New Dallas Raceway, schedule changes

[John Kelley]

Originally Posted by Tom Briggs7100

John I was there in March for the Nascar race & there wasn't any dragstrip then.. did they just built it in the last month or so??

They have bought the timing equipment and setup a dragstrip,not sure the location on the property.
And have a series of six Friday night "races" starting tonight and going thru August 7th. It's sponsored by Scion so it might be a "Fart Pipe Junbilee" !!! Eliminations don't start until 9:25 PM !!!
It is HOT here today but I'm going to drive down to check out the first night of action. It's only 103 right now but should cool down by 9 PM..........:-)

Checkout the website for more info http://www.texasmotorspeedway.com/

[Michael Beard]

Probably on pit road, like they've been doing at Atlanta.

[John Kelley]

It was on pit road......no timing lights and an arm drop start like pinks.....zzzzzzzz
I had heard they bought timing equipment and the works........apparently not !
But maybe....just maybe they might in the future .......

[Bimbo Jones]

Why would anyone want to go to TMS for one of these eight mile arm drop deals. Unless they are intimidated by real race cars and drivers. Twenty minutes north of TMS is the North Star Dragway(Denton) which is open several nights a week (brackets and various heads up classes) as does Texas Raceway(Kennedale) 35 minute south of TMS. I tend to believe that this type of venue mainley attacks the old Sonic crowd that like to talk about how fast they used to be and they have a place they can go a couple times a year and not have time slips to dispute their claims about their rides. At TX Raceway on Saturdays when we run brackets they have a street class for the price of a pit side entry ($12.00). They get two time trials and then eliminations. The winner gets $50.00 and the R/U gets free entry for the next time they come. Plus you get all the read outs from the clocks. Like I said I don't get it. If you're going to race well let's race. Maybe it attracks those who think everyone deserves a trophy for trying.

[TommyFreeman]

if going to tms keeps a bunch of street racers off the street racing for a nite and saves a life, i dont care why they went and hope they keep going.

[Chris1529]

I would say that most people who really have a street car, not those 8 second cars they claim are street legal, it is probably more fun to go to something like that.
at an airport near me (Elkins, WV) last saturday, there were 6000 spectators and 120 cars running with a stop light. no itme slips, just find someone to run and go at it.
I haven't been to a race for a long time that wasn't a night of fire or have some side show that had that many people watching. 5 bucks a head to watch, 30 to run. Had to wait 45 minutes in line of traffic to get in...

to me, cars with real highway/street tires just basically mess up the starting line at most drag strips.

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by TommyFreeman

if going to tms keeps a bunch of street racers off the street racing for a nite and saves a life, i dont care why they went and hope they keep going.

I do too. Street racing has killed way too many around here. And, the TV keeps calling it Drag Racing.



Chris Bowman said: "to me, cars with real highway/street tires just basically mess up the starting line at most drag strips"

I agree. On TNT nights out here the starting line is usually all done by 8:00 pm. I load up, go home, and still make my bed time.

[John Kelley]

TWENTY BUCK$ is STEEP to get in for ARM DROP & NO TIMING.....
I think you can get in Kennedale cheaper than that and get a CHRISTMAS TREE an actual timeslip !!!!!

TMS needs to set up a REAL dragstrip and build on this program. I think as it is will lose interest fast.......