Sammy Swindell and a sprint car unlike any other at Knoxville

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Knoxville favorites take a beating, who's in and who's out after night one, plus we'll talk North South 100 for Lucas, and show you guys a very interesting sprint car experiment that appeared at Knoxville on Wednesday.

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Today's Topics:
0:00 On DIRTRACKR Daily today
0:30 20% off Sprintcarunlimited.com, Code: "SCUMOM2024"
1:34 Donny Schatz, David Gravel struggle at Knoxville
3:10 Gio Scelzi wins over Jacob Allen
3:32 Knoxville Nationals points after night one
4:11 Knoxville Nationals prelim night two field, notes
4:44 Sammy Swindell and a sprint car science experiment
7:28 North South 100 at Florence for Lucas late models
8:08 New look Koehler team with Ricky Thornton Jr., Chris Madden
8:49 See you soon!

コメント (21)
  • Lets just all take a minute to thank Justin, he does an amazing job giving us all some very professional dirt coverage. You make a lof of our work days and drives a lot better thanks Justin
  • Sammy has experimented with coil over cars and won some big races in the 80’s. I’m not surprised at this move. Sammy has always been on the cutting edge regarding innovation and sometimes that’s been good and sometimes not so good. Great show!
  • @Keepnthem
    I worked at challenge chassis, and after that American challenge, welding and building sprint cars, and i was a mechanic on a sprint car at Knoxville the whole time. they were experimenting with coil over cars way back then. I’ve seen coil over cars, coil over and tubes on the same car cars, reverse tube cars, stack tube cars and nothing seems to ever work as well as a standard torsion bar car . if they ain’t got them figured out in the last 62 years then it’s a safe bet it’s not the next big thing . just ask all the nationals winners for the past 60 years.
  • @tv4957
    Sammy's mind is a beautiful thing!
  • Frome the dude that help come up with the original bead locks this doesn't surprise me.🏁🏁🤙
  • Great coverage. Best of luck for Sammy and that coil over!!
  • @busher69
    Ditto on applauding innovation. It's been awhile since anybody threw anything way outside the box at the sport. No surprise Sammy is involved. Love him or hate him, he's been one of the best drivers ever and one smart dude.
  • What was up with that really bad move by Chase Randall on Justin Peck? Trying to take him out? Bummed for Holmes, finally has a great qualifying run and because of the heavy invert for the heat, doesn't make the A main. 8 car invert is steep, 4 is reasonable.
  • Great info. As a dirt tracker who drifts. Coilovers are exciting. But also know it's pretty new. Excited to see how it goes.
  • Sammy’s car you described exactly as I would have … I love innovation… I think Flea’s talent is yet undiscovered ( I’m aware he’s done kick ass stuff) lol I want to see them thrive
  • That coil over car is pretty cool looking. I ran a cast iron 360 series in the NW and we did winged asphalt/winged dirt/non wing dirt all in the same season. I had a maybe mid 90’s j&j that was designed as coil front torsion rear. When we ran asphalt we pulled the rear torsion and ran 4 coils. It worked well with the extra weight of the cast iron and the fact I could use the same chassis on all the different configurations we ran.
  • @abpob6052
    It's time for a chassis builder to make the next big move in chassis design. I am an engineer and have raced sprint cars and I never liked that the sprint car shocks used so little travel. There's not much quality in the damping if the shaft barely moves and moves so slowly. Would like to see a simple leverage system that let a shock move thru several inches of travel at much higher speeds.
  • @j_e_hill
    Crazy to me that Sammy Swindell can still jump in a car and race, when I saw him race 40 years ago I’d never imagine he’d still be driving today.
  • I remember sometime ago, JJ Yeley was driving a non-winging coil over car. I know the midget that year had coil over shocks and maybe the sprint car did too. They said it was very difficult to set up and if you missed you missed by a mile.
  • @jag92g
    As others have said Sammy, Kinser, Blaney and a few others experimented with all coil cars decades back as I remember looking at them at L'ville outlaw show back then. I was told back then they were really good on smooth slick surfaces. I had wondered with the shock advancements if coils would be a more viable option today. I had noticed a Flea post on May 8th with a picture of the little Chalk Stix bars used on the rear arms and questioned at the time if it was for coil or cantilever and had to wait and see.
  • Great show. We think the concept, Sammy car, is cool. Best of luck to them. Thanks for your daily info.
  • @joelclark2130
    I have to agree. The old buggy type suspension only works to a degree.... No , if you're gonna run just one track , it's the way to go. But if you run a circuit of many different tracks Torsion bar is the way.