Gateway Nationals .. Caution Fest

[highgroove]

Being from an area with some classic bullring tracks, i have seen a lot of these type of races and i know it is closer racing, but the amount of cautions at Gateway is crazy...Kinda slows things down a bit...Seemed like it took them a while to get the track cleared too...just sayin

[huskerdirt]

Being from an area with some classic bullring tracks, i have seen a lot of these type of races and i know it is closer racing, but the amount of cautions at Gateway is crazy...Kinda slows things down a bit...Seemed like it took them a while to get the track cleared too...just sayin

I thought in most cases they had the track cleared and ready to go again very quickly.

[kidrock]

Being from an area with some classic bullring tracks, i have seen a lot of these type of races and i know it is closer racing, but the amount of cautions at Gateway is crazy...Kinda slows things down a bit...Seemed like it took them a while to get the track cleared too...just sayin

You think maybe because a lot of those guys are not used to racing on small bullrings that much.

[highgroove]

i thought in most cases they had the track cleared and ready to go again very quickly.

you must have a fast watch....from where im sitting , cautions took up the most time and most folks hate cautions...

[huskerdirt]

you must have a fast watch....from where im sitting , cautions took up the most time and most folks hate cautions...

Depends on what type of caution it was. If 3 guys pile into each other and are hooked together, like in the mod feature or the 2 flips in the late models. Then yeah, that’s gonna take a minute or two. But given most of the cautions were guys spinning out because they ran out of talent. They had the lineup re stacked and they were ready to go fairly quickly.

Been to a lot of tracks and the folks at Gateway were pretty efficient. You would’ve had a stroke at Knoxville. Those guys had no clue on how to hook to late model. It became a drinking game by Saturday.

[427c.i.]

I thought the cautions were cleared rather quickly, but when there’s 5+ in every race...

[ride height]

Friday racing was way better than Thursdays. Of course its a crash fest...theyve crammed 2 cans of Lincoln Logs into one can. Thats a tiny track for full size race cars. I bet midgets would be a show on that track.

[ClampedUp]

Would gladly trade working my 12 hour night shifts outside in the freezing cold to watch racing inside in the middle of December no matter how many cautions there were and how long the racing took.

[TackyTracker]

yep there it is

[Kwd1253]

Would gladly trade working my 12 hour night shifts outside in the freezing cold to watch racing inside in the middle of December no matter how many cautions there were and how long the racing took.

Train racing is better than freezing all night long lol

[jog49]

A lot of that "crashing" could be attributed to what I observed......from the list of drivers, I had only heard of 22 of them. Most were unknown entities.

[Clayton_Wetter]

Train racing is better than freezing all night long lol

Doing about anything would beat working in the cold Saturday night. Maybe it's time to think about a new job.

[Senroc-Systems]

A lot of that "crashing" could be attributed to what I observed......from the list of drivers, I had only heard of 22 of them. Most were unknown entities.

Because you never heard of them they can't drive?

Wow,...

You should probably get out a bit more.

[MI Dirt Fan]

With only 2 cars transferring each consolation race that's starting like 16 cars each, I would expect to have quite a few during Saturdays event.