Felt like the show was much better than my last visit( Gov Cup). The Super Stocks (?) put on a hell of a show and was a real contender for race of the night before they called it due to the damage on the back gate. They had some really good racing and unfortunately some extremely hard hits and totaled cars. Anyone know if the McReary in that race was the same McReary that ran NSS in the past?
Trucks were mildly entertaining even with a short field.
Red Eye was an eye opener due to a few things - a full field and 11 car inversion, Mike Skinner and the now useful high line. In the end the usual suspects prevailed with Tim Russell and Wayne coming home first and second. Rogers was closing on Skinner for third at the finish. The inversion put skinner on the pole and he made the most of it leading quite a bit of the race. That Toyota had some motor allowing Skinner to be real difficult to pass with his skills. Anderson couldnt get it doen and Skinner didnt roll over for him. Finally Russell had more on the outside and made it stick, but there was some real tight racin leading up to it.
Anderson had run ins with Winchell and Skinner - Winchell got the now standard hand gestures from Wayne under caution. Although in this case, Winchell did chop him off a couple times - so maybe he earned them.
Rogers has some new life in this fancy new chassis of his. He was a strong 4th - still needs some more to be up there with Anderson and Russell, but was much better than I have seen him at NSS in a while.
I agree, a very good night of racing. I was shocked there were 30 super late models. They haven’t had that many in a long while. They had more super late models there than at the Governors Cup and much better racing. Although I’m glad they did it, anyone find it odd how much the track paid attention to not falling too far behind schedule? The driver autograph session was cancelled, the first race was cut to fourteen laps because of the damage to the back gate, I believe the truck race was originally scheduled for 35 laps, but cut to 20 before it started, and in the truck race when a piece of body came off of the #22 truck and was on the track near the racing groove, they didn’t throw a caution. Kudos to the track for keeping the program moving.
Yea, they kept the program moving at all costs. Really wished they would have finished that first race - it was that good. Although cutting the trucks back was a good move as well as the autograph session cut back. They were hell bent on staying on schedule and I liked it.
The announcing seemed better too - at least more vocal, i could actually hear him. Kept us informed about things like the back gate repair, etc. Would have liked to hear more driver interviews after the red eye.
Double file restarts in all divisions is a good thing too, especially with the track developing a second groove.
So far, some good changes.
Anybody else think Peltier (#5) was gonna wad up the contenders on the start? He was wayyy over his head going into the corners.
The way #5 was aggressive at the start. I thought, “maybe he has something for Anderson”, but I was quickly proven wrong on that. Kind of wish Skinner and Anderson could have battled longer.
Anyone know if the McReary in that race was the same McReary that ran NSS in the past?
we’ve both run NSS in the past. Ron’s been running NSS since the 70’s.
last night was Ron in Billy Bellflower’s 15 ( renumbered #1 for last night ) car. frankly, we’re shocked at how well it did. that’s the first night it’s been out since he’s started trying to get it de-ninja’d.
it didn’t have a NSS gear in the rear, the carb is missing badly ( you probably heard that ) and the springs aren’t sorted out yet.
I thought it was a great night of racing too. My only question is what is the rule on restarts? I don’t understand how they let Mike Skinner get such a lead on the second place car time after time before dropping the green. Although it didn’t matter once Anderson and Russell got up there with him. It was nice to see the passing with the 11 car inversion that was great.
Winger thanks for the quick answer to my question. I’m not crazy about that system I think the flagman should start the race whether a restart or the beginning of the race. I also think the SLMs would be cool with the double file restarts like everyone else. But thats easy for me to say while sitting in the stands.
The leader determines the start anytime after turn 3. Just no brake checking.
this is a major rule change from last year, for the initial starts anyway. it’s always been that way for restarts.
and one that, as a driver, i hope FASCAR keeps going forward.
for one thing it would put an end to retarded crap like the top three trucks being DQ’d out in the last 10 laps of a 50 lap race because the race director doesn’t know enough about racing to understand that when the field accordions up on the start it’s usually because the field wasn’t closed up and a whole bunch of guys tried to jump.
one question:
where is the pace truck pulling off of the track now? still turn 4 onto the pit lane?
OSW is easy, the pace truck should pull off in turn 2 there. at NSS, the pole sitter will have to put a little more thought into what he’s doing if the truck is coming off into the pit lane. and that’s a good thing.
Todd, I’m not sure exactly what the rule is for the pace truck… I do know that at the Red Eye, the Pace Truck left the field in turn two and was at Pit Road before the field approached turn three.
