I think the rules were quite the same till Derek went to the ACT rules and Kawartha never had a long distance race with more than 20 cars after that.
Half of them were LLM
Agreed slowel, Derek did island himself but from the get go he always maintained he thought it was the right direction to go. Obviously he was promoting his father-in-laws series but he knew that system worked, it was proven. And that is why he promoted it, not because of the family ties. Curley saw where LM rules were going and he decided to make a rule package to save maney and stick to it. As I said before the formula must be working down south and in Quebec. Good fields of cars and drivers who remain in the series for years if not longer. Even though the ACT deal didnt work as well as Derek thought it would, it was caused more by other promoters not buying in more than anything. I dont think we would be in this whole mess if Flamboro and Delaware had joined with Kawartha when they had the opportunity.
Agreed slowel, Derek did island himself but from the get go he always maintained he thought it was the right direction to go. Obviously he was promoting his father-in-laws series but he knew that system worked, it was proven. And that is why he promoted it, not because of the family ties. Curley saw where LM rules were going and he decided to make a rule package to save maney and stick to it. As I said before the formula must be working down south and in Quebec. Good fields of cars and drivers who remain in the series for years if not longer. Even though the ACT deal didnt work as well as Derek thought it would, it was caused more by other promoters not buying in more than anything. I dont think we would be in this whole mess if Flamboro and Delaware had joined with Kawartha when they had the opportunity.
I think most of us agree in hind sight slapdown. we were actually the first to build a next gen lm for delly after cascar left. We wanted to build an ACT car and suggested exactly what you are saying. unfortunately delaware didnt agree for whatever reason.....
this however doesnt help to fix the present situation, we cant go back in time all we can do is move forward. Its more important now than ever for the tracks to work together or there will be only a few left in the very near future. limiteds and pros need to find a common ground imo.... if its 602's in the pros and wide fives and coil over limiteds or a combination of the two with penalties. people much smarter than me need to figure that out, but thats what needs to be done.
Too many classes, not enough racers..... end of story.
Those with the power to change it, have to..... stop blaming your competing track, or the racers, or the economy, sit down and hash this shit out!!!!
Totally agree. Can't keep going backwards on who is at fault and for whatever reason. I know I am not as connected with the rules, etc as the drivers/owners are, but it seems the Delaware has a pretty good package of rules right now. The tires are an issue, but when the suppliers are also track sponsors, I don't know how you get around that. With all the talk about engines, didn't the car that won by half a lap last Friday night run a 602 crate? It isn't exactly a new car either. So a 602 crate has won, a 604 crate has won and doesn't Jamie Cox run a built engine? Wasn't Jon Urlins car from last year an ACT and he was very competitive?