With Shepp leaving to Longhorn and Rocket having a tough 2023 is Paradise in a bit of trouble up there in West Virginia? Or is this just a blip on a radar screen?
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With Shepp leaving to Longhorn and Rocket having a tough 2023 is Paradise in a bit of trouble up there in West Virginia? Or is this just a blip on a radar screen?
BShepp/Rocket1 won the most races in 2022 on theLucas Tour- “trouble in paradise”- Dream on!
Mark Richards is a survivor! I am definitely not a Mark Richards Fan but his record speaks for itself.
I do think Rocket will make a comeback. Chris Madden might be the driver/team to do it 👍
Make a comeback from what?
Obviously longhorn is dominant but I still believe Madden and O’Neal will both have very very solid seasons
I thought they were all Blue Horns???
I hope Hudson and Madden both have good seasons just to show some of you people on here that racers are capable of winning without Kevin Rumleys magic wand…
I agree flat, this worship and you can only win in a longhorn junk has gone on long enough! Landers and Wells have millions to throw at their cars. Rockets and other chassis are winning at tracks all across America.
I'm no fan of Rocket, but for the good of the sport, I hope more chassis brands will be competitive next season. Rocket certainly was competitive. I have no reason to believe they won't be next year. That said, horns up! \m/
I will give you an example of one chassis dominating the sport. The Northeast Big Block Modifieds are now totally dominated by one chassis brand. BICKNELL. Just about every race, whether a local Saturday night race or the Super DirtCar Series, has nothing but Bicknells in the field. They have left the other prominent builders like Troyer, Teo, Hig Fab, PMC and DKM in their dust. Not sure if that is good for the sport?. At least there are other builders in the DLM world besides Rocket and Longhorn.
Paradise in West Virginia? Snowshoe or Davis area maybe……..shineston, nope.
Shinnston isn’t terrible. It does have a little bit of small town charm.
BBQ
As always we just have to look over the original poster. I am definitely not a Rocket1/Mark Richards fan- but their Chasis won the WOO Championship with Dennis Erb and BShepp won the most races on the Lucas Tour. Longhorns are winning big with their big roster of talented drivers/teams- but I would being willing to bet on a total national win numbers- Rocket had more overall wins. They have many more cars out there running regional and local.
CJ Rayburn use to say “they all come back.”
Back in the Hav-A-Tampa days- Most everyone was using GRT’S. Hopefully for the betterment of the racing industry - more Chasis brands will get some major wins in 2023
It was just a few years ago that many racers thought you had to have an Andy Durham engine to win. How many teams now are using his engines? Racing is a monkey-see-monkey do bussines. Look at all the teams that have switched to Clements Racing Engines. The mentality is people see this team winning with a certain manufacturer and they think that’s all it takes. Wrong- it takes money, talent and lots of hard work and determination to be successful-regardless if you’re using a Longhorn/Clements or an EdHowe with a Briggs & Straton.
Mark Richards pretty much made B Shep a star,then he sticks it right in him deep switching to Longhorn,shows how much B Shep appreciates him,all the BS about staying home close to his family,almost like a college football portal
Big Mac
Well said! B Shepp left to supposedly race his family’s car- then announced teaming with Riggs - then switches to Longhorns. I would think Mark feels betrayed?
Yes it’s like the college transfer portal and the new NIL deal. So many in today’s society only look at “what have you done for me this week.”
Bridgeport is 5 mins from Shinnston and may be the nicest town in the entire state.
I worked at the big power plant just outside of Shinnston for 40 yrs. The Rocket shop is not in Shinnston but a 7-8 mile drive away across Saltwell Rd. When Bridgeport expanded for the FBI and hospital area they are now right against the Rocket property. Has always been listed as Shinnston because of the zip code associated with Saltwell Rd. I drove past the shop and Mark's house everyday for 15 years. Morgantown has Bridgeport beat because of 2 major hospitals and WVU. BBQ likes Snowshoe and Davis. The ski area is full of Gen X and Z douches, and Davis has a bunch of wanna be hippie homos.
