USAR = yawn, TBARA = !!!

[Boneman]

Tonights show at NSS was completely bi-polar; one half was wild and the other a little dull for my taste. The USAR 250 put me to sleep. This rarely happens at a race, but for some reason I just couldn't get into it. Too many laps and not enough cars were problems. Also, there were no speakers anywhere around where we were sitting, so also being unfamiliar with the drivers and not hearing anything didn't help.

The night drew a good sized crowd, I just hope they were more involved with the 250 than I was.

On the other hand, the TBARA showed up 28 cars strong and put on an excellent feature. Speaking for me, the sprints were the only reason I went to the track tonight.

USAR (who rented the track for the evening) made the call to move the sprint heats from 7 pm to after the 250 lapper. This way, lots of the crowd left, and those who stayed had to wait out a 15 minute delay between the last heat and the feature that immediatly followed it. I didn't think this was the best plan, expecially when USAR had lots of down-time to run the heats easily at 7. Instead they began their heats way too late at around 10:45.


Once again there was no soap and no towels in the bathrooms! Too bad, with a crowd of that size we may have been able to make some new fans.

[eracer52]

beer

beer stand ran out of bud light bottles and draft before pro cup race was over.concession stand ran out of coffee during heat races for sprints and closed before sprint race was over.

[backrow]

Agreed on all counts. I went to see the TBARA and had they run it first, I'd have left by halfway of the Pro Cups. 250 laps is too long for 22 cars. good crowd though, too bad most missed the best part of the show.

[TINYTIMDSS]

of the 22 cars how many we're start and park. the USARA is killing there selfs. There are several cars for sale or just siting on jack stands

[JackTripper]

I was very impressed with the amount of fans that stayed through that 250 lap borefest to watch the TBARA. The USAR drivers were squawking about the rubber the TBARA cars were putting down, that's why they moved us to the end of the night. We were actually in line to go out on the track for our heat race (as scheduled) when they sent us back to our haulers. Not much you can do about that when USAR rents the track.

Once again NSS ran out of Yuengling early on the night, but PBR on draft saved the day.

For every one of the fans that stayed, everyone associated with the TBARA (I was helping out Steve Heisler in the #8) would like to thank you very, very much! We had a very long night, but seeing everyone up in the stands that late made it all worthwhile!

[fred23]

Notsaying they were right in changing the schedule but I am sure the pro cup cars were junk after the sprint cars......the track always go to crap after the sprint cars run.......they are the best show on asphalt in Florida but it sucks when you have to run after them........probably should not have scheduled them on the same night!!!!!!!!

[Beach Bum]

"The USAR drivers were squawking about the rubber the TBARA cars were putting down"

If that is the case then it's truly a "WTH?!" moment. All the Pro Cup cars are running together on the same track/same time, so even if the TBARA cars are laying down rubber that is not compatible with the USAR rubber everybody is still even,right? It would sure seem that 50 laps into a USAR 250 lapper, the TBARA rubber would be covered over. Or, is my thinking all messed up here?

[Benny The Mule]

Not a thing in the world wrong with rubber on the track. I used to run after the TBARA race on their night when i raced Ocala, and that was some of the fastest races we ever had in our class. In fact one night i was getting so much grip the yolk on my rearend rubbed a hole in the floorboard in a 20 lap race and it had never touched it before that.

[lcabre]

Well not for anything but we were bad fast Friday at practice fast enough to be in the top 5. Then Saturday night came and after the Pro cups ran the track went to crap, not just mine but a lot of the cars became very darty drivers were all over the track looking for lines to run. Noticed that cars without nose wings were doing better than ones that had them.. Who knows just glad we had a race and can't wait for the next one !!!