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So what did everyone think of last nights race?
For me i loved it.First time in forever i havent fell asleep during a nascrap race.

I thought it was a great race

4/10

They might as well been racing on asphalt.

ive never seen people race like that on asphalt

think it was a joke really.. track was shit.. only way to pass was a dive bomb slide job an put the outside guy in the wall.. i woulda thiught they would have had the track in better shape than that really.. on the plus side was happy to see bloomer fail!!

I agree with Impact, it wasn't as good as what the commentators wanted to make you believe.

HAHA Yea still better than 90% of any NASCAR race I've Seen

i dont think the track was shit...i think thats the only way they could have the track hold up for that many laps running 30 trucks with 800hp and 3400lbs.If it was any wetter it would have been nothing but monster holes in 20 laps with trucks that heavy.

With Eldora being a slide job track anyway i think the racing in the Main was good as anyone had hoped for especially for a bunch of Tar Babys, even if it was 1 laney it was better than watchin the same race on Tar.

I feel if they'd left the track totally alone from the time they started runnin prac. etc except for an occasional squirt way up top and way down low , it may have been a racier black ice rink top to bottom.... and sometihn besides FKKN Goodyears or maybe softer tires to lay some rubber if they were gonna keep it dry may have made for more comers and goers .

Bloomerquist was pathetic, they should have put the local Stock Car Champion in the bitch and let er eat with someone used to Heavy Cars and Local Knowledge once they seen he couldn't get out of his own way in 5 hrs of prac. .

For a dirt race, it was below average. For a NASCAR race, one of the best races ever. Lol. If they had the bottom groove working that would've been good even for a dirt race. It was definitely more exciting than asphalt that's for sure. The best part of the night was obviously Norm Benning getting in the big show and receiving his first ever on camera interview in NASCAR hahahaha. Wish NASCAR would move full time to dirt and then they'd have no problem filling the seats because people wanna see good hard racing and beating and banging. There are more racy dirt tracks than there are asphalt so it'd be nice to see NASCAR run a few more dirt tracks in the future!!!

Really good article here:

ROSSBURG, Ohio — One of the best NASCAR races in years shouldn't be viewed as a singular event.

Wednesday night's Mudsummer Classic, the first NASCAR race on dirt in 43 years, should be the catalyst for change in the sport, the kind of moment that lays the groundwork for the future.

ELDORA: Dillon wins inaugural Truck race on dirt

NASCAR's Camping World Trucks were heavy, clumsy and painfully slow on the Eldora Speedway dirt. There was only one wreck. There was no side-by-side finish.

But guess what? The race was still 10 times better than many of the events held on 1.5-mile cookie cutter tracks used by the Sprint Cup Series, where the field gets strung out and there's little passing at times.

Thirty drivers – many inexperienced on dirt – put on a tremendous show. They raced side-by-side, slammed into one another while racing for position and pulled off daring slide jobs that made every lap of the race a must-see.

There was entertainment from start to finish – something that can't be said about many NASCAR races these days.

ONE-FINGER SALUTE: 61-year-old driver flips the bird

NASCAR should use Eldora as a lesson in several ways:

SPEED

More speed doesn't make for a better show; it's possible to have great racing even at dramatically slower speeds.

There was no talk about aero push or "clean air" at Eldora; it was all about handling and driver skill. Instead of a track position race based on strategy, drivers won by out-driving their competitors (Austin Dillon won from 19th; Kyle Larson started 13th and finished second).

As Denny Hamlin tweeted during the race: "100 mph sliding or 200 mph stuck? Nuff said."

DIRT

After Wednesday, it's a no-brainer NASCAR should do everything it can to bring a Sprint Cup Series race to dirt. The buzz even for a Truck race was fantastic, and the race lived up to the hype. Fans flocked from 48 states to see a race that was sold out in January; 130 media members were credentialed.

Again, all this for a Truck race. If that's not an indicator of something that could excite the racing world, what is?

Dillon suggested the Trucks "should come back here twice next year" before NASCAR eases into Nationwide and Cup races on dirt "later down the road."

"I think it throws another bone into the championship Chase, just showing how good our drivers are in NASCAR," he said. "To be able to transition from asphalt to short tracks to mile-and-a-half tracks to dirt to road courses … it just showcases the talent of all the drivers in there."

QUALIFYING RACES AND SEGMENTS

The dirt-track format for Eldora was perfect: Heat races set the starting order and served as qualifying, followed by a thrilling last-chance race; the main event was then broken up into three segments.

Why not do that for those tedious 500-mile Cup races? By adding heat races, NASCAR could shave distance off the feature race and still fit into a three-hour window; by adding segments, it could break up the monotony of long green-flag runs.

Hey, it works for short tracks all around the country.

SMALLER CROWDS

There were only 20,000 people at Eldora, but the sold-out stands made for an electric atmosphere. If the same event was held at a 100,000-seat track, though, the crowd would have looked puny – as some races do these days on TV.

Several tracks are already taking steps to remove seats and make the crowds look better. That's a good move, because creating a demand with sellout crowds and hot tickets – even if it's a smaller number of people – is much better than looking at tens of thousands of empty seats.

NASCAR is never going to return to the mega crowds it once had, but a slimmed-down sport can still be effective.

MIDWEEK RACES

Track promoters don't like the idea of midweek races because they're worried it would hurt attendance. Not as many people would be able to get off work.

But Eldora showed that's not necessarily the case. If it's a race people really want to attend, they'll go – even if it's in the middle of rural Ohio's cornfields. People from the West Coast had no problem flying to Indianapolis and then driving two hours to see a Wednesday night race.

In the middle of the week, especially during the summer, NASCAR would be wise to have a few Sprint Cup Series races dotting the schedule.

"I think it's a matter of asking the fans," Ryan Newman said of NASCAR's dirt experience. "Did I enjoy it? Absolutely. It's fun. … There are other tracks we could go to that would be fun as well. But this was a great show to do something that was off-the-charts different and great at the same time."

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I think there were too many cars locked into the show. Heffner finished 2nd in heat and I think qualified 6th and didn't make the feature. I would like it better if they made this a non-points race and just let the best 30 into the A main.

Having to run the track in so early also didn't help.

And unless there is a drive shaft or something larger and more dangerous than a beer can on the track, please don't throw the caution for debris. This is dirt track racing. I think the race between Larson and Dillon would have been epic if they were allowed to race at the end. As soon as the caution came out at the end, I knew it was over.

That said, still the best race I ever saw on a Wednesday night. I hope the ratings were higher than reruns of Big Bang or Three's Company.

i had threes company on my other tv so i guess i split that vote.

I agree that the track was junk, BUT, think, the track cant be tacky or muddy becasue then the drivers windshields would get full of mud, and then they would need to run a screen. And do you really think any nascar guys want to scrap mud and wash their cars? HELL NO.

wilke...thats the dumbest shit ive heard yet.

you know im right

Eric41 wrote: you know im right

thats the 2nd dumbest shit ive ever heard

i was there (sat in turn 3 right next to outside track pit entrance) track was great smoother than any track ive been too besides Volusia was a killer race glad Austin Dillon won (I have a signed shirt of his) I really didn't want kyle Larson to win even though hes a dirt guy. surprised bloomquist didn't do well. I would totally go again.

Watched it again, and it still was bad. Here's an idea tell me if you have heard of it. Run a dirt track series with cars that are built to run dirt or wait WOO Late model series and LOLM series.