Newport speedway is the biggest joke of a race track around! Ed and his lackeys make up the rules as they see fit from week to week. What happened to the $@%+
rule book that is posted on the website?? Do we not go by the rules anymore? Ed is bound and determined to run everyone off so he can go to the lake and party
every weekend. Just ask him, he'll tell you. He already told all the drivers that in the drivers meeting, and, if they didn't like the rules to hit the
gate and leave!! This is the same old crap that starts every year at Newport. Hey Ed, look at your fan base base, it sure is going down, along with your car
count. Why don't you learn how to run a track before you start promoting it?? There is so much B.S going on right now that you gotta wear waders in the
pits to keep from sinking in it!! Hey Ed, you said you didn't get involved in tech. You sure were there Friday night wasn't you?? Hey Ed, you said if
any crew member went on the track to fight they were suspended for 2 weeks. Um, lets see who shouldn't be there this week- 1. Ricky Brown, 2. Emily Tracy,
3. Jamie Sutton, 4. Melody Chandler- Each were involved in altercations Friday night. Why don't you toss the rule book away because you can read it or
understand it anyway. And no more drivers meetings, they don't mean anything either. Hey Ed, we all know what B.S you pulled on Jeff Myers this weekend!!
Teddy Mann's car #99 got a weight break of 75 pounds for having a "Crate Motor". Got news for ya, thats not a $@%+ crate!!!! Jeff Myers got
screwed, Steve Akers got screwed and every week the late models run the F-ing field gets screwed by the light boys. How much are they paying you and Ron??? I
say we boycott Newport until Ed and Ron get their stuff together. We want Newport to be Nascar Sactioned with real TECHS!!!!! And a real RULE BOOK!!! The Fans
deserve better than what their getting!! And the drivers deserve to be treated fairly and respected, their the ones that keep your fan base up and make you
money you stupid idiot!! So in closing, I would like to say that Ron needs to stick with his Motel, and Ed, Um I'm not sure what your qualified to do? You
can't promote and manage a track, you sure can't drive. Just come and sit in the stands. Maybe you would understand then!
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Posts: 1 07/05/09 9:08 PM |
Look. I will not sit here and bash Ed and Ron. They have provided a place for us to come and race. Now for most of us drivers, we appreciate that fact.
However, I will speak out against what is wrong if I feel it necessary. And in this case, I do belive it is necessary. I agree with some of the statements in
the article, but not all. What I agree with is we need to stick to the rule book. If we don't stick to the rule book, then just erase it from the website
and we will " run what you brung" at Newport. Ed, if tech does not know how to check something it dosent need checked. Im not gonna whine and cry
about what happened Friday night, even though there was crying going on from other people and the guilty party knows who they are. I want to say sorry to the
fans, who paid with their hard money to see a good race ( and the street stock race was exciting) just to see controversy. I want the fans to know that myself
and my team are not cheaters. We have run the same car, motor, and chasis all year long and will contnue to do so. I run by the rules, I don't care to get
beat if its by the rules. But when I know i'm legal and you tell me i'm not, and all the fans say I'm a cheater, Mr. Surrett, we have a problem!
And we will resolve it!
I love racing at Newport. I love trophys. I love the fans that pay to see us race!! But I will not be called a cheater when I'm not. And you know I'm not Ed. I have only one goal this year. To be track champion. And I will be track champion! Thank you to all my fans and family for your on going support. Please do not be discouraged by these turn of events. And please DO NOT BASH ED OR RON!!! Because regardless of the fact, they do give us a place to race. Everything else can and will be worked out... Steve Akers- Driver 14 |
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Posts: 6 07/05/09 9:37 PM |
thats how it happens when you win and win legal and the track pets arent and they cant find anything wrong with your car that grand ol tech fella will find you
illegal regardless of the facts in front of you and give you a dq... you will be told to like it or leave that the tech men are 100% right and in disbelief
right before your own eyes beleive it or not... but dont worry its not just going on in the street stocks its in other divisions too as far as a place to race
i rather let my car be used as a hens nest than be treated that way ....it really says alot about a person that lets thats go on in the first place whatever
there name may be
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Posts: 28 07/06/09 12:43 AM |
This has been going on for years at Newport Speedway, and listen up folks, it is not going to change no matter who's name is listed at the manager. I read
on here time and time again that the drivers and fans don't need to come here and bash Ed or any else that is managing the track or the things that happen
at Newport Speedway because it is providing the drivers and fans a place to go to race and see racing, etc... Well that is exactly what the track wants you to
believe. They want you to think that they are the only track going and they are doing you a big favor by giving you a place to race when no one else will. And
as long as the fans and drivers buy into that they control you!!! It's time that you people wake up join together and take a stand and realize that Newport
Speedway is not the only track in operation. I agree that the Drivers and Fans don't need to come on here and bash Newport Speedway instead take the time
and find you another race track to go to. They are several race track out there operation today that would love to have the drivers and fans from Newport
Speedway. If Ed, and the other powers to be at newport don't care if every driver in a division loads up and goes home, there is a track out there that
would love to have newports drivers and fans attending there racetrack each week.
