Well their was no empty seats, somebody likes it
ACTULLY THERE WERE A LOT OF EMPTY SEATS THIS YEAR . IT WAS NOTED IN FEW PLACES AN IN MY LOCAL PAPER.
YEA THE DAYS OF WHO WAS THE BEST MECHANIC AN WHO MADE THE BEST BASE CAR OR ENGINE ARE LONG GONE. DAYS WHEN INOVTION WON RACES AN A DRIVER HAD TO HAVE BALLS TO WIN. THOSE DRIVERS STILL HAVE GREAT SKILL BUT VERY FEW DO ANY WORK ON HTERE STUFF. USED TO BE A RACER HAD TO KOW HOW TO BULD A CAR AN GET IT TO THE TRACK , NOW THE STARS JUST WORRY BOUT HOW MANY COMMERCIALS N AUTOGRAPHS THEY SIGN. THERE STILL ALL RACERS AT HEART BUT ITS DIFFERANT . DANIKA WAS GROOMED FOR RACING SINCE DAY ONE SHE RACES CARTS SAME PLACE I RAN A BIKE DOWN THE ROAD. MORE AN MORE RACERS ARE BEING RAISED TO BE RACERS FROM DAY ONE . ITS A BUSSINESS . THERE ARE RACE MOMS JUST LIKE SOCCER MOMS . BACK IN THE OLD DAYS YOU WANTED TO RACE YOU GOT INTO IT DURING OR AFTER HIGH SCHOOL YOU GOT SOIME BNUDDIES TOGETHER AN THREW A CAR TOGETHER AN WENT FROM THERE . THESE DAYS TO GET TO THE TOP LEVEL YOU BETTER BE IN ACART OR ATV AT AGE 4 AN HAVE RICH PARENTS OR SPONSORS.
I MENTIONED MY BUDDY WHO RAN THE 360 . HE IS A CAR OWNER NOW AN DONE DRIVING . HE FINDS FAST KIDS FROM THE MINI SPRINTS AN GO CARTS AN IF THERE DADDY HAS CASH ALL THE BETTER . HIS LAST DRIVER IS NOT EVEN OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL AN HE DOES NOT TOUCH THE CAR EXCSPT TO DRIVE IT. THAT KID STEPS INTO A $60,000 SPRINT CAR AN HAS NEVER TUNRED A WRENCH . HE BEVER AN A STREET STOCK OR BOMBER CLASS. HE WAS FAST IN CARTS AN HAS THE REFLEXES SO HE GETS A RIDE .
NASCAR HAS BECOME TO RIGID IN ITS RULES HOW LONG BEOFRE THERE ALL RUNNING IDENTICAL ENGINES ????? IT GETS CLOSER TO IROC EVER YEAR.
THE TRUTH IS IF IT WAS TILL ANYHTING GOES THE CARS WOULD BE DOING 260 MPH . CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT A 500 OR BIGGER ENGINE WITH 1500 HUNDRED HOURSE POWER WOULD DO IN A CAR WITH ANY AREO PACKGAGE ALLOWED WOULD RUN ???? CAN YOU IMAGINE IF ALLTHE COMPUTER STUFF WERE ADED LIKE TRACTION CONTROL AN WHAT NOT OR IF THEY COULD ADJUST THE CAR FROM THE INSIDE OR BY REMOTE CONTROL ?????? THERE NEEDS TO BE LIMITS AN LTS BE HONEST NOBODY IS REALLY GOING TO WANT TO SEE STOCK STOCK CARS RUN . ID LOVE TO SEE A MUSTANG . CAMERO , CHARGER TYPE CALSL WERE THEY HAD TO HAVE STOCK HEADA AN BLOCK. THAT WAY MANUFATURE WORK HARDER TO MAKE BETTER FACTORY CARS.
WE CANT HAVE GUYS GETTING KILLED EVERY WEEKEND AN THE TRUTH WE CAN BUILD CARS WAY TO FAST FOR THE TRACKS.
RACING IS BIG BUSSINESS AN ITS ALL ABOUT THE MEDIA AN THE COMMERCIALS.
DANICA IS GOOD FOR THE SPORT AN IM GLAD SHE IS THERE . I THINK SHE NEED TO STEP UPO AN RACE IF SHE CAN. THERE ARE LOTS OF OTHER WOMEN RACERS COMING UP IN THE SPORT AN IN A FEW YEARS SHE WONT BE THE ONLY GOOD LOOKING GIRL ON THE TRACK. HOT FEMALE DRIVERS ARE IN DEMAND AN THERES MORE AN MORE OF THEM EVERY DAY . ILL BET MONEY THAT IN TWO YEARS SHE WILL NOT BE ALONE.
