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Hoo boy!

I was impressed with what he has accomplished so far (especially at Knoxville), but after tonight... hats off.

Yep, i think he's "The Next Big Thing"

Not a whole lot of passing tonite.... but one lap track record was broken twice, so I bet Strawser was thrilled

He ran a good race, kept the car outta trouble, and didn't do something stupid and throw it away.  Keep in mind though that when the top 5 finishers finish largely where they started with the exception of Logan it kinda paints the story of how the track was.  Logan won his heat and ran faster lap times in his heat then he did on his pole run.  Hell, Lance was still cutting 16 second lap times in the B main.  Track was way way way too tacky to start and didn't widen out until really late.  That isn't Williams Grove fault though.  We have gotten a ton of rain here the last week and that's just part of the deal sometimes. 

Yea, I'm hoping it dries out a bit tomorrow & gets racier....

Schatz came from 22nd to 10th so there was some passing. Some of that was the double file restarts but I thought the A main was pretty good. 

It was nice to see the place packed on a prelim night in tribute to Hodnett. 

Not the track record, just the fastest lap of the year. Track record is 16.140 set on April 26, 2002. Tonight I think Shaffer got within a tenth in his heat, but I don't think that would have technically broken the record since I believe with most tracks you must do it in qualifying.

16 year old kid comes in to one tough track and its lightning fast. Meh, no big deal.... that was cool to see. I knew he had the faster car, but thought Gravel's experience and the narrow track would keep Gravel up front. Twas not to be.

As far as the weather, we now live in Seattle. They are actually shooting scenes for Platoon 2 in my backyard as we speak. 

The track should be a slicker and wider tonight, so we'll see. Hopefully its a good one. The track takes a lot of guff, and some of it deserved, but when they hit it out of the park, especially for an Outlaw show, there's nothing like it in PA. 

Here's hoping.

"Not a bad night"???? Really Strawser???? Every race with the exception of the feature was follow the leader. The two dashes could have been one lappers and the result would have been the same. OMG, if that was another track we know in central Pa. ol' SOBStrawser would be typing so much he'd have hand cramps.  The track was not good and the majority of the racing was boring.  Even the guy sitting to the left of us was falling asleep, lol.

No doubt the kid has a ton of talent and isn’t afraid to get up on the wheel, but I wouldn’t put him on top of the pedestal just yet. There's just too much other up, coming and already tearing shit up talent out there to say young Gio is "The Next Big Thing". I know that’s just your opinion and this is mine. But I bet you a beer I'm closer to being right than you are ....

Plus, I've seen the evil empire of PoonTang wipeout some very promising professional sports careers, so he still has that slippery bullet to dodge .... lol

Say what you will his first time at one of the toughest tracks for a traveler to win at and he cracked a can of wup ass on the possie and WoO. Just saying. See facts are facts in record books down the road. Won't say anything about track conditions or how many cars. We'll all see yonngest WoO driver to win A main and at the Grove his first time. Makes me think some possie feeling got hurt. Donno, just saying.

  From central coast of Cali.
   Peace, Out.

To your last point.........tell me about it, I know from experience dude. Except I was never promising at anything. 

Sad part about this kid, he’ll be in cup land before he’s 18? JMO

The track crew ran the surface 

in, every chance they got. The track was the same for everyone. If the cautions had not come out when they did. We would have seen the leaders in traffic. Then it would have been, game on. Gio did a great Job! Start up front. Stay up front. Gravel got to see how fast Speedway motors are. Lucas was solid all night. He had to put up with little Freddie's normal style of racing,  and had a strong third place finish. I imagine Tim Shaffer is not a fan of lil Fred

HAHAHAHA its happened to the best and worse of us ...!

Not missing at all. 

Had the chance to talk with his mom last year, very nice lady. IIRC, she said that Gio has his sights set for NASCAR, but that Dominic is happy to just run sprint cars forever.

True, there was some passing back in the field...

I stand corrected. Actually, I heard them say "fastest time of the season", but I typed this out late at nite & not thinking carefully

Well. I wasn't exactly "putting him on top of the pedestal", but at 16 yrs. old, he's got plenty of time to learn, compared to some other young guns in their mid to late 20s (?), like Shark team & Rahmer bros 

He seems to be learning fast.... damn fast!

Dom was on winged nation this summer and said it was the other way arond that Gio just wants to be an Outlaw.

I remember when a guy from Heyward Cal. came to the Grove and won on his first visiti hes now racing in Heaven Jan Opperman.

Would have really been great if they had put the 27 wing on the 71 they have alot of connections with the 13  nothing againt Paul glad he made the show hope Mike does win the points

And good luck to Tom ,Paul and the 13 in the All Star Final.