Bad races

[Rajflyboy]

Best Fastest car/driver of the night has to start in the back? How is that fair and if starting position wasn’t through qualifying or heats then why would the fast cars try to win heat or get fast time? This isn’t socialism.

[Mister Ricochet]

I remember being at a hav-a-tampa race many many years ago at Lasalle.. Format was heat races lined up fastest at front. Feature lined up by heats by top finishing spots at front. I'd never seen a format like this in my life. I remember thinking "So a guys sets fast time, starts on pole of heat and wins, then starts on pole of feature and wins. Collects the $10,000 prize and never passes a car all night."
It didn't happen that way that night, but I've seen it play out exactly like that many times since. Later a lot of weekly races went to same type format. It doesn't make for a lot of excitement in features anymore.

Unfortunately we'll see a rare no pass, fastest on the pole wins the race race mixed in with some fine races like Davenport where there were 6 lead changes and a guy (Hurst?) start in the 11th row race up to 6th. .........

The redraw helps though. If Shirley draws 4 last night instead of the pole do we see a better race? Maybe, but we can assume if there was a high groove as dominant as the bottom we certainly would have......... Davenport had a redraw, multiple grooves and had a fine race LaSalle had a redraw, one groove and the race was just ok.

No silver bullet I guess but simply said without a multiple grooves surface you won't have a good race.

[Mister Ricochet]

Would extending the pill draw to the top 8 from top 4 starting spots or is that too much a burden on a team that out worked/smarted the rest of the field?

[Bigdirtfan]

Late model racing has went downhill the last five years.

[zach51]

Welcome to racing in the south !

That's Billy Moyer Jr's dream situation! I like the guy but I haven't seem him pass cars in 15 years until this year, and he can actually do it. I was beginning to wonder.

[Chadly329]

Our group of friends who meet up every year at Eldora for The Dream decided we would give the Show Me 100 and Diamond Nationals at Lucas Oil Speedway a shot this year, due to The Dream turing into "The Stream." First off i'd like to say Lucas Oil Speedway and it's facilities are phenomenal, but when we arrived there was no track personnel to point us where to park, etc. We also had one HECK OF A TIME trying to get pit passes. Just the Fan Experience from the start was very sub par in comparison to (Insert Small Track Name Here). We were told we had to go to certain spots to get a pit pass as a Fan, and the Pit Office wasn't equipped to sell us one, this by far made no sense to all of us who can go to pretty much any track and buy a pit pass for the added cash plus our GA ticket. To top it all off when we went into the track our tickets were physically taken not scanned. After experiencing all this before any cars hit the track, we were REALLY HOPING the racing was going to be GOOD, due to what we had seen on MAVTV/NBC Sports. FYI, the Diamond Bar and the Ballpark seats were DEFINITELY a plus. The track crew did a great job for Hot Laps, Qualifying, Heat Races, and B Mains, but for the feature for a CROWN JEWEL event, Show Me 100, we were thoroughly disgusted with the racing. Locked down on the bottom like a Friday or Saturday Night in WIsconsin. Reminded me of Oshkosh. This left us with a bad taste, seeing as that Lucas Oil Speedway is touted as one of the best tracks in our GREAT COUNTRY. After just Saturday Night's Show Me 100, we all agreed that Roger Slack, Tony Stewart, and EACH and EVERY Track Employee/Personnel at Eldora deserves a big Stone Cold Steve Austin "Oh He** Yeah!", you guys and girls do an AWESOME JOB!!! Driving 9 hours to a sub par, touted to be one of the best places to watch racing is very disappointing. I'm thinking we won't be back for A LONG TIME.

[jhanson]

Cedar Lake---Cedar Lake---Cedar Lake---they work on the track all week, and before the feature---almost never miss but everyone can miss the mark ocassionally depending on unknown factors--a hole that comes out of hell, etc.

[hjr2]

Wait until the National 100 at EAMS. Non stop excitement.

[MRM]

We've had some good races in Tennessee this year. Most of the Lucas races I have seen on TV have been good as well.

[dirt crow]

Wait until the National 100 at EAMS. Non stop excitement.

I smell sarcasm. Lol!!!!

[Hoosier]

Suggestion: skip the "redraw" or at least the part of dragging the involved drivers to the front stretch

[kazual]

Good late model racing is getting harder to find.

[bullring]

Late model and modified features both won from front row.

[Dirt Reynolds]

Going to Brownstown Speedway is like sex with your ex wife.

Its terrible, but you're gonna keep doing it because its convenient.

[zach51]

I smell sarcasm. Lol!!!!

I hate to keep up on the soap box defending EAMS, but if you like racing and just overall entertainment, people watching......that is the mecca