Racing yes, the wrecking in the late models is so bad, it doesn't even fall under the heading of racing. Watching on June 26th was a joke. We and many others left before it was finished. Racing is NOT a lap and a caution, or 2 laps and a caution.
I have been out twice this year, and the first time it took and hour and 22 minutes for 50 laps. What is that. The trucks and superstocks put on a much better show, and then the powers that be call the feature at 20 laps, so we have time to watch spin outs and caution laps.
Not happy to spend money to sit and wait to see cars actually race.
Admittedly, it wasn't the Late Model division's finest hour, and I do beleive the race up front would have been an absolute thriller if they'd managed to string a few laps together.
However, I hesitate to lay blame anywhere. Sometimes this is just the way it works. Always has. The situation of the multiple caution/checkers breeds it, and unfortunately, that is something they have to do this year. Also, and admittedly Im just a fan in the stands, I wasn't seeing a lot of lunacy out there. The 15 car was looking a little racy at times and did get a couple of black flags, but that was the only one I really noticed. Mind you there were lots of cars on the track and its hard to see everything. I suspect someone got into Gary Elliott just by the way he went into the inside frontstraight ...guys usually have help when they crash like that.
But anyway, the only place I'd fault anyone, and even then its tenuous, was in the program lineup. 2 support divisions was too much on a big race night. Even then, no one had any idea what was to come.
This sort of screwed up the night 🙁
in my 45 years of going to races, I find tracks that use jersey barriers for walls instead of poured walls seem to get this end result, although a poured wall that is not 90 degrees to the track surface gets the same reaction (like Flamboro).
Just not sure what is with promoters with these mind numbing extra distance races. I think the dirt WOO late models prove you don't have to have a long show to be exciting. The 40 lapper I saw at Canandaigua on Tuesday was great.
Now I see Delaware is worried that they might not get the prerequisite number of late model shows in to get the Nascar weekly bonus points fund. Time for more twin 25s and perhaps drop the weakest division next year. jmo
The Jersey rollovers have got to go. How do you think they got their name?? 9 times out of 10 the cars that hit them end up in the air or on their roof. If one of the open wheel cars (ISMA, AVSS) nails them good coming out of 4 you had better hope that front stretch catch fence is real strong! It'll will be a big cheque to write, but I'm sure Spivak's will give them a good deal on the concrete. ;D