I shoulda lost. Simple as that. Dude had me covered but shrapnelled his headgaskets. What really needs to happen at Noble is guys have to stop pushing through the lights and tripping the Red eye.
I believe and repeat the mantra: You can't win if you never get off the line. I'd rather back down the boost a bit(I've driven my Turbo Buicks at events as much as my Big Block) on the line to be safe than risk a red bulb and fouling my chances away. I think guys weren't taking into account the cool weather making the cars boost harder and quicker on spool up pushing the front tires.
IDK.
All I know is we need more cars and we need to stop redlighting and we can win easily. Our lack of turnout meant we had quite a few field fillers that hurt us(I hate to be mean here so I'm sorry if it offends anyone driving a "slower" car). The Fords basically threw ou their slow guys and got to put stronger cars against our bottom qualifiers. I counted 18 losses to redlights and losses in the first 8 rounds since we had less cars than the Ford camp.
We only lost by 12. The math is easy.
I know this is supposed to be a fun event, and it surely is, but it is also a competition and I hate losing to a bunch of cars I know we can beat.
Lets all make an effort this year to support this event and tell everyone to show up. Get the Buick count up and not only will the event be even better since there will be more races but our chances will improve due to just plain odds.
Excellent point. I think Ford had us down by 9-1 at the beginning, starting off with that 22 second Buick didn't help much either. Nice looking car, but he needs to just show it off and not race it. Saw a couple TRs running 15's also
, we need to help those guys out after the qualifying passes, none of these cars should be that slow.
After the 9-1 Ford assault the turbobuick cavalry showed up and took the lead 20-10, which means we pretty much took out 20 straight Fords and almost ALL of their 13-11 second cars. If we could have given our fast cars the lead we SHOULD have been able to get, we would have had them.
Of course I can't talk, I brought my wife's mustang with me because I don't have a trailer. I thought about racing hers and losing on purpose
but that's just wrong...We need to get more vehicles there than they do so that we can bust their Powerstrokes and that nasty SHO Taurus down from the getgo, our ultra slow cars can make passes for fun, and by the time the 10 second cars roll around the battle is over.
In any case I am bringing my GN next year if I have to drag it with my bare hands. I had a blast but I was itching for a kill all day long :redface:
