jworacing, the "pro" late models went 3 hours and 36 minutes to be exact!
Too loooooooooooooooooooooong. :-
alot of cars but werent the numbers down from years past ?....no B feature in "pro" latemodels....only 3 over what they needed for limiteds...i think 47 minis, didnt they have almost 60 once...still great racing, when they were racing, when i was there saturday...
hope some of these guys havent had their fill of turning left and show for octoberfest....
hey polaris - tommy is a good guy (he and his team helped holden and parker fix their cars) and a hell of a racer. I had lots for him all race but knew if the positions were reversed, I was getting the Stompin' Tom bump and run like he's done a billion times before so waited as long as i could. I had more traction out of 2 and gassed up before him hoping to be able to get a run inside but I got into him when he didn't go. I knew I was getting it back, but he plain 'ol dumped me and cost himself a shot at the win or at least a solid second. I went down pit lane 'cause I couldn't get my window net back up after saying hi to him on the back stretch - only reason. As far as the pits go - I do believe he came to my pit stall didn't he?
Chris well said ,was that DMR car ever hooked up great run.
......Mitchell pushed him out of the way in turn-1/2 although thats good hard racing
Never,ever,ever will I agree with this idea that "moving" someone is an acceptable tactic - it just isn't. What great talent does it take to drive into the car in front of you? If you're fast enough, pass the car in front of you, if you can't, tip your hat to him for driving a good race and accept a well earned second. Take Brian Mercer in the LM race for an example. It appeared he was faster than the 89 car, he tried to get by him cleanly , couldn't and so settled for a well run second place. You think he couldn't have run into the back of the 89? Of course he could have. You think he wanted to win any less than the 89? Of course not. But instead of simply "moving" the guy who had led the whole race he showed some respect and decided if he couldn't pass the 89 clean then he couldn't pass him period. If it's such an acceptable move why is the driver who's "moved" out of the lead always angry? Why does the driver who did the moving almost always say afterwards " I hate to win that way, but..." and then have a lame excuse why he was justified in doing it? Because they both know it's wrong.
If you are going to use your car to knock another car out of the way, then you had better be prepared for any consequences that arise from it - you just changed the game, you just said that contact is acceptable, you'd better be ready to get it right back.
PS - I know a lot of people are going to say that it's Tom Walters, he's done it before so it's alright. I agree Walters has done a lot of things like that - that's one of the reasons he gets as many (sometimes more) boos as he does cheers. But if you think one guy is a villan for doing something, how is another guy a hero for doing the exact same thing? If Walters had bumped Mitchell out of the way earlier and then Mitchell returned the favor, I would have said he got what was coming to him. The fact is however, Walters ran an entirely clean race for 74 laps, and on the last lap of a race he was going to win, got punted aside. If the roles were reversed the crowd would have been howling for Walters' blood, so why is it okay the other way around? Obviously it isn't - you can't have it both ways.