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opinionated ow
08-23-10, 10:04 AM
Steve Kinser...He's 56 for heavens sake and only 25 points off the World of Outlaws lead! How on earth does he still do it? :eek:
http://www.stevekinser.com/photos/84/SK1_2267.JPG
cameraman
08-23-10, 12:11 PM
I'm going to hazard a guess that he has the best equipment & crew which surely doesn't hurt. That and the type of racing fits well with a mid-50s metabolism. And he's damn good.
Don Quixote
08-23-10, 12:19 PM
That is an impressive list of sponsors on that car. And he is one helluva driver.
He wasn't half bad racing in IROC either. RIP, IROC. :(
-Kevin
And he's damn good.
It think it's that.
oddlycalm
08-23-10, 04:31 PM
More power than a F1 car and less weight. On dirt. If you've never seen them run on a 1/2 mile track you owe it to yourself.
Kinser's record is amazing. 20 titles, 46 feature wins in a single season... :cool:
Steve Kinser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Kinser)
What makes it even more amazing is how good the competition is. It's not like the rest of the drivers are ride buyers or douchebags. Swindell, Schatz, Lasonsy, Saldana and the rest are seriously fast as well.
oc
Being built like a dumpster full of concrete doesn't hurt either!
opinionated ow
08-24-10, 08:56 AM
More power than a F1 car and less weight. On dirt. If you've never seen them run on a 1/2 mile track you owe it to yourself.
Kinser's record is amazing. 20 titles, 46 feature wins in a single season... :cool:
Steve Kinser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Kinser)
What makes it even more amazing is how good the competition is. It's not like the rest of the drivers are ride buyers or douchebags. Swindell, Schatz, Lasonsy, Saldana and the rest are seriously fast as well.
oc
The longest track that sprintcars race on on the East Coast over here is 460m.....Kinser absolutely tears Parramatta up. Always amazing to watch no matter the track conditions!
He wasn't half bad racing in IROC either. RIP, IROC. :(
-Kevin
RIP the version where they had a real variety of racers running a real variety of courses. Good riddance to the NROC high-bank waste of time that it turned into.
oddlycalm
08-24-10, 06:12 PM
The longest track that sprintcars race on on the East Coast over here is 460m.....Kinser absolutely tears Parramatta up. Always amazing to watch no matter the track conditions!
They tore up our historic dirt 1/2 mile to make yet another cineplex. That didn't pan out so it's just a vacant lot...:shakehead It's like a stab in the heart every time I drive by it.
oc
RIP the version where they had a real variety of racers running a real variety of courses. Good riddance to the NROC high-bank waste of time that it turned into.
Of course. I long for the days they ran IROC on real courses like M-O. :(
-Kevin
oddlycalm
08-28-10, 08:23 PM
Watching guys in their 50's like Swindell and Kinzer at the Knoxville Nationals it's pretty obvious what a huge asset experience is. If not for equipment failures Swindell had everyone covered and Kinzer would have been top 5.
oc
opinionated ow
08-28-10, 09:33 PM
Watching guys in their 50's like Swindell and Kinzer at the Knoxville Nationals it's pretty obvious what a huge asset experience is. If not for equipment failures Swindell had everyone covered and Kinzer would have been top 5.
oc
It certainly is an art form. Although people at a certain other forum wouldn't appreciate it as such, watching a master at his craft is always spectacular. I don't care if IRL fans are in love with dirt track racing, it is its own form of motorsport and there doesn't need to be cross over!
oddlycalm
08-29-10, 04:29 AM
It certainly is an art form. Although people at a certain other forum wouldn't appreciate it as such, watching a master at his craft is always spectacular. I don't care if IRL fans are in love with dirt track racing, it is its own form of motorsport and there doesn't need to be cross over!
You make an excellent point. For the gomerati it all goes back to the days when USAC ran Indy roadsters on both dirt and pavement. Having seen some of those races I understand what it is they wish for, but the two forms of racing diverged back in the 60's for purely functional reasons and the gomers haven't ever gotten over it. USAC is still grinding away with their unwinged sprinters and some of that crowd still feels entitled to everything open wheel North America even though nothing but formula cars have been running all the paved track races since the late 60's and even though WoO has eclipsed USAC's feeble efforts on the dirt.
The fact that drivers as talented as Swindell and Kinser haven't been able to make anything happen in a crapwagon or in NASCAR should demonstrate to anyone how different it actually is (Montoya still hasn't won a NASCAR oval either). Regardless, what it is stands on it's own just fine. Badass winged sprint cars that weigh 1200lbs with 900hp motors running on methanol have a serious grin factor and they piss off the hardcore gomerati. :thumbup:
oc
Of course. I long for the days they ran IROC on real courses like M-O. :(
-Kevin
NROC :rofl: IROC really did suck when NASCAR found they could use it as a propaganda, er, marketing tool and basically took it over.
Hey, Randy Barnard! Notice that WoO has fans, a whole bunch of cars, and sponsorships to keep the teams running a very long schedule. It's all about having a desirable product, buddy.
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