Just noticed this forum was kinda dead on the Barrie side of things so I wanted to know from a fans perspective what some of you people of thought of the first month of racing at Barrie this year???? For me one things stands out not a repeat winner in a feature this year shows good competitive balance in all classes this year!!!! And in the Lates to be honest I thought we could be in for a disappointment with the losses of such drivers as Gaunt and Watson but that couldnt be further from the truth with some of the former drivers that have come back Malcolm and Mcloed and Inglis among that group. Solid 17-18 LM car counts on the smaller track are just fine with me. Bit of a shock on Walters permormance this year but his car is all out of whack after hitting the wall week 2. I'm guessin it wont be long till Stompin Tom gets back on track to join the points battle as well!!!! What you guys think??? Who you like for the top 3 at seasons end???
I think Baker has a good chance in the late models, Ducette in the T/C, Crumbie might take the purestock A, and I'm guess It might come down to Monette and maybe Melson in the charger's.
gotta agree with blk flag wasnt sure about the late with all the ones that left but man so far its real good. glad the black flag came out last week to settle things down a bit, but overall think things are real good racing..chargers are putting on a great show, was a bit nervous at first hoping it would not be like 4 fun but turning out to be a great division..
Actually, I have a question for Barrie fans: Has the show changed much since the Speedway became "NASCAR" sanctioned? And I mean from the fan side of the fence.
Whats better, what's worse, what stayed the same?
We (or they) did that at Delaware a few years back and I'm just academically curious how Barrie's experience compares to ours.
Well Shadow as far as the show goes I dont see that many changes but I'm also a Speedway employee so maybe I dont have the proper perspective on this. There are some new changes around the track that I think will make things better but I dont know how many are directly attributed to being under the NASCAR sanctioning. We did get new safety lighting provided by one of the American companies affiliated with NASCAR and now having transponders should make for error free scoring but I think that credit should go to the owners at Barrie more than NASCAR itself. More changes are in the works I think including a possibly backstretch flagstand as well. Lots of nice new NASCAR signage and the Uniforms provided to Track officials look great!!! I know they were pushin the NASCAR memberships pretty hard up here but to be quite honest I dont know how the sales are goin but I would guess reasonably well!!!! Hope this answered some of your questions!!! Enjoy the season At Delaware, would love to go to that track myself for a Late Model race never been there in my life and I'm in my 30s!!! Enjoyed the Delaware Trucks at Barrie last year !! Any idea why they wont be makin a return visit this year??? Went over well with the fans up here was moderately disappointed not to see them on our sched this year!!!!