Well CRO finally made it to Delaware and boy this is a great race track. I Just got home at 2am but I feel I must do this now before I forget anything.
I must first thank John for hooking me up and also giving a set of tickets to our contest winner Matt. Hope you had a good time Matt as it was a packed house tonight not sure how many people there but know they sold over 1000+ tickets online and the parking lot was full as people parked on the street into the track as there was no room left to park.
I don't know where to start. I guess I can talk about the track. It was clean and well maintained. a lot of things for the fans to do before the races. It keep my guests busy while I walked around the pits.
I'm not a racer but the surface looked great. I wanted to take my junker for a spin on it.
I must comment on the announcing as I think John and Adam did a great and my guest said these guys didn't need to stop for a few laps to let fans hear the roar of the cars but said he wish another track announcer would have stopped for the entire race.
Now to the racing I got many photos and video.(I will post it later)
Super stocks put on a great show and now for the NCATS.
They put on a great show near the end the cautions flew very often.
Still seeing lap cars causing problems for lead lap cars and I feel for Jason White as I think he could have had a podium finish tonight. He was the fan favorite tonight. I guess giving out A&W root beer helps. No just joking. Great to meet you.
I guess more drivers know me then I thought as I told one driver to make the hero card out to CRO and he said OK he will make it out to Evan and another driver said I'm famous and I found that funny as I don't see the money pouring in.
It was great to see all the press people I used to see when I attended a lot of CASCAR races. I got to talk to the drivers that I haven't talked to in awhile.
The race finally ended after 3 Green?& White checkers? or should we say wreckers.
D.J. Won as you all know but Don Thomson wasn't too happy about that as he got spun out by DJ. He came to the pits after the race yelling at DJ saying something about him being a super star or something like that and said somethings I can't say or I will get a CRO edit from the mods. If I recall from many posts here that it is OK for Don Thomson to take people out but when it happens to him it's a different story. I know I'm going to take heat for this as I have in the past or others have when they say anything about Don Thomson that is what they don't want to hear.
To be honnest he got a do over when he jumped the start on DJ and people thought he should have been put to the back. I'm not NASCAR and don't know how they saw it but from the crowd response they thought Don Thomson was going to be heading to the back of the longest line.
Now green white checkers means what? I always thought it means if there is a caution the race is over? but from what I heard they can do it over and over again?
another late night of racing. The only thing I would suggest I don't think it goes out to the track but NASCAR. Start these races earlier poor parents and kids it's too late for them to be up till the end of the race.
Great day of racing again and I'm enjoying being back at the races and I'm already planning my next race to attend.
I found it very interesting to hear JR say to DJ right away that Don should have been black flagged for jumping the start the first time. Weren't they just teammates the past couple of seasons???LOL And when Thomson spun in corner 2 it was JR that came on the radio and said DJ he did that to himself you were on the inside and he pinched you do.
Definitely one heck of a race and the guy that came with me as mentioned previously was a rookie is already planning trip 2 for this year. I'd say the tough breaks of the race go to Lynch and White who were both running well during the event and keeping their noses clean. Lynch caught up in the mess in corner one/two with Thomson and well we already know based on Jason's facebook page (Tim Horton's) has lost the sale of coffees by him for a period of time. 🙂
I hope the TSN guys got Jason's spin on camera. Most of it was behind the tech garage from where I was sitting. Looked like he went around about 6 times driving it the whole time! Great job staying out of everything Jason. Also nice touch getting the car going again so you could sit it at the end of pit road for some advertising 😉 Always thinking of the sponsors.
Almost forgot...
The way the 21 was going to the front before his spin I don't think he would have need the rest of the field to crash in order to win (he says refering to a previous thread) 😀
ALso the sale of Wendys burgers. Eat at A&W ;D
based on Jason's facebook page (Tim Horton's) has lost the sale of coffees by him for a period of time. 🙂
He was trying to get back on but I heard in the pits the car was not right. I thought NASCAR stopped him as people thought he wanted to show the 23 some love but that was not the case. Jason has nothing to worry about he gained a lot of fan support and people in the stands were booing the timmies car.
Great job staying out of everything Jason. Also nice touch getting the car going again so you could sit it at the end of pit road for some advertising 😉 Always thinking of the sponsors.
