Forum: HoseHeads Sprint Car General Forum (go)
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Last week on this board there was a discussion on whether Fred Rahmer should change his chassis because he is running a GF1 chassis and not having his usual success. Yet last night, Dale Blaney gets a win at Port Royal running a GF1 chassis for the first All Star win in Posse country in a long time.Recently, Frank Cozze gets his first career win driving a sprint car after switching to a GF1 chassis. Cody Darrah and Rick Lafferty also won recently in a GF1 chassis. So my question is it the chassis or the driver when it comes to winning?. Could a Donny Schatz jump into a GF1 and have the same type of success?

YOU ARE RIGHT.A WINNER IS A WINNER.AND LOSERS WILL ALWAYS BE LOSERS

I do not think people on forum have any idea in the world what the deal is, so why ask

I have always been of the opinion that teams do things to there cars that other team do not know about. Some go forward, some go back and still other don`t have a clue.

I guess what I was wondering if the same drivers would win as many races as they do regardless of what chassis they run. In Rahmer's case, if he is sruggling, but others are winning with the same type of chassis, could it be a confidence issue? If all the top dogs currently running say a Maxim switched to another brand of chassis, I personally think they would still be on top. The cream always rises to the top.

there is six -seven chassis manufactures that can have thier name on the podium on any givin night each chassis has it nich so to speek, GF-1 in my opinion seems to have the most, nothing wrong with that and if a driver performs well in thier product than the loyalty will continue with that brand, its not rocket science, funney how racers will think they need brand K shocks, brand Q rearends, brand R bars, and a big name under the hood, sure it all helps, but, the formula to winning isnt a exact # or part you have to have. THE #1 item any driver needs is his confidence, if he doesnt have that, dont bother unloading all the other parts bolted together in the trailer, I think JS latest artical in SM was quite interesting to read, if your a racer and have ever struggled,won , or somewhere inbetween, you know exactly what he is talking about,

I have built,and mantained race cars for many many years. When I see a post like this I laugh!! In racing there is to much" monkey see monkey do!!!" Must chassis are manufactured pretty much the same way. What makes one car better than another??? No one really knows!! I worked for a chassis manufactor, we used the same jig to build the sides, built the every chassis the same way, welded every chassis the same way, the bottom line is you never really know what the end result will be until you put it on the track!!

We can all buy the same parts( rears,chassis,motors)...... It is what you do with those parts that sets you a part from the rest!!!! I know at times we use to give our fellow racers something to look at!!!