Sprint car teams get sneaky in search of speed

[@peachavenuebooks]

As a fan, thank you for being a solid you tuber that gives the news. I am in PA and love the dirt.

[@mjriemen]

I used to work for a big USAC team based out of Beast Chassis shop. Most Beast Pavement cars had the lower left frame rail filled with lead, and some cars had the entire left side nerf bar filled with lead as well.

[@Henry-qb3lt]

Was at Attica last night for the Brad Doty classic its one of my local tracks it was good racing all night and the feature awesome.. love your podcast great content every time

[@RJExpediting-rk7lr]

Bing!! Car owner can make any decisions he wants to. Drivers want to control your own destiny? Own your own junk and you can make any decision’s that you would like.

[@michaelloomer9851]

Wow!!! Those Eldora features were amazing

[@michaellamb1342]

I believe Cale Thomas came from deep in the b main also. Cale Thomas is underrated, he’s a wheelman.

[@timphillips9338]

Asphalt late model guys were adding weight to their chassis tubing in the 70's.

[@JohnGibson-dt5cd]

The Knight Before the Kings Royal is a standard World of Outlaws format and full points.

[@DIRTRACKR]

I can't keep up Johnny. Make all races full points 2024!

[@JohnGibson-dt5cd]

@@DIRTRACKR I tend to agree (as long as it's not a split field race), but here's the scenario that best describes keeping the big races non-points (aside from having a "different" format): For the biggest races, the fans want to see drivers "lay it all on the line" going for the win and the big $. If a driver racing for points has a choice between trying something drastic to get the win or staying "safely" in 2nd with a championship on the line that pays more than any singe individual race, there's a decision to be made. If there are no points consequences, the choice is simple--GO FOR IT!

[@RegularJoes]

​@@JohnGibson-dt5cd thanks Gibby

[@droopscrib84]

When I was on a team we had lead weights we would bolt to the torsion tube in back on slick tracks. Luckily we never lost one.

[@blacksheepexpedition6347]

We filled nerf bars and bumpers 20 yrs ago nothing new on open wheel cars.

[@michaelolenick4078]

Thank you telling people the truth about what happened Hudson and RTJ.

[@becklawrence6083]

of course Hudson was going to get booed you must remember that RTJ spent several years running modifieds and stock car in and around that area so he's got a lot of fans there.

[@RonF-t2g]

Is it me or did Donny Shatz’ front wing resemble a late model body? He might be onto something. 😁

[@dalerhodes257]

Great racing Shelby speedway

[@jeffperry7971]

Hud vs RTJ. Sounds fun to me. I never minded either one of them. But I wonder who is really the better driver? Also, who’s going to be the better driver? It’s interesting to me. Thanks for all of your work Justin.

[@RegularJoes]

ELDORA IS ON!! 64 cars and BLAKE IS BACK!!!!! let's do this

[@Camp_Runamuck]

Thornton is “The back door deal Dominator.”

[@KenNickelson]

I filled my side nerf bars with lead to make weight and help with dry slick grip.. my competition never caught on..

[@diamondcarrasco3294]

In Corpus Christi, Texas. There are many places toook here.

[@billmellinger1134]

Can't belive the HL drivers didnt support Brad Doty and Attica Raceway Park. Didnt really need them but still you would of thougt they would of been there.

[@jag92g]

Lead in the nerf bars has been going on for decades so that's nothing new just suprised that they haven't been checking for that. I was at the ASCoC Sharon Nationals in the 90's when it was the big track and the 00 car from Ohio got caught with the left side nerf bar loaded with lead and was DQ'd.

[@andrewgorniak6173]

Sense RTJ and O'Neal have moved rides. I've been more interested in the Lucas late model series, and I was interested in them before, love or hate either of them you have to admit it's been very exciting racing with them up front battling for the win

[@Ideasofcreativitymn]

Didn’t like O’Neal in rocket 1 but was pulling for him in his own ride, wanted anyone but rtj to win but now find myself rooting for rtj with an up and coming team I don’t want the ssi car to win but don’t dislike hud and would like t mack to get one finally but I don’t think his style is what it takes to put a rocket in front they seem to need to bang the boards to do it. No denying ssi has one of the best programs someone’s got to drive it so can’t fault hud for that.