AN ABOT THE DRIVERS AN DANICS START YOUR ENGINE LINE. IT WAS F^&KING STUPID. EVEN I THOUGHT WTF???. SO APPARENTLY SHE IS NOT A DRIVER ????? OR SHE IS SOME HOW DIFFERNT ?????? SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN PISSED AN SO SHOULD EVERY OTHER DRIVER. LIKE I SAID IT WAS THE DANICA 500 AN THAT LINE CEMNETED IT .
IF WOMEN RACERS WANT EQUALITY THEN THEY NEED TO BE TREATED DIFFERANTLY
GOD FORBID SHE GET HURT OR KILLED THEY WILL BE RACING 50HP SMART CARS NEXT YEAR WITH 360 DEGREE BUMBERS. ERNHARTS DEATH CHANGES THE SPORT A LOT . HIS DEATH COST NASCAR MONEY . HE WAS KNOWN FOR BEING LESS SAFTEY CONCIOUS THAN OTHR DRIVERS AN RESISTED A LOT OF SAFTEY INOVATION . WHEN HE DIED THAT WAS IT AN NASCAR REALLY CHANGED THE CARS AN STILL ARE.
GONE ARE THE DAYS OF A GUY DRIVING WITH NO GLOVES WITH WHAT EVER FIRE SUITE .
FIRST YEAR I RACED WE HAD TO HAVE A HELMET AN CURRENT NON OUT DATED BELTS. WE DIDNT EVEN NEED A FIRE SUIT IN STREET STOCK ( THE MOST LIKELY CLASS TO BURN BTW. WE WERE NOT REQUIRED TO WEAR GLOVES .
THE CREW HAD TO ALL WEAR WHITE PANTS AT A DIRT TRACK OR THEY WERE NOT GETTING IN. THERE WERE VERY FEW WOMEN IN THE PITS ALSO . AN IF A FIGHT BROKE OUT YOU BETTER BE IN YOU OWN PIT OR YOU WERE OFF THE TRACK FOR TWO RACES. WE DIDNT HAVE FULE CELLS THEN WE DID HAVE THE TANK IN TRUNK AN IT HAD TO BE PRETTY SECURE.
THE CAGE WAS MADE FROM BLACK PIPE ANHAD TO BE SO THICK AN THEY CHECKED.
CHEATING WAS ART BACK THEN AN STILL LIKELY IS. I KNOW OF A CAR THAT HAD NITRIOUS IN THE DOWN TUBE OF THE CAGE AN HIDDEN LINES RUNNING FROM THE BRAKE BOOSTER TO A UNDER THE MANIFOLD NOZZEL SET UP. SAME CAR HAD 4 BIG CYLINDERS AN 4 SMALL ONE THAT WOULD PASS A BUBLBLE DISPLAMNET TEST. IT HAD ANGLE GUT HEADS AHT MADE 11.5-1 COMPRESSION WITH A FLAT TOPS. THE CAM HAD TO BE STOCK BUT THEY NEVER SAID IT COULD NOT BE RECROUND OR STOCK IN WHAT. SO A RACE CAM FROM A PRODUCTION BOAT WAS STOCK IMO . THE TERM GASOLINE WAS A GREY AREA FOR US AN MAY THINGS WERE TRIED INCLUDING SOME NITRO, PITRIC ACID AN SOME SUPER OXYGENATED STUFF. THERE WERE A LOT OF REALLY SHARP GUYS IN THE NORTHEN CALIFORNIA AREA MANY WERE ENGINERS OR ELECTRONIS WIZARDS FROM THE SICICONE VALLY DUIRNG THAT TIME THERE WERE FEW STRANGE SMELLING CARS . IT WAS OUR JOB TO CHEAT AN THERE JOB TO CATCH US.
I HAVE FOR A FACT SEEN A SO CALLED STOCK 350 CHEVY MAKE A 500 HO DYNO RUN AN PASS INSPECTON IN HTE CAR THE NEXT DAY . BOWTIE HEADS WERE OUT THERE BRAZINKIE INTAKES WERE CAST IRION MANIFOLD WAS GUT UP PORTED AN WELDED BACK . BOWLAWS CARBS LIGHT BILLIT CRANKS . EVEN ALUMINUM RODS FOR BIG MONEY RACES. I KNOW A GUY
WHO REMOVED THE EXTRA FREEZE PLUGS ON 400 CHEVY TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE A 350
A FEW SOTS OF NITRIOUS ON A RESART WAS HELPFULL.
