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  • Late_Model_Mark
    Senior Member
    • Jun 2007
    • 2321

    #1

    Boyds Speedway

    A long time source has told me that after a some light car counts that this track may go to once a month. I sure as heck hope this is not the case.


    Late Model Mark
  • security one
    Senior Member
    • Mar 2009
    • 251

    #2
    you would think with cleveland closing they would race more but hearing they may race the weeks that north ga dont run i would think one of these tracks should run every week but i guess we have to go to alabama for that yall lucky

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    • 70satomic
      Senior Member
      • Dec 2013
      • 149

      #3
      I wish McDowell would purchase Cleveland and bring it back to its glory days I know that he was trying to buy it at one time but everything was up in the air I don't care much for Boyds only because it looks like a go cart track , I know Mr McDowell has really made it nice but it's too small
      Last edited by 70satomic; 04-28-2016, 04:42 PM.

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      • 3 wide
        Senior Member
        • Jan 2016
        • 1141

        #4
        Well all I no is I've been to boyds 3 times and I haven't seen a race yet I wondered how long people was going to keep watching this nothing like it use to be in the 70s.

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        • PushinTheLimit
          Senior Member
          • Apr 2013
          • 465

          #5
          I raced there a couple weeks ago, and while the car count was still a little light... the fan count was very bare. It was also the same weekend that TN had Rod Run in Pigeon Forge, the air show in Knoxville, the orange & white game at Knoxville plus other bigger races in the region.

          It's certainly not because the facility isn't nice, clean or the racing surface is bad... it's become one of the nicer places to race IMO. Cleveland and Boyd's should be a great Friday/Saturday night combo.

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          • weatherman85
            Senior Member
            • Jun 2012
            • 807

            #6
            I thought the racing was pretty decent from 2nd on back at the Lucas show. Hate to see a track do this but it is better than a track shutting it's gates. Maybe try a every-other-week type deal 1st. I've seen a couple of tracks do this successfully.

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            • crownman25
              Senior Member
              • Feb 2013
              • 442

              #7
              election year everything is bad on that year!!! its hard to beleive if you was at the lucas race all those people then few weeks later this... sure is confusing... on last friday chattanooga had scattered rain and I mean some hard storms , you would go down road no rain . LOTS PEOPLE IN AREAS THAT GOT RAIN PROBB. TGHOUGHT IT WAS RAINED OUT.I may be wrong but it was dry at track no rain puddles just one of those things...
              Last edited by crownman25; 04-29-2016, 12:03 AM.

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              • 3 wide
                Senior Member
                • Jan 2016
                • 1141

                #8
                Better bring back gar (not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word)son

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                • bite me too
                  Senior Member
                  • May 2007
                  • 795

                  #9
                  Originally posted by weatherman85 View Post
                  I thought the racing was pretty decent from 2nd on back at the Lucas show. Hate to see a track do this but it is better than a track shutting it's gates. Maybe try a every-other-week type deal 1st. I've seen a couple of tracks do this successfully.
                  I love this quote from southern race fans.

                  "I thought the racing was pretty decent from 2nd on back..."

                  I lived down there for 15 years and went to a ton of DLM/Crate/Modified shows that all start heads up. if'n anyone of you "racing fans" ever came north and watched a weekly show you'd crap yourselves!!! no time trials. points leader can't start better than 10th - 12th and usually finishes in the top 2/3 with lots of them winning....oh, and the races are 25 - 30 laps.

                  I don't, but did, go to races to watch guys battle for 7th and 8th. I wannna see the best guys at the track PASS cars to get to the front.

                  Now, I'm back up here and get to see RACING. Y'all enjoy that fastest guy deserves the to be at the crap!
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                  • acetone
                    Senior Member
                    • Aug 2008
                    • 495

                    #10
                    Originally posted by bite me too View Post
                    I love this quote from southern race fans.

                    "I thought the racing was pretty decent from 2nd on back..."

                    I lived down there for 15 years and went to a ton of DLM/Crate/Modified shows that all start heads up. if'n anyone of you "racing fans" ever came north and watched a weekly show you'd crap yourselves!!! no time trials. points leader can't start better than 10th - 12th and usually finishes in the top 2/3 with lots of them winning....oh, and the races are 25 - 30 laps.

                    I don't, but did, go to races to watch guys battle for 7th and 8th. I wannna see the best guys at the track PASS cars to get to the front.

