Platinum Cup Sprints and Watkins Glen...........and Sprint 101

Hey remember a few posts ago I said I am truly home at the track? Well it is true and today the Wilrock Sprint Car series from my hometown Victoria on Vancouver Island came to Calgary to race. The only series of sprint cars that race on asphalt in North America, well besides the NSRA but they race with the Victoria boys during the Daffodil and Strawberry cups in Victoria so I guess they are all one . But anyway they are well worth seeing if you understand what they are about. So that brings me to Sprint 101 to all you wannabe Calgary farmers turned sprint car fans. I heard in the stands today some interesting comments from people who obviously were oblivious to what the Wilrock series is all about. They also questioned why they were all from Vancouver Island and parts of B.C and not from Alberta. The fact that some people were saying cause Victoria had no asphalt was enough to make me wanna drill some points into their fat Alberta heads! But I thought it's obvious they have no bloody idea so here it is for all you farmers:

Wilrock and NSRA Sprint Car 101:

• First of all the point about Victoria having no asphalt to run on is a farce cause they way better tracks and roads than Calgary will ever have.
  
• Secondly the Wilrock series ONLY runs on asphalt tracks from Victoria to the BC interior and a few in western Washington. But all are on asphalt! Including Saratoga speedway, Western Speedway, and Vernon (Sun Valley to name a few)
• The reason Alberta racers don't race here is cause unless they have a sprint car made for asphalt it is probably made for dirt. To convert a dirt sprint car to asphalt would be an expensive deal for one race as the shocks, tires, and springs would all have to be setup differently as well as rear end gears etc. Therefore the reason why the Victoria series comes here is cause they are already setup for asphalt.
• The NSRA is the same deal but they are the guys that should come here to race as well. The cars that race in that series have even more horsepower than the Wilrock series.
  
• One last point, the reason the races are so short is cause they only hold so much fuel and it only lasts about 30-40 laps give or take some caution laps, thus calling them "Sprinters" or Sprint cars due to their short race length but on asphalt alot can happen and they can turn on a dime.

So now you know Sprint 101

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Watkins Glen Nextel Cup race report.

Didi you see the fight between Jaun Montoya nd Kevin Harvick?
well wasn't really a fight but close enough as far as NASCAR is concerned, but Jaun Montoya probably deserved it anyway. He had it coming for along time the way he's been driving on the NExtel Cup series and Busch series. Even though this accident wasn't really his fault when you have a bad reputaion in racing for wrecking guys you will always get blamed if you are evn close to a wreck! Fellow Canadain drivers Ron Fellows and Patrick Carpatenier (spelling unsure) had good runs with Ron finishing 4th and Patrick actually led 7 laps for awhile. Dale Jr blew an engine and I hope it didn't squash his hopes for racing in the chase but it just got a little harder.