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Floyd Gilbert

Stock Car Racing History

I remember Floyd when he started coming up to Eldora, maybe late 60's or early 70's. Always a front runner in whatever car he was driving at the time. Do you remember the school bus hauler he had?

Young Lady ARCA Driver Discovers Money Grows on Trees and Leads to Daytona

General

Sloan is a very smooth driver. If she can get into her comfort zone, she will do good. We wish her all the luck this weekend.

Heat Races VS Time Trials

General

We got a new owner at one of our local tracks this past summer. They do time trial but waste little time doing it, if you are not ready, to bad. But they also brought back the 4 car fast dash & you have to run a heat race. Once they started putting a full program together, the fans are now back to supporting the track & the car count is also up in most of the classes. Their ideal was what the fan wanted was what they were going to get.

Heat Races VS Time Trials

General

The Promoters need to get back to entertaining their fans. Time trials are not it. Make the heat races a big part of how you start the feature. Florence Speedway in Kentucky did away with the qualifying, pill draw for heat race start & added passing points to their heats to determine feature line-up, makes the show very interesting.

Back in the 70's when I was racing at Eldora every week, heat race finishes paid points, like someone else already mentioned, but we did qualify back then. Back then it was a fast heat, second fast etc. how you qualified was what heat you went to & the inversion for the feature was determined off the heats. If you was in the slower heat you most likely was starting in the back of the feature.

But like most of you, I think the casual fan is bored to death with time trials. It time the tracks got back to taking care of the fans & us racers will still be right there entertaining them.