Airstrip racing at Racewars

[Nitroused383]

Had a good time at Racewars near Royal City. I've never gone down before but I'm glad I did. Tons of people and cars; drag cars, street cars, drag diesel trucks, sand rail, bikes and a ton of turbo'd hondas. Funny thing they ran tons of cars and not one slow down. No one oiled the track and not a single wreck, things went so smooth it was a blast. No worrying about being kicked off the track, no rules just run what ya brung. Not to mention everyone was cool as hell.

Click the link and watch in 1080.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smkoSYun1EI

[1blackta]

hellz ya man had a blast, the car ran great and the truck towed like a champ. even though we showed up a lil late(sorry about that haha) i had a hell of a time. we are definatly gonna have to go to both events next year. hell of alot more fun than our local strip. plus it was during the day haha

[89/00/02TA]

It was hot but fun as hell man. Reminded me of the old days at the track where you went out and ran heads up whoever had the fastest car won. No times, no dickhead yelling at you cause you went too fast just fun racing. Need to go back to those days out there. Way funner and twice the turnout then they get now a days. Anyway I am done with my our track sucks ass rant. Wish I wouldn't have scattered the damn axle stub on the GTO friday so I could have raced but had fun watching too.

[a1320honda]

Uhm...its a little different when something does scatter there, or an axle breaks at the 1/8th in a honda and it shoots right and down that ditch and upside down. The idea is ok, but the location is horendous. Went for 3 straight years and every year got worse and worse. But hey, its cool you guys had a good time.

[89/00/02TA]

Different location this time no ditches crowd was kinda close which was a little dangerous I thought but other than that not bad. Lot better than sitting in a god damn line for 4 hours paying $25 and getting one pass in against a car that runs 6 seconds slower. I have gone to this and Bremerton the last two weekends and had a hell of a lot more fun than our track. Don't get me wrong I have fun at our track too but its about 1/10th as fun as it use to be 5 or 6 years ago. People use to go out to watch competition on fridays and if they wanted to see times thats what saturday was for. Now a days Fridays are just a test and tune for all the damn drag cars that race on saturday. They get 6 or 7 passes while the STREET CARS which I thought thats what the even was called FRIDAY NIGHT STREET RACING get 1 or 2 passes and then on top of that they line a 16 second car up against a 10 second car whats the point in that? They should really change the name of it to friday night test and tune which would be more fitting for the event they run. The fun fridays of a 11 second ford racing a 11 second gm or a fast import racing another fast import and seeing some good competative racing have given way to watching all the trailered drag cars make test and tune passes for their race on saturday and watching a stock dodge neon line up against a turboed V8 that runs 10's that doesnt seem too interesting to me. Anyone that remember the good ole days of FNSR will remember twice the cars and twice the crowd and 10 times the fun

[Danimal]

So, what is wrong with a dragster wanting to make a few runs? We paid the money to run?? People seem to love watching... Isn't it all racing? Are we taking time out and shutting down the track to run? I am sure that people get tired of seeing 20 second stock Civic's and Neon's run!!! Please explain?

I did give the staging guys some ideas on how to make it run smoother last time I was out and 1 of the ideas was to put a dot with shoe polish on the front window so he knows how many runs people made so everyone gets a fair share of runs.

[1blackta]

im not trying to step on any toes here but isnt there a wednesday test and tune? if so why doesnt the drag cars go on wednesday to tune there stuff instead of the friday night STREET RACING. im pretty sure thats the point hes trying to make(02ta), fridays back in the day was all about STREET CARS getting off the street and into a safe and fun enviroment. but instead its become a last min resort for the DRAG cars to tune there stuff before the weekend. i went out there last friday and i saw the same drag cars run 2, 3, 4 times before they even called out some street cars, and then when they did call the street cars it was 6-10 cars and then you guys or the bikes would run again. i personally dont think its fair that we all pay the same price to race, when the drag cars can get anywhere from 3-7 passes when the street cars get 1-3 IF there lucky. back in the day, i could pay 7 dollars to race and use a full 10lb bottle of nitrous which on the average was about 10 runs (100shot) and there was 2-3 times as many cars. it just seems to me that there are alot of indians at the track and not enough chiefs. and no offense danimal but if they did the shoe polish every run idea then thats just more time it would take to get everyone through. my idea of a smooth running track would be to open ALL staging lanes, run 1 lane completly through, and move to the next. thats the way it used to be ran and every 2-3 lanes ran they would run the bikes, run 2 more lanes of cars, run what ever drag cars were out there, run another 2-3 lanes and repeat.

