[Larry Hill]

These cars had the attention of a lot of fans Sunday for round two through the finals. The announcers did a better job of what the cars are, and talked up the "factory wars". A lot, maybe half of the second round cars had traction problems. When the cars obviously spun and smoked the tires you could here a muffled groan from those fans seated around us. Just when the thought of track-prep was needed, Barton goes 8.18 sec. @ mid 160's. Track temp was, I think, in the 130 range making it tricky for 1000 Hp plus cars on nine inch tires to get down the track. It looks like a lot of the teams have the power but some need more testing and a better shock package. So it begs the question, where do the teams go to test at a national event grade prepared track to improve there program, and improve the show on Sunday?

I would like to see the field expanded to a 16 car field so the Friday night fans can see a round of FS/XX on a cool track. A cool track will help the new teams trying to get down the track and expose more fans to the FS/XX show.