                    Now, I'm back up here and get to see RACING. Y'all enjoy that fastest guy deserves the to be at the crap!
                    your just mad because you live up north.
                    victim

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                    • huskerdirt
                      Senior Member
                      • Mar 2011
                      • 5620

                      #11
                      Originally posted by bite me too View Post
                      I love this quote from southern race fans.

                      "I thought the racing was pretty decent from 2nd on back..."

                      I lived down there for 15 years and went to a ton of DLM/Crate/Modified shows that all start heads up. if'n anyone of you "racing fans" ever came north and watched a weekly show you'd crap yourselves!!! no time trials. points leader can't start better than 10th - 12th and usually finishes in the top 2/3 with lots of them winning....oh, and the races are 25 - 30 laps.

                      I don't, but did, go to races to watch guys battle for 7th and 8th. I wannna see the best guys at the track PASS cars to get to the front.

                      Now, I'm back up here and get to see RACING. Y'all enjoy that fastest guy deserves the to be at the crap!
                      Excellent post.

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                      • kidrock
                        Senior Member
                        • May 2007
                        • 16433

                        #12
                        Originally posted by bite me too View Post
                        I love this quote from southern race fans.

                        "I thought the racing was pretty decent from 2nd on back..."

                        I lived down there for 15 years and went to a ton of DLM/Crate/Modified shows that all start heads up. if'n anyone of you "racing fans" ever came north and watched a weekly show you'd crap yourselves!!! no time trials. points leader can't start better than 10th - 12th and usually finishes in the top 2/3 with lots of them winning....oh, and the races are 25 - 30 laps.

                        I don't, but did, go to races to watch guys battle for 7th and 8th. I wannna see the best guys at the track PASS cars to get to the front.

                        Now, I'm back up here and get to see RACING. Y'all enjoy that fastest guy deserves the to be at the crap!
                        Yep can you imagine back in the day when at some tracks they inverted the field. If they did that today the drivers wouldn't even unload their cars lol.

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                        • chupp n bloomer fan
                          Senior Member
                          • May 2007
                          • 11526

                          #13
                          Originally posted by acetone View Post
                          your just mad because you live up north.
                          Oh yes. I'd rather just watch qualifying, and features heads up.(sarcasm)

                          The Ray Cook and SAS format blows, and anywhere else that uses that format.
                          Up in the air who my next “favorite” driver is. Really losing hope on Bloomer getting anywhere back to “normal”.

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                          • weatherman85
                            Senior Member
                            • Jun 2012
                            • 807

                            #14
                            Originally posted by bite me too View Post
                            I love this quote from southern race fans.

                            "I thought the racing was pretty decent from 2nd on back..."

                            I lived down there for 15 years and went to a ton of DLM/Crate/Modified shows that all start heads up. if'n anyone of you "racing fans" ever came north and watched a weekly show you'd crap yourselves!!! no time trials. points leader can't start better than 10th - 12th and usually finishes in the top 2/3 with lots of them winning....oh, and the races are 25 - 30 laps.

                            I don't, but did, go to races to watch guys battle for 7th and 8th. I wannna see the best guys at the track PASS cars to get to the front.

                            Now, I'm back up here and get to see RACING. Y'all enjoy that fastest guy deserves the to be at the crap!
                            Dang dude, didn't have to bust my chops! I've been to my fair share of northern races and I agree the weekly shows on average are much better. Most of the drivers down south piss and moan if you try to get them to do anything but qualify and run. I was just making an observation about Boyd's the one time I've been. It was a Lucad Oil event. Don't matter if it's a track in the north or south it would have been the same format. Madden was in a league of his own that night. No one had anything for him so had to watch the race for 2nd on back.

                            Pure weekly racing shows though, like I said, no argument from me there. Your average weekly show up North is usually 10 times better than one down here. I usually attend weekly shows at Dixie speedway down here as they at least run heats in Crates and limiteds. They do qualify the Supers but invert up to the top 6.

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                            • bite me too
                              Senior Member
                              • May 2007
                              • 795

                              #15
                              Originally posted by acetone View Post
                              your just mad because you live up north.

                              ooooooooo, you got me there!

                              I grew up here and watched racing like you've never seen. and now, I'm back up here (by choice) and again watching racing like you've never seen.

                              yup...mad beyond belief! enjoy that race for 13th....while I watch the winner come from 12th in 25 laps on a quarter mile!
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