. It's been brought up in conversation, but that's about as far as it's come right now."
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
Not a problem. Get that RV loaded now and head up to Martinsville for next weeks race or as I like to call it, "the first race in the Chase'. There are several open campsites where I stay. I also have an extra unused seat next to me on Sunday for the race. It's normally occupied by my a good friend of mine named Bud Cooler. He's normally gone well before the finish of the race so there will be plenty of room.

I've got plenty of adult beverages to go around. It will be five Bud Light 30's, a case of Blast, one bottle Rum and a bottle of Vodka along with plenty of mix/ice. The party starts Wednesday and will end somewhere around 9pm Sunday in the Martinsville parking lot after we've had a chance to watch the Steelers game.

If you can't make this one, we'll see you at Bristol next spring. ;)
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See you at Martinsville. :cheers:
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
Looks like there's no legs to this story.....

As far as the ESPN.com report that the Camping World Truck Series could hold a race on Eldora's dirt next season, Stewart indicated he'd love for it to happen – but it doesn't sound like talks have been very serious.
"Trust me, I would be ecstatic if we could get any NASCAR race at Eldora," he said. "That would be great. I've talked to NASCAR, and they've been looking at all kinds of different tracks. It's been brought up in conversation, but that's about as far as it's come right now."
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Perhaps we can file the Eldora truck race theory here.
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
Not a problem. Get that RV loaded now and head up to Martinsville for next weeks race or as I like to call it, "the first race in the Chase'. There are several open campsites where I stay. I also have an extra unused seat next to me on Sunday for the race. It's normally occupied by my a good friend of mine named Bud Cooler. He's normally gone well before the finish of the race so there will be plenty of room.

I've got plenty of adult beverages to go around. It will be five Bud Light 30's, a case of Blast, one bottle Rum and a bottle of Vodka along with plenty of mix/ice. The party starts Wednesday and will end somewhere around 9pm Sunday in the Martinsville parking lot after we've had a chance to watch the Steelers game.

If you can't make this one, we'll see you at Bristol next spring. ;)
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Bristol it is.
 
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