Has anyone heard of any new drivers who may be going to LOLMDS?

[onlyfacts]

They all do that sh!t. You see what you wanna see, JD, Bloomer, you name it, they do that dumb stuff too. Not just Josh. But that's the status quo for 4m.

I think Jlacey has a man crush for Josh and tries to over come it with hate.O'Neal did it at Eldora under green to change tires and nothing was done. All mighty Bloomquist caused a caution under green at Portsmouth and drove away....didn't have a flat or anything. Josh had a LR tire going down and didn't get the two laps to change it because it wasn't completely flat. So I don't blame him. While we are condemning and b1tching I don't understand why Lanigan and Casebolt wasn't disqualified.... WOO rules state if you hit someone on the caution or after the race you are disqualified. That was pretty obvious after the race between those two.

[dirtdobber45]

Not generally, but that's mostly because the company doesn't own a TV station and camera crews like Lucas.

I believe they should. It would help get more sponsors for the teams and for WoO.

[calverton]

Sorry caliber..lol but is WoO on tv as much as Lucas?

duh they don't own a tv network either if lucas really wanted to promote DLM they would have them on also HE11 i can't even get mavtv and neither can anybody that has DISH so tell me how great it is

[Senroc-Systems]

I believe they should. It would help get more sponsors for the teams and for WoO.

The parent company of Craftsman Tools has the resources, and if they are paying attention to what their competition is doing, it's a " no brainier". Good call dd45!

[dirtdobber45]

duh they don't own a tv network either if lucas really wanted to promote DLM they would have them on also HE11 i can't even get mavtv and neither can anybody that has DISH so tell me how great it is

Yea DISH sux

[Clayton_Wetter]

Lucas and WoO. It only makes common sense that when one series becomes more loaded with talent than the other that some drivers will shift to the weaker one at the time. You can't have all of the best running together and getting a smaller piece of the purses for the entire season. Both pay about the same, but the WoO schedule does have more traveling miles for sure.

[Clayton_Wetter]

duh they don't own a tv network either if lucas really wanted to promote DLM they would have them on also HE11 i can't even get mavtv and neither can anybody that has DISH so tell me how great it is

If you want racing get the internet sites. Do some of you people think that racing is the only thing there is??? Good grief!!!

If there was money and demand for these dirt races don't you think they would be going after it? Well, sorry but it's a fringe few that watch these races.

DISH is not bad when compared to all of the others. They all are lacking.

[Josh Bayko]

I believe they should. It would help get more sponsors for the teams and for WoO.

You're overthinking this. The only national level sponsors in dirt racing are teams with NASCAR ownership, save for Richards/Sheppard.

[almost broke]

Heard the other day Steve Francis has took the big valvoline sponsorship from Richards and shepherd and will field his own cars and run Lucas next year. And there is a newer s and s hauler out on 60 by his shop and it's not tims his is a 5150

[onlyfacts]

Heard the other day Steve Francis has took the big valvoline sponsorship from Richards and shepherd and will field his own cars and run Lucas next year. And there is a newer s and s hauler out on 60 by his shop and it's not tims his is a 5150

What kind of odds do you have on this happening? Are you an out of work comedian?

[Barbecueboy]

You're overthinking this. The only national level sponsors in dirt racing are teams with NASCAR ownership, save for Richards/Sheppard.

And Pearson Jr.

[Josh Bayko]

And Pearson Jr.

Yeah, I forgot him.

[zyoung25]

Heard the other day Steve Francis has took the big valvoline sponsorship from Richards and shepherd and will field his own cars and run Lucas next year. And there is a newer s and s hauler out on 60 by his shop and it's not tims his is a 5150

Don't know about the sponsorship, the hauler is the one Madden had last year that he was leasing off of Lanigan until his new one got done. He will still be with Tim.

[Centeroff]

Everyone one here would love to see the blue rocket and the zero battle for a points championship week in and week out. If Josh left WOO or Scott left Lucas it would hurt both series deep to the bone. Why do you think Lucas loves Scott and WOO loves Josh? If it don't make dollars it sure don't make sense! After watching how good the 1 has been lately, I'm not sure any driver in the country can outrun Josh week in and week out. Richards is a wheelman and those XR1 chassis are flat out rolling. I know the speed gets a little better every year but these guys have some work if they wanna catch those rockethorns.. Didn't give them the credit they deserve until I watched Richards at the Pittsburgher and BShep back it up at Portsmouth. Imo, they are the best chassis on the market.

[Snake X3]

As a fan, I would love to see Richards and Clanton follow Lucas and a couple of the Lucas guys go over to WoO. This is only so there would be an end to the debate over which driver is the best in the country in a given season. I'm sorry, but I just can't tab Josh as "Driver of the Year" when he can't race in the most of the biggest events and runs against weaker competition on a weekly basis.

As someone that wishes to see DLM grow, I'd like to see the bigger paying events and competition more equal. When WoO's season finale pays no more than a regular show and very few of the big races being sanctioned by WoO, it just takes away from the status of the series. If the two series were more equal in terms of prestige and competition it would be a boon for the sport.

One idea I have been thinking about to get around the issue of the best drivers running different series would be (for lack of a better term) a Crown Jewel Cup. Lucas does something like this for their series, but in order for it to mean something it would require either dual sanctioning of the Crown Jewel events or WoO and Lucas to agree not to schedule against each other for the biggest events. Seems like Lucas guys are always there for the biggest WoO events, but Clanton and Richards rarely make the biggest Lucas events....which is pretty sad. Perhaps one way to deal with that is to give provisional for the top 3 in each series for Crown Jewel events. I hate provisional, but if that is what it takes to get the best of the best at the biggest races so there is a higher number of events that have all the top drivers racing, so be it.