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ChadS
07-30-2005 07:40:40
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Re: Off to Goshen! in reply to NTPA Fan, 07-29-2005 20:03:47
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What type of pulling isnt slow? You get an infield full of tractors, trucks, etc etc together for a meet, and then add the sled time it takes to set the sleds up to stop thes machines,, it does tend to bore people. But, then, when they lite the fires and run out th end, it makes up for it. Hurry up and wait is the name of the game in pulling. Any kind of pulling. I hear ya, and not knocking individuals in the ATPA,, me personally, dont like one puller in particular,, but, just cause one is a dork, dont mean the whole group is too. Ive followed ATPA for quite a while, politics, and rules, I think of Leroy Mason and the Down and Dirty IH766 alcohol edition,,, How the diesils kept changing the rules,, giving weight handicaps, cause all Leroy did was "figure it out" And his tractor did not have the troubles that the 3and 4 charger diesil had, and he only ran 2. Now, how in the world is giving a 300# handicap to a diesil tractor, going to help make the diesli match the potential of an alky puller? You know as well as I do that alky can whoop a diesil bout 9 out of 10 times when mixed together,,, Now, I have seen diesils whoop on ol Leroy, Tad Eads, when he had the Indiana Rascal beat him in Evansville, and, the Wild Thing of Kowitskowski, beat him at goshen in the 77 super,, so it can be done,, but at the time,, they both weighed the same, not the alky 300 under anyone else. So yeah, that was crooked,, But, what club doesnt have its little quirks, and excuses to cheat, win, or do it right, problem is,, the ATPA has been around long enough to know how to handle these situations,, but, too dumb to actually make a rule that benifits the entire class, and not favor one type of tractor. Chad
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