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January 11, 2010 at
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Posted By: Hawker on January 11 2010 at 07:30:31 PM
What's your point?
Are you telling the world that for once, Murdock will be running up front and not causing 15 yellows in a 10 lap race???
If you're implying that "since your not racing you can't say shit"....PLEASE, save your breath, because IF I were to enter in the CB, it would be with something with a possibility of at least finishing a race.
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So would you fabricate your own chassis, spend your own money with little sponsorship and take the ridicule Johnny does IF you were to enter Mr. Hawk? Give the guy a break.
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January 11, 2010 at
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How does one get in and out of that contraption? I hope he doesn't need to get out of that thing in a hurry.
"If you're gonna run the bottom, you might as well get
a real job."
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January 11, 2010 at
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Posted By: bmarafan on January 11 2010 at 07:54:13 PM
So would you fabricate your own chassis, spend your own money with little sponsorship and take the ridicule Johnny does IF you were to enter Mr. Hawk? Give the guy a break.
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No, I would go buy a 10 year old Stealth with a Pontiac Quad 4 and finish in front of the "Zero".
BTW, I wasn't ridiculing Johnny, Just calling a "spade a spade", the results speak for themselves. In the 18 Chili Bowls I've been to, it's pretty apparent that the route that he takes sure doesn't seem to be the one to success. Now if he wins, even a heat race, I will be the first to post here that I was wrong.
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January 11, 2010 at
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hard to believe a helmet will even fit through that opening...better hope someone has cutting torches handy.
Lincoln 1845 ft/.35 mile T1=118MPH
Eldora 2287 ft/.43mile T3=135MPH
Port 2716 ft/.51 mile T3=TBD
Grove 2792 ft/.53 mile T3=135MPH
Selinsgrove 2847 ft/.54 mile T1=136MPH
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January 11, 2010 at
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Posted By: minthess on January 11 2010 at 01:15:14 PM
Siameze exhaust ports on a Ford?
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You obviously didn't get the reference. Go back to sleep.
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January 11, 2010 at
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I'm with BRR... how in the world will anyone over 3 ft tall/48 lbs fit in that thing?
Ingenuity and breaking the cookie cutter mold of today's cars... I'm all for it. Some people want to do it on their own terms. Some have zero interest in buying the same car as the next guy... they want to build a better mousetrap.
More power to anyone that goes out on a limb and builds something truly outrageous!
As was referenced... kudos to Andy Bondio and others that run a "one of a kind" chassis that we typically see at the Chili Bowl and nowhere near a USAC national race.
I love sprint cars... but the ingenuity and variety in midgets is extremely intriguing to me. A sprint car race has the same tires, same wing size, 1 or 2 hood designs... basically a bunch of Maxims and Maxim clones running chevy motors. The exceptions are truly infrequent.
There are more varieties of engines, chassis, etc. at this week's races than you'll see in 10 years of Knoxville Nationals.
The Chili Bowl ROCKS.
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January 12, 2010 at
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I wonder if the roof portion of the car will remain un altered, seems it would be a vision impairment? Even the full containment seats of today don't obstruct as much as that looks like it will , the whole thing just looks like a coffin, one step in maybe?, LOL, cudo's for stepping outside the box, but, as for setting a new standard, I dint think so.
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January 12, 2010 at
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"There are more varieties of engines, chassis, etc. at this week's races than you'll see in 10 years of Knoxville Nationals."
Definitely, that's a really unique thing not about the Bowl but midget racing itself. I just skimmed through the entry list and there are around 25 different chassis's and at least 30 different engine types listed in the field. It's something how Spike has just come to dominate dirt midgets now when five years ago you only saw 5 or 6 in the entire event. Hines was driving one when he won that year.
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January 12, 2010 at
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There were the Ellis years, the Stealth years and now we're seeing the Spike years...
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January 12, 2010 at
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Does anybody know if he practiced that last night? Was wanting to see a picture of it on the track.
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January 12, 2010 at
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Posted By: WEAVER99 on January 12 2010 at 10:33:31 AM
Does anybody know if he practiced that last night? Was wanting to see a picture of it on the track.
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I'm sure the first guy that put a wing on a sprint car probably was laughed at too....I mean who cares, this is how the sport with innovation, so what if he fails. So did Thomas Edison about 2,000 times. At least the guy is having fun and thinking aboutside the box. I hope it runs decent.
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January 12, 2010 at
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Not for sure why your quoting me for, I just wanted to see a picture of it on the track.
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January 12, 2010 at
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Posted By: Some Guy In Texas on January 11 2010 at 09:29:16 PM
I'm with BRR... how in the world will anyone over 3 ft tall/48 lbs fit in that thing?
Ingenuity and breaking the cookie cutter mold of today's cars... I'm all for it. Some people want to do it on their own terms. Some have zero interest in buying the same car as the next guy... they want to build a better mousetrap.
More power to anyone that goes out on a limb and builds something truly outrageous!
As was referenced... kudos to Andy Bondio and others that run a "one of a kind" chassis that we typically see at the Chili Bowl and nowhere near a USAC national race.
I love sprint cars... but the ingenuity and variety in midgets is extremely intriguing to me. A sprint car race has the same tires, same wing size, 1 or 2 hood designs... basically a bunch of Maxims and Maxim clones running chevy motors. The exceptions are truly infrequent.
There are more varieties of engines, chassis, etc. at this week's races than you'll see in 10 years of Knoxville Nationals.
The Chili Bowl ROCKS.
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Since you have to be "stupid" to take anything to a 410 sprint car race other than a Maxim chevy, midget racers must be half nuts.
There should be 300 mini maxims with half a 305 under the hood there this weekend.
Luna's Ford engine style that won 2 WoO titles and 3
Kings Royals before a weight rule against the best EVER
in their prime and now DOMINATES super dirt late model
racing is no longer allowed/wanted in a WoO sprint
car.... Was Luna a miracle worker?
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January 12, 2010 at
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NICE!!!! haha. Who thought of that? You would almost have to be drunk to think of something like that.
I'd rather be in Knoxville.
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