MY UNCLE HAD A STREET STOCK THAT THE MOTOR WAS PROFFESONAL BUILT THAT MADE 425 HP AN WAS OF LEGAL SIZE ( 350 CI) WITH LIAT TOP PISTIONS THAT WULD PASS A TEARDOWN AN IT HAD THE SPECIFED HOLLY 2 BARREL . THE CAM WAS VERY TRICK, HAD A BILLIT CRANK , BOWTIE CAST IRON HEADS THAT WERE ANGLE CUT , CARRILO RODS THAT LIKELY GOST HP . HE $5000 MOTOR IN A STUID STREET STOCK IN 1986 AN THERE WERE FASTER GUYS STILL. I SAW ROLLER LIFTERS COME OUT OF ONE ENGNE WHEN IT EXPLODED . LOL . AN THEN THERE WAS THE NIGHT A GUY TRIED RUNNING A 502 OUT OF HIS BOAT AN NEVER OPENED THE HOOD ALL NIGHT IN A 350 CLASS. LMAO
WE HAD TO RUN A TRACK SOLD SPEC RECAP . THE GUY CHARGED TRIPPLE WHT THEY WERE WORTH AN GETTING ENOUGH STAGGER WAS HARD. WELL WE HAD A GUY TRACK DOWN WHO WAS MAKING HIS RECAPS AN WE PAID HIM A VISIT AN HAD HIM RECAP US BIGGER OD TIRES AN FROM HEAVIER PLY CASES . THEN WE WOULD MARK THEM ALL DIFFERANT ODS WITH JUKN YRD INK SO WHEN GUYS TRIED TO FIGURE OUR STAGGGER THEY WOULD BE OFF BY 5 INCHES. SEEMS A SLIGHTLY BENT RIM GOT MORE TRACTION THAN A STIGHT ONE IN REALLY WET MUD. LEAD IN ROLL GAGES IN THE BACK WAS DONE . RACE SHOCKS WITH FACTRY SHELLS SLID OVER THEM WERE DONE .
THREE SPEED MANUALS WITH SOME OF THE GEARS REMOEVED TO MAKE IT A TWO SPEED WERE DONE . ALUMINUM FLY WHEELS . POWER GULIDES WITH NO CONVERTERS.
POLISHED STAINLESS MUD GUARDS FOR THE FRONT WIND SCREEN ( DIRT USES SCREEN) DOUBEKLD AS AN ILLEGLE REAR VIEW MIRROE . SPOT MIRROER WITH VELCRO THAT COUD BE PUT UP AN TAKEN DOWN IN THE CAR. ROOFS THAT WERE LOWER FNEDERS THAT WERE SHORTER. A CONTANT BATTEL WITH KEEPING THE CAR QUIET ENOUGH TO PASS SPECK . WE PULLED SO MUCH SHIT IT WASNET FUNNY. UNLESS YOU WERE WINNING THEY REALLY NEVER LOOKED TO HARD. I RECALL THE TEAR DOWN WERE A THE GUY WAS BEING CHECKED FOR ILLEAGLE PISTIONS AN THE PLLED THE MANIFOLD AN CARB AN QUICKY AHNDED TO A GUY WHO STUCK IT IN THE CAMPER . WE ASKED TO SEE IT AN THE OFFICAL GOT IT HANDED BACK AN TWHEN TURNED UPO SIDE DOWN THERE WAS NO GAS IN THE CARB , THEY HAD TREID TO DO A SWITCH. LOL . WE NEVER GOT TO SEE THE SET UP THEY WERE RUNNING THEY JUST TOOK THE FINE AN LOSS OF WINNINGS. WE HAD A MODIEFED FOR ABIT WITH A CLAIMER MOTOR AN A GUY COULD BUY YOUR ENGINE FOR $1500 . WE HAD BEEN WINNING AN HAD A $3000 MOTOER BUT WE GOT WIND THAT WE WERE GOING TO GET CLAIMED ON SO WE TOSSED IN A 100,000 MILE $300 TRUCK ENGINE AN A REGOUND $60 CAM RAN THE EXHAUST REAL RATTY AN ACTUALYY FINISEHD OK SPREAD THE RUMMOR THAT WE HAD A NEW $5000 BUILT BY BLA BAL SPEED SHOP ENGINE THROUGH A FEW BUDDYS AN AT THE END OF THE NIGHT IT GOT CLAIMED .
THAT THING HAD SO MUCH CRUD UNDERVALVE COVERS YOU COULD HARLEDY SEE THE ROCKERS , MAN WE HEARD THAT GUY WHO CLIMED IT WS SO PISSED HE ALMOST STROKED OUT.
IT WS FUN BACK THEN JUST BUDDIES RACING OTHER BUDDIES AN MAYBE GETING A SHOT TO GO FURTHER . MOST OF US WERE UNDER 25 . ID LOVE TO RUN A FEW LAPS AGIAN I USED TO BE LAUGHING SO HARD ID MESS UP .