Orlando Speed World Rant !
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Orlando Speed World Rant !
Once again OSW has reaffirmed their facility is sub-par at best ! Myself and and a group of friends went yesterday (Sunday) and it was the same ole 'ish in Bithlow (OSW).
We went and sat in the stands about 10:15 to get a good seat because their is hardly any seating to begin with. Not one thing was done to the track to prep it from that point (10:15) until the the first car tried to go down the track.
The race did not start until 11:45 (was supposed to start at 11:00).
The first eight cars down the right lane shook the tires hard within the first 300 ft. and did not complete a full pass. Did they stop to re-prep or check it out after the first, second, or fifth car that shook badly ? Nope. Just kept on sending them. And these were high dollar 6-7 second cars not some bracket cars. Personally if it were my car in the right lane I would have not gone down until they re-prepped it.
Steve Miller's TT 6 second truck caught fire at about 200 ft in the first round and burned for about one to one and a half minutes before the first person with a fire extinguisher got to him. The first guy to arrive was the starter after he had to run to get the extinguisher then run 500 ft down track to put it out ! No four wheeler, truck, etc to get anyone there faster from the line. How comforting to watch one big guy with a small hand held extinguisher run 500ft while Miller was getting cooked in the car. Thank goodness he escaped without injury.
Finally after almost one and a half minutes a track truck arrives from the far end of the track with extinguishers and puts out the blaze. The front half of the car was heavily damaged. Miller got himself out of the blazing car, no one else was there to help !
I seriously have no idea how that place stays in business. From the always lousy track prep or water bubbling up from the racing surface, to the garbage all over the place, to the lack of bathrooms, lack of seating, and piss poor safety standards it is astonishing that place is still there.
While sitting through the many delays of the race we were hearing a lot of the same grumbling from people sitting around us so it seems as if the group of people I went with were not the only ones having these thoughts.
My sincere hope is they make some sweeping changes at OSW or that race ends up at Bradenton that has a facility that is 10x what Orlando could ever hope to be !
As comsumers we deserve better than what we have been getting at OSW, someone needs to let it be known !
Feel free to add your.02 if you went any of the days, I am interested to see what others have to say.
We went and sat in the stands about 10:15 to get a good seat because their is hardly any seating to begin with. Not one thing was done to the track to prep it from that point (10:15) until the the first car tried to go down the track.
The race did not start until 11:45 (was supposed to start at 11:00).
The first eight cars down the right lane shook the tires hard within the first 300 ft. and did not complete a full pass. Did they stop to re-prep or check it out after the first, second, or fifth car that shook badly ? Nope. Just kept on sending them. And these were high dollar 6-7 second cars not some bracket cars. Personally if it were my car in the right lane I would have not gone down until they re-prepped it.
Steve Miller's TT 6 second truck caught fire at about 200 ft in the first round and burned for about one to one and a half minutes before the first person with a fire extinguisher got to him. The first guy to arrive was the starter after he had to run to get the extinguisher then run 500 ft down track to put it out ! No four wheeler, truck, etc to get anyone there faster from the line. How comforting to watch one big guy with a small hand held extinguisher run 500ft while Miller was getting cooked in the car. Thank goodness he escaped without injury.
Finally after almost one and a half minutes a track truck arrives from the far end of the track with extinguishers and puts out the blaze. The front half of the car was heavily damaged. Miller got himself out of the blazing car, no one else was there to help !
I seriously have no idea how that place stays in business. From the always lousy track prep or water bubbling up from the racing surface, to the garbage all over the place, to the lack of bathrooms, lack of seating, and piss poor safety standards it is astonishing that place is still there.
While sitting through the many delays of the race we were hearing a lot of the same grumbling from people sitting around us so it seems as if the group of people I went with were not the only ones having these thoughts.
My sincere hope is they make some sweeping changes at OSW or that race ends up at Bradenton that has a facility that is 10x what Orlando could ever hope to be !
As comsumers we deserve better than what we have been getting at OSW, someone needs to let it be known !
Feel free to add your.02 if you went any of the days, I am interested to see what others have to say.
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yep that sounds like orlando,one of the things that makes orlando so fun to watch and hard to race on is the shitty prep,the us nationals are alot better i think,its shitty that miller lost the truck that was one fast/nasty sbc truck.i see alot of the people in radial who had cars that could dip into the 7s not even make the field.the 55 crew looks like the where having problems,troy blew the engine up in 3rd of qf and jr. didn't even get the nova into the field,8 ball rans 9s,and john from acme didn't make the show and thats the only sbc nos radial car i know thats been into the 7s.flip didn't even bring his camaro to the show.rick head was at the event but didn't bring the world record holdier out,the mustang that gave head a run for his money last year was there but only got a couple of low 8s passes and that was it.wade took the event over smooky hall when hall red lighted by.003 hall witch clicked of a 7.90 and wade threw a blower belt and ran into the 10s.the funny part is wade converted his car from a limited street car to a stock suspension car only like 8 weeks ago that car sat for 2 years.he comes out and took memphis and orlando in 2 weeks.now theres just immokalee shoot out left and the sunshine heads up madness make up date.
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There does always seem to be an air of "unprofessionalism" there 
Honestly though, pick any track around here and I can tell you a story about horrible response to wrecks or fires or both. Everyone make sure all your safety equipment is in check, you may be all you've got
We would have gone, but we spent 13 hours on the road saturday night/sunday morning repo'ing a car in the panhandle
Honestly though, pick any track around here and I can tell you a story about horrible response to wrecks or fires or both. Everyone make sure all your safety equipment is in check, you may be all you've got We would have gone, but we spent 13 hours on the road saturday night/sunday morning repo'ing a car in the panhandle
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Me and some friends were standing on the pit side just past were the truck stopped.
When the driver finally made it out of the truck, he ran to the opposite side of the truck to get a fire extinguisher that was on the other side of the guard rail to put it out himself, and guess what, I was completely amazed when he thru it down (the extinguisher) because it didnt work. A lot a damage could have been prevented if they were prepared for an emergency. This sort of event is way out of thier league. Hope to see it at BMP next year!
When the driver finally made it out of the truck, he ran to the opposite side of the truck to get a fire extinguisher that was on the other side of the guard rail to put it out himself, and guess what, I was completely amazed when he thru it down (the extinguisher) because it didnt work. A lot a damage could have been prevented if they were prepared for an emergency. This sort of event is way out of thier league. Hope to see it at BMP next year!
