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May 02, 2022 at
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I was at Bristol this weekend and the racing was not good. Larson saved Friday with the Late Model and Saturdays sprint race was saved by the late caution. I remember 1 good heat race. The track just doesn't eguate to good racing, just my opinion.
As far as the crowd, I thought it was good. We had to wait in the parking lot for it to clear out before leaving both nights. There are so many seats I think that track will look empty regardless. We had this conversation the last night if we thought WoO would be back and my guess is it will be.
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May 02, 2022 at
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Posted By: runnin30 on May 02 2022 at 08:59:58 AM
I was at Bristol this weekend and the racing was not good. Larson saved Friday with the Late Model and Saturdays sprint race was saved by the late caution. I remember 1 good heat race. The track just doesn't eguate to good racing, just my opinion.
As far as the crowd, I thought it was good. We had to wait in the parking lot for it to clear out before leaving both nights. There are so many seats I think that track will look empty regardless. We had this conversation the last night if we thought WoO would be back and my guess is it will be.
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Friday looked light to me (by WoO standards) from my couch, Saturday looked healthy. But nice to hear from someone who went that the crowds were good.
The XR late model series which paid out close to a million bucks and got about 32 LMs set new standards for "light" crowds as there were about 12 people in the stands for a few of their races.
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May 02, 2022 at
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Posted By: JonR on April 30 2022 at 03:42:13 PM
Did not watch the broadcast, but did watch the YouTube review. It looked way too fast and the passes looked very calculated. I would imagine for this race that the WOO asked some teams to do a start and park just to get 24 entries. With all of the eye balls on this race, it would look really bad it they did not have a full field.
My concern for this race is that with the speeds and banking that any type of wreck in the turns will be brutal. The car will have all kind of energy from the speeds and then tumbiling down the banking on the turns will only make it worse. I remember seeing a replay of a FWD car wreck there last month and it's crash was scary and it was probably going half as fast as the sprints.
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They had some bad wrecks when the WoO raced there 20 years ago. The prospect of seeing someone spin and get t-boned by a car at speed are concerning. They pointed out last year how the banking and wing created more of a blind spot but I didn't see that when watching in car clips from this year. I heard that they cut the banking down from what they had last year. Winged Sprints at Bristol are twitchy and remind me of pavement Midget races on a big half mile.
I like speed but there is a tipping point when a track is so fast that there isn't any passing. The biggest tracks that still offer good racing are places like Knoxville and Eldora where there is ample passing to make it Interesting. At least for me Bristol doesn't check the passing and side by side racing boxes. Larson made a late race charge in the Sprint on night two and mentioned in the post race interview that the drivers don't want to tangle on that track and give each other plenty of room. I haven't subscribed to DV this year and have been focusing on All Star racing. I will likely get it for a few months later this spring but the WoO posts highlights on YouTube within an hour or so.
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May 02, 2022 at
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What was the deal with Larson and the late model? As near as I can tell, he had to start last in the feature because he was too light?
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May 02, 2022 at
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Posted By: Murphy on May 02 2022 at 07:37:20 PM
What was the deal with Larson and the late model? As near as I can tell, he had to start last in the feature because he was too light?
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He was late to the staging area.
Let's go Sprint Car Racing!
Knoxville - Best Track In the USA!
Eldora - 2nd Best Track in the USA!
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May 03, 2022 at
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Posted By: BStrawser26 on May 02 2022 at 09:06:50 PM
He was late to the staging area.
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Thanks. That makes more sense, considering his comment about him being the only one doing double duty and having a lot going on. So he was upset that they were enforcing the rules?
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May 03, 2022 at
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Not really, he wanted them to understand his situation. Because he was doing double duty the late model was parked with the sprint cars, not with the late models. Therefore he was on the other side of pit road and had trouble hearing. They needed a push truck and it took to long blah, blah, blah.
Kyle is a huge draw and it's obvious a lot of people wanted to see him. Given they couldn't pull a full field of cars and he was doing double duty he feels they should cut him some slack and I agree with him. Nobody was doing as much as he was @ Bristol.
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May 03, 2022 at
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Kyle's LM run on Friday was great!
I've never seen him pissed off before like he was on post race interview.....
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May 03, 2022 at
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They need to run the silver crown cars at Bristol next year
100 laps would be amazing
just wishing.
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May 03, 2022 at
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I agree, a 100 lap Crown race would be awesome. I actually metioned to my buddy that they could have run a 50 lap Big Block modified race after the features both nights. That would be killer!
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May 04, 2022 at
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Posted By: revjimk on May 03 2022 at 09:24:34 AM
Kyle's LM run on Friday was great!
I've never seen him pissed off before like he was on post race interview.....
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At a high level, because they were not with the late model pits, they did not hear the 10 minute horn. Earlier in the night, they broke the transmission and needed a push start. They told the WOO officials of this fact early in the night. A WOO official came over on a 4 wheeler and gave them a 90 second warning. However, they said that they were ready and pushed the car back to be pushed by the push truck. First, it took a while for the push truck to arrive. Second, the push truck driver thought his job was to push it off on the track, and did move the car to the staging area.
The complaint from the Larson camp was not that they missed staging, but of the extra ordinary events that surrounded them missing staging.
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May 04, 2022 at
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Posted By: JonR on May 04 2022 at 12:03:10 PM
At a high level, because they were not with the late model pits, they did not hear the 10 minute horn. Earlier in the night, they broke the transmission and needed a push start. They told the WOO officials of this fact early in the night. A WOO official came over on a 4 wheeler and gave them a 90 second warning. However, they said that they were ready and pushed the car back to be pushed by the push truck. First, it took a while for the push truck to arrive. Second, the push truck driver thought his job was to push it off on the track, and did move the car to the staging area.
The complaint from the Larson camp was not that they missed staging, but of the extra ordinary events that surrounded them missing staging.
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Yea, I would have been pissed too.
But Kyle's run to almost winning was probably more entertaining than watching him win from the front
& he's won PLENTY of races anyway...... 
He'll get over it & win plenty more 
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