three links car made the main (i was one of them, with the [and I found this out after I saw this body, or else I would have just run white bodies] MikeD look alike paint job, lol), one Knife and two Merchants. On asphalt the plate cars are faster. Although in Mod, come on, it was josh, lol , he could have wheeled a radio shack car to first place, lol. (and I think there were only 3 links cars total who showed up for 12th stock, so it could have been worse, lol)

Although just a note, links cars have pretty much dominated on carpet (Frank has won master for the past ever at cleveland, bailes won regular stock last year. at the nats Rev. 3's have won for the past 3+ years in stock), but do I think at the higher levels of racing plates vs. links, makes a difference? no. anything can defently be fast, from what I have seen with guys starting up with 12th scale locally, its been easier with links cars.

Also just a note, I was wondeirng about the spring rate retention as well. So i made a jig to test out springs that have had pretty much a full season on them (like 30+ race days) vs. NIB springs. I used Big Jim's Fiddle Stick II (which is used to measured how much the rate in motor springs goes down), and found that the difference between new and old side springs was negligable. So believe it or not, when BIC ships off their springs to Wolfe, who tips em in paint and bends them out, and then ships them to CRC and SpeedMerhcant, they are actually getting very high quality springs, lol

BTW, anyone going to any USTC races this fall/winter/spring?
I dont think I will be able to make the first two, however I will be most likely at the Jam, Scotty's race and the nats incase anyone might care