Tony Stewart SRX

Superstar Racing Experience, Tony Stewart's vision of what auto racing could be if not for the burdens of manufacturers, sponsors, and fans, makes no sense. That is the best thing it has going.

Stewart and his co-founder, former NASCAR owner and crew chief Ray Evernham, envision SRX as halfway between the International Race Of Champions series of eras past, a spectacle that pitted drivers of various disciplines against each other in spec stock cars, and something entirely different. It would be a vision of how much better racing could be when all of the politics and the job aspects that go into being a racing driver were taken away, leaving nothing but very powerful, very simple cars competing on various paved short ovals and dirt tracks.
This could charge Dirt Late Model racing. To the good. make it more affordable for more people to do?

DLM racing is too far gone for any real changes to happen anytime soon. First of all, the shot callers in the sport will never try to make any meaningful changes because they're too worried about pissing off drivers, or certain manufacturers. Plus, even if you could convince 1 series to start migrating back towards something reasonable regarding rules, you would probably never get any of the other series to cooperate. Remember when Ray Cook started the droop rule? There was a lot of push back on that and a ton of people whining. It would have been super easy for LOLMDS and WoW to follow suit immediately, but if I remember correctly, it took quite a while for other series to get on board. And on top of all that, Crate cars are more affordable, that's why the 602 and 602 classes have been growing so fast. Limited and Super Late Models have become unsustainable at a local level. I'm pretty sure we'll never see Supers back at the local level like they were when I first started racing them back in the early 2000's.

Personally I think the biggest budget buster in slm racing is the motors. The cost of these handgrenades has gone thru the roof. Is crates racing the answer, O h*ll no. The only ones making money there is the folks that are the sanction bodies rush and ???.

WoO and Lucas could put a stop to it. But as it stands few if any tracks pay enough for a guy to run a slm weekly. Pa. Is trying, port royal and williams grove have upped the purses and it has already shown guys are going to support both tracks.

I would love to see GM parts come out with a 700 HP LS platform motor for dirt racing. They already have the dry sump for I believe it's the LS7 in the corvette and camaro. I bet you could buy 5 motors compared to 1 from the hot builder out there this year.

As I like to call it the Ray Evernham series since he’s the one that came up with the idea for this series.

All I know is that I'm gonna get to watch 1 of the all time greats, Mikey Waltrip race again.

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DLM racing is too far gone for any real changes to happen anytime soon. First of all, the shot callers in the sport will never try to make any meaningful changes because they're too worried about pissing off drivers, or certain manufacturers. Plus, even if you could convince 1 series to start migrating back towards something reasonable regarding rules, you would probably never get any of the other series to cooperate. Remember when Ray Cook started the droop rule? There was a lot of push back on that and a ton of people whining. It would have been super easy for LOLMDS and WoW to follow suit immediately, but if I remember correctly, it took quite a while for other series to get on board. And on top of all that, Crate cars are more affordable, that's why the 602 and 602 classes have been growing so fast. Limited and Super Late Models have become unsustainable at a local level. I'm pretty sure we'll never see Supers back at the local level like they were when I first started racing them back in the early 2000's.

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Bob Memmer and the track promoters that listened to and trusted him in the early 80's seems like something needed...

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Originally Posted by Highside Hustler25

All I know is that I'm gonna get to watch 1 of the all time greats, Mikey Waltrip race again.

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I darn near choked on my bourbon, stop it. :)

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Originally Posted by Highside Hustler25

All I know is that I'm gonna get to watch 1 of the all time greats, Mikey Waltrip race again.

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A solid contender for funniest post of 2021, tongue-in-cheek wit at it's absolute best. Let's just hope Mikey can find the race trike so we can all enjoy his immense talent.

No, seriously I'm like 99% sure I seen him getting fitted in 1 of them cars.

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No, seriously I'm like 99% sure I seen him getting fitted in 1 of them cars.

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Must be why he shaved that mop off, so he can get a helmet to fit! :)

Well we all know where he will finish

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Well we all know where he will finish

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How many Daytona 500s have you won? We'll wait.🤔

I have zero excitement about this venture, ZERO.

The IROC series was cool back in the day. This doesn’t have the same cool factor, mostly because the driver quality isn’t near the same.

Why is CBS throwing prime time network television time at this? I'm pretty sure if they want back into motorsports they can find a better way than this...

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Why is CBS throwing prime time network television time at this? I'm pretty sure if they want back into motorsports they can find a better way than this...

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I don’t know. F1, Indy car, IMSA, NHRA, and TransAm already have deals in other places.

