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  1. I disagree with this statement. Look at drivers like, Rico Abreu, Swindell Speedlab, Tanner Holmes, Ashley Afdahl, Jade Avedisian, Taylor Reimer and there is many more. They are influencers on TikTok, Instagram and Facebook. These drivers are not spending more to be an influencer, they are pulling in more. Three to four years ago you would never of heard who Tanner Holmes was. Now look at him, dude spent half the season last year running on the World of Outlaws thanks to him being seen on TikTok. He chronicles everything about his racing career and gives behind the scenes video. Ashley Afdahl does the same thing and she is a Micro racer. I follow all of these racers and its neat to see the content they produce. These people are are able to get their product out to thousands of viewers and then sell the product they are pushing. My cousin in law and her husband are both influencers within the Schoolie Community(converted school buses into RV's and homes) I had a in depth conversation with them both in January about this to help promote my sons racing career. He told me about the financial side that you can obtain from having the followers and the pay you receive from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube. He also told me about how companies will rear out to you and give you product to try and promote. They will give you the discount codes that people can order from them with your code and then you end of receiving something back in return for it. The days of car shows and events like that are going by the wayside and on online marketing has a far greater outreach to the public.
  2. I was looking forward to getting the race season started this weekend and getting to see some old friends, but that's not gonna happen. I hope this is figured out by the race in 2 weeks at RPM. Lot of people spent a lot of money this off season to make the switch to the national tour to just get shit on (sorry for my language). We had a 4th car built and picked up 1 new motor and have another being finished, plus all of the tires we had already purchased. Then there is people like Owen who I know spent a lot promoting and getting ready for this weekend. Plus I know there is a few drivers that are still owed a pretty penny of cash.
  3. Just to answer a couple questions: The Funny car vs Dragster matchups were set by the cars that did not qualify for the Shootout. I think they only took the Top 8 in qualifying. Austin Prock's Top Fuel car was already parked for the season as it did not have the funding. But if I'm not mistaken the cool thing is the Crew Chief is his dad and the Car Chief or Head Tuner is his Brother. They have lowered nitro percentages, took timing, they have done downforce, blower overdrive, rev limiters and these teams still figure out how to go faster with all of it. This is when I wish dad was still around because he had alot of inside information on this issue directly. He had a lot of conversations with a bunch of the top teams crew chiefs and head tuners about this exact subject. He would discuss the track prep with them very thoroughly to understand what he was doing to the track that would help them achieve numbers they were wanting to get.
  4. 3 of the chassis are 2023 year model Triple X Chassis with one being a 2024. Everything that goes on every car is the same. All rear ends, arms, shocks, front suspension and arms, hubs and pumps are all the same on every car. All the spares in the trailer and mule are the same thing. Only thing that will be different is the engines and specifics for that engine. One car will have a Myers Racing Engines 305, The other car will have a Myer's Racing Engine 360. One is the spare car that goes in the trailer, and one will be ready to go at the shop. There will be another Myer's Racing Engine 305 and 360 and Wesmar 360 in the trailer ready to go.
  5. He mentioned on the Dale Jr Download earlier this year she was hinting at wanting to be a mom so I'm not to surprised by this announcement.
  6. Prepping and Building Cars for the 2024 ASCS National Tour Season
  7. 4/19 date on High Limit went to Southern Oklahoma Speedway
  8. If you are a sprint car fan you are in luck next year. Lots of big 410 shows in Texas / Oklahoma Region. ASCS 360 National Tour hasn't released there's yet but I'm hearing the first 3 weekends of National Tour races are South Texas Race Ranch and RPM Speedway those are known and the other I am hearing is TMS Dirt Track as the other weekend. I think it is awesome to see Sprint car racing blowing and going again in these 2 states on this level. Lets not also forget that the World of Outlaw Latemodels also will be going to Arrowhead Raceway and Rocket Raceway in 2024. High Limit Sprint Cars 4/13 TMS 4/14 RPM Speedway 4/16 Red Dirt Raceway Meeker Ok (1 hr 15 mins southwest of Tulsa) 4/19 Southern Oklahoma Speedway Ardmore, Ok 4/20 Salina High Banks Salina Ok (45 minutes east of Tulsa) 10/11 TMS World of Outlaws Sprint Cars 3/8-3/9 Kennedale Speedway Park 3/15-3/16 Cotton Bowl Speedway 3/22 Big O Speedway 3/23 Lawton Speedway Lawton OK 3/29 Thunderbird Speedway Muskogee, OK (45 mins south of Tulsa) 4/6 Arrowhead Raceway Colcord, OK (1 Hour east of Tulsa)
  9. Well it all starts now, We picked up a quarter midget yesterday while we were in Austin. We are going to go through the car completely and he will be able to start practicing legally this time next year in the mean time once its ready it will be parking lot time. He is going to race up here in the Tulsa Quarter Midget Association.
  10. Just saw on Facebook that the ASCS National Tour is starting their National Points paying season at South Texas Race Ranch March 1-2.
  11. By the post I saw this morning on Facebook by Lanny Edwards looks as if this is the last season for Devils Bowl.
  12. Pocono Proof it was a bigger deal. first photo is from 2019 and second phot is from this past weekend
  13. I think its funny we want to call out the covered seats. If anything those are the best seats to cover. If they have 50,000 seats and they sell all those seats then its a sell out. It doesn't matter how many are covered. This is happening in a lot of sports where seats are being covered because they can sell more advertising in those areas. Everyone has stated that is the most campers they have seen in the infield in a while. Jeff Gluck's poll was 81.1% that the race was good. I watched it and I thought it was good. Yeah its not the beating banging side by side we all want but this race is and will always be a fuel mileage race and that brings a different quality to the race. When will people give credit where credit is due. The series has been getting better and when they figure out the short track package it will make the racing that much better. All we want to on this website is bash NASCAR and call them out for dumb things when the sport is actually progressing again. The rise in NASCAR popularity is bringing interest into other racing areas now. Believe it or not there is Kyle Larson fan that don't realize he races the sprint cars and late models and when mentions that it brings interest into that area of racing. People don't realize that Tony Stewart drives an A Fuel dragster in NHRA but when he talks about it on air it brings interest into NHRA. The talk of Kyle running Indy next year has brought interest into Indy car. Door Bumper Clear which is a podcast by NASCAR Spotters is sponsored by Dirt Vision their show is aired on DirtVision they spend a good amount of time every week talking about dirt racing which brings interest from non dirt racing fans into the sport. Before you say they do that because of their sponsor I will tell you no they have talked about dirt racing way before that. Their host is Casey Boat which is Chad Boat's wife and she talks about midget and micro racing all the time and is always promoting Millbridge. When it comes down to it all getting on this website and blasting nascar the way some of yall do is no different than the people that get on facebook and blast a track or series. Yall dont like it when people do that for a local track so why is it ok to do that for a national series that if it wasnt for that national series there would be no interest in your local track.
  14. I will say if you listen to his podcast he has made mention many times that Kyle will make that same move (literally mentioned it in last weeks episode) and will pinch the outside car off and he basically expects you to lift kind of like what they do in the dirt world. Denny used his move against him and Kyle chose to stay in it just like most dirt racers of his caliber will do. The deal with Bowman most people when they get home will see that Denny had nothing to do with that and that he lost it in the middle of the corner. Yes I will agree Denny will complain and be a whiner but in this case he used Kyle's move against him.
  15. The booing is partly for the way he used up the 5 but i think more of it has to do with the no caution thrown until the white was out.
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