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Cant understand why when it comes time for a big race at Selinsgrove there is always something to take cars away this time there is three things The Jim Ford Classic at Freemont will keep all the Ohio guys in Ohio except the All Stars minus Tim Shaffer going to Freemont.

The Canadian Nationals will take Mark Smith to Canada maybe some other 360 guys.

Gio Selzi back in Cal. for the weekend Parker Price in Canada so it looks like Brown and the All Stars against the Posse minus Dewease .

Lets hope all the locals support it may be the last chance to make good money with the Outlaws coming for all the other big races except Lincoln.

I'm thinking about 30 to 35 cars. That's plenty! 

I agree.....still not sure why a lot of Central Pa teams don't support the track. I am looking forward to Saturday. It looks like the weather will cooperate.

No zemco car. They have always supported the track but guess the driver don't wanna. 

So Nelligan can rub it in everyone's face when Tony or Brownie wins.

IMHO a "dream team" should be able to travel 106 miles for a $10,000.00 to win all star show on a saturday night.  considering the fact they traveled 96 miles last friday for a$10,000.00 to win all star show.

Long time powder blue 69k fans first developed in the early to mid 80's at Selinsgrove when it was winning everything in sight there including a $50,000 show at selinsgrove continue to be disappointed.

According to her schedule, Don will be at Lincoln Saturday because his daughter Kassidy is racing in a 305.

I'm sure they're able to, but they choose not to

Its their option

You mean Tony Stewart? No way he's winning

Brian Brown? definite possibility....

Selinsgrove is a big boys track with serious corner speeds at both ends, that does keep some teams away. Car count will be fine, weather looks good and I plan on enjoying a race at my favorite half mile track in south central PA. Tonight I gotta settle for the other grove but I'll be glad to see my friends and hope for a decent race.

X-100 that was just flat out hard racing.  Kudos to Selinsgrove and most importantly the drivers for the courage to entertain all the fans in attendance tonight.  

Just got home from my favorite half mile and am still grinning. That kid in the 51 might have some talent. Exciting night of high speed sprint car racing and an efficiently run program.

The All Stars tweeted out that the radar gun had Lucas Wolfe doing 136 mph into turn 1. 

Yeah Steve Inch selinsgrove announcer and Blake ASCoC announcer said Lucas's 136 during his heat race and also Aron Reutzel time trial lap where he missed Pitman's track record by .06 entering turn 1 at over 140mph.

I believe the late great Bob Weikart  said "selinsgrove is the Knoxville of the east."

GREAT RACE!! But does anyone understand the open red after 14 laps and was hardly any caution laps ran?

I read because the cars were sucking too much fuel due to the conditions and there were concerns about drivers running out before the 30 laps.

There is no doubt that Selinsgrove is hands down the fastest track in Pennsylvania. When the track is like it was last night, the speeds are downright frightening. I had to miss my first National Open/Nace Memorial in 12 years last night. Judging by the highlight video, it looks like I missed a good one. And props to Selinsgrove for running an efficient program and getting everyone out of there at a decent hour. That's a rare deal in PA these days. If Williams Grove had run a tighter program on Friday likr Selinsgrove did (aside from the issue with the leaking fuel cell after the crash in turn 4. Nothing they can do about that) they would've been able to get the show in before that shower passed over and rain it out even with the delay due to the crash on lap 1.

The efficiently run program part is something that needs to become a focus of all the tracks around here. You could fill a lot of the empty seats at NFL games with all the fans who walked away from our sport over the years due to bullshit like we saw at Williams Grove on Friday. Us diehards don't care as much but the casual fans who have families certainly do. Too many classes, too much time wasted on pill draws, not starting on time and just overall unnecessary downtime are things that we see way too much of at a lot of these tracks. 

How right you are. I sickens me when I see a family of three or four with a child or two walk away from the race track before the best race of the night is to be run. Usually because as you say, too much bullshit getting in the way of the racing. Chances of those folks coming back is pretty slim. Dad by himself or with some friends maybe, but hard to get the wife and kids back I would bet. It's time I think for the track promoters to understand that the hook to keeping people coming back is to guarantee the top billed class of cars gets their A Main in every night before the late hours arrive. If that means it's the first Featured event, so be it. It's either that, or again as you state, cut the number of support classes. I'm not sure what you are referring to that took place at WG, but I can guess. Another thing to consider is to have some sort of entertainment specifically for the kids during the down time. Another thing I would recomend the tracks do is have an exit survey at the gate for those folks leaving early. That would open some eyes! Ask people flat out why they are leaving before the event is complete. The answer is obvious, but hearing it first hand might make a difference.

I know it not ok to disagree  with  the  usual experts on here but  really if you actually go to the races you would know that wg,pr,lincoln is always done b4 midnight name a race you went to that wasn't?And you would realize it all depends on amount of wrecks, severity of wrecks and other factors and do you really want to pay more money for less races?Let me get this right you wanna pay 30 bucks to drive an hour to be home in two hours ? If you have to be home by 10 whats the point of going.And if you actually went to races and you didnt notice selinsgrove runnin 2 heats for 9 street stocks or whatever they called them was among the stupidest thing i have ever seen but you didnt bitch about that.  It is on the weekend kids can stay up past 9 maybe you cant but most kids can. I dont blame wg for friday because it was litterally the only spot it rained in the whole state.Live a little bit try staying up past 9 on the weekend.And get off of the computer and go to the races and enjoy or just stay home and shutup .The races were to long,the track wasnt right,the cars were goin too fast , there was people having fun near me,waaawaawaa stfu go to races and enjoy what you get!