I-80 Saturday night updates

[Stefan2k4]

I bet ol Big C is shakin his head and sayin....put a Clements Chevy in that boy's car!

Does Clements not build Fords anymore? They built one many years ago that Hot Rod Lamance won the track championship with at the big G, back when it was the big G. Of course that was many moons ago.

https://youtu.be/phORLTyY4qM

[george w]

well, well, well. Seems all you guys don't know what you thought you knew. The engine belongs to Jeff Hoker and he told Bobby whatever happens,just don't stop. Also, the car has gauges that will replay the whole race. Bob says water temp was 198 degrees, 210 degrees oil temp, 65lbs of oil pressure and 8200-8400 on the tach. Tell me again how this was all Bobby's fault. So much for the people who said you could smell it melting down in the stands. lol Go to dirt on dirt and read the article.

I also smelt what I thought was a cooking engine in the stands off an on from lap 35 or so at times I thought it went away as cars pulled off...... other times I was just waiting for the smoke. Regardless no way to ever tell what car it was coming from. I was also told when Chris Simpson got his new Durham courtesy of hoker that Bobby thought the motor should of been his with the inventory he is working with..... an chris said he needed it just as bad an dropped it in?

[#49superman!]

JD stealing the win is poetic justice on a couple of levels.

[#49superman!]

Did JD take a polygraph test after the win, just to be safe he was not cheating?blahahahahahahahaha

[t4g2]

An no I'm not hoping on the but hugger band wagon. Bobby still drives over his head today. An its not just feger hell Babb,Shirley,Rodney Melvin and Schmitt all quit running Peirce chassis because of bobby.an the whole deal with pdc 4 years ago with McDowell an blaming fairbury that he didn't win, an just recently 2 weeks ago door slamming Larson an Larson got pay back an oh bobby didn't like that.

[Mindwalker]

He slipped in a banana peel and had to be taken to the er.

[#49superman!]

He slipped in a banana peel and had to be taken to the er.

lol... and then was administered the polygraph to see if he was being truthful lolololol

[Mindwalker]

Thats how this works right? 😀

[Centeroff]

A tach won’t read 82-8400 rpms. It will show the max rpms that the engine turned unless plugged into a computer source. Sounds like a mistake and a bad coverup from here. Bet that tach showed 8976

[Centeroff]

I wasn’t there and couldn’t hear the engine but several have claimed he was floating the valves at the flag stand. I just have a tiny touch of knowledge on how the new tachometers work. The tach said between 82-8400 is bs

[spiderma4]

I have a older tach and it reads the 4 highest and 4 lowest and its 10 yrs old or so. these newer tachs are a lot better now so I agree u have tiny bit of knowledge.

[Illtsate32]

well, well, well. Seems all you guys don't know what you thought you knew. The engine belongs to Jeff Hoker and he told Bobby whatever happens,just don't stop. Also, the car has gauges that will replay the whole race. Bob says water temp was 198 degrees, 210 degrees oil temp, 65lbs of oil pressure and 8200-8400 on the tach. Tell me again how this was all Bobby's fault. So much for the people who said you could smell it melting down in the stands. lol Go to dirt on dirt and read the article.

You're pi**ing in the wind with these people facts, logic and reasoning does not apply to them. Now we got people in the stands that knew it was gna blow up at lap ten smh lol. Unless ur buzzing the tires and redlining the motor you cant be too hard on the motor. He was hooking and booking, if a builder cant put a piece durable enough for his skills, then they should find another builder, but thats not the case the haters just got to find anything to make it Bobbys fault. If anybody can keep a car and engine to keep up with his skill it will be like trying to stop a runaway tank..not happening...

[spiderma4]

He will drive you the same today blinder person.

u sit around all day drinking ur gin and juice listing to snoop dogg thinking he is coming to ur birthday party but it aint going to happen he hates old white men! is that what u mean by having blinders on?

[TS3g]

I was standing on the catwalk across from the flag stand and never heard Bobby floating the valves. The front straight had some whoops up by the wall, so the RPMs were bouncing, but it didn't seem excessive IMO. I don't know if he was actually turning more RPMs or not, but keep in mind, if he was geared similar to everyone else, he would have been turning more just because he was ripping the top and carrying a lot more straightaway speed.

As to when the engine went south, like billet said, around lap 74 it let out a big puff of smoke entering turn 3, and when he came by that time the engine pitch had changed like it had dropped a cylinder. The last time he came by there were sparks (engine parts) coming out of the headers.

I've had a couple of engines get hot enough to diesel, and they never lost cylinders or spit parts out...they just kinda slowed down, so I don't think overheating caused it. There were many cars overheating though, and maybe Bobby's was, but I still think that's what caused it to break. Either way, it makes no difference. I'm just speculating, just like the rest of you...none of us know actually happened.

What I do know is that he put on one hell of a show. He passed every single car on the track, many of them twice, and he did so because he just flat a$$ out drove everyone. Every driver was capable of doing what he did, but he was only one willing to hang it out on the top, and he did it to perfection. I haven't always been the biggest BP fan because he's made some wreckless decisions on-track in the past, but what he did last night was downright impressive.

[smooth32]

Imo he is by far the most exciting driver out there!