It's time you drivers and fans WAKE UP and realize that this stuff has always went on at Newport Speedway and it WILL NEVER CHANGE. Find you a track that the management will respect and welcome each of you, like Lonesome Pine Speedway, Hickory Speedway, Tazewell Speedway, 411 Speedway to name a few. WAKE UP FOLKS, AND REALIZE NEWPORT SPEEDWAY IS NOT THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN GOING !!!!! When the drivers and fans realize this simple fact and start acting on it, Newport Speedway will either do one of two things 1) Clean up there act and start respecting and treating the drivers and fans that attend the track right, Set down a set of rules and make everybody abide by them or 2) Close down and become a patch of weeds. It will become totally up to the track owner which one it will be. Either way the drivers and fans will be the winner. Drivers and Fans may have to drive a few more miles to attend a respectable racetrack but I can assure you that the racing action you will see and the welcome feeling that you will experience will be well worth the extra drive.
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Posts: 30 07/08/09 2:15 PM |
Look heres the deal, if you dont read any other post-- read this one!!!!!!! Newport is not a NASCAR home track, therefor you kind of have to be ready for this
kinda of thing when you roll in the back gate on saturday.... Your dealing with a track that has very little purse to back up the double file restart situation
or the headaches that go along with the whole newport speedway click. The track has a very foggy and very unstable rule selection, witch accommodates the
competition on a weekly basis... But the biggest beef that I have is, the government within the track is actually very weak, and is more giving to the fans
than what is from car to car.. The track will never gain great competition in the upper levels, untill they begin to gain control on certain areas of the
racing its self... I guess a good example is when a car spins another car, the car thats spins the car in front, witch is the car behind, he doesnt go to the
rear if he doesnt spin... thats abunch of crap, i dont care if the drivers voted for that, the government inside the track has to stand up, and not let drivers
set the rules... and THEY HAVE TO PAY MORE MONEY-------IT WILL NEVER BE WHAT IT WAS OR WHAT IT HAS THE MEANS OF BEING UNTILL THEY PAY MORE MONEY, BIG PURSES
GAIN BIG TEAMS, NOTHING ELSE DOES, BIG PURSES GAIN BIG TEAMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<<<<------------------
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Posts: 42 07/08/09 3:27 PM |
i must agree newport haz become a joke once agine i waz all for ed getting the track thought he was the man that would finly get newport back on the right track and boy waz i wrong. i raced at newport for a few years in the hobby stock divison till ed did away with it or sould i say the drivers did away with it so ed said but any how drivers there are other tracks that would be more than glad to have u race there ya newport is a fast bad a$$ track but drivers if ed is telling everyone at the drivers meetings that he would rather be at the lake and could care less if u raced there $@%% send his ass to the lake then come on over to tri county it waz nice to have the track owner come to my trailer and thank me for coming and welcome me and my family there insted of they didnt care if i come back. ed needs to quit pleasing his friends and be a promotor and get the track back together or just let someone else run the place that haz balls to say no these are the rules and go buy them........ |
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Posts: 6586 07/08/09 9:55 PM Moderator |
there is the insidegroove!!
good to "see ya"
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away"
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Posts: 4 07/08/09 9:58 PM |
ed when are you gonna lock the gate and just stay at the lake?
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Lets all go to the lake this week and prove a point. What do you think?
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Posts: 30 07/09/09 3:43 AM |
Thank's 007. Just been here on the sidelines reading for a while.
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Posts: 5 07/10/09 6:33 PM |
i think all the late models need to run the dwight huffman memorial at hickory for big money instead of pocket change at newport, and fool with half-ass rules
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Posts: 7 07/12/09 6:50 PM |
what' just 10 cars in most divisions that ain't no race in my book 'but we know who can run elsewhere and who is so illegal they can't leave
newport' or just plain scared to.
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It took me one trip to Newport to realize what a JOKE (with no punchline) it really is.
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