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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 131589" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p><span style="font-size: 18px">Pa. Posse Sucz!!</span></p><p> </p><p><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/lol.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Lol :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /> Just messin' with ya! Did you run regular with Fast Freddie and the other Posse regulars at The Grove or just do the 4 WoO runs and call it a day? Several other good Pa. tracks like Selinsgrove and Port Royal to name a few so being in the south with little open wheel action I envy you being in the middle of all that. And to make it better you're a stones throw from Blaney's Sharon Speedway and of course the great Eldora.</p><p> </p><p>Hoping the fractions within 410 Outlaws doesn't destroy the large sport because my first summer of retirement in a few years is to hit the road and follow the "Month of Money" and then top it off with the trip to the Grove. Hopefully in the middle of that some side trips to the other mentioned tracks along with a visit to Terra Haute Action Track. I'll probably start that year in Tulsa at the Chilibowl and then turn south for Dirtweeks as Volusia and East Bay. Who cares what's happens over at France's big track when the best racing of it all is down the road and across the state. </p><p> </p><p>I assume you heard that Ted Johnson passed away? Ted wasn't perfect but I have/had more faith in him than this new crew called Boundless Racing who now runs WoO! Our local track was the home of the old Hav-A-Tampa and UDTRA late model dirt series who sold out and became the WoO late model series and I'm real concerned that pooling all these together that when the ship sinks, a huge black hole in dirt racing will appear and nothing on the horizon I see is capable of building it back in any short order if at all!</p><p> </p><p>"Dirt is for racing and Asphault is for gettin' there!" <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/thumbup1.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":thumbup1:" title="Thumbup1 :thumbup1:" data-shortname=":thumbup1:" /> </p><p> </p><p>BTW: Big league racing is not about racing but is about marketing. Just because you don't win on Sunday doesn't mean you don't win the demographics race and the marketing goals. Dale and that truck has been one of the alltime best marketing campaign regardless of racing or any sport. You are hard pressed to find a soul in America that doesn't know the tagline, "Dale Race the Truck!" or who can't recite you line and verse of their specific favorite "race the truck" commercial. That has been where the success is at. UPS stuck with Dale because that whole advertising campaign has been built around going through the 100th anniversary of UPS as a company and it just so happens the time of DJ's retirement will fall right after that. DJ's deal with MWR is for only 2 years and after that UPS may just leave racing altogether because at that same time the deal with Bob Vandergriff and the UPS Top Fueler (3 years, 06', 07', 08')will end as well.</p><p> </p><p>NASCAR has topped out in popularity and is starting to loose steam. Longtime fans that built the sport have been alienated to some degree and now the word comes that the COT (Car of Tomorrow) will be a disaster. Having gone to my first NASCAR race in 1961' I've seen lots of changes with this sport but the drive to make racing TV friendly in the end IMO is killing this sport. That's why getting a driver like Montoya to crossover and Allmendinger to jump ship is so important to stir up the hype. I like Juan and hope he does well but this is where our sport is at now. Now you'll start hearing talk of going after Schmacher but I hope Shoe goes World Ralley. </p><p> </p><p>I've always suggested leaving NASCAR and that southern racers and southern race fans should really go back to our roots and that's exactly like World Ralley but with a catch. The cars would be big sedans with large and heavily modified motors and the car would be required by sanction rules to carry a prescribed weight in the form of gallons of moonshine in the truck. To make it even more interesting since NASCAR and everyone else is so hung up on team sports, each liquor car would also require a blocker car and you combine points for a total score. <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/tongue_smilie.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":tongue_sm" title="Tongue Smilie :tongue_sm" data-shortname=":tongue_sm" /> </p><p> </p><p>It's funny that World Ralley is probably the closest type of racing to what was actually the birthchild of American Stock Car Racing!</p><p>JMO.</p><p> </p><p>c ya!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 131589, member: 2189"] [SIZE=5]Pa. Posse Sucz!![/SIZE] :lol: Just messin' with ya! Did you run regular with Fast Freddie and the other Posse regulars at The Grove or just do the 4 WoO runs and call it a day? Several other good Pa. tracks like Selinsgrove and Port Royal to name a few so being in the south with little open wheel action I envy you being in the middle of all that. And to make it better you're a stones throw from Blaney's Sharon Speedway and of course the great Eldora. Hoping the fractions within 410 Outlaws doesn't destroy the large sport because my first summer of retirement in a few years is to hit the road and follow the "Month of Money" and then top it off with the trip to the Grove. Hopefully in the middle of that some side trips to the other mentioned tracks along with a visit to Terra Haute Action Track. I'll probably start that year in Tulsa at the Chilibowl and then turn south for Dirtweeks as Volusia and East Bay. Who cares what's happens over at France's big track when the best racing of it all is down the road and across the state. I assume you heard that Ted Johnson passed away? Ted wasn't perfect but I have/had more faith in him than this new crew called Boundless Racing who now runs WoO! Our local track was the home of the old Hav-A-Tampa and UDTRA late model dirt series who sold out and became the WoO late model series and I'm real concerned that pooling all these together that when the ship sinks, a huge black hole in dirt racing will appear and nothing on the horizon I see is capable of building it back in any short order if at all! "Dirt is for racing and Asphault is for gettin' there!" :thumbup1: BTW: Big league racing is not about racing but is about marketing. Just because you don't win on Sunday doesn't mean you don't win the demographics race and the marketing goals. Dale and that truck has been one of the alltime best marketing campaign regardless of racing or any sport. You are hard pressed to find a soul in America that doesn't know the tagline, "Dale Race the Truck!" or who can't recite you line and verse of their specific favorite "race the truck" commercial. That has been where the success is at. UPS stuck with Dale because that whole advertising campaign has been built around going through the 100th anniversary of UPS as a company and it just so happens the time of DJ's retirement will fall right after that. DJ's deal with MWR is for only 2 years and after that UPS may just leave racing altogether because at that same time the deal with Bob Vandergriff and the UPS Top Fueler (3 years, 06', 07', 08')will end as well. NASCAR has topped out in popularity and is starting to loose steam. Longtime fans that built the sport have been alienated to some degree and now the word comes that the COT (Car of Tomorrow) will be a disaster. Having gone to my first NASCAR race in 1961' I've seen lots of changes with this sport but the drive to make racing TV friendly in the end IMO is killing this sport. That's why getting a driver like Montoya to crossover and Allmendinger to jump ship is so important to stir up the hype. I like Juan and hope he does well but this is where our sport is at now. Now you'll start hearing talk of going after Schmacher but I hope Shoe goes World Ralley. I've always suggested leaving NASCAR and that southern racers and southern race fans should really go back to our roots and that's exactly like World Ralley but with a catch. The cars would be big sedans with large and heavily modified motors and the car would be required by sanction rules to carry a prescribed weight in the form of gallons of moonshine in the truck. To make it even more interesting since NASCAR and everyone else is so hung up on team sports, each liquor car would also require a blocker car and you combine points for a total score. :tongue_sm It's funny that World Ralley is probably the closest type of racing to what was actually the birthchild of American Stock Car Racing! JMO. c ya! [/QUOTE]
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