...but I'm pretty sure the very first Enuro was timed. Each team had to bring two scorers. One for your car and one for a random car.
You may be right about the first one in 82. (Although I seem to recall it was something like 125 laps) Maybe Laker77 can enlighten us...he was in it. But Enduro became a 250 lap thing very quickly. (For years I had an Enduro 250 hat hanging on the wall, and I bought that when Bert Lazoun (sp?) was still the souvenir guy, running his shop out of what is now the popcorn window.)
Also, the scoring clock like Justafan refers to is accurate, and I believe was used up till about 5 years ago.
They even ran a enduro 300 a few years back with a manditory gas stop in the pits. Making it so everyone has to pit. Will we ever get back there I think not and thats what sucks cuz i run one of the cars that is just mid pack. I love reading that everyone wants to bring back the old days but this will only happen if we pull all the old cars out of the race shops and old barns, If Delawarespeedway helps out with ya some rule changes. If not end the enduro class and make it something else cuz I ran with 160 cars and the was enduro. Not ss.
My memory is fading too but I beleive the first one was 250 laps, not a timed event. I will check some of my old archives to confirm.
To be clear....I never said a 4 banger couldn't be competitive. I said you'll never get 120 guys building them while the big cars are still the norm.
If you guys haven't already you can fix that problem by scoring them separately while they are on the track at the same time. A V8 class with top 3 and a 4/6 class with top 3.
You aren't going to get 120 cars over night, you need to build that with the same guys coming back. As it stands now, someone who wants to get into it comes out with an enduro car and gets their doors blown off by race cars. Looking like an idiot 50 laps down, basically wasting their time, keeps people from coming back.
For the 4 bangers you are never going to be able to police the engines with so many different types and chipped electronics. The rules need to be made in enforced so that isn't an advantage. 80 series tires no larger than 195, no cut or rate changed springs, no lowered cars, no offset rims NO camber or caster changes. Big motors will be limited by what can be inspected.
Same with the big cars. Take the handling away with things that can be inspected, high profile thin tires, again 80 series 195R14 max, no springs, no height adjustments, no welded rears, 7/8 sway bar max and big motor isn't going to matter all that much.
The 4/6 cyls are a class of there own in the enduros if u payed attention a little more you would know that. It's like a grand am race or lemans u have ur a div b div & 4/6 div all going for a separate pay and over all pay out I won 6 or less got a trophy and interviewed also got 22 overall
While we're on the topic of the "Good Ol' Days"...
Not sure what year these were taken, but Book can be seen in a Camaro in the second photo, so it's early to mid-90's