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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 652620" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>Actually it's Steve's son Kraig who drives for Smoke and did so this past season. After Steve and Karl parted ways back in the day, Steve's to well established and set in his ways to drive for someone else.</p><p></p><p>Nice vid of the non-winged USAC sprinter and those guys really have to drive those cars because you have to finese the throttle through the corners. Winged Sprinters just stand on the gas...uh alcohol and go for it. Only time driver even lifts is when he jumps a rut or the RPM's drop when the chassis loads in the corners.</p><p></p><p>I saw the sprinters at Bristol when they put down the dirt and they went flat out all the way around. At the time Steve Parks held the track record at 126 mph and Sammy Swindell lapped Bristol on dirt at 141 mph. They clocked those cars over 170 mph down the front and back chutes. In fact the track was to fast so that the racing wasn't as good as it would be like at Knoxville or a Terra Haute Action Track.</p><p></p><p>Nothing against Shatz but I was hoping Saldana could take the points this past season. I'm a big fan of Jac "The Wild Child" Haudenschild because he goes up topside and plays with the cushion! Grew up with southern dirt stock cars but got hooked on open wheel sprinters in the late 80's thanks to Maynard Yingst who was crew chief on Bruce Larson's Funny Car in NHRA. I toyed around with drag racing in the late 70's and early 80's and by pure chance met Maynard where we both realized a passion for all things dirt. After that I was hooked on sprinters but in the early to mid 80's, dirt stock cars used what they called the wedge car and until they were outlawed, they were as fast as a winged sprinter.</p><p></p><p>Here's a wedge car from 1985' and you can see why these bad boys were wicked fast and they ran big blocks.</p><p></p><p>I still go to several dirt races a year but it's not nothing like it was in the mid-80's when it was pure outlaw! Sanctioning bodies IMO just SUK! <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/happy-very.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":happy-very:" title="Happy Very :happy-very:" data-shortname=":happy-very:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 652620, member: 2189"] Actually it's Steve's son Kraig who drives for Smoke and did so this past season. After Steve and Karl parted ways back in the day, Steve's to well established and set in his ways to drive for someone else. Nice vid of the non-winged USAC sprinter and those guys really have to drive those cars because you have to finese the throttle through the corners. Winged Sprinters just stand on the gas...uh alcohol and go for it. Only time driver even lifts is when he jumps a rut or the RPM's drop when the chassis loads in the corners. I saw the sprinters at Bristol when they put down the dirt and they went flat out all the way around. At the time Steve Parks held the track record at 126 mph and Sammy Swindell lapped Bristol on dirt at 141 mph. They clocked those cars over 170 mph down the front and back chutes. In fact the track was to fast so that the racing wasn't as good as it would be like at Knoxville or a Terra Haute Action Track. Nothing against Shatz but I was hoping Saldana could take the points this past season. I'm a big fan of Jac "The Wild Child" Haudenschild because he goes up topside and plays with the cushion! Grew up with southern dirt stock cars but got hooked on open wheel sprinters in the late 80's thanks to Maynard Yingst who was crew chief on Bruce Larson's Funny Car in NHRA. I toyed around with drag racing in the late 70's and early 80's and by pure chance met Maynard where we both realized a passion for all things dirt. After that I was hooked on sprinters but in the early to mid 80's, dirt stock cars used what they called the wedge car and until they were outlawed, they were as fast as a winged sprinter. Here's a wedge car from 1985' and you can see why these bad boys were wicked fast and they ran big blocks. I still go to several dirt races a year but it's not nothing like it was in the mid-80's when it was pure outlaw! Sanctioning bodies IMO just SUK! :happy-very: [/QUOTE]
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