Why does Lucas or any series for that matter keep going to that dump. Ive seen maybe 1 good race there in 30 + years. SMH! Always locks down.
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Why does Lucas or any series for that matter keep going to that dump. Ive seen maybe 1 good race there in 30 + years. SMH! Always locks down.
You mean this has actually been called a race at one time? I always thought it was a high speed perade for the stars in their cars...
They should move it to Eldora.
Eldora has enough, plus their races usually suck. I was thinking more like Wheatland or even Legit (West Plains). Anything would be better than Batesville. They never even attempted any type track prep b4 feature.
It's all about holding the fans hostage to sell more hot dogs. When they treat the late models like a support division and run their feature last they couldn't have made it any more obvious that the promoter didn't care if the track locked down or not. If they did care they would have kept as many laps as possible off of the track before the late model feature. Or just put more effort into track prep.
For a while the Lucas series was leading the effort to force tracks to run the late model feature first to make sure that this doesn't happen. I wonder why they're now running their shows like UMP and letting tracks hold everybody hostage and make sure that the track sucks as much as possible for the race that everybody came to see.
There are so many good race tracks in America that it’s a shame some of our Crown Jewels are held at garbage race tracks.
Here’s my pet peace about these Crown Jewel events:
Support classes that ruin the show by not being able to run more than 3 consecutive laps without a caution and promoters that refuse to realize that in the modern day of streaming, your “Crown Jewel” needs to be ran in prime time… not starting at 10:30pm. You’ve spent multiple days leading up to your big race… run it at 9pm local time.
Maybe last nights show would have been better if there was an hour of track prep vs. an hour on modified b mains. Just sayin’
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Good point, the timing of these main events should not start so late. I understand promoters wanting to sell every hot dog they can but how can you expect kids to want to stay and watch the features? I was at home and didn’t even stay up to watch the SLM feature. Heat races for mods didn’t start until after 9pm eastern, unacceptable.
It started sucking before flo. Take it somewhere other then this dump or sht can it all together.
Congrats to Mr. McDowell on getting to the front of the train when he did.
Congrats to McDowell and crew!
The format for this race was terrible from the get go IMO. You basically had a normal Lucas race night Friday, and two b's and the feature on Saturday. I would not pay to go just for Saturday alone. I would much rather just see a one shot deal on Saturday and be done with it if it's going to continue to be like this. Having one prelim night and not splitting the field is useless. We seen the same guys start upfront both nights. It just put more laps on the track that clearly wasn't needed. No more than they had on the card for last night, they should've been done way earlier than they were.
It was nice seeing someone like Dale win though. That was about the only positive thing to come out of last night for me.
I can't believe Landers just left his car on the track. Talk about unprofessional.
Should have been made to load it up after his terrible twos' tantrum and/or gotten a spanking. Spoiled brat.
Jared Landers will forever be a hero of mine for trying to take out Josh Richards at Eldora, up until that point, wasn't even close.
The track and the format is an embarrassment. You have to feel bad for the people of Batesville that only have that one big show for SLMs and this is what they get. Obviously the fans are great because they turn out for this cluster. They deserve better. I have a feeling that this will be the straw that breaks the camel's back. Either it will be fixed or it will be moved.
Really happy for Dale. As someone else said, even as great as he is, he is under-rated.
The Topless 100 was the idea of track promoter Mooney Starr first ran in the early 90’s. It wasn’t sanctioned by Lucas until 2006. Mooney Starr was the originator of the MARS Late Model series.
I agree but, that hard flip at tri city took a lot out of him.
https://youtu.be/vpCdkV-ByQ0
it might lock down a good bit but that race has had alot of good finishes. landers winning on sunday, chris brown leading 80 something laps and babb getting by, moyer putting it in the wall with like 3 to go for the lead a few years ago, the day race from maybe 2017 i believe terry phillips won, oneal and JD 2 years ago. theres been better 100 lappers there in the last 15 years than eldora
I think the way he acted when he got out of the car Saturday night pretty much sums up why he isn’t racing full time anymore. I mean according to everyone on 4M daddy has enough money to field 3-4 teams with the best of the best crew members so we all know money isn’t the issue.
I don't think Jared has the desire to race anymore than he does. I've seen comments saying the car is basically his and he can take it wherever he wants whenever he wants. The car has been sitting in the shop since February.
Dale McDowell is certainly worthy of Much Much more attention and chatter than he gets as being one of the best ever to strap in the car……top it off that he is as classy as they come while beating peoples brains in on the track and he’s easily in my mind one of the top 5 to do it in the modern era.
Jared was going to be one of the top lucas drivers before the accident. Then the family deal and something changed. As for the throttle hanging wide open twice, I would have got it stopped and walked away to.
Having a hung throttle once is bad enough but stuff happens. Not being able to fix the problem in 24 hours is inexcusable. Appeared as though, when his brother got to the car, it was STILL stuck. He removed the hood and did some serious yanking and tugging before putting hood back on.