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July 07, 2010 at
10:45:01 PM by mjm sleepy
After noticing SPEED Channel talking & promoing the big $$ Legends Cars race at Charlotte that pays ( I think) $1,000,000 , I wondered why they never took off here.
I know this is probably an old topic that has been re-hashed again & again. But if a racing event is paying that kind of $$ and there is not any mention of it in this state it makes me wonder WHY they were never a successful class anywhere around here.
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Posted By: mjm sleepy on July 07 2010 at 09:52:24 PM
After noticing SPEED Channel talking & promoing the big $$ Legends Cars race at Charlotte that pays ( I think) $1,000,000 , I wondered why they never took off here.
I know this is probably an old topic that has been re-hashed again & again. But if a racing event is paying that kind of $$ and there is not any mention of it in this state it makes me wonder WHY they were never a successful class anywhere around here.
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Alot of those guys run pavement. That might be more that anything.
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
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stands at times of challenge and controversy."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Erich Petersen
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July 08, 2010 at
09:38:47 AM by CAM
Well, there was a few racers that ran dirt here in oklahoma and we ran at plenty of different tracks that would allow people to get to see them and talk to us about purchasing them. They could have been easily added to a track as a class of cars to run on a weekly basis. And we did for a few years at Joplin's 66 speedway. The feeling i got from other drivers was that the little cars were too little, more like a toy car. Yes, the cars were made to originally be ran as an asphalt or maybe a road course car, but as a dirt oval car, they were alot of times the fastest cars at the track by the stop watch. Unless a sprint car or micro sprint was there. For about $5.00, yes $5.00 in pump gas from circle K or 7/11, you could race a purpose built race car for a weekend show. Sealed motors that last all year maybe two. A set of tires to run all year on at your local dirt track. That would be a great tire bill!!!! compared to using a number of 704's and G60's. The rules for the cars are the same from north carolina to california and from north dakota to south texas.
But at one time there was a group of legends cars that ran here in oklahoma at lawton, ada, clinton, salina and pocola on dirt and no one really wanted to commit to running at one track. That's when it moved to joplin were the class did pretty well, until the speedway closed.
But i will say it again, toy cars is probably what went through alot of minds. Not a real motor, just a bike motor? Running on street radials? Not race car tires? Fiberglass body, not sheet medal?
my $0.02
Cam Case 3 x dirt legends national champion
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