Recent content by t.nie

I guess they're hiding Belle Isle on the USA network too. My guess on the start time is because it is going to be on some of the hottest days in August, so moving it to a later start time may help things cool off as the sun goes down. I really wouldn't want to sit through an afternoon in August...

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I'm pretty sure people in law enforcement, anti-terrorism work, espionage, counterintelligence, special forces, fire and rescue watch movies about what they supposedly do and think its pretty far off the mark and stupid too. Can't see some dirt track racing movie making dirt racers or fans of...

Would you be able to build a $3500 open engine that would be competitive? If so, would anyone be interested in doing some kind of deal of letting you build said engine and give guys running it a lesser weight penalty to make it competive with the open engines and crate engines? Some kind of...

Thanks for pointing that out.

You know what might be an idea is to build a $3500 open engine that outperforms the crate and then do some kind of lease deal to racers. $2500 up front, $400 a month for the season for maintenance on it, then whatever for a rebuild at the mid season point? Pay $xxx if you blow it up. That might...

Isn't it cheaper to freshen a crate engine though? And you are right about "if the rules didn't favor the crate engine nobody would run one." I would say "if the rules didn't allow crates to be competitive, people would just quit racing altogether."

Gotta love Chinese safety. One row of tires, some chicken wire at the end of the longest, fastest straight at Macau. Lucky the whole scaffold photographer stand didn't fall over.

Why would anyone think to provide live streaming of the event, how ridiculous..... Oh wait.... I pay $99 a year to subscribe to Loudpedal and then I get to watch the races from all over the USA and attend the ones locally. You're right though. In this social media, live streaming, youtube...

If you pull that genie out of the bottle though, what it actually does and what people think it does is still going to be the problem. Does anyone really want to give racers another thing to spend money on and then complain that someone else is spending more on it and that's why they win?

NASCAR has the strictest tech procedures in any form of stock car racing in the USA and on the engineering/crew chief side of it cheating or otherwise pushing the rules is the core piece of their job description. Tech only makes the challenge of finding how to get away with it a little more...

I think "this rule provides no one with any advantages" pretty much sums up why it shouldn't be changed. Anything that keeps the cars closer together in performance makes the driver/setup the deciding factor.

They sure do. But the point is, they already have them. It's only a small step to putting it on the track compared to buying it. And you know how it goes, once people have something like that, it's only natural to want to race somebody else who has one too. :)

Until the first promoter says "sure, you can use aftermarket ________. Oh yeah, and we'll "certify" engine rebuilders for a fee and you can get your engines rebuilt........" Then its just a money chasing money and everyone else getting left behind and leaving the sport. Again. Why hasn't...

Heres what I see/hear. At 19-21 Strickler slides across Stremme's nose and to his outside. At 21-22 Stremme stays inside coming off the corner and pulls up right alongside Strickler due to momentum but Stremme is not hard on the throttle, it sounds like he is half pedaling it to keep momentum...