Thoughts. After having a talk with Moyer’s crew chief at the World 100 Saturday......

[Rocky]

If somebody built a car in their garage that stomped all their ass and didn’t start selling them for more than an xr1, I would suspect them to be a commie.

[hucktyson]

The problem is every track and every condition is different. To take an old car and get it to XR1 level racing against national talent would take hundreds of hours of fabricating , thousands of laps of testing that’s if you are as smart as the people who created the new stuff and could drive well enough. Unless you are unemployed and have someone funding this pipe dream it’s going to cost you triple what just buying the XR1 would be anyway 🤣🤣🤣

[hucktyson]

Not to mention you are chasing a moving target that literally gets better every week

[hucktyson]

Madden was never going to lose a crown jewel again ... there’s an insane amount of knowledge, driving skill, testing and experience going on down at planet zero ... and just a few weeks after he was never going to lose again he had absolutely nothing for snort , no one did . That’s because everyone is constantly improving

[Rocky]

I am not speaking for everyone, but if you have a good enough paying job to race late model, chances are you’re at your real job 60 hours a week or so or more. I am. Just keeping on top of the maintenance by yourself can be tough. Out engineering real engineers ain’t for me. That’s why I don’t have any ideas how to level the field. I don’t race I just drive in circles and don’t wreck guys that have good cars.

[slingindirt83]

A complete-competitive shock package is expensive, but not in the whole scheme of all things late model racing. Its not the price of the shocks its that they stick the car to the ground. With the way these cars are stuck from air and shocks, is why you need these huge displacement motors. They dont call them dig sticks for nothing lol. I can remember getting teched at a WOO race 10 years ago and the decks were out of control then, but nothing was said to these guys. Now if a locals sail panel was 1/2" too tall they had to change it though. Just watch when BMJ slid that guy last weekend. He never hit him but that guys whole front end came off the ground from losing the air.

[hjr2]

This thread was a great read. I don't race, just a fan.It seems like there are two types of racers. Those that can't afford to win and those that can't afford to lose.