Big time super drivers in crates

[hipower17]

wonder what type tech inspection was done on the winning car?

[dirty bert]

Usually there plastering pic.of the engine being took apart going on about tires being checked, but not seen anything from this weekend

[Highwayman]

wonder what type tech inspection was done on the winning car?

Tech, what's that? They got seals on them engines, ain't that how crate racing works? If its bolted together it must be legal, we're all exactly the same, share and share alike. Crate racing is the single worst thing to happen to racing, I'm surprised we don't all have to run Rockets with Integra shocks. We need to make everybody exactly the freaking same so we're all equal and happy and bored. I'll have to go to Russia to get away from all this communism.

[Dirtfan04]

tech, what's that? They got seals on them engines, ain't that how crate racing works? If its bolted together it must be legal, we're all exactly the same, share and share alike. Crate racing is the single worst thing to happen to racing, i'm surprised we don't all have to run rockets with integra shocks. We need to make everybody exactly the freaking same so we're all equal and happy and bored. I'll have to go to russia to get away from all this communism.

Amen! ^^^^^^^^^^^

[dualdj1]

I think a few people hit on the key point here. The problem is that tech has been lax or rules expanded to allow more expensive stuff, in essence taking the little guy out of the picture. Rules for a "limited" class should be built to where lower dollar teams can still compete. Ie claimer shocks, chassis restrictions, etc. The goal in a class like that is to make it where a good driver can be competitive regardless of $, at least to an extent (and as usual, UMP has missed the mark there). Then the discussion about drivers running super and crate becomes moot, if it isn't a guarantee that a JD moves down and wins the 10k pretty much every time. Don't blame the drivers, blame the rules.

[Highside Hustler25]

Well, being it's November, darn near December, and that race was probably close to a 15 hour drive for me, I did not attend.
Therefore I will gracefully retract my post as I had no business posting it. My apologies.

[billetbirdcage]

wonder what type tech inspection was done on the winning car?

I was told lanigan was protested by someone, now for engine or something else I got no idea or if even the protest happened for sure but ain't heard anything more about it.

[Clayton_Wetter]

What would Ronnie Johnson do then???

[Clayton_Wetter]

Didn't CJ Rayburn basically invent the CRATE concept???

[nuff said]

It says in the 57j thread that Lanigan delivered Bub a new Club 29 when he went to the crate race.

[Josh Bayko]

Didn't CJ Rayburn basically invent the CRATE concept???

Nope. Crates were used in asphalt racing long before anybody thought to use them on dirt.

[Krooser]

I remember the days when guys ran the Indy 500 and Daytona then went back home and ran midgets, sprints, big cars and stock cars and nobody cared...

[Highwayman]

Didn't CJ Rayburn basically invent the CRATE concept???

Negatory. CJ tried to introduce the CT525 into the super division with huge weight breaks and big spoilers, NARA. The GM604/602 came along first and the first I heard of it was over at Cherokee Speedway in SC, then Mr FASTRAK took it and ran with it. At first he allowed a spec engine to compete as well, but that was dropped soon after. CJ strategy was based on inclusion, not exclusion like today's crate classes.

[Hollis]

Nope. Crates were used in asphalt racing long before anybody thought to use them on dirt.

If memory serves me well. no rebuilds

[Josh Bayko]

If memory serves me well. no rebuilds

There were no rebuilds that I know of.