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WoO Sprints Devil's Bowl

Put me in the camp of preferring 410 winged sprints on smaller tracks for better action.

Last 2 WoO half mile races Perris was very good, Devil's Bowl not so good.

Armyduke, is this the incognito way of saying a Coach K fan??

The worst president of my lifetime:
Ronald Reagan

Thanks

"Armyduke, is this the incognito way of saying a Coach K fan??"

Wow, that never occurred to me, & I'm a huge college hoops fan...

I'm with you small tracks.  Duke is my name. I was in the army my 5th of 21 years active duty when I got AOL for the first time and needed a handle.  I've been ArmyDuke ever since, not original I know.  And a blue devil basketball fan for over 50yrs also lol.  

Thank you all for being worthy of the service and providing me the honor to have the opportunity to have done it.  Great game great rivalry will not be the same I fear.  Coach K ends his career 50 wins and 50 losses against UNC pretty neat.  

I like both but in general I think the smaller tracks have better racing, depends on track shape and surface too. Path Valley and Kutztown are a little too small for 410's IMO, seems more like a novelty exhibition instead of a race. 3/8 seems to be about the right size to provide good racing and impressive speed. Bridgeport's new 3/8 configuration is amazing, wide, fast and racey. Lerverville is great too, think that one's 4/10. I think rounder tracks tend to be better than paper clips as well.

A

Tulare is a paper clip track and it has great racing! Placerville and Merced are very small 1/4 tracks and aren't too small for 410 races. 

Looking forward to the new Golden State King of the 
West series schedule! 

Winged sprintcars = the fastest and most exciting 
racecars on dirt! 

I liked the 410s at Path Valley during Speedweek a few years ago... wish they'd bring 'em back!

Some guy sitting next to me at the Grove last year was raving about Midgets at Kutztown last year, so I went, for USAC tour. It was great!

That looked even smaller than Path.... is it?

Yeah midgets are great on small tracks like PV and Kutztown. I think Kutztown is a little smaller than PV. I think a 1/4 mile can work for full size sprints as long as it's wide and banked enough.

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I once saw 360 sprints at a 1/3 mile track in NY(Woodhull) that was extremely paper clipped shape but it was also very high banked and very wide. The racing was good, unique place. 

A

after going to the Indiana sprint week....wingless on small track has got to be on the top of my list.....driving is the number one qualification to winning there...watching cars set up for the turns and almost like backing into the turns was so exciting to watch.so much that my brothers and I are going to the Indiana Midget week this year....cant wait

Totally agree!
I've been to both Indiana Sprint & Midget Weeks, but never to all the races (Usually either the East or West side of state but not both). Its excellent.... were you at Montpelier a few years back to see Larson & Bell battle it out in the Midgets? So much fun.... little country track too

" I think a 1/4 mile can work for full size sprints as long as it's wide and banked enough."

That makes sense

I think Linda's might be even smaller, no? Saw the USAC Midgets there too. I like the name... its like Linda had a big yard & decided to build a race track (which I think is pretty much the story?)

So your name is "Duke".... were you in Gomer's platoon?

Oh wait, that was the Marine Corps...

Never mind....

All tracks have ++  or --  as a famous crew chief {R I P  Doug Howells} once told me ; small tracks teach about  Traffic  & Big Tracks teach about Drivin My Personal Fav Is 3/8 as it seems 2 Incorporate All Facets I Also LoveBig Tracks 1 comes 2 mind that was BLINDING & SCAREY  FAST was W FARGO Red River Speedway  &if U have never stood in 3&4 @ Knoxville do UR self a Favor & try It on 4 size  

To build on the comment about speed and standing in Turn 3/4 at Knoxville....another excellent place to get a feel for the speed is at Eldora if you come out of the tunnel by Turn 3 after exiting the pits and climbing the steps and look towards turn 3....with the billboards on the backstretch you can't see the cars approaching until they all of a sudden "pop out" right in front of you and you then get a chance to watch them "compress" as they hit turn 3 still at full throttle.  Whenever I have a newbie going with me to Eldora, I make a point of standing there during a portion of the hot laps...usually see jaws drop when this happens (even for some seasoned sprint car fans).  

You guys should have gone to Port Royal back when they had the old bleachers that were basically right on top of the track. There was no grassy median, no walk way; the bottom row was about 3 feet from the outside wall of the track and you were at ground level. Talk about a rush, damn near blew your head off when they came flying out of turn 4. lol 

A

"happy to report that the following few years I was in attendance with a boob pressed into the back of my arm & repeated whispers of "anything you want" upon our return to the hotel after the races)"

What a guy!

You can stop now....