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I’m not sure what to think of it Arob? He definitely caught the 11 with his pants down.

HT, I am offshore working right now. But when I get home I will get with you and drop a small check in the mail.

Yes, pretty much. But I think I could deal with the days of the iron fist better than I can with all the nonsense they do these days in there officiating.

NASCAR management has never been consistent in any of there officiating. They have and always will do what they want, when they want, and how they want. And I find that to be very unfortunate. That’s why all of us on here have no access to the rule book.

I am out of town on vacation, or I would be there. Hope they have a great night of racing and a big crowd.

There is nothing cheap about this car, and there never will be. These teams are putting these cars together with clenched fist becaus they see ways to make it so much better but can't touch the parts. Reb is right, NASCAR is running the show, and it shows.

I have tickets for this deal.

Arob there is still some work to do with the car count. But it was better than I expected. Trucks was the biggest class with I think 16 started. Modifieds had 10-12 start. and about the same for the rest of the classes. Naskarts had 6 start I believe. With all the volatility and uncertaintly over the last couple of years its hard to know how many cars are still out there or how many just gave up. From what I saw Saturday night, things look very promising. If they can develop some consistancy it should draw some more cars. Couple more races to go this year yet to hopefully finish strong, and give racers a good feeling that they can sink some money into a car and still have a place to race it. But the fans have to do there part as well.

I will be in Ft. Worth for this race. Hope the weather is good. I will leave Ft. Worth and make my way to Talladega for the following race there. When I leave FT. Worth I will be going to Searcy Arkansas to get some work done to my motorhome. It is very close to Batesville, so we are going to run up to Batesville to Mark Martins museum he has at his Ford dealership up there. Looking forward to that. He is one of my favorites.

Mike, Thank you for your reply. And I am sure the start up of this operation has been a big undertaking. Big crowd on Saturday. I can tell you from this fans perspective it went off pretty well for a new group coming in. When traffic got backed up at the gate and congested the main road, they came out and opened up a 3rd lane and ticket window. I think I heard the conssesion stands got wiped out, but that is a good problem to have and an easy one to fix. I didn't run out of beer as I buy enough early on to carry me through the night. It was a very good night at the races and thank you to all who have invested the money and time to bring it back to us. Greg Railsback Cypress, TX.

Nick, what is the chances of the top 3 being DQ'ed under this rule? Seems like they may have been team cars? I know that Luza had them covered up in the 5 car. But the win went to Clayton Green who crossed the line in 4th. Arob, i'm not sure where they would post the winners. Maybe on there facebook page? They did have a big crowd, that was nice to see.

On all 3 cars?

Good racing, pretty good sized crowd on hand. Thank you SPRS, it was a fun night. Does anyone know why the top 3 modifieds were DQ'ed? And were they all team cars?

Missed you

Nick if you didn’t post what you do, we would know even less.

Steve thank you for the update on the track activities tonight. I’ll be paying at the gate and beer stand tomorrow night. It’s been long enough since we have been able to attend some racing at HMP.

Turn5, it just confuses me that the marketing people, or whoever they pay to get the message out, wouldn’t utilize this forum as a avenue to get there message out.

Looking forward to being able to catch this race tomorrow night. I would also like to mention that with the issues surrounding racing at HMP and asphalt racing in Southeast Texas, or Texas in general, I find it nothing short of incompetance that nothing has been posted on this forum in regards to this race since Nicks last post on the 20th. Not a good look for the folks managing this new deal. Not everyone has facebook, and some of the ones that don't have facebook have money to spend. Those people should be using every avenue there is to get the word out.

You should have already assummed that that race was leaving TMS, no matter where it ended up. And if they don't start putting fans in the grandstands for the fall race, the only race they are left with, it will be gone to. Don't get me wrong, I will be at the fall race in a couple of weeks. But there have been attendance problems up in Ft. Worth for quite awhile now. And you are correct about Dale Jr., at the very least he has Marcus Smith's ear. But I don't think Wilkesboro gets revived without that big government grant that they got. That completely changed the economics of it.

Hate to hear that. Prayers to the family.

Sad to hear. Was this due to a racing incident?

Thank you

Anybody have a link for those of us that don't do the book face deal?

So did this come out in a release somewhere?

The 1.00 hotdog and beer days were good days. I didn't really drink the 1.00 beers very often, I would take a empty small soft sided cooler, and they would fill it with beers from the stand and ice it down for me. Always had cold beer.