Willie T. Ribbs😎👍

Driver for this deal include:
Tony Stewart - Indycar, Nascar
Tony Kanaan - Indycar, IMSA Sports Cars
Willy T. Ribbs - Trans-AM, IMSA Sport Cars, Indycar
Paul Tracy - Indycar, IMSA Sports Car
Helio Castroneves - Indycar, IMSA Sport Car
Bobby Labonte - NASCAR
Bill Elliott - NASCAR
Ernie France Jr. - Trans-Am
Michael Waltrip - NASCAR
Marco Andretti (Son of Michael) - Indycar

Nine-time Formula One race winner and 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship champion Mark Webber was initially announced as a full-time driver,[12] but travel restrictions and schedule changes related to the COVID-19 pandemic forced him to abort the plans

Website - https://www.srxracing.com/

SATURDAY NIGHTS. UNDER THE LIGHTS
Stafford Motor Speedway (CT) - June 12th 2021
Knoxville Raceway (IA) - June 19th 2021
Eldora Speedway (OH) - June 26th 2021
Lucas Oil Raceway (IN) - July 3rd 2021
Slinger Speedway (WI) - July 10th 2021
Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway (TN) - July 17th 221

SRX. It will probably be like knockin boots with your girl and then losing you lunch after about 20 seconds into it.

Remember how much Tony used to b1tch about Goodyears? Found it funny they slapped those yellow turds on the grey turds. I don't get what Ray was going for with the car design at all.

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Remember how much Tony used to b1tch about Goodyears? Found it funny they slapped those yellow turds on the grey turds. I don't get what Ray was going for with the car design at all.

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Trans Am Series/Superbird look

Super bird.........nah.

There is only one car that looks like them.

Up until now I had only seen artist renderings of this car. Today I found an actual photo.

https://www.autoracing1.com/pl/categ...cles/other/srx

I'm quite far away from being enamored with the looks of this car. The very wide body and fender shelf will give it some down force attributes. Not sure about that park bench sized rear wing. I remember back in 82 when the new smaller Camaro came out and the short track race car versions had a nose piece that looked almost exactly like the nose of this car. The greenhouse is much like the most recent Camaro but I dunno, nothing really matches up about the look.

I give it a second look and Johnny Cash's - One Piece At A Time - starts ringing in my head.

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Up until now I had only seen artist renderings of this car. Today I found an actual photo.

https://www.autoracing1.com/pl/categ...cles/other/srx

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You might like this short clip: https://twitter.com/SRXracing/status...37363084468234

I think it’s pretty sexy but not as sexy as Leah Pruett is. 😜

Looks like Hailie Deegan is a member. Twitter shows her and ray in a pic.Tonys last tweets doesnt show his girl in pics. Is this cuz leah is testing and buzy or did he dump her already?

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Looks like Hailie Deegan is a member. Twitter shows her and ray in a pic.Tonys last tweets doesnt show his girl in pics. Is this cuz leah is testing and buzy or did he dump her already?

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She's not in every picture he post. Their engaged. Go to her twitter page. Hailie is running a few of the races as is Sprint Car driver "Black Jack" Brian Brown and a few other drivers.

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She's not in every picture he post. Their engaged. Go to her twitter page. Hailie is running a few of the races as is Sprint Car driver "Black Jack" Brian Brown and a few other drivers.

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Yea ik they were engaged and shes not in all them

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Looks like Hailie Deegan is a member. Twitter shows her and ray in a pic.Tonys last tweets doesnt show his girl in pics. Is this cuz leah is testing and buzy or did he dump her already?

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They are engaged and are both racing this weekend. They were both off road funning this past week at Lake Havasu.

Real top fuel dragsters by day. Jr dragsters by night. 😂

WOW, Mickie Waltrip, can't wait to see him get lapped. I get its new but why not run this deal after nascrap and indy close out there seasons for the winter ? There's a lot of up front cash being laid out for this deal. MW, hilarious.

Waltrip is better than most of these 19 year old rich daddy racers you see today

^^^ well if you believe that there's no hope for you.

He is , was, and always will be a a**clown

Like I said, how many Daytona wins do you have? We're still waiting >🐐🥳lmao

Buffy thought he was talented 😜

These cars look like something from the movie Death Race 2000....

Cooter,

You nailed it! Yes indeed, Death Race 2000. It does look like that.

Boy did you take me back with that one. I first seen that movie when I was 12. My mom and dad and I went on a driving trip all the way out to Washington to visit my grandmother and great aunt in the Sea/Tac area. I went with my cousin's family to see this at a drive in theater some 1900 miles from my home.

Thanks man.

Good old Bill just won a race at Road Atlanta. He can still drive. Yes sir.