G2 Radios presents The Waterford Speedbowl Message Board

Well, after watching the vid, It sure looked innocent enough on Bruce's part. He had a good run off four, the 38 went up the track toward the outside, Bruce filled the hole, then the 38 came down closing the hole and forced the contact that resulted in them all coming together. It can be debated as to whether or not Bruce should have shot the gap, but why should he have to hit the brakes at that point? There are still cars close behind him. He may say that he shouldn't have poked the car into that gap, but the incident is far from being a dump action, like some people are saying.

anyone how has ever driven a racecar would have made that move on the last lap for the win its checkers or whrekers at that point its not like its lap 5

After watching the replay i must give Bruce a break on this one,yea some woulda backed out but Bruce dont back out and heck going for the checker why should he? He is there to win. However my opinion of him does not change. I have seen him with my own 2 eyes wreck too many cars with his wrecklessness and never get parked for his actions. Yea he has been put to the back of 10 car race...whoopdy doo. He wins anyway. He knows he can whack a guy that irritates him and will only have to pass a few to get back up. Park him and he will either calm down and race clean or jump ship like Danny Field did. Track finaly stepped up last year and look what happend? Danny was a no show the rest of the year and went back to thompson. Another track where its not what you do but who does it. It was a good race to watch though.

Bruce thru the years has been known for roughing cars up to get to the front and has always gotten away with it without the risk of penalty (thank you speedbowl...not)...like I said before, there's a clear "double standard" at the speedbowl...Bruce's rules and everyone else. But one good thing is that there now other LM's that could win at anytime and beat Bruce....which I'm sure drives him nuts....

Every track is like that with certain drivers.

Wanna boost car counts across the board? Align the rules for every division at every track. Every track should run a G-Car late model, the street/Dare stocks are close enough, just align the motor rules, SK's are pretty standard, and Stafford could use a ministock division.

Granted that's a lot easier said than done, but...

Matt, Stafford ran an outlaw ministock race 2 years ago as an experimental race and then decided after looking at a rule package that there were to many differences between the other local tracks rules in that division that it would basically be asking everyone who wanted to race there in a mini stock to build a car dedicated just for that facility and the the management at Stafford realized it wasnt a good time to do such a move considering the instability of the economy.

And i do believe a few years back the Bowl started allowing Thompson legal sportsmans to run with the street stocks and run for points with a weight penalty for the added advantage of their motor package.

G Frame late models? dont think is the answer seen as both thompson and stafford are slowly transitioning to tube chassis late models.

If you look at car counts across the board i believe it comes down to 1 major thing and that is track management, Thompson has pathetic car counts in all but two divisions (mini stocks and sportsmans), Stafford for the most part has 18+ cars in all divisions except the Limited Late Models and the Bowl has well decent car counts for the most part with the exception so far of the street stocks. I mean the 1 thing that somewhat proves this theroy and disproves everyones "its the economy" theroy is the SK/Sunoco Modifieds they are pretty much the same car track to track other then the gearing and for 2 tracks in CT to have 18-27 cars weekly and 1 track cant even get 12 cars when they offer a 2000.00 check to win

Yea what he said.

There is actually a pretty big difference between Thompson 'Sunoco' Modifieds and SK's at Stafford and the Bowl.

I can tell you...If Stafford Springs and Thompson had the same LM division as Waterford..there would be alot more cars racing...the G car is the past..ACT tube cars are exciting to watch and put on a great race..Hell, as a driver you could get a chance to race at loudon every year..