Attn. Rick schwallie

[Tireguy17]

Adjustments, when made in the pit, during someone else's caution, should be allowed.

Agree to disagree. The setup you leave your trailer with is what you should run the entire race with. Flat tires and damage happen. If you missed the setup that's on you and shouldn't be able to adjust that mid-race IMO.

[MasterSbilt_Racer]

Agree to disagree. The setup you leave your trailer with is what you should run the entire race with. Flat tires and damage happen. If you missed the setup that's on you and shouldn't be able to adjust that mid-race IMO.

What's the crew for? They should have some involvement in the race. No adjustment? That sounds silly to me. Even NASCAR isn't that rigid. The enforcement would be very difficult also. How you going to catch me twisting a shock nob when I'm beating a fender out?

[epjfan]

Here's the biggest problem I see with Lucas Oil if a car stops on the track like Essex's golden boy did without a flat is the amount of laps they run after the car pits. If the car pits then the race should be restarted the next lap however that is not the case. Sometimes they get more than the 2 laps which I believe was the case in this situation. If the car that stopped is in the pits then why are they running so many laps? Lucas should take some pointers from Eldora. Just my opinion.

[slmcrewchief99]

Stopping on the track. Spinning another driver out. Heck a driver can just as easily spin out himself and bring out a caution. Then he can go duck in the pits and make a change. It don't matter. A caution is a caution. There is no rule that has been broken and it's always been this way. Like I said in a previous post. Earl could have pitted just like Hudson did. He admitted he was too tight when they stopped for fuel. Maybe if he did he would have won. As it stands he didn't and got outran. End of story.

[dirtcrazy4u]

Why is everybody so but hurt over Hudson winning ? Bloomer has done this for years. I give him credit for making the call on the front shock adjustment. He got locked down on the bottom and was the fastest car after that, that's all there is to it. Everybody wanted EPJ to win because of the garbage he was wheeling for the last 3 years. At times luck is your best friend and if you ask anyone I bet they have a story on how they won a big race with luck on there side.

[racenut]

The track closest to my house weekly runs 30 lap features. One guy, very good driver, always in great equipment, well back then they all pitted in the infield. Around lap 16 or 17, he would stop on the backstretch causing a yellow, then dip down to his pits and the crew would put on 4 stickers. Tagging the rear of the field after attrition he would normally restart in the top 8 or so, and sail on to pass his way around the others on used tires. We called it a Rayme yellow.

As far as the lucky dog rule, I think it should be renamed the Dirty Dog rule, as in a 100 lap race, a guy could conceivably run 99 laps and beat the guys that ran 100 laps.....never liked it, never will, period!

[Mud Packer]

It's the sleazy dog rule in my opinion.

[Highside Hustler25]

Maybe Mr.E. could direct Schwalls to this thread. Certainly they stop at Micky McDs together while running up and down the highway.

[Josh Bayko]

it's ironic this was the Pittsburgher. I remember, I think 1993, Bloomquist got up out of the groove and stopped in turn 4. As soon as the caution came out, he dove in for a new RR tire. Came back and won the race.
This has been going on forever. That was nearly 30 yrs ago.
After the race he said, he knew what everybody was on, and that it wasn't the right tire, and he knew everybody would be changing tires, and he wanted to be the first.

Bobby Pierce did the same thing a few years ago at the Pittsburgher.

[dirtcrazy4u]

I think these drivers are well aware of when it just mite be advantageous for them to bring that yellow out. Funny it usually happens were the flagman has a good view or the pit gatE is close by.

[GEAR_HEAD]

Bobby Pierce did the same thing a few years ago at the Pittsburgher.

It's kind of funny how for as much as people claim that passing is so hard at PPMS that drivers passing the entire field there happens so often. Hartman passed the entire field too at the Pittsburgher several years ago.