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Great video Angie!! Love the Legend cars. PPIR looks like a great place to race those. 18 car count is awesome. Good luck to all the karters racing Legends next yr.
Mike I want to personally thank you and your team for raising money for The Childrens Hospital!! The staff there saved my sons life. My son is a former karter and was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor in July of 2008. Today he is free of disease and alive and well. Without people like you and your team The Childrens Hospital may not be able to help the Thousands of Children that they treat every year. Again THANK YOU!!! :clap: :clap: :clap:
Oh I forgot that drag racers Melanie Troxil and last years Funny Car Champ John Force will be on the radio 850AM as well. How’s that for some publicty?
Joe,
The fact is that the Indy 500 has ben replaced by the Daytona 500 as the Great American Race. NASCAR is here to stay! Please get use to it. BTW Why is Mike Rosen giving an interview to the current late model points leader at Colorado Natoinal Speedway between 9 and 12 on his show tomorrow morning on 850 KOA if left turn racing is such a joke. Joe quit bashing racing and support it like I do!!!
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Jay Luttrull
Great job Mike you deserve it. I have never met you but your post’s are always $$$. Your one of the guys that keep me coming back to this forum. Congrats on your win.
Just for my info how do you plan on checking the oil weight. We have ran everything from 20 weight oil to 0 weight oil and cannot figure out a way to tech it. Please let me know how to tell a diference? This has become a problem in the mini-cups as well. Thanks in advance Brad.
Jay
970-308-5539
There is also another transponder for sale in the classified section on bigwestracing.com they are asking $200.
Another article on the IRL
DAYTONA BEACH — As I write this, it’s 1:30 on Wednesday afternoon. The afternoon portion of the Indy Racing League test opened for business 30 minutes ago.
Roughly 300 people stand on the Fan Deck atop one of the Daytona garages. Out on the track — nothing.
Inside the garages sit most of the cars, each with a varying number of crewmen performing various tasks.
“This is our first test of the year, and we have a lot of changes to make on the cars,” says one crewman.
Well, you certainly don’t want to argue with a man who knows infinitely more than you about the workings of an Indy car. But imagine, if you can, observing the same empty-track scene 30 minutes into the afternoon session of a preseason NASCAR test.
It just won’t happen.
And there’s this, which might smack of “inside baseball,” but still symbolizes the difference between NASCAR and all those standing in its shadow. During Wednesday’s noon-to-1 lunch break, Danica Patrick was scheduled to visit the media center and toss out some of the usual preseason comments familiar to all those who follow auto racing.
She didn’t show.
Her team reported it was having some issues with the seat in her Andretti Racing car, and she was needed in order to work out the problems. Fair enough, but again, it wouldn’t happen with NASCAR. Handlers for Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon and maybe even Tony Stewart would’ve made it work, especially if they had something to promote — like, say, an entire racing series.
It sounds like a small thing, sure. But if you’re an Orlando-based TV-sports crew and you came over here for a scheduled Danica press conference, you’re suddenly on the phone explaining to your producer why he should be interested in Marco Andretti instead.
Maybe I’m wrong, but sometimes it seems there’s a good reason why the IRL isn’t in the same public-relations stratosphere as NASCAR. The IRL, it seems, appears to treat its product as automotive competition, and not show-biz — at least not to the same show-biz degree as NASCAR.
Modern sports in general, and auto racing in particular, are celebrity-driven. That’s the only reason why NASCAR from Dover will draw an 8-share while the IRL from Richmond would gladly take a 2 — even when the IndyCar race is head-and-shoulders above Dover in terms of speed and white-knuckle pack-racin’.
NASCAR leaders will never admit this, of course, probably because all the ads and press releases and, um, lunchtime interview sessions, have convinced them otherwise.
Some like to blame the IRL’s underdog status on its big number of foreign-born drivers. That might have a little to do with it, but it’s hard to imagine someone basing his (or her) racing preference on the high volume of racing Stepfords currently in the NASCAR pipeline. Especially when the IRL’s list of international talent includes Helio Castroneves and Tony Kanaan, who between them possess more personality than the entire Daytona 500 starting lineup.
For his part, Kanaan says the drivers are very interested in seeing the IRL chip into a bigger piece of the North American racing pie. Sure, in a perfect world, their focus would be solely on the cockpit, but that’s far from the case.
“We talk to the IRL a lot,” insists Kanaan. “We discuss a lot of things, and they listen to us a lot, trying to make it better.”
But small incidents like Wednesday’s eventually add up to big drawbacks.
“We have a lot of work to do to try to catch up,” adds Kanaan. “We have good racing, we have a very competitive series. Right now, we need to get the fans — do whatever we can do to get the fans excited.”
Here’s a free tip: Keep the engines running, and make sure the drivers and teams are willing to go against their instincts and put marketing in the forefront every now and then.
Thanks Jay we would love to come practice, but as far as leaving the sarcasm at home I would not feel comfortable seeing as your buddy Hannum has plenty of it available. I have to match wits with someone. 😀 :sun:
We were not invited to kid kart practices last year but incase you did’nt know my new #is 1-800-1HONDA1 😀 😀 😀
I suggest a debate. For the honda motor or for the comer or for the briggs motor or for the gazelle. Let the debators present their sides for the advantages or dis-advantages for each and every motor. One person on the comer side, one person on the honda side(which I would volunteer to be), one person on the briggs side and one person on the gazelle side. No mudslinging just a debate on motors!
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Jay
He has ripped of numerous people including myself. I have been waiting on a title for a trailer that I purchased over four months ago! He sold a mini-cup to a guy a couple of months ago with a blown motor. If anybody knows where he is, please contact me.
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Jay
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