For as much time as they spent on that track it was a joke.
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For as much time as they spent on that track it was a joke.
Baffling how they spend that much time working the surface and have it take that much rubber around the bottom in 30 laps.
This is why I constantly say the DTWC needs a new home. I love the town, the restaurants and the feel at Portsmouth but I’ve never seen a good 100 lapper there.
Maybe Richsrd Petty was right 😜😂
This is why I quit going, now that we can watch it from the house I’ll never return. And I have much respect for BShep, and Mark Richards, but it’s getting boring watching them win. Like it was with Bloomer 7-8 years ago.
Good race for 35 laps, congrats to Shep.
No matter what kind of dirt they have there, whoever was making the calls screwed up and didn’t dig or water enough. They had all day to work on it and did that. With that said, everyone makes mistakes and from what I remember, they had a really good 4th of July race there and I’m sure many others.
Every DTWC that has been there has been the same
Snoozer after less than 50 laps. There is only so much water you can put on river silt and have track stay together.
Prp sucks as the home of the DTWC. Town is cool and helps their economy, but at the cost of a good race? Definitely needs a new home.
Maybe it was not so much lack of track prep, but more about how well the winning team was prepped and ready to win.
The non qualifier race started 2 hrs later?
It was junk. It even has a history of being junk. Therefore it was junk... Again...
... sorry bout that one guys...
71AtomicFan*
Third year in a row the excitement was over after the first 30 laps. It is time to move this race somewhere else. I loved it there for a while but it has run its course. Please please please move it.
When you put a grader out there with a chisel on the back and the chisel cuts slits like that water does no good. If that chisel doesn’t break up the ground and just cuts lines you need to rip deep. They literally wasted all that time on track prep. If I was a promoter and had to pay out the money for that circus I would be pissed.
TMac said it in his interview, track was gone and rubbers after 40. Only a few places I know that can produce good races beyond 50 laps. This place ain’t one of them. However, BShepp was out front when it took rubber and cya later and 100K richer.
Fergy and Madden tweeted about the same thing. Fergy would probably had a top ten because of it but had a tire go went flat with about 4 to go
The DTWC has rarely had good races. When it was at Pennsboro it was normally junk, Bardstown was no good. Probably the best one I saw was at Lawrenceburg, and it wasn't all that great. This might have been the longest 2 day show I've ever witnessed with all the downtime, track prep etc. New to move the show along.
Between the bodies, tires, motors and shocks. I don't know of a track that's going to hold up with that many cars beating on it for 2 days. Say what you want, but the cars and fans show up every year. It's not going anywhere.
He or his line went away towards the end of the race. It doesn't take away from the fact that I watched quite a few cars make quite a few passes in that short race. That race was not a train.
The track did take some rubber. Lap times improved at about lap 60 in the super feature. However, the class that came next found the bottom groove wide enough for passing and some cars gaining on the outside. That class had cars with all kinds of different tire combos. Their lap times didn't reflect a rubbered track either, until very late in the race. And for some reason, it only showed up in some cars. Perhaps the others were too tight?
You would think lucas would want their season ending showcase to be a great race and not a snoozer. Seems this is an annual theme at that place.
There was good ones at Atomic, problem is, we only remember the one where Schrader knew he was losing the track, so he put in zero effort. And it was awful. Was windy and sunny, but he truly put in zero effort.
I’d let Brad have a crack at it. He’s a good promoter who actually tries.
My sentiments too. Cool area, good for their economy, but PRP is just notorious for that. They just are.
There ain’t jack you are going to do to make it any better for a 100 lapper at the end of three days of racing. Still consider it three days, 2 shows Friday. PRP just doesn’t hold up. You’d had to spend way to long working it, and praying it stayed together to really make a difference. And it wouldn’t hold up if you worked it like ya needed and then turned cars loose. It’d been a cornfield. Redo the format and have strictly BMains, then DTWC, anything else would be after that on Saturday. After you were able to totally redo the track after Friday’s action.
Be your only hope I think. But I’ve been there multiple times. Love the area. Track is great for short races. Long races, consecutive days, just doesn’t hold up. Maybe try some of them additives VP and others make. Or move it. Atomic gets my vote.
Give Brad a chance. Let him hopefully redeem what Schrader ruined.
PRP has consistently sucked at anything over 50 laps for at least the past 15 years. It almost always rubbers up halfway through. The only good one I remember seeing was when Josh McGuire won the Lucas Show back in like 08, I think it was only 75 laps, and even that one rubbered up at about lap 55 or 60. The promoters/owners sound like good people. The facility is good, the parking excellent, the location for the DTWC is centrally located. That said, the track needs new dirt and a reconfigure. Everyone always says it’s the river flooding. Peoria and Davenport flood all the time. The racing at both is light years ahead of PRP.
Most 100 lappers tend to lock down. This idea that 100 lap races used to be these fantastic shows is some serious revisionist history.
I’d have no problems seeing it back at Atomic.
T3r3e3. Davenport speedway has never flooded. The downtown area does, but the racetrack itself is far enough away from the river.
Understand people’s frustrations, for many this is a much anticipated event and a season wrap up. But after watching the video not sure the outcome would have been effected one way or the other, Shep was the best car there by light years. Maybe effect some of the other finishing positions but not the winner.
I remember in 2011 at Atomic....... it locked down halfway through the 2nd heat. At that point I decided I drove 3 hours for the food, and I got a selfie with a guy that looked just like me.
I’ve said for years that it’s not really the track as much as it’s the format. That’s a lot of cars and a lot of laps for one weekend. I mean if you dive deep enough into it, the event itself is the common denominator.
You’ll probably see Oil Gate 2.0 if PRP does this next year......... if there’s a next year for PRP.
Carl Short's DTWC could give craps about the racing. He is still taking in the money......it is whatever track will give him the best deal to take "his" race to.
It could be worse. It could still be at Pennsboro.
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