VERY interesting Pinecrest.....i wonder how many people know about this b4 you? Could be a lot of crate engines with a lil tinkering done to them here in Ontario.
.....i wonder how many people knew about this b4 you?
Lots Im sure
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 .
I wouldn't be so sure on that one. I know the "Engine of Tomorrow" project got put on the shelf but NASCAR's going full-bore on implementing a Spec engine for the Grand National divisions and tested a spec engine for the Craftsman Trucks a while ago...
Trucks to test spec engine at Martinesville: Bill Davis Racing and Roush Fenway Racing each will test a truck at Martinsville Speedway for NASCAR on Monday. Davis said the teams will use a spec engine as NASCAR explores the possibility of making all the engines the same for the Craftsman Truck series at some point. "On the surface, it really looks good because of the cost reduction," Davis said of a spec engine in the truck series. "The only thing that concerns me, not only my operation but a lot of truck operations are very manufactured-dependent for sponsorship. I'm afraid if the manufacturer doesn't have his engine in there, it's a spec motor, is the attraction still going to be there?" Johnny Benson is scheduled to test for Bill Davis Racing. Travis Kvapil is scheduled to test for Roush Fenway Racing.(Roanoke Times)(6-23-2007)
It doesn't make sense for NASCAR to do it, but then again there's a ton of things NASCAR has done within the past few years that haven't made sense....
As far as crate engines around here, I'm all for allowing them if it gets more people involved. I definitely think the rules for built vs. crate engines could be a lot closer, but both packages can definitely run together...
pinecrest,they did that for years it was called iroc. i seem to remember that it had some of the best racing in the past 20 years. irl has the same idea,poor example,but good door? to door? racing. i feel the best option is a crate/spec rule to work side by side. the slms in this area were spending 20000 to 30000 dollars for a engine,now they can spend 6100 dollars and have half the fuel cost. at the first newalta event,36 cars,crates finished first second third and fifth against big $$$ engines
I figured that someone would bring up IROC . You may want to consider that IROC has run over 90 % of there races on super speedways over 2 miles long in the last 20 years The only other tracks were Fontana , Darlington and Chicago that are all about 1 1/2 miles . I don't know of any tracks that size in Canada and I don't see how you can compare that to your local 3/8 or 1/2 mile . They did run Richmond twice a 3/4 and both were punt to pass affairs and not exciting races to watch at all unless you like crashes. It is quite a different thing to have the best drivers in the country in an all star format who don't care if they tear up a car they don't own with no points on the line then what you are going to see at your local short track .
I think the best comparison would be the New Hampshire race back in 2000 where they ran restictor plates on a 1 mile . Do you remember that ? Let me give you the run down of that race ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ .Not a single pass for the lead in the intire race and may have been the worst NASCAR race I have ever seen .
I am not saying there is no place for crates but in the 300 hp configuration it really causes either gridlock or single file racing and I am not sure I like watching late models that make less HP then my pick up truck.