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Msg ID: 2814175 Worth Watchin'/Worth Attending From This Past Weekend    
Author:3-Wide
4/29/2024 11:41:28 AM

Let us know what you watched, or attended and if you'd do it all over again....

I had a few things come up and ended up just watching TV & Streaming, and didnt' get out to see any events in person.

Peacock:  Watched last week's Long Beach Indycar, This Weeks Indycar at Barber,

FLO:  Watched last Week's Port Royal, Caught up on High Limit Action from Oklahoma, and also watched Georgetown Lucas Late Models from Friday.

Cable TV/DVR:  Watched Dover xFininity, and Dover Cup events.

Notes:  I'm pretty good at keeping myself in the dark about who has won events that have already occurred, so I almost always wait until events are over so that I can watch in the "Replay" section (Peacock & Flo), and DVR when an event is on cable.  That way I can watch them without knowing the outcome beforehand, but can fast forward through downtime/commercials/other.  It allows me to see a lot more events than if I tried watching any of them live, and honestly, I don't miss anything that's not worth missing.

Enjoyed the Indycar event at Barber even though I'm not really on the Penske bus...  Thought the High Limit races were good.  (Tough deal with Brad Sweet and James McFadden early in the feature at one of the tracks.)  Even thought both Dover events were interesting/good races even if not thrilled with the outcome...  (That's just part of it!) 



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Msg ID: 2814211 Penske bus    
Author:Kevin Mc
4/30/2024 5:34:52 AM

Reply to: 2814175

I was told it was not a good week inside the walls of Team Penske. Many of them didn't know anything until hearing about the scandal when the rest of us did. I asked a few questions but I could tell my bud really didn't feel like talking about it. He was crewing on a 305 down here in the Carolinas. The driver didn't help when he told the guy I know to make sure the Push-To-Pass was disconnected before hot laps.

The IndyCar race was interesting, the track is gorgeous. Lots of unforced errors. The guy I know told me some time back that Scotty Mac is the coolest guy of all their drivers. He also said Power is a bit of an odd duck.

Dover was interesting at times but was your typical Dover race. Seems like these new Cup cars would have dirty air problems racing around a high school football field track. Hearing week in and week out about track position and dirty air isn't a recipe for good racing.

I was at Sumter in SC with the Carolina 305 group. 14 sprints. They had 20 the night before at Carolina but lost a handful thru contact, broken engines, etc. 15 years ago I gave Sumter just a couple of years before it was sold off and the land was developed. It was a dump with poorly run shows that ran very late. We've ran features there after midnight in years past. But things are happening there now. The bought all the metal stands from the defunct Oglethorpe Raceway in GA and they're going up a section at a time. Replacing the original stands that are probably 60 years old and in bad condition. The track used to be one of the darkest tracks we raced at but they brought in all new LED lighting last year so now it's a very well lit track. They had problems with holes on Saturday but they laid down new clay over the Winter. It's probably been decades since this track got new clay. No dust. The place is still very rough but it's much better than it was when I was there last. Oh yeah, the sprint car feature was over at 9:20 and we were heading home before 10:30. Under the old management team we'd be staging for heats around 9:30 and it would be well past midnight before we got out of there. And the crowd was massive. Sumter is on the rebound in a big way.



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