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You do realize you would be seeing much better racing with more h3o on the track don't you?  Now I understand you don't care if the racing will be better!  Razor Steve and the slip and slide.  Together what a joke they are!!

Let's go Sprint Car Racing!

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

Yes sir here here you are.  The Hell with Nascar!  Stay on dirt Kyle!!

Speedweeks best races so far;

#1 Lincoln race #1

#2 Williams Grove race #2

#3 Hagerstown

#4 Grandview

#5 Selingsrove

#6 Lincoln race #2

#7 Port Royal race #1  

#8 Williams Grove race #1

On to the slip n slid slow palace tonight.  Hope it rains a little this afternoon.

So 1st and 2nd finish where they start and the winner wins by 5 seconds.  So you like to watch qualifying rather than racing?  No passing?  Thats what you like?  To each their own I guess.

EVERYBODY I talked to after Lincoln & Selingsgrove said if you did like and enjoy those 2 races, then you don't know great sprint car racing.  Don't believe me, ask Barry Skelly at Lincoln tonite when you see him.

What about Lincoln 2 weeks ago????

What's h3o? Is that some new element or something?

Why can't people just enjoy that here in Cent Pa we have several top notch tracks to enjoy racing on. All just a bit different, requiring different set ups. The track prep can be hit or miss, just like car setups. Have you ever seen a car work perfect everytime? I watched Lincoln #1 and was off my seat, Selinsgrove was almost better. Both leader won by couple seconds by the last lap, it was some of the best back and forth racing i have seen in awhile. So lets stop bashing tracks, done great for us in politics, right?

I dont know who straser is but until he is working at a track doing prep, he needs to STFU

So Selinsgrove is dry, slick, tt's over a second and a half off track record (tough to even break 18 seconds by the end) and it's great track prep but when Port is the exact same it's terrible? Hmmm. Gotcha! I did think Selinsgrove was great last night and it reminded of the racing at Port Royal every week - cushion inches from the wall, wide, smooth and slick, multi-groove racing with back and forth position changes all through the field, great back and forth race for the lead that lasted about 5 laps late in the race. Great show! Racing on 1/2 mile tracks is much better when it's slick than tacky. Smaller tracks are different since you have to lift to begin with so they race better a little wetter and tackier IMO. Lincoln was race was fantastic Saturday night, best race I've seen this year. All 3 SW races have been outstanding shows. I hope it keeps going like that. 

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You are spot on here.  I enjoyed the race last night, but I felt like I was at Port Royal. Yet Strawser and WingedStrawser will say it was fantastic, which it was for a while.  But it was the mirror image of a typical Port Saturday night. Can't wait for Wednesday and Saturday!!!!

Of the guys who finished in the top 12 last night, only three guys were in the 18 second bracket for their best laps (Dietrich-18.751, Macri-18.757, and Abreu-18.838). Everyone else was in the 19's.

Of the guys who finished in top 12 last night, only two guys were in the 19 second bracket for their final lap (Dietrich 19.775 and Cisney 19.948). Everyone else was in the 20's or 21's.

By the way, I am not commenting on the race because I wasn't there, nor did I watch online. I just wanted to provide some stats to go with Holden's post.

I didn't comment on Selinsgrove from this past Sunday.

Let's go Sprint Car Racing!

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

Sometimes I fat finger the keyboard.  If you can't figure it out and the track crew at Port can't figure it out for sure.  They always lose the keys to the water truck or it is broken down!

Let's go Sprint Car Racing!

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

Since you asked....

It was slick but you could still get a grip on the track unlike the Port.  Grip all over the track.  Port has zero grip that place is a slip and slide all the way and all night long!

Let's go Sprint Car Racing!

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

100% spot on!

Oh no.  It's 3:00 in the afternoon at the Port and the track is already run.  This ought to be a good one.

Like Larson said in his interview last Wednesday.  This place really is really slick....we weren't ready for that.  We will be the next time.

That is the way it is all night long at the port when they race.....slick and sliding all over the track....instead of the speed palace they need to rename this place the slip and slide palace.

Let's go Sprint Car Racing!

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

I like seeing sprint cars slide and go sideways, as a matter of fact, thats what hooked me on the sport.

Me too!

Remember as a kid, wondering why Lois Lane couldn't tell that Superman & Clark Kent were exactly the same guy? It was pretty obvious, right?

I wonder if Strawser was wearing a "mild mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper" suit & Winged Speed was wearing a Superman getup, could we tell the difference?

Hahaha! He's got an answer for everything! Spoken like someone that's never actually talked to a driver that's raced at either track. Every driver that races at Selinsgrove, especially those that don't have much experience at the place, will tell you that Selinsgrove feels like it has no grip even when it's wet and tacky. That's why they tie the LR down way more than other tracks to get a good set up there.

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