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  • ptown
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    • Jan 2011
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    #1

    Tire Doping Perspective by Don Martin STLRacing.com

    Interesting article and why does Tony Stewart hate Bloomquist?


    After the Dirt Late Model Dream at Eldora Speedway concluded earlier this month 5 drivers were suspended for tires not reaching the benchmark in a chemical analysis. The tire samples were taken during post-race inspection and sent to an independent test lab. The drivers suspended are Scott Bloomquist, Jimmy Owens, Brandon Sheppard, Ricky Thornton Jr., […]
  • chupp n bloomer fan
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    • May 2007
    • 11526

    #2
    Originally posted by ptown View Post
    Interesting article and why does Tony Stewart hate Bloomquist?


    http://www.stlracing.com/2016/06/30/...stlracing-com/
    How did you get that from that?

    That was just an opinion, open thought by the guy who wrote it, not something Tony said or that is a fact.
    Up in the air who my next “favorite” driver is. Really losing hope on Bloomer getting anywhere back to “normal”.

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    • cjsracing
      Senior Member
      • May 2007
      • 840

      #3
      Funny he mentions that Bloomquist not being there will hurt Bloomquist's merchandise sales. If I was Scott I would design special shirts for this years World 100, show up with my merchandise trailer and personally be the one in the trailer selling the merchandise. He would still make a killing and not even be racing.

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      • Dirt Racing #1
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        • Jun 2014
        • 879

        #4
        Originally posted by cjsracing View Post
        Funny he mentions that Bloomquist not being there will hurt Bloomquist's merchandise sales. If I was Scott I would design special shirts for this years World 100, show up with my merchandise trailer and personally be the one in the trailer selling the merchandise. He would still make a killing and not even be racing.
        I know for a fact. Bloomer makes a killing off t-shirts at big E. Bloomer won't be racing at the World 100 this year. ( As of now). Im not betting against him in 2017 at big E. He is just going to be more determined to win both in 2017.

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        • Dirt Racing #1
          Senior Member
          • Jun 2014
          • 879

          #5
          Great article!!!

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          • waaac77
            Senior Member
            • Jul 2015
            • 629

            #6
            Horrible article!!! So the drivers think the suspensions are too steep? Ok. So lets say no suspensions then, we will just slap you on the wrist with a small fine and take your winnings and send you back out there with your cheater tires. Makes sense.

            They want cheater tires out of racing, clearly. You cheat you get fined, stripped of winnings and suspended. If you don't want that to happen to you then dont cheat. The ones who cheat will get caught and they did. Now I have no idea about the reliability of the testing but seems legit and pretty cut and dry to me.

            Did I miss something in this read?

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            • Dirt Racing #1
              Senior Member
              • Jun 2014
              • 879

              #7
              So you know for a fact no one else cheated on tires? Did they test every driver that made the dream? Cheating is wrong. No doubt it.

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              • ClampedUp
                Senior Member
                • May 2007
                • 1131

                #8
                Originally posted by cjsracing View Post
                Funny he mentions that Bloomquist not being there will hurt Bloomquist's merchandise sales. If I was Scott I would design special shirts for this years World 100, show up with my merchandise trailer and personally be the one in the trailer selling the merchandise. He would still make a killing and not even be racing.
                Actually I wouldn't give Eldora/UMP a chance to make one penny off of me if I were those drivers.
                I'd buy up 6-8 spots in the Speedy campground pull in the merchandise trailers and have one hell of a party with the fans that weekend.

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                • HoosierDirtFan
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                  • Dec 2012
                  • 22186

                  #9
                  Originally posted by ptown View Post
                  Interesting article and why does Tony Stewart hate Bloomquist?


                  http://www.stlracing.com/2016/06/30/...stlracing-com/
                  That is a good article and very interesting to read.
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                  • Highside Hustler25
                    Senior Member
                    • Nov 2009
                    • 12950

                    #10
                    Originally posted by ClampedUp View Post
                    Actually I wouldn't give Eldora/UMP a chance to make one penny off of me if I were those drivers.
                    I'd buy up 6-8 spots in the Speedy campground pull in the merchandise trailers and have one hell of a party with the fans that weekend.
                    Now that could actually happen. Setting up on Eldora property? Probably not.
                    8/13/16

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                    • Kromulous
                      Senior Member
                      • May 2007
                      • 3008

                      #11
                      If i were Bloomquist, i would invite the 5 suspended Drivers, add in whomever else that wanted to Race. Rent out Florence Speedway, or the nearest track to Eldora, and Race!

                      Call it the F-U WOO/UMP 100...

                      Just say no...

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                      • tb1545
                        Senior Member
                        • Mar 2012
                        • 208

                        #12
                        Just read a couple articles on toNY Stewart's post race interview at sonoma. They talked about a meeting early in his Nascar with Brian France where Brian told Tony "No one driver is bigger than this sport" Tony said it resonated with him because he was absolutely right. These suspensions will prove that as well. In a year or two it might be mentioned the 2016 world 100 winner with a mention of the suspension. After 3 or 4 years Noone will remember anything besides who won. But Eldora isn't the only place racing on the dream and world dates anymore. The 5 suspended drivers will show up somewhere else and race that week in front of a crowd that normally wouldn't get a chance to see those bigger names of the sport.

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                        • tb1545
                          Senior Member
                          • Mar 2012
                          • 208

                          #13
                          In the case of bloomer, owens and possibly Sheppard , they can probably get paid some appearance money to show up to some track. I Already was wondering on Ricky thorntons plans anyways as usually the world and imca supernationals are the same weekend.

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                          • kidrock
                            Senior Member
                            • May 2007
                            • 16427

                            #14
                            Originally posted by waaac77 View Post
                            Horrible article!!! So the drivers think the suspensions are too steep? Ok. So lets say no suspensions then, we will just slap you on the wrist with a small fine and take your winnings and send you back out there with your cheater tires. Makes sense.

                            They want cheater tires out of racing, clearly. You cheat you get fined, stripped of winnings and suspended. If you don't want that to happen to you then dont cheat. The ones who cheat will get caught and they did. Now I have no idea about the reliability of the testing but seems legit and pretty cut and dry to me.

                            Did I miss something in this read?
                            I'm kind of curious as to how you thought the article was horrible? `

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                            • Dante Toledo, OH
                              Senior Member
                              • Feb 2013
                              • 1157

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Dirt Racing #1 View Post
                              So you know for a fact no one else cheated on tires? Did they test every driver that made the dream? Cheating is wrong. No doubt it.
                              I am pretty sure the have pre determined list of who will be tested. Like heat race winners top 2 from B's top 5 from A's or something similar. I think they tested 32 drivers over 3 days. But some people said they only tested Friday. Not really sure.
                              Go Buckeyes!!!

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