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Out here is pretty dismal. There is really nothing for us old guys and classic cars to race in for some fun. Basically what we have is one track, Wild Horse in Phoenix. It services basically the entire northern half of the state and to the West. It's the only track in the area. One other track exists 90 miles to the South in Tuscon. So here we have one track in Phoenix where over 4 million people live just in that city alone, that I drive over 100 miles to get to. Yet they only have one muscle car style race a year. That's it. And Steve Barcack puts that on, with all models welcome on Saturday, and Pontiac only on Sunday. This event has the ability to be huge but the structure of the event among other things hurts attendance, but that's another discussion. Fact is, Wild Horse has nothing else for the little guys the rest of the year. Just test and tune nights about once a month. Everything else is nothing but NHRA sanctioned events the entire year. SUCKS. They don't even hold a Super Chevy event there anymore. I don't know if it's the track owner or what, but someone simply has no interest in putting on events for the local classic car crowd at all. Instead they have drift events and ricer racing. Dad was running under the roll bar rule last trip down at Pontiac Heaven and they were cool about it. At least that day. I've had instances down there with a convertible LS powered Camaro where I barely got through tech, knowing the LS cars run quicker than 13.50's right out of the box, the requirement for a roll bar in a vert, they almost weren't even going to let me run at all. Now we have new cars running 10's with just a helmet. Crazy. I really hope your track makes it. Once they close it's 10 times harder to open one back up, or build one. I'm a believer in supporting the local tracks, and try to, but when they only have test and tune once a month and no other real events that relate to any cars we have, it limits my opportunities to attend. Last edited by Formulajones; 05-27-2020 at 12:04 PM. |
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It was a lot of fun, but they didn't have enough cars show up to properly class it as they had planned. Everyone raced together. I ended up in the finals against a 2018 Demon. It ended pretty much how you would expect.
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With this beer virus deal I suspect it'll take a while for attendance to get back to normal. |
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SPEED SAFE, NICK
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Well then you beat the Demon... love that expectation :-)
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1967 GTO, 467 roller motor, e heads ported, tremec T56 magnum 6 speed and 9" done. EZ EFI 2.0 with FAST dual sync distributor and separate nitrous system done. Track is at 4300 ft elevation. so far a best of 11.95@116. Suspension now getting dialed in...tubular front a arms with dual adjustable coil overs HR Parts n stuff rear bar and whole car lowered 3 inches.. |
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