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The speeds were incredible, thats for sure. Your number one problem when you are going that fast though is that there will be no small wrecks. There was a lot of torn up equipment today.

something break on shaffers car?  

HIs right rear came off in the A. Logan Wagner hit said tire and caught some serious air and had a hard hit.

Think 4 blown motors...great racing

Are the weels tetherd normally?

From pic I saw rear axle broke on Shaffers car causing the tire to come off. Really should get rid of the lightweight axles, same thing happend to Spencer Bayston's car also.

Some on here will say that nobody goes to watch the heat races. Of course, that opinion is one born of stupidity. I go for the entire show but really dislike time trials. For the first time in my 40 years of going to Port, the TT were exciting as hell. Watching to see who was going to be the next to lay down a blistering 14 second lap was great. The heats were so-so but it's racing, and that's why I go, unlike some crybabies. Overall a fantastic day of racing, even without a certain crybaby at the track. :)

I'll agree with you that the heats usually suck, but if I'm paying good money to get into the stands I'd really like to see some good heat racing.   

Usually when the heats are excellent the feature stinks, unless major track prep occurs in between.

I watched on DirtVision yesterday and the track looked great. 

On a side note, and not getting into the Posse/Outlaw debate, but that was a lot of money the outsiders took out of PA yesterday. 

The WOO winning any money from the Tusky was the biggest downfall of the event. It has always been a race for the locals & should remain that way.

PS  Not a fan of it with an All Star sanction either.

Damn right that was exciting. I don't mind time trials but they rarely put me on the edge of my seat. Yesterday, they did. Then the track widened out as the day went on and we saw some very good racing. I have been critical of Port's track prep in the past but the last several races, it's been dead on the money. They can still get it plenty wide without it being bone dry. When Port is like it was yesterday, it's hard to beat.

I watched on Dirtvision and I agree the racing was great! As far as heats and T/T go, if I don't see all of the hotlaps, T/T and heats I feel like I have been cheated. That's how we did it when it was my Dad and I attending the races, and it's still the way I do it today!

A lot of odd things happened yesterday to make that worse. Dewease wrecking all by himself, Marks breaking something sending him across the track to get punted big time, Logan Wagner wreck that there was nothing he could do about, Lucas Wolfe was going to be third until his engine started to sputter the few laps putting him back to sixth, T.J. Stutts was headed for a top five and his hood came apart with six or seven to go, Detriech had a flat tire and restarted in the rear and came back to seventh. I guess it was one of those days when shit happens and yesterday a lot of it did.

Yep! And Haubstadt is the only track I've witnessed with the equipment to do major track prep multiple times throughout the night. Other than that track you usually get good heat racing with a dry slick feature, or wet n heavy (some might say follow the leader) heat races with a good feature.

Great race,weather, car count, track, etc. Would have been nice to see more west coast guys.

I thought the second half of the feature was good with quite a bit of of passing after the track widened out some. It would have been nice to have that earlier as the heats were single file no passing and not a whole lot of passing first 20 laps or so of feature. Good thing it was 50 laps. Other than the NTR, the racing was OK but not really anything to write home about. They did do a hell of job working that track to get it as good as they did though. Track crew deserves an A+ for that.

PS. Need to get rid of those stones in the infield parking/work area. They were drug across the track from the cars going to the pit area. Caused a few flats, blown tires. Looked like LD might have blown a tire the way his car made a right turn into the wall. 

PS2. Really dumb IMO to invert top 4 in the heat races and then reward the heat winners with top starting spots. Just start them heads up and reward the best timers. Otherwise it doesn't even make sense having them. No passing in the heats anyway. 

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The heat invert sucked! The purpose of time trials is to put down the fastest lap a driver can, so there should be a reward, not a penalty. The only invert that works is an invert based on pre determined heat race line ups, like the All Stars use, combo'd with a points system. Otherwise, great race. Too bad dirt track camera crew/producers don't know how to find and follow the racing action. Way too much time at the very front of the field when there is little action there. With the movement from the back of the field there should have been a lot more coverage of guys like Rahmer Jr, Pittman and others coming forward during, not just at the end of the Feature. Screw the speed shot camera on the front stretch wall! Hire a camera person and move it upstairs for additional coverage options of the field.

wow that was some show  !!!!!

fast times.. great racing

except for a few bad spots on turn 1 and turn 3 the track was awesome

freddies (16) run and pittman (23) came from the back for a podium finish

brian brown was a loser with the invert for the heat race. set the track record and has to start 14th in the A

talk about a stacked field of cars ....51 cars.... there wasn't a filler car in the A main...all top quality cars

had to LOL when they BOO'ed schatz in victory lane....POSSE fans are the best true fans

Watched on Dirtvision. Racing was good all night. Some crazy wrecks what with Marks break and the Logan Wagner nearly clearing the ballpark. Dewease getting into wall and breaking his front axle out. Lots of $$$ lost on wrecked equipment but every one was gunning for that big prize and it showed. Port is definitely near the top of my list for destination tracks to go to.