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RJ Sledge · 06-01-2014, 10:53 PM

Cooter sorry to hear about your problems, I guess Pap gave'em an ear full. You were on a roll.

Baton Rouge was always a good hooking track, " Moose Juice" was the secret along with a large dose of common sense and track people that actually wanted to do the job correctly. I miss those days.....

San Antonio Raceway was and could be great track again, but there would need a change in their thought process. Not everybody runs a set of 32X14's, a 3000 rpm converter with a 1.72 Glide in their car. It would have been great if on Saturday and Sunday to have a 20 minute timeout and re-prep the track for the final two rounds of completion. It would just make common sense to do that. I am not certain, but I believe that the regular track personnel were in charge of track prep for the event. I know that there were only about 18 Stocker and 9 SuperStockers and they do not make up the majority of the racers, but we paid our money and quite a lot of them will not come back ever. As Cooter has said in an early post, Baton Rouge has 4 to 5 times times the amount of S/SS cars show up there as compared to San Antonio Raceway, and hey it not because they don't want to drive a little further, its because of the problems with the lack of track prep at SAR. In my racing life I have never seen a track that has so much potential and still does not understand what needs to be done.

I would be more than happy to have a discussion with the management at SAR and/or IHRA about how little time and expense it would take to make this a great place to race.

I live 45 miles from SAR and drive right by it to go to Houston to test at least once or twice a month. That tell you anything??

06-01-2014, 10:53 PM	#20
RJ Sledge Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 783 Likes: 503 Liked 288 Times in 90 Posts	Re: "Live" from the San Antonio Pro Am Cooter sorry to hear about your problems, I guess Pap gave'em an ear full. You were on a roll. Baton Rouge was always a good hooking track, " Moose Juice" was the secret along with a large dose of common sense and track people that actually wanted to do the job correctly. I miss those days..... San Antonio Raceway was and could be great track again, but there would need a change in their thought process. Not everybody runs a set of 32X14's, a 3000 rpm converter with a 1.72 Glide in their car. It would have been great if on Saturday and Sunday to have a 20 minute timeout and re-prep the track for the final two rounds of completion. It would just make common sense to do that. I am not certain, but I believe that the regular track personnel were in charge of track prep for the event. I know that there were only about 18 Stocker and 9 SuperStockers and they do not make up the majority of the racers, but we paid our money and quite a lot of them will not come back ever. As Cooter has said in an early post, Baton Rouge has 4 to 5 times times the amount of S/SS cars show up there as compared to San Antonio Raceway, and hey it not because they don't want to drive a little further, its because of the problems with the lack of track prep at SAR. In my racing life I have never seen a track that has so much potential and still does not understand what needs to be done. I would be more than happy to have a discussion with the management at SAR and/or IHRA about how little time and expense it would take to make this a great place to race. I live 45 miles from SAR and drive right by it to go to Houston to test at least once or twice a month. That tell you anything??