I am curious to why the street stock car where allowed to race with the late models. To me it looked very unsafe for the late models have to dodge the slower cars. Also it looks like it would be very costly to the late models if they were to make contact with one of those stock cars. Could someone please let me know why this was allowed?
DR Smith
I am curious to why the street stock car were allowed to race with the late models. To me it looked very unsafe for the late models to have to dodge the slower cars. Also it looks like it would be very costly to the late models if they were to make contact with one of those stock cars. Could someone please let me know why this was allowed?
To answer your question..... it was simply because these cars were not "Street Stock" cars. They run the Hot Stock class at Champion Park. They are much closer to being legal with the Late Models than with our Street Stock class. That would have been definitely unfair for the Street Stock class. And I must say for a while they were running good with the Late Models. As a matter of fact the B99 that finished in 5th place was also a Hot Stock car and was still on the lead lap at the checkered flag. I can see where you would think that it was dangerous, but at the same time it made the Late Model race a little more interesting and tested the Late Models driving skills in Lap Traffic.
This is not something that we are faced with very often, but considering the fact that so many tracks have been rained out over the past several weeks and Champion Park did not race Saturday night, these guys just wanted to race like the rest of us and were willing to run against the Late Models just to have the chance to run.
