Well, tbh he didnt do anything that he said he was gonna do when he took the position. Bodies are out of control
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Well, tbh he didnt do anything that he said he was gonna do when he took the position. Bodies are out of control
I wonder how many teams will call him to crew?
Possibly, who knows.
Interesting that the post by the new poster — the one that likely had the right answer — is now gone.
Not sure about that, but they would be smart to get him up in the mountains for some “ trout fishing” during his retirement.
Most people leave a job for one of two reasons. Better opportunity or poor management.
I think Ray Cook has more influence on the rules than anyone in the sport. He started the droop rule which not a single team in the country thinks is a good idea. Talk to any driver in the pit area and they will tell you the droop rule has hurt the racing on the track.
Kinda like the tire rules…..
I'm not sure why people are using their eyes to tech cars. Have any of you ever measured a super late model to see if the chassis manufacturers are building their cars by the rule books? Are some of you paying more attention to the brighter colored cars (like Davenport) and thinking they look different than the darker colored cars? I've noticed that the brighter colored cars look like they stand taller in the back than the darker colored cars.
Manufacturers have slight distinctive looks from one another and all the Rockets, Longhorns etc. all look the same to me. One of the things I like doing when watching a race is figure out what chassis an unknown driver is in and I can always tell if its a Rocket or Longhorn (majority of the cars on the track are these two) because a Rocket looks like a Rocket and a Longhorn looks like a Longhorn.
Do you watch HTF? Do you think Joiners car looks legal? He has a Capital and it looks just like other Capitals to me.
Davenport and McCreadie absolutely don't have the same body as a common Rocket. Overton body in 2021 was not the same as the one at PRI.
I don't watch HTF.
If no body rule was ever broken the roofs would still be mounted level with 1.5" of convex bow. Decks would still be level front to back and side to side. The deck would also not gain height as it ran to the driver's door. The nose "floppers" would be layed down on the fenders. Both rear quarter panels would narrow from the wheel open back to the t bar. I could go on and on. The rules don't reflect all of that anymore because they threw their hands in the air and tried to write the cars back legal by changing the book.
Rocket bodies are straighter and flatter than Longhorn bodes. Black Diamond bodies are mounted at like a 10 degree angle to the right. Capital bodes are pretty similar to Rocket bodies. Bloomquist bodies aee different animal than any of the above and the look almost too long and too low, but there also angled like Black Diamonds. Kirkpatrick’s body looks like a late model body that tried to go streaking on an Alaska night.