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ques t
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long-track
horsepower
pro mpted d efen d in g champion Steve
Bast to debut a four-valve Weslake
engine and Jeff Sexton to foreswear the
no rmal 20% nitro mix, tipping the can
to 80%. [N itro met hane is weird stuff.
You have to either run under 20 % or
o ver 80%. An y attempt to run a mixture
in th e middle range turns a perfectly
go od engine into a privatel y-owned
Claymor e mine.] Though e ach won a
heat, the tra ck was not t o respond t o
horsepower alone .
Dubb Ferrell, Bobby Schwartz and
l\lark Cherry , among others, were using
a 19 inch rear wheel with a specially-cut
Class C Carlisle ti re with the rationale •
that this combination works best on a
hard, rough surface. (Sc hwart z ' tuner:
"People st arted using t hese ti res when
th e tr acks be gan going t o hell this ye ar .
Normally we 'd run t he kno bb y u ntil the
cu sh io n got brushed away , t hen switch.
Here, the track is packed funny, it will
start o ut hard and th en ge t chewed
up ," ) As it turned ou t, only Ferrell
see med to make th is combin ation work
as he pulled off some of the evening's
best co m e-fro m -behin d ri des, passin g in
th e sweep ing backst ret ch.
For su re . th e race was going t o
wh oever co uld learn th is tra ck's secrets
th e quic kest. One opportu nity was the
introduction p ar ade wh ich gave th e
cro wd a look at th e riders, and gave the
riders a o n e-lap walk of the tr ack. Mike
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