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Donny looked good at Eldora. Rainout Sat. Rico looked good Sat in Texas where Larson shines is the shorter rougher tracks where He seems to enter corners with more speed on long smooth tracks hard to make up speed as cars are all fast. I read Larsons tenative schedule for May and hard to beleive with Indy500 plus Nascar and HL how many races He has planned,

That's all he's got to show for it? With the one and only Ricky Warner, the king-maker as his crew chief, shouldn't he be winning everything? Or, were you wrong about that too?

I think its pretty clear that Warner has helped Rico, & did great things with Donny. If Strawser wasn't obsessing about him, it wouldn't even be a debate. He's a terrific crew chief, not a Magician!

I'm glad you asked Strawser.  Here are the stats:

Rico, since Ricky Joined the team:   33 wins in 220 races.  A very respectful win every 6.7 races.

Donny, when he was 30, 31, 32 and 33 years of age (like Rico is now), with Ricky on the wrenches (prorated for this year's partial season):  60 wins in 236 races.  A win every 3.93 races.  

Oh wait, you meant how is 47 year-old Donny doing now compared to 33 year old Rico?  Why would we compare that?  What's next, are you going to claim Cory Eliason is better than Sammy because Sammy hasn't won a 410 race this year?  

Rico is only going to get better and better. Thankful I've been able to see him run Knoxville  during non WOO and Non Knoxville Nats nights and could tell he's made progress. 

Would be a popular win for sure in August on Saturday night. I love Larson but his popularity in winning the Nats has wanned. 

Keep It Real

There's a lot of variables and everything has to go his way but I agree he should be right there. On the Outlaw night, if that race were to go a couple more laps I think the 57 would have taken the win. I'm with you though, Even though I love to watch Larsen race, I want to see someone besides the 57 in Victory lane.

I still want to see them go back to old school and bring back the full 10 car invert. 

Agree with most of what you're saying.  Even as a Larson fan, I would have been just as excited last year to see Gio go up and make the pass for the lead and the win.

However, I do not want to see them go back to a 10 car invert.  Having Robert Bell caliber cars on the front row of a heat on prelim night would be a disaster.  And because the car counts are hovering right around that 100 number every year, there would be some very slow cars starting off these heats.  8 car inverts at least puts the 80 fastest cars in the invert and leaves the guys 2 seconds off the pace in the back where they belong.  

the 15 looked awesome at Lincoln last night!  12th place finish he was really motoring!  If they ever get that car to handle he could be a factor again.  But until then he is an also ran!

Let's go Sprint Car Racing!

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