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Seems funny ALL the drivers bragg up the track conditions. Got LM drivers towing all the way from Winchester Va to race there. I use to like wet hammer down tracks, now they only produce follow the leader racing. 

Strong field in both classes. Waa Waa Waa,  had 2 grooves, bottom you had to have the car set up right and there was passing. US old fats don't like the tracks drivers want today. Madson I thought did very well, he gets that place figured out he will be a strong contender. It was also interesting to see that car racing up front and the former driver struggling in the back. Hummm, I wonder. I wish the weikert boys would get there name on a car that runs port regularly. Come on DD, the big dogs will be at port royal on Saturday nights, will you ?  Winged straw man, your one of those old farts I mentioned above, give it up,  it is what it is. Ask any driver that's what they want today. The late models were using the hole track up, great race port royal.

Yep bring on Selingsgrove Speedway, the true Speed Palace.  The fastest track in the east.  Always have and always will love high speed, great track prep freight train!  Oh by the way, yes if no other track was racing and someone paying $3,000 to win for LM, I would drive up from Winchester as well.  Driver always brag about the track when they win or finish on the podium except for Sammy but at least he tells it like it is.  Good old school racer.

I do find it interesting that every year this topic comes up and every year people feel the need to get in the argument. I don't think anyone is changing anyone else's mind at this point, but at least it's not another topic about "Kyle".

You are 100% correct.  And yes I will change my opinion when they do something with the surface.  I guess my hope for the year at Port is that it rains every Saturday morning up to about lunch time so the track gets some water on it.

Where did Port Royals winner start from (pole) where did Lincolns winner start from (15th).  Sound like Lincoln was a better race to watch.

Hey, it was a sunny but chilly and a breezy day. You got out of the house and you got to the track to racing. Live each day and enjoy it.

Pretty much. When I saw it was Port's opener this weekend I knew someone would make a post about the surface no matter what the condition. This topic always reminds me of what my dad and I discussed last year at Knoxville. I like Coca-Cola, he likes Pepsi. Always have, always will. When I go to his house, Pepsi will be in the refrigerator and if I want to drink a soda/pop (depending on where you live) I have to either drink Pepsi, remember to bring a coke, or find an alternative and vise versa when he comes to my house. Neither of us walk in and start lecturing the other everytime about our preference and why it is better than the others, or question the other's  IQ level for their taste, or lecture a waiter/waitress if we go into a restuarant if that resturant doesn't serve our preference. We like what we like and can tolerate the other and go on with our lives and don't waste other's time with our subjective opinion based on our own experiences because we are adults. Just because someone else likes the opposite of what I like doesn't mean it makes my enjoyment of what I like less significant to me and I don't need to convert anyone to make my experience more enjoyable either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH_b9XwloHE

I watched both races on Flo yesterday. Port Royal is better track. Two grooves, three when Dewease runs the middle. Cars against the fence, slide jobs every lap. The past 3 weeks at Lincoln, I've watched cars putt around the bottom huggy pole. The late models are great at Port too. Can't wait for Sunday's big block show either. 

Let's not talk about the surface at the grove today. Ole winged Strawser mite lose it.

Good. Stay home. That's all anyone ever wanted. Now that you'll never go again, you shouldn't feel the need to talk about it anymore right? But see, you still will because you're one of those people who are miserable and you like to shit on everyone who isn't as miserable as you. Therefore, you actually enjoy repeating yourself like a parrot about the same old thing you claim to not like. You don't hate Port Royal as much as you hate the fact that a lot of other people like Port Royal so your 4th grade intellect can't help but to compel you to project your own misery on them. It's pretty sad actually. If you weren't such a negative, loud mouthed, underachieving know nothing asshole, I'd probably feel sorry for you. 

No, I am telling you the truth.  There are many tracks in this area that I don't have to go to the Port o Potty.  I have a lot of live in person from PA to Iowa all with better surfaces than the Juniata county ashalt track.

Let's go Sprint Car Racing!

Knoxville - Best Track In the USA!
Eldora - 2nd Best Track in the USA!

Did not go today but watched it on the tube.  Put me in mind of Port Royal.

Yes there is and I am going to Lincoln next weekend.

Port O Potty, now thats a good one!!  Spot on!

Did you see Friday nights race of the Outlaws.  Track was spot on for the feature.  Track changed a lot during the feature.....that is how every track should prepare a track.... nobody is talking about hammer down wet tracks.  However, with how hard they run in tracks in today's racing you have to put more water on it than the Juniata county ashalt oval does. Snooze fest most nights if it weren't for Larson showing up last year!!

Let's go Sprint Car Racing!

Knoxville - Best Track In the USA!
Eldora - 2nd Best Track in the USA!

That's good news. Now, how 'bout you find a way to quit talking about it? You're like the guy that just can't stop talking about his ex- very boring company.

You're comparing apples to oranges. Port isn't a 1/3 bullring like the track the outlaws were at. It's a big fast 1/2 mile. You prepare it the same way you prep a bullring and it will be hammer down, no passing around the cushion. "Slick to a curb" produces the best racing at Port Royal and even then most of the cars are up top banging it off the guard rail. Youy ask any driver there and I'll bet all of them will yell you the track is better to race on when it slicks off. That's when you have to use the throttle and can pass. Puts the driver back into the equation.

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I used to like a fast tacky track too. That was what produced the most exciting racing a few decades ago but with todays technology and mechanical evolution, the cars are too locked down and too even to produce much passing on a tacky, hammer down 1/2 mile track. The slicker track produces better racing and is easier on equipment. It is still nice to see them wind it out every once in awhile and mother nature usually provides a few nights like that. IMO the racing at Port the last 3-4 years is the best I've ever seen at the track. They have topnotch clay and that definitely helps too.

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