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May 06, 2025 at
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Posted By: hiroshimacarp on May 06 2025 at 10:48:56 AM
is it possible the hl/woo split has taken away some of the enthusiasm from fans and that's why there's less conversation around here? i mentioned the technical issues but maybe there's more going on.
i saw brad sweet's gold car over the weekend and thought about how cool it would be to see it in pa and take pictures of it. then i remembered he won't be here. on the flip side...i'd love to see guys like rico and sunshine come through more often.
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I don't think it's anything as identifiable as that. It's basically just the world changing. At one time, I was active in 4 racing messageboard forums and 1 non-racing forum. I'm now down to one racing forum-this one- and one non-racing forum that I haven't visited in so long that I couldn't remeber it at first.
The world of how race fans communicate and how they watch races has changed so much that racing message boards, and all others for that matter, are becoming obsolete. The majority of race fans have migrated to things like Facebook, Tik Toc, whatever. To a large extent, a lot of race fans have migrated from weekly attendance at a real racetrack to watching online, or drifted away to watcg something else online.
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May 06, 2025 at
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Posted By: BStrawser26 on May 06 2025 at 02:03:33 PM
You are the playing both parts as dumb and dunber!
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Yep, I see you too! Our local tracks start operation this weekend. Which race track are you going to this weekend?
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May 06, 2025 at
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Posted By: BStrawser26 on May 06 2025 at 02:03:33 PM
You are the playing both parts as dumb and dunber!
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Dumb and dunber? Nice try there genius.
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May 07, 2025 at
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Posted By: hiroshimacarp on May 06 2025 at 10:48:56 AM
is it possible the hl/woo split has taken away some of the enthusiasm from fans and that's why there's less conversation around here? i mentioned the technical issues but maybe there's more going on.
i saw brad sweet's gold car over the weekend and thought about how cool it would be to see it in pa and take pictures of it. then i remembered he won't be here. on the flip side...i'd love to see guys like rico and sunshine come through more often.
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I know it's only early May, but to me the racing hasn't been that good so far. Seems like every race (HL and WoO) is being won from the front rows. It's the Gracel and Sweet show again, and we've seen that movie before.
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May 07, 2025 at
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Even as an Admin, I have had a hard time getting on that I just looked elsewhere because I thought thst the entire forum had to have been hacked.
"I was so loose out there that could hardly get back
in line for the restart", Bobby Allen circa 1996 (?)
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May 08, 2025 at
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We have WoO in Posse land and still dead.
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May 08, 2025 at
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Posted By: saphead on May 08 2025 at 09:54:07 AM
We have WoO in Posse land and still dead.
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This board lost most Posse fans a good while ago. First there was a crazy Canadian started a shitstorm every time Pa. came up and now you know who does the same.
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May 08, 2025 at
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been dead ten years. same ole' crap of lots of peopletrying to be "the dominant poster" bad mouthing relevant people, after all we all are relevant in this world, name calling, do wngrading people...its seen its day...
Ascot was the greatest of all time..
West Capital wasn't half bad either..
Life is good...
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May 09, 2025 at
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Posted By: Murphy on May 06 2025 at 05:28:49 PM
I don't think it's anything as identifiable as that. It's basically just the world changing. At one time, I was active in 4 racing messageboard forums and 1 non-racing forum. I'm now down to one racing forum-this one- and one non-racing forum that I haven't visited in so long that I couldn't remeber it at first.
The world of how race fans communicate and how they watch races has changed so much that racing message boards, and all others for that matter, are becoming obsolete. The majority of race fans have migrated to things like Facebook, Tik Toc, whatever. To a large extent, a lot of race fans have migrated from weekly attendance at a real racetrack to watching online, or drifted away to watcg something else online.
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unfortunately the new ways of talking are mostly cesspools. i always look to see how many comments are made for a facebook post about a rainout. it's never less than 50. message boards tended to weed some of that out.
the drexel basketball message board i followed for years is also dying. most of them moved into a private group on slack which makes it harder for new people to find it.
i do think they're in search of a good story line this year. there's also a hangover from 4 or 5 years ago. how can it ever get better than 2020-2021 when sprint car racing in pa was the only thing going on?
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May 17, 2025 at
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Well that was a pretty good race at the "Porty Pot" tonight. Probably because of a little water or something. Anyway very entertaining wish I went.
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