:TU: 'Good words in Post #40, Steve; thanks. :gp: It doesn't appear the late-model COPO cars were appreciated by very many PSMCDR competitors. As has been said in various PMs about this, those of us who drive home Saturday after the shootouts would just as soon be home an hour earlier :sleep: like 11PM instead of midnight to central Indiana, and not have to put up with the noise and delays caused by cars like those. 'Nothing against them and they have their place, but that type of current, professional drag race car can pretty much be seen "on any Sunday" around the country, whereas Pure Stockers cannot....and Pure Stock is why we are all there (I think). Hopefully, Dan and Dennis and Lyndon will consider our pleas to keep the shootouts moving along Saturday without distractions like this in the future...but at the end of the day, it is "their" event. Carry on. :bglasses: BP
I agree John Though many thought a F.A.S.T. presentation was happening off and on all day. :laugh::beer
Anybody speeding through the pits is an asshole. And leave your mini bikes, golf carts, bicycles, scooters and whatever else home also. I've seen far too many near misses. All it's going to take is one incident.
First of all, the Copo cars did not delay the "show", I have never seen so much sniveling about the water in my life. That can be corrected very easily. As for the driving in the pits, safety comes first, but our group is 100% better than a normal track day. If anything, the spectators are clueless and are not even aware that cars need to get in and out of the pits. Golf carts and mini bikes are a reality, get over it. Golf carts sure do come in handy when a car needs to be towed from the end of the track or to go up and watch some racing and get back to your car on Friday. Currently Saturday is run for the show effect and the crowd, not the racers! The track is shut down for 2 hours from 12-2pm with all of us standing in the staging lanes waiting for every body to get paired up. And then you race once and wait another 20 minutes before round 2 even begins and then if you loose, you are done and on your way home. Why not speed things up and make it a best of 5 and start it earlier and keep it running, after all, that is what the paying crowd is coming to watch, cars going down the track. We need the spectators to make the race a viable entity and the side show is a part of any circus, the problem with having fast cars also racing, is that the cars look so close to pure stock cars that the spectators confuse them, there is no question about it when a super stock car is making an exhibition run, who does not like to see a car pull the wheels up or the first 75 feet!
Golf carts do come in handy when used by responsible adults. When 14 year olds are joy riding around the pits.........................like I said, one incident. I didn't mind the COPO display, pretty cool, but when they were allowed to run could have been better timed.
If you want a circus "side show", put the Bearded Lady in one of those new COPO cars on Polyglas tires ...... :idea2:
We were waiting for that "one incident". Where we were in the grass pits (across from the water station) it seemed that most felt the need to come down that return road at a higher than needed speed. Not to mention the guy who felt he needed to do a burnout right there, and a couple of guys deciding to see if their tranny kick-down worked. I kept waiting for someone to get hit. If you're going to practice your launches, do it out in the north 40 at the top of the track-next to the potato field. Keep it off the return roads. We had to look both ways when crossing that road and then ~sprint~ across. It really was ridiculous this year. :af:
Regardless where you are pitted, there are rules and speed limits within the grounds of the track. Using ANY return road as an extension of the race track is uncalled for. We have been pitting in this same spot since 2001 and have NEVER seen it this bad on the return road.
I can tell you from working there, Milan Dragway's speed limit in the pits, including the return road, is 10 MPH. Laugh if you want about no one abiding by that rule, just saying that's what it is there. I can't imagine that Stanton is much different. 10 MPH isn't much more than a high idle ........
Same with Lebanon Valley, and I'll admit that the starter once felt the need to talk to me about it......
