I was at Delly for the first time in 2 years and must say the fries were great. It was great to see so many late models and they put on a good race. The street stocks were good and some tuff bumping and a few crashes made it exciting. I love the trucks and was shocked they only had 9. Big drop from having the most with like 22 when i was last there. But those 9 trucks put on a great battle and were all pretty even till the closing laps. Myself and 3 friends all thought it was pretty dark and the place is in need of more lighting. We didnt quite understand why cars coming out of the pits were being held a lap when they easily could have joined the rear of the field on the one to go lap. Maybe someone could explain. But it was a better show than i one we saw 2 years ago for sure.
We didnt quite understand why cars coming out of the pits were being held a lap when they easily could have joined the rear of the field on the one to go lap. Maybe someone could explain.
If you mean Mark Watson, we were trying to figure it out too. Then someone with a scanner said was getting a "delay of game" penalty for sitting on the track in turn 2 till the yellow came out. That's why he got held.
It was too bad, because he was having a classic dogfight with the 81 for 2nd spot. Those 2 guys were up one side of each other and down the other, all without wrecking. It was amazing to watch.
As for the trucks, yeah its too bad the numbers are down, and its hard to explain why, as I'm pretty sure its still the lowest buck Friday night class. It doesn't make much sense, but I understand there's a few reasons.
1. They've been inconsistent on the rules regarding ride height etc. for a couple years. I can count with certainity about 5 guys I know of that got PO'd enough about it to quit, and can count a few more that PROBABLY quit for the same reasons.
2. It's no longer cheap enough to race the crash and bash/banzai/4 wide style the trucks are known for. A couple immigrants from truck to SS have said the SS division is a lot cleaner than truck was. Trucks CANNOT be allowed to race the way they used to if they want guys to come back. (which is a catch-22 itself because that's why the fans love them.)
3. Simple fact that a few truck competitors have made the jump to SS, leaving a void in truck, like Hosang, Showler, Gemmel, and a few have gone to part time like Bloemendal and McDonald/Fothergill.
I wish I had the answer to solving the truck problem. They're too fun to watch to let them slip away like the OWMs did. They were supposed to be a sidestep from the Enduro level, but past management once again listened too hard to the wrong guys and screwed that up too.
Hopefully they can pull the divsision out of its nose dive, but I have no suggestions to make that would work without rewriting the divsion from the ground up. In my opinion, the trucks NEED to be a truck version of the Bone Stock division.
Yea the ride height deal in trucks was / is a head scratcher. Rules changes again makes teams think why not run SS if the cost is going to be the same. Maybe that is what previous mangement wanted. Don't think they need to go the bone stock way but a reboot to three or four years ago with the rules may be in order.
We didnt quite understand why cars coming out of the pits were being held a lap when they easily could have joined the rear of the field on the one to go lap. Maybe someone could explain.
If you mean Mark Watson, we were trying to figure it out too. Then someone with a scanner said was getting a "delay of game" penalty for sitting on the track in turn 2 till the yellow came out. That's why he got held.
It was too bad, because he was having a classic dogfight with the 81 for 2nd spot. Those 2 guys were up one side of each other and down the other, all without wrecking. It was amazing to watch.
As for the trucks, yeah its too bad the numbers are down, and its hard to explain why, as I'm pretty sure its still the lowest buck Friday night class. It doesn't make much sense, but I understand there's a few reasons.
1. They've been inconsistent on the rules regarding ride height etc. for a couple years. I can count with certainity about 5 guys I know of that got PO'd enough about it to quit, and can count a few more that PROBABLY quit for the same reasons.
2. It's no longer cheap enough to race the crash and bash/banzai/4 wide style the trucks are known for. A couple immigrants from truck to SS have said the SS division is a lot cleaner than truck was. Trucks CANNOT be allowed to race the way they used to if they want guys to come back. (which is a catch-22 itself because that's why the fans love them.)
3. Simple fact that a few truck competitors have made the jump to SS, leaving a void in truck, like Hosang, Showler, Gemmel, and a few have gone to part time like Bloemendal and McDonald/Fothergill.
I wish I had the answer to solving the truck problem. They're too fun to watch to let them slip away like the OWMs did. They were supposed to be a sidestep from the Enduro level, but past management once again listened too hard to the wrong guys and screwed that up too.
Hopefully they can pull the divsision out of its nose dive, but I have no suggestions to make that would work without rewriting the divsion from the ground up. In my opinion, the trucks NEED to be a truck version of the Bone Stock division.
if it was up to john there would only be bonestocks.....I love to watch the trucks but i would never own one,the track better get on it or they will be gone too friday they only had 7 reg trucks,#33,#65 dont normally run,being the last race for them id thought at least 14 or so....trevor there NOT that cheap to run....and thats one problem with ,there rules change from week to week,they eat tires cause there tanks,and pay 300 to win,and thats a kick in the nuts if you ask me
if it was up to john there would only be bonestocks....
This is a common myth / smear which is used against me on a regular basis that I would like to put a stop to.
This is not an official statement from the track, but a collection of personal thoughts on this:
The Bone Stocks / Chaos Car platform is one that I exercised a great deal of direct input on over the past 5 years, and while I am proud of what the drivers have accomplished in growing the class and demonstrating its viability, a replacement for any of the Weekly Racing Programs it is not.
The Bone Stocks are part of the overall speedway program and provide an entry-level option on a budget and at the time of its creation filled a hole in the track's programming that was previously filled by the original 1990's type Enduro. The goal of the Bone Stock series is to bring new people into the program and hopes to ultimately see them join current Enduro, Truck or Super Stock divisions.
I didn't "invent" Bone Stock Chaos Cars. I simply duplicated a successful model from the speedway's past, the five-year evolution of which is the current Bone Stock Series. The competitors are truly the ones who have been the driving force behind the program since it began.
The Bone Stock Series is in many ways a feeder program. It was part of a realization on the part of the track that it would be very intimidating for a regular spectator to make the jump straight from the grandstands into a weekly division. Racers seem to have a tendency to escalate everything they get their hands onto and the track can play into this as well. The simple reality is that high-end, expensive race cars do not, in a meaningful way, mean radically increased attendance. As such divisions with increased costs are not able to support the increased payouts so often requested by drivers following the cost-escalation of a division.
Five years ago, the Bone Stock program was created as a reaction to division cost-escalation, in hopes of providing regular people with limited knowledge the opportunity to compete without a major investment and that they might, as time goes on, choose to join the higher-end high-quality racing of the Friday program. To me, there has never been anything wrong with this goal.
-John