[a1320honda]

Wed. nights are over.

They dont pull cars from the hot loop alot more often...which is where they want all the cars running slicks. We take Bryans civic over there and if we wanted to we could easily get 6 or 7 runs in a night. I know what their doing, wether its right or wrong who knows. When they start pulling the cars from the staging lanes they look at how many cars are in the slick lane and to pull the same amounts. So if they see a solid 16 cars or 8 races thats how many they pull from the street tire lanes. Is it fair...idk. In theory its fair for the slick tire lanes, cause the slick guys dont have to wait for 20+ races. And its not like slick tire guys take 17 seconds to make a pass and its a bunch of beginners. I watched the clock friday night and for them to run the entire field of slick tires cars took about 6 minutes. 8 races and one of the guys had a bye. So just sayin, im not defending one or the other, but being one of the guys that runs in the slick tire lanes, thats my point of view.

[Nathan J]

every night i have went out i have got atleast 5 passes if i wanted i could get more easy and i dont run my car in the hot loop even though i could. its my own fault if i line up against somthing slow. im sorry but if they didnt do times i wouldnt waste my time going out there that shit was gay back in the day when i went out there. ya kinda fun maybe once running without times but whats the point? ya its compition but i would take a birun with a time slip over that anyday. I wont even start on the safety stuff its retard how many people bitch about it. seems like the wrong hobby for you guys. and if ya want the track how it used to be might as well go race on division it hooked better haha

[flybynight]

im not trying to step on any toes here but isnt there a wednesday test and tune? if so why doesnt the drag cars go on wednesday to tune there stuff instead of the friday night STREET RACING. im pretty sure thats the point hes trying to make(02ta), fridays back in the day was all about STREET CARS getting off the street and into a safe and fun enviroment. but instead its become a last min resort for the DRAG cars to tune there stuff before the weekend. i went out there last friday and i saw the same drag cars run 2, 3, 4 times before they even called out some street cars, and then when they did call the street cars it was 6-10 cars and then you guys or the bikes would run again. i personally dont think its fair that we all pay the same price to race, when the drag cars can get anywhere from 3-7 passes when the street cars get 1-3 IF there lucky. back in the day, i could pay 7 dollars to race and use a full 10lb bottle of nitrous which on the average was about 10 runs (100shot) and there was 2-3 times as many cars. it just seems to me that there are alot of indians at the track and not enough chiefs. and no offense danimal but if they did the shoe polish every run idea then thats just more time it would take to get everyone through. my idea of a smooth running track would be to open ALL staging lanes, run 1 lane completly through, and move to the next. thats the way it used to be ran and every 2-3 lanes ran they would run the bikes, run 2 more lanes of cars, run what ever drag cars were out there, run another 2-3 lanes and repeat. Not sure what you mean by drag car but sitting in my car in the hot loop, I sure didnt see it this way.

[89/00/02TA]

Pretty sure him and I are talking about the cars that come out saturday and run in the pro and super pro classes that seem to get special treatment and more runs atleast thats what it seems like to me. I have come out a hand full of times this year and I have NEVER got more than 2 runs in staging in the staging lanes. While the cars out of the hot loop get 4 to 5 runs atleast.

[Danimal]

So it sounds like an issue where they can't keep track of how many runs people are getting. Again, if they mark windows and set up staging accordingly, everyone would get the same amount of runs. If there was a person at the back of staging directing people into the correct lanes and marking the windsheilds accordingly, there would not be a problem.

[3258]

interesting and i can see the frustration. Often times friday night is a time to start getting the track to come around for saturday. they can start putting down some compound etc. Mixing up the street cars and the race cars causes some issues. you see street cars doing a burn out in the waterbox with street tires, they approach the line and drag a nice trail of water up and sit on the line while the water that is in the fenders etc drips on the ground. it gets a bit dangerous for the race cars with some HP and slicks. My local track now has a thursday night deal for street cars that must be street legal, friday is test and tune, and saturday race day. works pretty good, maybe something to promote, didnt they have a wednesday street car deal???

