Bump and Run perfection!

[Phil Jacques]

That had the hair standing up on my arms.

I'd turn him right into the wall hard Hialeah style and get it back. I have a cure for guys like that. I bet he wouldn't steal it like that from me again...at least not with that car. :-)

LOL! And you would get the win taken away and parked for 2 weeks at any track around here at least lol Watch some of our other videos. Like I said, you get what you give. 18 pushed and pushed and pushed and finally someone pushed back. In the process, his bid for Speedbowl history came to an end because of how he races others. lol

[Phil Jacques]

Here are some more weekly highlights... This is the last video this week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUzZQM9hdx4

[Lurkin]

I don't feel like watching it again, but from what I saw it was all really good hard racing. Then he just knocked him out of the way to win. I'm not gonna sit back and congratulate a dirty driver on stealing a win that way or condone it by saying that it's ok because Earnhardt or anyone else did it that way. If he's so good he shoulda found a way AROUND him instead of through him, that doesn't take any skill. Rubbing's racing and I love good hard racing, but you let em do it once like that and they make you their bitch forever.

Edit: I'm only going on this one race. Maybe there's more to the story and a history between the two that I'm not seeing.

[OldSchool+]

Looked clean enough to me.

"Dirty" is when the hose-ee crashes.

Dale Sr. (who was over the line a lot, imo) = 7 championships

Mark Martin, well, ya know...

[Phil Jacques]

I don't feel like watching it again, but from what I saw it was all really good hard racing. Then he just knocked him out of the way to win. I'm not gonna sit back and congratulate a dirty driver on stealing a win that way or condone it by saying that it's ok because Earnhardt or anyone else did it that way. If he's so good he shoulda found a way AROUND him instead of through him, that doesn't take any skill. Rubbing's racing and I love good hard racing, but you let em do it once like that and they make you their bitch forever.

Edit: I'm only going on this one race. Maybe there's more to the story and a history between the two that I'm not seeing.

It's not just between he and the 75. As I said, truth be told he and Ryan in the 75 are great friends and I am friends with both as well. But calling a spade a spade, the 18 drives through everyone to get to the front.

I am 100% on board with OldSchool... Earnhardt = 7 Championships... Mark Martin could have had at least one that I remember, but he came up just short because he "didn't want to win one that way"... Remember, we didn't get into this sport to make friends. Friends come along the way. We are here to win, and to do whatever it takes to do so. I would move my grandmother out of the way to win a race

[OldSchool+]

PJ

Too late, Wayne Anderson already did!

She hit him with her cane as he went by!

[Lurkin]

MM didn't win one because he has a little neuron that shorts out every now and again and makes him pull in after taking the white flag or hitting the end of the pitwall for no apparent reason.

Sounds like the 18 deserved it.

[Frasson118]

A racing buddy of mine told me a great story that pertains to this.

He was starting near the back of the field, and right off the bat, some dude nails him in the back. My guy figured that if he's willing to do it to me for 21st place, hell do it everyone in front of him too.

So he just followed behind the guy that was bulldozing through, until they got to 1st & 2nd.

That's when my buddy decides that this guy deserves HIS.

Bumped & ran the dude, got the win.... and was the hero for taking care of the bulldozer.

[Jimmy McKinley]

A racing buddy of mine told me a great story that pertains to this.

He was starting near the back of the field, and right off the bat, some dude nails him in the back. My guy figured that if he's willing to do it to me for 21st place, hell do it everyone in front of him too.

So he just followed behind the guy that was bulldozing through, until they got to 1st & 2nd.

That's when my buddy decides that this guy deserves HIS.

Bumped & ran the dude, got the win.... and was the hero for taking care of the bulldozer.

Where's the "LIKE" button? :P

Ya know, through all this...I think back to the days when St. Pete (a tight little quarter-mile) and Tampa started 30+ Late Models *every week* - with the fast guys in the BACK *every week*. Those "fast guys" - including some of our own drivers - I can't recall *any* of 'em PLOWING through the field to get to the front. They'd use the *outside* groove*, which, it seems like, today's "spoiled kids" don't want to try and learn how to use.

[egspeedway]

Where's the "LIKE" button? :P

Ya know, through all this...I think back to the days when St. Pete (a tight little quarter-mile) and Tampa started 30+ Late Models *every week* - with the fast guys in the BACK *every week*. Those "fast guys" - including some of our own drivers - I can't recall *any* of 'em PLOWING through the field to get to the front. They'd use the *outside* groove*, which, it seems like, today's "spoiled kids" don't want to try and learn how to use.

he key to this whole response from Jimmy Is learn to use. Or was it balls.

[OldSchool+]

4 words (& one initial):

Don L. Burkhalter

Harry Pullen

Additionally, I believe (maybe actually correctly), that somehow, big block chevelles were more conducive to running side by side than our current cars. Maybe it was the tires, I dunno.

Further, would suggest that there were more "discussions" following the race then, than now, and they weren't talking about the weather...

All that said, I too, love watching a guy work his way by on the outside, and saw Mason Love do just that at Showtime last weekend.

[egspeedway]

Dumont Smith, Dick Joslin, Jim Mcguirk in addition to the aforementioned Pullen and Burkhalter were worth the price of admission at Eau Gallie and Orlando in the old days.

[scottgarrity07]

Nobody better than T.C. (Ted Christopher) at the bump 'n run move....IMHO, you just gotta race people the way they race you...

[OldSchool+]

Scott--True, true, but the last 3 laps or so...I would count on my buddy to hit me. Even you, with that clean late model-like sportsman. Maybe you would, and maybe you wouldn't, but I would be counting on it--and you are clearly a class act.

I also am cool with mirror driving and believe there is an art to it. Who wants to watch the fast guy sail by and drive off?

Of course, if you are the mirror drivin' guy, you should expect the bumper.

The trick is to be able to put your car in position to take a hit and not spin out.

ps--Always thought of McGurk as exceptionally clean--as was his car--but it was fast enough to go by without touching them!

[scottgarrity07]

Thanks for the kind words, Old School. And, yes, given the situation, I see nothing wrong with a bump 'n run move. The way I look at it, all is fair on the last lap-as long as everyone comes out of the corner. But, as a rule, I run everyone the way they run me and generally try to be as clean as possible.