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1. Husets track conditions on Saturday night were dictated by David Gravel starting on the pole.

Both higher purse races won from front. Rubber was a factor. Sunshine gave a good effort. Skagitt format insures passing with invert but track too slick to make speed required to pass several cars. Both fun to watch wanted Sunshine to get extra $100k. The Focus midgets are similar to Knoxvilles Pro Sprints everyone takes a break.They do have starters!

Rework always makes the track 1 lined for at least 10 to 15 laps on every track. Essentially the beginning of the race is a waste since nobody can pass.

Husets hasn't figured out the track prep yet. Theoretically you'd have a 50 lap race on Saturday if you're going to do a ton of track prep before because the first 10-15 laps are one lane after a lot of work. But then the track seems to rubber up around lap 35 so you're left with 20-25 good laps regardless. I know they put a lot of new dirt on there and are trying things but it hasn't fully worked yet. 

Unsolicited track-prep advice from a guy who has never prepped a dirt track- My only angle is that I've been going to the races at Husets since 1984.

When the track starts muddy, by the end of the heat races the cars have thrown a lot of mud  up on the cusion. At that point, you have a really narrow, fast track that's going to take rubber. If you ran the features on that track, they'd probably be follow the leader around the bottom. Racers that tried to run against the curb eventually would either lose some spots or get to say hello to Mr. Wall in turns one or three.

The common fix is to rework the track. They used to just start at the top and grade all the built-up mud down to the bottom. More recenly they've  used equipment to rough up the top of the race track surface from top to bottom. This makes most of the racing surface look like a plowed field. At that point, they throw 20-24 cars out on an unkown surface and drop the green. That tends to lead to a bunch of uneventful laps punctuated by some nasty crashes. After about 10 laps, the track is run in and is then ready to race on. At a weekly show it's the late model street stock cars that get out there first and tear up a lot of equpment racing in a plowed field.

I say there's a better way: Rent some more quipment for big races and get the track converted to a plowed field twice as fast. Then, pay the late model street stock guys get out there and run about 20 laps until the track is run in. While they are doing that, have some close-out specials on all the leftover hotdogs and popcorn. Once the track looks good, pull in the stock cars and go racing! I think a fair price to pay the stock car guys would be something like some free WoO tickets, some fuel money and a certificate for a T-shirt at any of the merch, trailers.

I think doing this would make better races, cut down on bad crashes, sell more hotdgs. support the racers' mech. sales, and probably get the show finished sooner. Also, the stock cars will throw the loose mud up to the wall. The sprinters tend to launch it into the atmosphere- and eventually into the fans' faces. Reworking the track at Husets in the past has had a 50/50 chance of making for fantastic feature. They need to work on raising those percentages.
 

Hey Everyone. This post was really started under my account. It was done by a family member who is young under my name. No one attack anyone. The person at the top has nothing to do with anything. It needs deleted. 

thanks for understanding, no one is at fault but me leaving my computer logged in. Its been explained why and how track surfaces work to them. 

Thank you

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