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PostPosted: Mon May 04, 2015 9:15 pm 
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I'm gonna get flak for this, but I thought Rockingham was overrated. I always felt the races got way to drawn out especially in the middle.


Yeah but when you have a backstretch wall that causes flippers, all is forgiven :whistling:

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I want to do a road trip

Me and my buddy may be going to Southern Worthersee in Helen, GA in a couple weeks, I know that's still a bit from Atlanta, but if you're around maybe we can met up somewhere for drinks or something.


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Don't forget I can just... hop on any flight I need to to get to where ever I need to get to. If you guys do a race meet in like... Toledo, I can be there with zero planning in about 5-6 hours.


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May 16-17 I am working though lol


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mclaren2008 wrote:
Less night races as well


i cant understand why people hate on night races other than the fact a lot of board members are from over seas and might be on too late to watch maybe its just me but i love the night races the speeds are usually up there is less derping the cars look awesome under the lights and its carries on the racing tradition of Saturday night racing again i may be alone on this

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PostPosted: Tue May 05, 2015 2:06 am 
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It's simple: there's too many of them.

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mclaren2008 wrote:
Yeah up till 1972 they used to have 50 or more a year :8:


But generally they only publicised the big races (Daytona, Darlington, Atlanta, Martinsville).

36 is too many.

Also agree on too many night races (which are actually on in the daytime down here).

Switch Brickyard for IRP. That would be great.

But they won't.


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the ost wrote:
mclaren2008 wrote:
Yeah up till 1972 they used to have 50 or more a year :8:


But generally they only publicised the big races (Daytona, Darlington, Atlanta, Martinsville).

36 is too many.

Also agree on too many night races (which are actually on in the daytime down here).

Switch Brickyard for IRP. That would be great.

But they won't.


Also, very few teams competed in all races. And the cost of entry was low enough that each track had a lot of local entries. So you're pretty much comparing apples and spaceships.

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Plus the points wasn't the same for every race


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And even in 1971 about a quarter of those races were basically 100-mile races or shorter on tracks like Greenville-Pickens and South Boston.


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The Orange Cone just tweeted this



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What I used to love about Darlington in the daytime was how slick the track was and how quickly the tyres went off.

I don't know if changing it to a night race took that away, or whether it's more to do with Goodyear's current tyres, but I miss it.


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What I used to love about Darlington in the daytime was how slick the track was and how quickly the tyres went off.

I don't know if changing it to a night race took that away, or whether it's more to do with Goodyear's current tyres, but I miss it.

Three things: Goodyear rock-hard tires, cooler air temperature and no hot sun beating down on the track, and most importantly, they repaved it with a much different mixture of asphalt. The old paving job had all kinds of shells and crap mixed in the asphalt that made it extra abrasive. The new asphalt is basically just as silky smooth as all the other garbage repave jobs we've seen over the last decade. Sigh.


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-- The 2016 rules package was expected to be dramatically different than in 2015, but that may no longer be the case. O'Donnell said NASCAR is "looking at a number of different options for '16, including staying where we are."


http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/na ... /26926325/

I give up. :slaphead:


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FUCK. If IndyCar has taught me anything, it's that listening to the owners bitching about costs for things that will improve the quality of racing and therefore improve viewership never works out well.


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Again. Many drivers have said that reducing downforce will improve the racing. They DRIVE THE CARS. Why don't we listen to them?!?


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What ever happened to the rule for the All-Star Race where the winning driver and winning team of a race both made the feature?


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dr dog wrote:
Again. Many drivers have said that reducing downforce will improve the racing. They DRIVE THE CARS. Why don't we listen to them?!?


We do but NASCAR won't.

To make the changes everybody wants, NASCAR would have to publically admit their rules policy over the last 10 years has been wrong from the start, and you know as well as I do, NASCAR is never wrong.


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So no new rules package and same schedule next year according to NASCAR. I'm done.


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