Have You ever oiled the track

[Greg Turk]

Well I guess I break the ice......
I'm in the 12 step program, so let's begin....
Hi I'm Greg and I had an oil down problem,
2009 Houston Spring Nats, round 4 Sunday am,
I remember like it was a year ago...hah
put my stocker in high gear.....boom blew it up broke 2 rods, holes in pan, plenty of valvoline's finest all over the right lane from half track to almost 1000ft, stopped and was towed to the 1st turn off.....I was smart enough to get out of the racing groove....yes the safety safarii made laps, so yes it does happen.....I hated it to be me and was thankful they didn't send me a bill..I am still recuperating my wallet from the experience...as I am on a small budget. I apologized to the clean up crew, they thanked me for moving out of the groove and stopping as soon as I could.
Wow I feel better sharing this with the class.....on to step # 2

[Bob Miller]

I too oiled the track, Dallas Pro-am day 2 this year. I thought it was the rearend at first then saw smoke and got over soon as I could, told track crew I was sorry. Amazingly they were running again before I could get everything loaded up in the trailer. I felt bad about slowing the race progress and I never even thought of a diaper before, but they might be good for piece of mind, to keep the cars going down the track, just in case. Anything can happen at any given time without warning, parts break that should'nt have. Rod bolt broke and it got worse from there, broke another rod and so on. I hope never to experience that again.

[Stock4106]

Originally Posted by Greg Turk

Well I guess I break the ice......
I'm in the 12 step program, so let's begin....
Hi I'm Greg and I had an oil down problem,
2009 Houston Spring Nats, round 4 Sunday am,
I remember like it was a year ago...hah
put my stocker in high gear.....boom blew it up broke 2 rods, holes in pan, plenty of valvoline's finest all over the right lane from half track to almost 1000ft, stopped and was towed to the 1st turn off.....I was smart enough to get out of the racing groove....yes the safety safarii made laps, so yes it does happen.....I hated it to be me and was thankful they didn't send me a bill..I am still recuperating my wallet from the experience...as I am on a small budget. I apologized to the clean up crew, they thanked me for moving out of the groove and stopping as soon as I could.
Wow I feel better sharing this with the class.....on to step # 2

Turk, I hate it happened to you, but I think it pick a good time to do it.

I had one let go at the Sportsnationals in Belle Rose 5 or 6 years ago. It let go around the 330' mark, and I pulled over before half track. Clean up didn't take too long.

[Steve Hagberg]

Steve Hagberg, Stk 59. In over 20 years of racing I've broken a couple of engines, but never oiled the track. Knock on wood!

[Larry Hill]

Yes 2010 at No Problem rod bolt broke in the Test and Tune on Thursday before the race started on Friday. So officially I have never oiled down a track during the race.

We been racing since the late seventies with the same car and that is the only time we oiled the track.

Larry V. Hill
A/SA 383

[Chris "drooze" Wertman]

Originally Posted by Tom Meyer

Have you in the last 5 years oiled the track that took a major clean up in your stock or super stock car? Please put your car number and name.

Not me...

I have 2 close relatives who have though

My son (its hard to do an oildown with a jr too) and my dad.....I guess Im immune to this