Outside looking in were only seeing 1 side of the real story. I'd say there's more internal stuff w it than what we're seeing.
Yes. Shinnston is definitely not paradise
So now we've gone as low to start dishing on places people live ? WOW, this is getting to be like a f*ck in soap opera.
And I ski right by them in my carhartt overalls and Eddie carrier jr beanie……..I don’t fit into groups real well bud, especially ones that are strictly generational.
Shinneston might be beautiful but it’s most famous resident is the largest douche in West Virginia…..kinda like the smoking hot girl that looks great until she opens her mouth and starts speaking.
Pennsboro-I was born, raised and live near Fairmont. That's the real sh!thole in the area but the expansion of the other two has slowly started to trickle Fairmonts way. I'll still go with Motown.
BBQ-You sound like a real Hellbender Burrito's kind of guy. If you know, you know.
I’m really more of gas station chili dog and Dr. pepper kind of guy……same concept, if you know you know.
We have a bunch of transplanted west Virginians in the region I live in…..almost all of them say WV is a sheet hole to live in. Not sure how true or untrue that really is. I think the state is beautiful.
My visits to the state normally involve skiing or fishing and both areas ( snowshoe and Davis) provide some of the best east coast skiing around…can’t help it’s local residents are nuttier than a fruitcake,
BBQ, it’s all a matter of opinion. What one likes and dislikes may be different than the next person. If you’re into fishing, skiing, hunting, racing, etc, West Virginia is a pretty decent state. If you’re not into that kind of stuff, there’s not much else for you to do, you may move away and call the place a dump. All depends on what you enjoy I reckon.
I'd love to live in WV. Give me 25-50 acres in the mountains and I'd be in heaven. Unfortunately, my seeds were planted elsewhere.
I agree….we are coastal flatlanders and love the mountains….but every time I talk about moving there people from the mountains tell me I’m crazy.
We don’t know anything really except coastal living because that’s where our roots are, but every time I’m in the NC or WV mountains I always think of how great it would be to live in them permanently.
The State Teachers' College in Fairmont is where my high school in NE Ohio got most of our teachers. They were cheap to hire at our small school and many of them came from the coal mining families who told them to get an education and get out of WV. Then if teaching didn't work out for you there were, emphasis on were, lots of coal shoveling jobs in the factories before it became known as the Rust Belt.
to post #7 , " Kevin Rumleys magic wand " am I mistaken but didn't kevin go help rocket a few years back ? about the time they got going again ? correct me if I,m wrong ......
Kevin was the X factor wasn’t he? Or was that just burn barrel chatter?
BBQ-The burrito comment was a joke because they celebrate gay pride month every day of every month. Also, I love WV because of all the motorcycle rides, I easily put 5000-6000 miles on the Harley every year but do venture into western Maryland, south western Pa., and the Shenendoah Valley in Va. 300 mile day trips are the norm.
over 4T- Other than your comment about people leaving after getting a degree you haven't got a clue. The rust belt referred to the decline of the steel industry which has been going on for 50 years. Fairmont State, now University, offers multiple degrees. Criminal Justice, Safety, Nursing and Aviation easily rival those in Teaching. Many of the students there hail from eastern Ohio and western Pa.
Sorry BB55 but I know what was going on 60+ years ago, the time period I was referring to. Fairmont may well be a fine school now but it was largely a teachers' college back then and students were in the majority of being from the region. We also had a large number of no college West Virginia folks who came up for the factory jobs and to get out of the mines.
As far as you telling me what the rust Belt was/is I grew up in it and am quite aware of the origin of the nickname. My Dad and Grandfather were home builders and many of their customers were transfers to the many steel and manufacturing plants in the area. In the late 1950s we saw a plant or two close every year with a lot of layoffs and as a result the Great Lakes iron ore and coal ships became fewer as did the people working for New York Central and Pennsylvania railroads. Construction work drastically slowed and the handwriting was on the wall.
The towns' populations started to shrink, which still continues today, and my family left in 1960 for California and greener and warmer pastures. Best thing we ever did.
Whats the over/under that Bshep tested both, and realized what he was missing?