Dennis Erb Jr. in a Capitol Race Car for the 2025 Season. 4 Pics.

[KTMLew]

Those cars (capital) seem to be a pretty good crate car, and always have been for the most part.

I honestly figured Dennis would be better than he has been so far. His biggest flaw is, he can't qualify for 💩.

Is he running same shock package as rest of the Capital bunch? HTF has blown out/broken RF at least 3 times. Three letter company like JRI or something along those lines.

[Dirt Clod]

You do know Clanton won the WoO points title in a Capital 10 years ago right?

Seriously, you're going to compare Capital 10 years ago to Longhorn and Rocket now? Really? Looks like modern chassis technology has left Capital behind, otherwise everyone would be buying them. You gonna bring Masterbuilt into this, too? They were good 10 years ago.

[riddle28]

Pump the brakes not everyone needs to be in longhorn or rocket to succeed. Ask b shep right now. Outside of the box thinking an trying something new is a great thing. They may figure something different out.

erb has been consistently better on integras and when shepp was dominating it was on integras. Its time to go back home, unless terbo grabs one next week rocket may go winless this speedweeks, not good, longhorn dont need to be the only thing winning

[84wedge]

Seriously, you're going to compare Capital 10 years ago to Longhorn and Rocket now? Really? Looks like modern chassis technology has left Capital behind, otherwise everyone would be buying them. You gonna bring Masterbuilt into this, too? They were good 10 years ago.

HTF fanboy was talking about how Capital was new or something. They are not.

[Top Row Analyst]

HTF fanboy was talking about how Capital was new or something. They are not.

HTF can be Hard To Find these days...

[Henry Every]

First, I disagree that you have to have either a Rocket or Longhorn to be competitive on a National tour, but it may require a change in approach to setups to be fast. Trying to setup/Tune Brand A with Brand B setups may not work. Secondly you have to commit and not expect to figure it all out, in a month. Third, Florida has never been a good measure of how a racer will do over the season. Fourth, HTF to me is too scattered in their whole approach, too much success too soon. They have the ca$h, why not setup a test/tuner with Rumley, let him evaluate things and quit wasting money on the road. JMO

[Tireguy17]

Pump the brakes not everyone needs to be in longhorn or rocket to succeed. Ask b shep right now. Outside of the box thinking an trying something new is a great thing. They may figure something different out.

You missed the point. Im not saying everyone needs to be in a Longhorn or Rocket to be successful on a national tour.......but Dennis does.

[Dirt Clod]

First, I disagree that you have to have either a Rocket or Longhorn to be competitive on a National tour, but it may require a change in approach to setups to be fast. Trying to setup/Tune Brand A with Brand B setups may not work. Secondly you have to commit and not expect to figure it all out, in a month. Third, Florida has never been a good measure of how a racer will do over the season. Fourth, HTF to me is too scattered in their whole approach, too much success too soon. They have the ca$h, why not setup a test/tuner with Rumley, let him evaluate things and quit wasting money on the road. JMO

You make great points. Florida is not a measure to compare to the Midwest. I'm not sure Rumley would offer them paid help. I'm also not sure Dennis and Heather would take that route to accept help. Dennis runs better at Volusia. Hopefully he can at least get some top 10 finishes this week.

[84wedge]

I honestly figured Dennis would be better than he has been so far. His biggest flaw is, he can't qualify for 💩.

He can only run one line and if it isn't the fastest one, he's done.

[Henry Every]

You missed the point. Im not saying everyone needs to be in a Longhorn or Rocket to be successful on a national tour.......but Dennis does.

What is the assumption based on?

[Tireguy17]

What is the assumption based on?

His performance the last 2 years. This isn’t hard to figure out.

i don’t want this to be a 2 chassis sport. I was a life-long Bloomer and Owens fan. I wanted Scott’s chassis to succeed, I want the same for Owens latest venture. But….the current landscape makes it hard for anything but a Rocket and Longhorn to be successful on a national tour.

[KTMLew]

Owens, McCreadie, Erb Jr, Moyer Sr need to team up. Flip a coin to see who gets to suck that night.

[Highside Hustler25]

Dennis has withstood the test of time. He'll be fine.

[Tireguy17]

Here is the problem, the current landscape of DLM racing is its a 2 horse race. Plain and simple. Those 2 companies have taken the steps (engineering, staff, drivers) to be multiple levels ahead of any other brand. Would it be great if Capital, Category 5, BWRC, and all the others were competitive? Absolutely. But they aren't there. On top of the chassis companies investment, then you have the teams investment that are successful, this is where Dennis is in a bad spot. He's competing against teams that have 3-4 full time crew members and more resources.

At the same time being in a Longhorn doesn't equate to instant success. The ones that are successful (JD, RTJ, BR32, Moran) have all the necessary pieces and are in sync with each other.

[KTMLew]

Little disappointed I didn't get even a nibble: Forrest-Gump-fishing.jpg