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Just got home from 2 days of IRA Racing and tonight's MSA race at Charter.

To all the teams and owners and officials it was a pretty good weekend of racing but why do some drivers seem to like to bottle up all the starts and restarts. It really is not very entertaining watching cars stacking up before they get to the cone. I just don't see how this is entertaining at all. I am just wondering if there is something I am missing?

Good fast show at Charter both nights and the track was pretty good, not very wide but pretty good. Whitney and Rienke really run hard together and didn't even look as though there was contact.

The IRA story about Seymour was not very accurate as "I think" and I may be wrong but Rienke really put on a show, dry track but he was the only one on the wall and please correct me if I am wrong but I think he actually won by a half lap not 8 car lengths as reported. It was simply amazing to watch, sure hope he show's up at Charter for the Outlaws.

What a crowd at Seymour just simply very very large. I have yet to see a bigger crowd at a IRA race.

BK showed his stuff at Charter even with a smoking and evenually stopped Brad Kuhn in the Davis 6. BK passed for the lead before the yellow came out.

Rod

I think the "bottling up" you are seeing is a result of the officials cracking down on jump starts, and the drivers are making SURE they are all together and not going too early.

That track was pretty darn choppy Monday night!...BUT i had a blast on it!...

Nick-

What a drive! Running that higher line above the ruts and actually passing guys, if only you could of had a yellow to stack the field.

You loaded-up and take off right away? Didn't find ya pitside.

Was nice to see Wipperfurth and Kuhn in the winged Sprint and both ran really well until their issues.

Narrow track for most of the night and choppy ruts cost guys positions, mosquitoes, small crowd, but it was alright.

Whoa!

We lost Jim Wipperfurth (Joe's dad)....

www.MSASprints.com

I saw the medical crew assisting at the No. 2 pit last night, but I am not one to gawk at that kind of stuff, so I just hoped for the best at who the EMT's were assisting. That was Jim?

Condolences to the Wipperfurth family and this caps a very tragic weekend in our sport.

Sad news indeed!... I had the honers of meeting Jim a few years ago threw a fellow mini sprint racer he helped out alot... Jim was the greatest guy with a awesome personality always busten my balls some way or another when i saw him...He was always willing to help anyone out and helped me out over the past 2 years..

Im gonna miss you buddy!

Midwest, the bottling up I am referring to is the very slow start's. The lead guy just set's a very slow pace and everyone behind him is ready to go, seen it way to often and it does not make for very good starts and restarts when car's are running over each other as was the case Monday night. In my eye's IRA and MSA have a real problem and it needs to be fixed.

A more steady rolling type of pace would have prevented the 2 from ending up on the hook. The restart was just way to slow. The B main was not much better when they are flipping before the flagstand. It is just not fun to watch cars crashing before they even get to the cone. It is just not fun watching cars crashing period.

I have seen it many of times at Knoxville where cars that were jumping got a one way ticket to the back "not one row but all the way baby". Seen it happen to Sammy and Mark at the Nationals.

I don't understand why a car jumps and the yellow come's on and there is no penality. One IRA car did it 2 nights in a row and well I guess it is ok. It just does not thrill me at all I know it is hard to understand what nose to tail and side by side until you reach the cone mean's.

Real Real sorry to hear about Jim Wipperfurth sad news indeed.

Rod

i dunno if any of you were at the race sunday in manitowac. but that was horrible flagging by the officials. Why were they given the one to go in the feature with a car still stalled on the track attempting to be refired. BK who was a hard charger again sunday night, considering it was his first time in a 360 sprint. everyone ahead of him bottle necked and he got up over a wheel busting some stuff in the front end of the car taking him out of the race. then again monday at charter he got screwed out of a win when the officials screwed up the lap counter and started taking laps away that they thought they accidently added when they didnt. both nights were poorly flagged.

My prayers go out to the Wipperfurth family. Wip was a great man! He is going to be missed a ton by the racing famiy.