racefan48, know what you mean by not much passing and as you said ,that is at most tracks. well stand up and thank your promoter, track owner, after all they are the ones who sold most drivers on going crate racing. any ways enough about that, after all we are not supposed to bring up crate engine debates in this forum. single file, bumper to bumper racing, wow, can not wait to go see more of that, lol.

Don, this race had lots of passing. Good mix of Crate and Built engines. No one had a superior advantage. Tire management won the day (and if the cars are equal, that's what tends to show up in the results) and of the 12 cars that showed, 8 were solid contenders. Couple of hairy moments in the heats (3 wide again), and nobody was giving up if they had solid cars. There was some interesting choices made, on when to attempt a charge to the front by all the front runners. Only 1 caution and that for the leader who blew the RF tire at lap 50 or so, bunched the field up for the final dash. Was there some single file racing, you bet, that's when you conserve tires and the engine. But when it was time to go, some had mojo, others had left it too late with the tires not able to keep up.

Like Kelly The Crowdpleaser Balson has suggested when he watched the race at Delaware, I'd rather watch 10 - 12 very competitive cars than 26 to 28 that cause 30 yellow flag laps!

But the event that stole the show was the Super Stock / Thunder race, it was 50 laps of wild action. When the 07 of Archibald got loose in turn 1 and turned the 14 of JR Fitzpatrick, there was only one question on my mind; was there enough laps for JR to try to run down the field from the back. While controversy may surround that car (tech), it was the only car that dove real deep into 3 every lap going forward and wow, did he put on a show!  Seeing the RF brake glow brighter than the sun in turn 1...he just let her rip! Simply put, there wasn't enough laps to create the showdown and the 72 ran the perfect race.

And that class has a good mix of Crate and Built motors too. Just my two cents, but I think Sunset works because a) Good management b) good tech c) it listens to drivers and fans and finally; it's never rests on its laurels, it's trying different things to see what works and what doesn't.

Overall, Sunset is doing a pretty good job in my opinion - regardless of where anyone stands on the crate / built debate....

Not only was it interesting to watch JR come from the back charging through the pack to the top 10 with 7 to go, but Zardo and #72 put on a great battle at the front.  The only real let down for the night was the car count for the late model division.  With there being another late model event that night up at Sauble I believe (what was the car count there?) it would have been nice to see more late models show up for the Sunset event.  But it didn't happen and as mentioned already the promoter can only do so much to get cars to show up.  Apparently the SS division got the word and they sure showed up in numbers.  I still think it was a solid show.  Highlight of the night was the crowd erupting into a loud cheer when Walters got spun in the heats. 

Sable had 26 lates  and yes it was a great show but I believe the Sunset invy was LLM and as when they had Lates there LLM were given some advantages to make them competitive  so to answer your ? there were about 9 or 10 LLM at Sauble sunday but  my count would only have 4 or 5 of those that may have made the trip to Sunset  ....... JASON PARKER in THE 8 car too bad he broke or I think he would have won that race he is a Sauble regular

Sorry for the delay - here are some samples from SUNDAY July 31.

(I have been sitting on well over 15000 photos, and other commitments
are keeping me from the computer, and i suppose i'm going to too
many races....)

there are over 1500 more on www.racepulse.com