How-Many-Times-Did-Larson-Hit-The-Wall-Poll!

[OldSchool+]

What an exciting Truck Race!

Congratulations to Darrell Wallace Jr & Tony Stewart.

But IMO, Kyle Larson was the show!

I did not "tape" the race. Anybody count how many times Larson hit the wall in the course of the evening?

Hence, the poll.

Valid, obviously, until someone counts or it hits the news.

My guess "more than 150".

Thanks for playing!

[Frasson118]

Best line,of the night, not sure who said it..... "how many times tonight have we said' he hits the wall.... and takes the lead"
It wasn't always about Larson, but man did he wear out a racecar.
My guess is somewhere around 75.
Great show all around, but Larson was the Star.

[JC26]

Fox Sports went back and reviewed the video and said he hit it 317 times in the post race show.

[OldSchool+]

JC--Thx!

I guess that is that.

317?! That could possibly be some sort of a record.

Shame it got to pushing going in, that pretty much led to the end (of the truck!).

[egspeedway]

What a show. What a crowd. Is NASCAR looking or listening. I know they are afraid this type of program is down sizing but I would sure love to see them try it at Bristol or Martinsville with the trucks and/or the Nationwides. they don't have the cajones to try it with the cup cars and just like any baby you have to crawl before you walk. Congratulations to all concerned and especially Tony for having the place perfectly prepped for this type of show.

[Matt Albee]

Want to get NASCAR back to it's glory days? Give Brian France the boot and put Tony Stewart in charge. Did you catch the constant grin on Tony's face during the evening? That guy lives and breathes racing.
The yearly race at Eldora just shows what a short track out in the middle of nowhere can do if they want to. The budget is big i'm sure, but listen to the stories about the giant, overflow crowds at Desoto when the NASCAR drivers were there, or the hundred yard long lines for autographs at NSS i've heard about when the NASCAR drivers came there for a charity race. And i doubt those two budgets were all that big. It takes a promoter just as much as it takes money. You doubt that? Take a look at the Seekonk photo again.

[Phil Jacques]

Want to get NASCAR back to it's glory days? Give Brian France the boot and put Tony Stewart in charge. Did you catch the constant grin on Tony's face during the evening? That guy lives and breathes racing.
The yearly race at Eldora just shows what a short track out in the middle of nowhere can do if they want to. The budget is big i'm sure, but listen to the stories about the giant, overflow crowds at Desoto when the NASCAR drivers were there, or the hundred yard long lines for autographs at NSS i've heard about when the NASCAR drivers came there for a charity race. And i doubt those two budgets were all that big. It takes a promoter just as much as it takes money. You doubt that? Take a look at the Seekonk photo again.

Agree 110%! Promoters post a link on Facebook and think their job is done these days... WRONG!!!

[OldSchool+]

I think NASCAR is better suited to their deal than Tony --he is racing, they is money.

Tony could be "competition director" or similar, but then, he doesn't play well with others, and that does not fit the NASCAR template (lol).

That said, one would think that there are similar venues for Brian and Bruton to be picking up--cheap.

Or build 3/8-3/4 mile tracks next to the existing grandstands at the 1 1/2 milers and turn the rest of it into a road coarse and/or dragstrip.

The "short track iniative" could be phased in a track or two at a time.

After last night, the lightbulb should have gone off!

[JC26]

I think NASCAR is better suited to their deal than Tony --he is racing, they is money.

Tony could be "competition director" or similar, but then, he doesn't play well with others, and that does not fit the NASCAR template (lol).

That said, one would think that there are similar venues for Brian and Bruton to be picking up--cheap.

Or build 3/8-3/4 mile tracks next to the existing grandstands at the 1 1/2 milers and turn the rest of it into a road coarse and/or dragstrip.

The "short track iniative" could be phased in a track or two at a time.

After last night, the lightbulb should have gone off!

I agree. NASCAR has become predictable in every sense. The same mile and a half tracks that is follow the leader 95% of the race and then a "debris" caution with 20 to go which adds little to no excitement value anyway. Out of three dozen races of the year, I watch maybe 10-12. They've taken the driver element out of it and made it a steering wheel holder series where the guy whose crew chief figures out the BS aero package first wins. Last night shows an element that NASCAR is missing. There was 3, 4, and 5 wide racing on a half mile track. It was edge of your seat exciting action. And it was anyone's race at any given point in time. I mean most of the guys out there showed THEIR ability, not NASCARS new downforce package, because some of those guys have only been on dirt a handful of times throughout their careers.

[Matt Albee]

Now heres a headscratcher for everyone. Why can Seekonk draw a huge crowd like it did for the mod race when NSS can't even come close to a sell out when they host pretty much the same entry list of racers? This is not a knock on NSS at all, i'm just curious about everyones opinion regarding why the fans don't go see those guys when they race at NSS. Hell i'd pay rergular ticket prices ( and i do every Speedweeks ) to watch half of that group race. I know a lot of those drivers didn't come to NSS over the last couple of years, so the fan turnout wouldn't have been as good. But i'm talking about before that when those same drivers did show up.

[egspeedway]

Matt Albee was dead on on two points. The track is in the middle of nowhere with no close airports motels or population centers yet the place was packed. Eldora is racings version of Field of Dreams. The second point he hit on the head is the current crop of Frances running things. Big Bill and Bill Jr. would say in a second get rid of your cookie cutters(cars/tracks) as they are making nothing but stale cookies. The younger Frances while savy on corporate issues and images it is clear they do not understand racing or its fans. Tony Stewart in todays USA TODAY said his program should be extended to all NASCAR levels. They covered Bristol with clay before lets do it again and compare crowd sizes and TV audiences. Remember Fox Sports 1 is one of the smallest TV venues available at this time. How big would the viewership have been on ESPN or God forbid a major network.

[OldSchool+]

2 questions:

>Do you think they took accurate measurments of the "old" Bristol, and

>Why in the (insert Phil's expletives here) haven't they CHANGED IT BACK, YET??

[egspeedway]

2 questions:

>Do you think they took accurate measurments of the "old" Bristol, and

>Why in the (insert Phil's expletives here) haven't they CHANGED IT BACK, YET??

Rather than simply return to their original layout they took out some banking and tried progressive banking in hopes of creating multiple racing lanes. It has never been the same since but still is one of the few tracks that features real racing at times. If they decide to cover it with clay for a special I can only hope they truly engineer some thought into the tracks dynamics.

[OldSchool+]

EG--Got it.

Nonetheless, IMO, relative to the original Bristol of the '90's, it still tends to suckle.

Yes, I know that Jimmy & crowd rave on the fact that they can start up front and then pass anywhere, but I still see empty seats and rather than Christmas morning at 7am (at 6yrs old!), Bristol is now more like thanksgiving at the inlaws.

Thanks for the turkey, can I take a nap now?

[egspeedway]

EG--Got it.

Nonetheless, IMO, relative to the original Bristol of the '90's, it still tends to suckle.

Yes, I know that Jimmy & crowd rave on the fact that they can start up front and then pass anywhere, but I still see empty seats and rather than Christmas morning at 7am (at 6yrs old!), Bristol is now more like thanksgiving at the inlaws.

Thanks for the turkey, can I take a nap now?

Just think if NASCAR had a Thanksgiving day race you could choose between them and the Detroit Lions as to who would put you to sleep first. For what it is worth Orlando Speedway had a Thanksgiving day race that got many a man in the dog house with the wife as the size of the field and crowd was outstanding. THE GOOD OLD DAYS AND HOT DOGS WERE ONLY A QUARTER.