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i love when each hot lap session comes out and the fastest lap is produced and they think that driver is gonna win it all. or when the 2nd car out in qualifying is faster than the first car out and you hear the big "QUICKTIME"

-Austin Rankin

I really can't even explain the stupid things I have said to people who think they know all about Sprints. I mean, yeah, some people ofcourse do but we all can pick out the moron who thinks he knows it all and knows nothing. When I sit next to those people I turn it into a comedy session, for myself! I just try and see if I can't top their last know it all comment that made totally no sense.

I once topped a guys know it all comment that was way in left field by stating, " I miss the old days when the tail tanks were on the nose of the car." That comment I said at a Model car trade show when the guy had all his Die Cast Sprints with the wings on Back ward.

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Well DUH... everybody knows that the front wheel drive sprint cars are built that way!!!

Fenders are like vacuums... they both suck.

we goin to SFS and creek for TNT. lookin forward to the ascs race at SFS friday - but it looks like it will be our first rainout of the year. thinkin bout NCRA at wichita on saturday............

i need to stop by there and get some watermelon. actually never ate any - dont even know what it taste like - im told it dont have much a taste tho lol. thanks for your thoughts - i appreciate it. and yeah knox was still a major blast..........

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One of the best things I've seen in the stands at a race track was about 10 years ago at a Knoxville weekly show. I was sitting behind an Asian couple with two young children. The man spoke broken English and explained to me that he was on an extended business trip to Des Moines and brought his family along for their first trip to the US. People had told him to come see the races, and they came to Knoxville that night.

Every time the cars would get up to speed on the track, this father would gather his kids and his wife really close and hold onto them, as though they were just going to fly away. Their reaction was a mixture of complete awe and total fear, and it was obvious that they had never seen anything like it before. He asked numerous questions, all night long, translating for his wife and kids, and constantly apologized for bothering me no matter how many times that I told him it wasn't necessary. Throughout the night, he would take the kids downstairs, returning each time with numerous t-shirts and die-casts and whatever else they could find to buy that had sprint cars on it.

I have taken new people to the races, always hoping for that kind of excited reaction, but I've never seen anything quite like that before. I always wonder if they ever came back to the US and what kind of stories they told about Knoxville when they got home.

My 2nd favorite "sit behind the new fan" story was the guy that told his young daughter that the tires on the back of the car are bigger because that makes it so the car is always rolling downhill, and it's easier to go faster when you're going downhill.

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I couldn't pass this thread up, several years ago, Me and my brother and now ex-sister in law, go to La Salle ILL for a sprint car race, and we were watching hot laps and the ex sis in law, wants to know how many more races till we go home? I laughed so hard, I said honey they aint even started yet!!!

I have a LaSalle, IL story too! But it's not about fans.

The last time I was there, my mom and I walked into the concession stand to get food. There was nobody in line, and the concession workers didn't realize we were there, and they were arguing over who had to pick the dead bugs out of the popcorn.

Good times.

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Guy sitting behind me when I was at Chico "Sprintcars don't have brakes. Well, they do, but if they so much as touch them it kills the car"

He said more, but I can't remember what he said.

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OK, but did I tell you why I can't go into the pits anymore? I was in a accident a few years ago and they put a steel rod in my arm and every time I get close to a sprint car I'm......

Kenny

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. 

My know-it-all story doesn't come from racing but rather way back in the late 70's when I used to be a sound man for local rock bands in the StL area. We had finished setting up the PA in a local club and I was doing a RTA (real-time-analyzer) white noise room EQ (equalization) test which sounds like a jet taking off -- a lot of loud static basically to the untrained ear -- and a "Cliff Claven from Cheers" type was sitting at the bar trying to impress a couple of hotties and I overheard him telling them that the white noise was us "blowing the static out of the speaker wires so it will sound better". I still chuckle when I think of that...

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The next time I am at a Model car show and one of these guys has a Die Cast stand full of NASCAR and Sprints cars....if they have the Sprint Wings on backward I am going to try and convince them that they have the wings in the wrong spots and the small one goes on top and the big one in the front. Then go get a Pizza Burger.

What I never got about Knoxville food was when they found something sold really well they got rid of it. i.e the Mini Corn dogs. My friends were working the fryers back when they had them and because they were in such demand they couldn't keep up with frying them and people would complain that they had to wait for them....so, they got rid of them. My friend suggested buying 2 more fryers and having someone just work on making Corn Dogs all night. No deal, we will just stop selling our #1 product.

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What I never got about Knoxville food was when they found something sold really well they got rid of it. i.e the Mini Corn dogs. My friends were working the fryers back when they had them and because they were in such demand they couldn't keep up with frying them and people would complain that they had to wait for them....so, they got rid of them. My friend suggested buying 2 more fryers and having someone just work on making Corn Dogs all night. No deal, we will just stop selling our #1 product.

lol, they did that with the Mystery Feature and the Race of States on Friday nights also.

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