[1blackta]

Pretty sure him and I are talking about the cars that come out saturday and run in the pro and super pro classes that seem to get special treatment and more runs atleast thats what it seems like to me. I have come out a hand full of times this year and I have NEVER got more than 2 runs in staging in the staging lanes. While the cars out of the hot loop get 4 to 5 runs atleast.
yes this is exactly what i mean

So it sounds like an issue where they can't keep track of how many runs people are getting. Again, if they mark windows and set up staging accordingly, everyone would get the same amount of runs. If there was a person at the back of staging directing people into the correct lanes and marking the windsheilds accordingly, there would not be a problem.
back in the day there was only 1 guy running staging. if you pay attention its not that hard to run staging and just look for the first guy that was in line. and i know what your gonna say "not everybody lines up in the same lanes" well back in the day they did. im sorry guys but in my opinion(i know its not worth much especially since i dont have a car to run anymore) but the old days were alot more fun. the crowd, cars and the whole enviroment was 10x's better. im not saying that because its NHRA now it sux cause bremerton was just flat out awesome. i mean cmon no passengers 13.49 or faster(IIRC) bremerton was having 9 sec cars with passengers. and on another note, im pretty sure that the guys they have workin out there, NONE are NHRA trained officials there just typical people like you and i who have the NHRA shirts on and a rulebook thrown at them and were told "familiarize yourself of the rules"

[flybynight]

I definetly agree that there is lots of confusion out there. Cars lined up out to the Casino just to get in the gate. One line and one out of ten was going to the drags. Pretty confusing right there. I was hoping the second year running, some of the teething pains would be over. As frustrating as it is though im glad I still have a place to play leagally cause its hard to find a street race anymore.LOL

[1blackta]

As frustrating as it is though im glad I still have a place to play leagally cause its hard to find a street race anymore.LOL

i agree with you there man. very true statement

[trbo355]

Last friday night was definitely a mess but for the most part, its been fairly smooth sailing all year on the friday night events. Remember when the track actually did friday night street racing with no lights, no ET slips and there were 3 cars there? Yeah that didnt make the track any money. At least the way it is now the lanes get filled up with cars and revenue. Jim Black was making certification passes friday night and wasnt doing his usual excellent job of managing things since he was technically off duty that night.

Brian Wolfe stepped in and helped out the lane guy by pulling all the cars with 0 runs into a new lane and got em some runs. It was simply an off day out there and not that big of a deal.

[89/00/02TA]

I can't remember my own name half the time lol so I may be wrong here Marty but I dont remember a whole lot of days back in the no lights and no times days where it wasnt packed with cars and spectators. I remember the first 2 or 3 years I went it was always packed but then I took a couple years off after that maybe that was the days of no cars? I just like different kind of racing than most I guess I like racing against the car next to me heads up rather than racing against the clock. I still have fun at our track when I can get some runs in but I personally had alot more fun back in the day when I could line the ws6 up next to your chevelle and run a car that was a close race even though you beat me every time lol.

[trbo355]

I stand corrected. It was dead when they started running the lights and charging a bit more. Remember nobody would pony up the extra cash and once people could see how slow there cars really were under the lights it puked. LOL.

I did like the good ol' days when we could all blast the crap out of our stuff with much less regard to safety issues but i suppose all good things must come to an end. Im sure that sort of thing is fueled by insurance regulations and track liability. To be honest with ya, if i could sign a waiver and pay a 200$ deposit to cover the shovel duty and kitty litter to clean up my dead carcass and run the shit outta my stuff freely, id do it!

[89/00/02TA]

I miss the old days for sure but as much as I seem to bitch I am grateful I have a place to race legally thats for sure. I agree the track seems to run a bit smoother this yearbut still need a few more bugs worked out.

[3258]

..... To be honest with ya, if i could sign a waiver and pay a 200$ deposit to cover the shovel duty and kitty litter to clean up my dead carcass and run the shit outta my stuff freely, id do it!

Marty you crack me up man!!

[trbo355]

Ha ha, racing is supposed to be dangerous anyways. LOL

[Danimal]

Would everyone be willing to start a thread with problems we have with the track and see if Jim and Cindy would be willing to listen and see what improvements we can make to the program to make it run better? Better to talk about problems and get a solution than have people complain and just quit.

[Nitroused383]

Racing cars is one of my least dangerous hobbies, I aint scared.

[3258]

driving down the freeway is a more dangerous hobby than at the track IMO

[Nitroused383]

Well thats probably statistically true. To further derail this thread here ya go, I ain't scared lol.

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