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Glad the feature got rained out last night at the Slow/Dust Palace because it would have been horrible!!  Made the bad decision to go to the Port only because of the special night planned.  The best performance on the night was the 6 yr old singing the National Anthem as he did a wonderful job.  Probably he could have done a better job on the track.  Really felt bad for the guys in the flag stand and people sitting on the front stretch.  Worst spent $40 of any race night this year.  

The thing that pissed me off the most they new rain was on the way  yet the clown absolutely could not stop patten his ass on the back and needless drug out the intermission Hey dude you could have gotten the sprint feature in. I think you owe us a discount 

I watched on FLO. The first 20 minutes was people standing around talking instead of racing. Per a twitter post apparently one of the speakers said somethign to the extent of "i don't care if there is rain in the area". Sure enough, you lost your feature. Not trying to show disrespect for the significance of the evening but that is a big WOW if it is true. 

Agree.

Yes I believe it was the promotor himself Steve O'Neal who said that.  I do agree the Fair Board should received all the accolades for the great facility but none at all for the track surface.

Yes I believe it was the promotor himself Steve O'Neal who said that.  I do agree the Fair Board should received all the accolades for the great facility but none at all for the track surface.

Hey look, WingedStrawser has come in for his weekly Port bashing.  If you don't like it stay home.  You must be the most insufferable human being on Earth. I'll give you one thing though. Unlike your brother Strawser, you at least go to the track. And no, O'Neal didn't say he did not care if there was rain coming.  He said something like " I don't like public speaking so I'll try to get through this because I know there is weather coming" or something along those lines.  Yes, the track conditions kinda blew but you don't see me being a whiny little brat and creating a thread to cry.  You and your brother do it all the time. You are like broken records, two peas in a miserable pod, lol.

i don't understand the port bashing either.  i saw one of the semifeatures and dewease and marks had a good battle.  my favorite comment about port that didn't make any sense was "the only way to pass is through a bunch of sliders".  i thought that was how you pass on dirt?

True, it was blowing dust down the straights badly by the the end of the semi-features but the racing wasn't bad by any means. Who knows how it would have held up for the features? The feature racing there has surprised me many times before after I thought the track was used up, so I'll give the track the BOD here. They've earned it. I agree about the messing around, showed no urgency to get the show in at all. Maybe it wouldn't have mattered, but they would have at least got the sprint feature started and maybe completed if there weren't many cautions.

I really like the format for the dream race! The $2000 to win 15 lap semi-features are much more interesting than heats that pay nothing. The double heat/passing point system is unfortunately becoming more and more poular for big shows but that's 16 laps of heat racing that pays nothing and puts the fastest cars upfront(see lincoln last wednesday). I wish tracks would ditch that and use a format like the dream race for their big shows.

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LOL!  I noticed this morning the asphalt oval over in Port Royal was racing last night.  I didn't see anything about it until this morning.......Sounds like just another evening of Razor Steve doing what he normally does, preparing a junk track.   A slip and slide...hard, black, and dry track again.  I don't like Nascar.....I would rather watch paint dry than to see that type of racing!!!

Let's go Sprint Car Racing!

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Port Royal got the exact result they wanted. The crowd was poor for a big paying event, so they hoped they could add the feature on to a future race and draw a larger crowd. I can assure you no one was happier that it rained at that exact time than the promoters. They had no desire to get the race in. If they did, they would have got it in. 

You went to a race & you're glad it rained out????

Cutting off your nose to spite your face!

What was the format?

I was watching Allstars on Flo...

Do you EVER HAVE ANYTHING GOOD TO SAY ABOUT PORT ROYAL??? You are worse than a 16 year old Drama Queen with PMS. If every driver in the entire world said Port Royal is a Great track wth a Great Pre Race track Prep you would bitch saying they were paid to say that.

Lincoln when the WOO were there last, was terrible, and was a frigging train with NO PASSING worth talking about, I didnt hear one word from you or your Alter Ego about the terrible track conditions, and if you did comment on it, it wasnt worth talking about because it was so miniscule.

Do us all a favor stop trashing Port Royal week in and week out because I for one am tired of all you negative Bullshit.  The drivers dont bitch about it and they keep going back, so Port Royal must be doing something right.  In fact when the drivers do comment on how GOOD the track was/is you turn around and say the track sucked.  

if anyone else is tired of thess 2 or 1 guy with 2 logins commenting about Port Royals sucky track feel free to chime in.  Like I stated earlier Im tired of all his Bullshit comments week in and week out about how bad Port is and How good Lincoln is even when Lincolns track sucks ass

Agree with you 100%

I enjoyed the WOO show at Lincoln.  Would much rather watch a freight train show than one of an ice skating rink!  And yes the Port was always my favorite track and great racing unit Stimely took over track prep.  But not all his fault, the track is wore out.  Need tons and tons of quality clay put down.

OMG did you even understand anything I wrote??  Oh wait my bad apparently you DID NOT Understand, because if I have to ask the question I know you couldnt have understood what i had written.

I just wish all tracks would figure out that you can't run hot laps in a half hour when you only put eight cars out for each session like they did when each division all went out a the same time.

Both Lincoln and Port got really poor crowds this week for $10k to win races. Just too many big events in PA and PA speedweek and the woo shows will always get the crowds. I know Covid screwed things up but the scheduling especially for Lincoln made no sense having 3 events in a row pay 10k to win. 

Agree. In fact the last three races at Lincoln have had dismal crowds. The WoO race is usually a money maker for Lincoln and that night (weather was all around the area)  the crowd looked on the small side especially for an Outlaw show. Did anyone else notice that since the reboot from Covid that all of Lincoln's races have been a minimum of $20 admission price? That could be a factor as fans just don't have the desposable income like before to spend on entertainment. Port Royal has also been holding a steady schedule of "special shows" with increased admission prices...Just food for thought.