Its follow the leader racing, cut and dry! went to Cayuga a few weeks ago to watch the crate Asa series and i left 75 laps in. I NEVER LEAVE BEFORE THE RACES ARE OVER. It took one lap to get single file then it was the most painfull race i have watched in a long time. I have heard the sunset llm show is fantastic(probably the only thing positive thing i have heard about sunset in years). And the reason it is good racing is because there is passing. It is not dominated by crate engines, from what i have heard their is a pretty even mix of built and crate engines. Funny that sunsets points leader runs a built motor. Anyways, if tracks would pull their heads out of there asses and even it up so a built can compete you might see some better racing. Sorry from the stands, but a cheap motor doesn't constitute good racing. I look forward to watching the crate fad die a slow painfull death. Real race engines don't come in crates.
So what's the difference when there's a field of built engines?? Could it be that not everyone is on a level playing field?? Tracks that have gone crate and just now starting to get rid of the single file racing. It took awhile for teams to realize you need to get through the corners when you can't buy straightaway speed.
I beleive the top series of racing have the means to equalize the horsepower available and it's become one of the top sports to watch. Have patience, the growing pains will come and go. It's up to the tracks now to stay the course on crates and give the racers asurface to run on.
How about all the teams that want to run built engines give the difference in the cost between the built and crate to the track they race at so the track can put in variable banking 🙂
I know that the only person I have heard of that has been caught with a cheated crate motor has been banned for at least one season and had his name posted. I would hope anyone caught in Ontario would receive similar treatment.
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Its follow the leader racing, cut and dry! went to Cayuga a few weeks ago to watch the crate Asa series and i left 75 laps in. I NEVER LEAVE BEFORE THE RACES ARE OVER. It took one lap to get single file then it was the most painfull race i have watched in a long time. I have heard the sunset llm show is fantastic(probably the only thing positive thing i have heard about sunset in years). And the reason it is good racing is because there is passing. It is not dominated by crate engines, from what i have heard their is a pretty even mix of built and crate engines. Funny that sunsets points leader runs a built motor. Anyways, if tracks would pull their heads out of there asses and even it up so a built can compete you might see some better racing. Sorry from the stands, but a cheap motor doesn't constitute good racing. I look forward to watching the crate fad die a slow painfull death. Real race engines don't come in crates.
So what's the difference when there's a field of built engines?? Could it be that not everyone is on a level playing field?? Tracks that have gone crate and just now starting to get rid of the single file racing. It took awhile for teams to realize you need to get through the corners when you can't buy straightaway speed.
I believe the top series of racing have the means to equalize the horsepower available and it's become one of the top sports to watch. Have patience, the growing pains will come and go. It's up to the tracks now to stay the course on crates and give the racers asurface to run on.
WHAT?
Anyone that did not understand that you had to get it through the corner figured that out in 1972 when Billies (Performance Engineering ) built that 331 ci Chevelle and spanked all of us with those big blocks at Cayuga.
Just about any knuckle dragger can figure out how to get a 300 hp crate in one of todays chassis to hook up and get through the corner Showstopper is proof of that . Now add a bunch of horspower in with different cams etc making power at different parts of the power band and you have a horse of a different colour.
The top series is NASCAR Cup and they sure as hell are not going crate anytime soon for many reasons but the main one is because it makes for crappy racing . If you want equal try a spec engine go cart class because short track stock car racing has never been equal and should never be.
Please don't tell me the sport is growing just because you see a bunch of people that bought Jeff Gordon hats at Walmart walking around when most places struggle to get 3000 people out when they were drawing 15,000 to 20,000 people here in southern Ontario in the 60s and 70s
Maybe you should start a series where everyone gets the identical chassis from the same supplier with the same shocks and springs and the same set up in it and a crate motor that is the same as everyone else's and you can hold a big race called the Socialist 300 where everyones pit stops have to be the exact same amount of time just so its fair for everyone .
Geeeez will you guys please stop trying to ruin my sport.
That's your best post to date Pinecrest!