[@cliffbeckwith4019]

Tanner Holmes, showed pouring rain at Eldora...

[@DIRTRACKR]

It rained earlier. Fine now.

[@christopheroelkers9409]

Chase said in his Eldorah preview video that HL is no points. He didn't mention show up points which seems weird that they wouldn't require the full time teams going for the charter to show up to one of the biggest shows.

[@musicstewart9744]

Seen it over and over again in my fifty some odd years of paying attention to Motorsports. When the purses go up, so do the creative ways to try to get more purse money in the pocket. It’s why these days on the internet I follow a couple of hometown tracks in Canada and that’s about it.

[@tcjohnson3437]

We be putting weight, sliding weight in frame rails since I was a kid in the 60's. Nothing new, and really doesn't need regulated. But if it ain't secure, under any circumstances, you are just wrong.

[@mikelyons2831]

You can easily & safely add significant weight to front & rear bumpers & nerf bars with sand & seal'm with cork. A pale's worth of sand flying about due to a crash is not exactly dangerous compared to chunks of clay I've seen thrown from crashes... just saying.

[@arrowkart4j]

Putting weight in the bumpers and rub rails is nothing new it’s been going on for years. My dad did it with his sprint car in the 60’s &70’s .

[@diamondcarrasco3294]

We have many missing in Corpus c

[@MichaelVanDyke-c1g]

I had heard Karl Kinser strapped a heavy steel flywheel at a Western world race at Manzanita sometime in the 80s, Steve went on to win. Pretty sure it was a non wing race back then. Can anyone confirm?

[@TripleB3]

I cannot confirm, but I wouldn’t doubt it, as Karl was usually a step ahead of most back then when it came to thinking outside the box. Steve won the Western World 4 times in the ‘80s both in a non-wing (82 & 83) and with a wing (85 & 87).

[@JustinMorrisV82]

It's been happening for ages

[@Jxse017]

Absolutely neeeed an Alberson Lucas Oil win, he’s been so good this year but just can’t finish it off when it matters 😭😭 I will take him being a side character in this RTJ/Huddy fued though

[@JoeLinux2000]

What do you have to say about Bill Baylog's chassis?

[@TomWohlford]

Why would someone want weight above center line of crank geometry says no maybe I'm to stupid😅

[@bradinch1563]

like i said before i just used different weight floors

[@kyleolson279]

I'm always surprised how elementary even the top crew chiefs/teams in sprint car racing are on chassis setup.

[@ToddSaw]

I don't understand why people would boo Hudson O'Neal. He did absolutely nothing wrong. He's not one of my favorite drivers but seems like a nice fellow. People can be such arseho's sometimes

[@chadzeiders8293]

He's shady as hell, and you can straight tell they're lying about what was happening there

[@BigBearsie9998]

Because 100% he was talking to SSI a few weeks prior to RTJ being let go, I get it’s a business, but I personally feel like Hudson and SSI were conspiring behind RTJ’s back. In victory Lane the other night Hudson even said a few weeks ago I mean last Sunday when I talk to SSI I personally think it was a scummy move.

[@darrellwhite3261]

@@BigBearsie9998 apparently ssi and huddy were in talks of ssi buying huddy's assets and fielding a second car in the ssi camp making huddy and RTJ teammates. RTJ wanted nothing to do with that and told ssi that he wasn't going to be teammates with huddy, so here we are.

[@brooklynsmith772]

i have a friend that works at ssi and they was wanting to make them teammates and RTJ said if that was the move they was going to make he was going to leave

[@DirtTrackRacing410]

He’s a crybaby just like the dome a couple years ago with Tyler carpenter he had water in his eyes ready to cryyyy boo hoo oneil

[@KennyDavid-s3r]

Let's talk about sprint cars weight.l get it it's got to be police if they want to weight in tubing that's great let them it's going to turn out just like NASCAR over police that's why I do not watch Nascar anymore

[@pocohlocoh8536]

ANYONE BUT GRAVEL