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02-25-2010, 10:16 PM
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Re: I Was Shocked.........
Lol...nothing so sinister...
Its wet here in the summer (south), its HOT as holy hell, and wet...you guys get tropical storms that god only knows what kind of effect that has on things. I grew up summers on Lake Erie at our boats, the wet and mildew and well....weather on a coast line took their toll on paint and the like, much the same way it looked at Gainesville. Ohio weather can be harsh at times but very seldom, things dont weather as much as I notice they do in damper or hotter climates..... Cheers Chris Quote:
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02-26-2010, 02:22 PM
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Re: I Was Shocked.........
Mmmmm......Nah, they haven't maintained the place is all. Jim
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02-26-2010, 02:41 PM
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Re: I Was Shocked.........
My experience has been that they get it all fixed up for the Gators and then do nothing the rest of the year... Then the same thing all over again.. They close the track completely down for two weeks to "prepair for the Gators". No test N tune, brackets no nothing... But us peon sportsmen racers is all that would be there anyway... So what???? The really don't care... If you don't believe me just attend a drivers meeting during their bracket races... They will tell you "We don't care". And they wonder why car counts are in the crapper??????
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02-26-2010, 03:22 PM
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Re: I Was Shocked.........
Welcome to the 60s when you raced on old airfields & walked out into the weeds to pee. You have the old style dragstrip with modern day mystery meat burgers, what more could you ask for ? Maybe they could let the spectators line the track 3 feet away from the cars inside the walls as they go down too, what could go wrong ? People keep coming back for more so why should they change a good thing ?
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02-26-2010, 05:05 PM
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Re: I Was Shocked.........
It's who is running the place. Too much of the "if ya don't like it,race somewhere else" attitude.
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02-27-2010, 10:30 PM
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Re: I Was Shocked.........
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RIP Bob Moore. Hey Dan Moore, you're #1. RIP Mark Graham
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02-28-2010, 04:43 PM
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Re: I Was Shocked.........
Boy is that true.... and yes, I miss Bob Moore ....and Fuzzy too.
 It was the wonderful people (fellow racers & track employees) at Gainesville that made racing there fun during my bracket years (1980s-90s) I was there to race & didn't pay much attention to the stinky sulphur water or the icky bathrooms. But always check under those toilet seats... for spiders and stuff.... and those crazy tree frogs.
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