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I just did two days at Reno Fernley Raceway. The riding kinda sucked, but hey, they can't all be zingers.

The facilities also have a clay oval, though. Apparently, it's one of the fastest clay ovals in the country, and on Saturday night, they were racing cars there.
All I can say is that, if the big league NASCAR events happened on dirt, I'd be a fan. That shit was pretty fun.

These folks are pitching the turns totally sideways, and if you stand anywhere near one of the turn entries, you get pelted with dirt clods. They're bumping each other, folks are spinning out, dudes are running their cars until they explode, it's loud, it's smelly, and in the open modified class, most of them are pounding through the corners so hard that their inside front wheels are completely off the ground for the majority of the track.

One dude had his suspension set up so his front tire would be about the level of the next driver's window, if there were anyone trying to make an inside move.

It's not something I'd ever go super out of my way to see, but if you've got something close and convenient, it's not too bad a way to spend an evening.

Yeah Reno! Class all the way. I used to have a Russian roommate, for his birthday we took him to the monster truck rally at the Reno Livestock Events Center. Talk about good times.

Ovals are way cooler when you take pavement out of the equation.

I've spent quite a few seasons helping a buddy of mine in the pits at the Hagerstown Speedway. They don't often have Modifieds or Sprint cars there, but their main feature show always has Late Models. For the record, I fucking hate NASCAR. Low budget racers with big horsepower cars ripping around a dirt track can make for quite an entertaining evening though. If you ever get a chance to see 410 Sprints at a good track, check it out. Those guys are completely insane. I would like to hot lap one of those cars a few times, but I just don't have the balls to do it in a pack like they do. Hagerstown even has an AMA Grand National flat track race every year.

SpecialK wrote:Yeah Reno! Class all the way. I used to have a Russian roommate, for his birthday we took him to the monster truck rally at the Reno Livestock Events Center. Talk about good times.

I thought one of my boys were gonna want me to take them to NASCAR, but fortunately not. But right now they;re both going nucking futs over monster trucks. I found this and showed it to them :
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then
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then about 20 others. They just can't control themselves anymore. They bring their HotWheels monster trucks wherever they go. Jesus, the little one woke me up on sunday morniung yelling ijn my ear:
MONSTERTRUCKKKKKSSS!!!
I'm gonna have to take them to one of those gigs soon. Looks like a kick in the ass good time. And I'm with Shit. If NASCAR had a dirt circuit, I'd be in too.

I thought NASCAR had dirt tracks all over the country, or are you referring to NASCAR as the Big league Jeff Gordon racing?
Again I'll pop up and say that while the racing is the worst part of a good NASCAR weekend, the weekend itself is a fucking great time.

Yes, it was a NASCAR dirt oval race.
And if the big league NASCAR events (a la Jeff Gordon) happened on dirt, then I would not hate on them quite so much, because the dirt stuff was fun to watch.