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Originally Posted by randy wilson
It's not coming back. Why, because we lost the crowd years ago. I remember being at Eddyville in, I think 79, and watching Tommy Johnson Sr. race the old Earl Earl's Show Me Shaker C\SM car, and have him visit with the crowd about how he was going to Indy to try to qualify for the nationals, and I'll bet 50 people went from there to Indy to watch their hometown hero try. We don't have that today. Why? Because they totally understand the rules. Because football, and basketball has rules, but each team does not have a pre-recorded dial of what they will score, and if going over costs them the win. Therefore, the crowd understands, and does not like. Sorry, but I can't get hardly anyone to go watch us dial in. Just the truth.
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That's the truth! We used to have as almost many C/SM cars running for class as we sometimes have for SS eliminator these days. That is a heads up guys could afford. Royce Freeman & I used to go run IHRA Supermodified when they were close. Our cars I had a C/SM, his B/SM) had smaller carbs, tires, and straight plug heads, but we could pretty much run with everybody but Ricky Smith. One race at Oklahoma City Royce won, I runner-upped to him. (Before Ricky) That was a blast. Won't happen again. People would keep wanting to add this, or that, just like Stock now. Was affordable, won't happen now. People did come watch since it was heads up, and no fuel cars to make us look slower. You can't get many people to watch bracket races if there is anything else to do.