I-77 Speedway Richburgh SC
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Angie, thanks so much for stepping up to the plate at I-77. Best of luck in 2012!
Forum Activity for @bobby-williamson
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Racing Will Return to Historic Cleveland County Fairgrounds
Vintage Oval and Road Course Racing
This is so incredible, it's hard to take in! It's not just a historic facility coming back to life.....It's a NEW facility being constructed FOR vintage stock car racing!!! Who would have ever thought?.........It's a testament to dreams and momentum, the same two ingredients that came together all those years ago in the cow pastures and on the beach strand.
Jeff, can we have golden shovels to commence the shopping center's demise? Or maybe they should have a checkered flag motif. Shopping mall, housing complex, don't matter.....they've hit on us for too long!
Due to this weeks blackout the following applies
Trivia
Wow! Y'allreallymiss the Goat Rodeo! That's pretty cool. After two years, hand-running, I miss it too, this past Tuesday night felt strange.
Ghost Track Directory from 1957 - Bopper, Got Your Ears On?
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Dave, I missed this post, but will check it out..Thanks!! I'll be talking about the old Chantilly Speedway on 12/20. Would you be interested in coming on the show and telling your Chantilly/Joe Huss story?
SET UP OF A CAR for D I R T old school style
Stock Car Racing History
Well, assuming the push is not driver induced, air pressure could be changed...decrease the right front and left rear, and increase the left front and right rear, if necessary. Don't cost anything to do that. 60's-era chassis, heavily hinged on super-heavy springs everywhere. But especially the right front....and they would go an additional step and run a real small LF tire/wheel increasing the pushing (cross weight) even more. A larger LF wheel could be added........I realize the concept ofstaggernot generally known in the '60's (unless you were Ralph Earnhardt) but stagger changes and springs would have helped. And neither cost much.........but are incredibly effective. The caster/camber could also be fiddled with (but you'd need to be Ralph Earnhardt again). Excess RF camber, another popular '60's idea causes pushing, entering a turn, simply because there's less of the tire's footprint on the track. Lot of simple, cheap changes could be made...even back in the day.
Captions...
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Here's a topic that's we've re-run more times thanSmokey and the Bandit: Captions for pictures posted here on Racers Reunion. Over the years, there's been some fantastic, never-before-seen photos posted right here........and all too often, there is no accompanying info....NONE. I'd like to encourage all photo posters to include what info you have, or what you've been told, or what you think.........I'll guarantee, there's sufficient knowledge on this site to fill in the blanks........just get the ball rolling.
updated by @bobby-williamson: 04/02/17 09:28:18AM
NASCAR HOF Attendance Continues Downward Spiral - Time for Management Shake-up?
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A crackerjack promoter wouldn't hurt, but I think the HOF's problems are deeper, a symptom of a much greater disease. We've cussed and discussed this a million times, but when NASCAR, at the arm-twisting of marketeers, chose to abandon the traditional fan and their ownhistorical venues, the very fans that wouldhave been interested in the Hall, lost interest in the entire subject....lock, stock, and barrel. A NASCAR generation was lost, and, worse, an anything-but-NASCAR-attitude replaced it. The cultural damage was already donebeforethe first brick was ever laid. It will be years in the future, when the newNASCAR fan is interested in such things as the sport's history....if they hang around that long.
KURT BUSCH TO REPLACE ALLMENDINGER IN #43
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Yes, IMO, KB would be a negative blunder for Best Buy, or anyone else....but the carrot that RPM's dangling ... "we can get a past champion, and winner of X number of races..........." It's (obviously) a money/sponsor-driven strategy on the part of RPM. Not saying it's classy or honorable or will even be successful, but they are going afterthe sponsor.