What's up with Owens

[Kwd1253]

HE NEEDS FOX BACK SET HIS CAR UP RIGHT FOR HIM!! Fox knew what jimmy needed do to the car to help jimmy. Fox and jimmy is like jd and kevin they know what there wheel man needs to run. Jimmy did grate in club 29 with fox as his crew chief. I think jimmy needs stick with a team for 2 years so his crew chief and team can figure him out what he looking for and build modify his car to him.

[MasterSbilt_Racer]

HE NEEDS FOX BACK SET HIS CAR UP RIGHT FOR HIM!! Fox knew what jimmy needed do to the car to help jimmy. Fox and jimmy is like jd and kevin they know what there wheel man needs to run. Jimmy did grate in club 29 with fox as his crew chief. I think jimmy needs stick with a team for 2 years so his crew chief and team can figure him out what he looking for and build modify his car to him.

Problem is, when you are the steering wheel holder, you can't decide if the team stays together.

[pink floyd]

Problem is, when you are the steering wheel holder, you can't decide if the team stays together.

good post mb racer

[HatTrick]

The Nightmare has been off the past couple of years. There's no doubt about that. We could all say it's a number of things. Different cars, different crew chief, so on and so forth. I'd have to say that it's a combination of things. At this level of competition there isn't one thing that makes a dominating team. Everything has to come together and work in harmony. One thing there is no doubt about, Jimmy is a smart man when it comes to dirt racing. He knows race cars. His crew is right there with him, and the people he surrounds himself with aren't dummies either. I would differ to say that the BW he's in is the same as everyone else's. I deal with the whole LG LLC crew from time to time. I know they were at the point of wanting to run their own design. Jimmy tried a BW a few years back and didn't like it. It went up for sale quickly. Barry builds his modifieds. Perfect man to build his Late Models. They'll get it figured out. Sometimes it takes a little bit to find the perfect combination and get back on the horse.

[Kwd1253]

Problem is, when you are the steering wheel holder, you can't decide if the team stays together.

You are right about that. i was js jimmy needs try stay with one team. Think BW and jimmy will do great if they stay togeather more than just one racing season.

[SuperEight]

Slow down people.....its early in the season and East Bay is an animal within itself. No sense in judging anyone's season off what is happening this week or even Florida. The real race season starts in the spring.

Exactly, most years "somebody" gets on a roll in Fla and dominates, but that doesn't usually equate to a dominating season. Sure Clanton stunk up Volusia last year and won the title but that was the exception, not the rule. Most years Bloomer sucks in Fla, especially at East Bay going back even to his dominating years in the 90's. I think the BWRC/Owens combination will bear fruit in time. They'll go home from speedweeks and regroup, review the notes and get serious. Barry knows how to build competitive cars and has for many successful years. The cars winning have manly been the ones that were winning last year or the ones who did a ton of preseason testing, lots of people are behind. The Club29 cars look totally lost to me and if not for a ton of pre-season testing done by the Shinnston clan they would probably be searching too. B Shepp himself said the XR1 was finiky, that it was either dead on or ... He stopped short of mentioning left field, but it was on his lips. Florida tracks, for whatever reason, are an anomaly and don't transfer to the rest of the country. I find it curious that Don Oneal has been the best Club29 most nights on a consistent basis, the same as last year in the BWRC's ...
In 2014 the hot cars were BWRC in Lucas and Club29 in WoO.
In 2015 it was Longhorn/Bloomquist on Lucas and Capital in WoO.
In 2016 its unclear yet but the XR1 and Longhorns have some good runs
and at Screven Victory by Moyer and Capital with strong runs by Longhorn too.
Whatever happened to Mastersbilt? 5 years ago they were strong, now what...

It seems the evolution of current car designs and setups have come to a very sharp point and are difficult to keep in balance, JMO.

[zach51]

He looked like Yaggy in the heat race Saturday afternoon. But in all seriousness, hopefully something was wrong with the car, that was embarrassing.

[luke81]

Both Wednesday and Friday nights when I was there I noticed that the car just didn't look "comfortable" if that's the right term. It appeared that fairly often he was either fighting to get it to turn or once it did, fighting to get drive off....at least in comparison to the front guys.

[stroker#21]

The XR1 and Longhorns look alike to me jmo

[dirtdobber45]

It mite not be the driver or builder but shock and whose setting up the car. You jus work at all aspects. And I read Fox doesnt want to travel like he was so this team jus needs to gel and find a center to work with. Just wish theyed hurry lmao

[zyoung25]

Super mentioned Shepp. I've noticed he does better when he and Josh are at the same track. I know Shepp has one of the best rocket wrenches in the land with Randall, I'll be interested to see how he does after Volusia.