Eldora jewels

[formercrewguy]

Don't kid yourself. There has ALWAYS been the haves and have nots! Clear back to the Roman days of chariot racing..

[chupp n bloomer fan]

The early 90's was a more even playing field. The money and racing has got to be ridiculous and too expensive for most small teams to complete so they don't even show up anymore. You would still get 200 cars if it was more up to the driver and set-up instead of $40-50k motors, shocks etc.

Freddie Smith will disagree with you.

[RaceEngineer]

Freddie Smith will disagree with you.

With all due respect, it's been a long time since the Southern Gentleman made a lap. And, he was one of the greatest in his day. Not sure his perspective is calibrated.

[chupp n bloomer fan]

With all due respect, it's been a long time since the Southern Gentleman made a lap. And, he was one of the greatest in his day. Not sure his perspective is calibrated.

Freddie is still helping younger guys. Between him and what he picked up from his Dad, I’d say he has enough experience and perspective to have a valid opinion.

They all are so equal now, not just 15-20 of them, half the field at least.

[dirtcrazy4u]

There all some form of a xr-1 copy anyhow. And personally I think mark had one of Ole bloomie 's cars on his table when they created the xr-1.

[chupp n bloomer fan]

There all some form of a xr-1 copy anyhow. And personally I think mark had one of Ole bloomie 's cars on his table when they created the xr-1.

Mark tried that with the orange front Rocket cars. Blankenship’s car more specifically, and I think it’s when they had all that success, Blankenship. But it failed for everyone else to my enjoyment. Scott tried to go to court supposedly, but he was going to compete with the money behind John. Port City is where I believe they supposedly jigged it.

I think the XR-1, I know some say it has been printed, I’ve never seen it, but from a person who has run nothing but Rockets, and has one of the first XR1’s, that the original XR1 is a combination of Mark and Kevin Rumley’s ideas. And Mark has given credit to the #87 guy up in Michigan. Nielsen??

My personal thought is once Kevin helped out Longhorn, that started this downward spiral of insanely priced cars. And Mark hasn’t stayed on top without staying up or above the curve. So now ya have Rocket, Longhorn, BD, I guess Club 29, and SB cars. I know Rocket and Longhorn do all the gadget stuff, I’d assume so does the others mentioned. And Barry Wright, them are a good piece too.

And I’m not really putting down any of them, is what it is. If the rules are what they are, you do all you can and then some till they tell you no. And the copying, I dunno. You gotta start somewhere, have a baseline. So unless you have an agreement to not copy a car, is what it is too.

[zyoung25]

I'm not so sure I agree with it being easier to make now days, not saying it was easy to make back in the day. But we seen a lot more surprise guys make it back in the 90s compared to what we see today. It takes a ton of luck to make these shows now days, even if you spend the big dollars. With this format, you have to get a good draw for qualifying both nights to set yourself up to get max points for qualifying. In the old days, you could get a good early draw and just be hopeful you burnt off a lap. You've got to qualify really good both nights with this format.