Desert racing vs. short course

[Dirty Harry]

I was reading an interview with Casey Currie and he made the comment that most short course racers could win a desert race, but that desert racers could not win a short course race. What do you guys think about this? I have not raced either so I don't really have much input but I was surprised that he was so candid and I imagined that he pissed some folks off.

Who does both? Troy Herbst comes to mind but I cannot think of any others off the top of my head.

[Samco Fab]

Cross over racers include Curt, Kyle and Todd Leduc, Carl Redenezer (sp?) Scott Douglas, Jerry Welchell, Walker Evans (retired) Rod Hall (won a bunch of Riverside races) Just to name a few off the top of my head that are very successful in both venues and go back and forth.

They both are cool, and most of the best drivers do both very well.

[MIKE S]

I was reading an interview with Casey Currie and he made the comment that most short course racers could win a desert race, but that desert racers could not win a short course race. What do you guys think about this? I have not raced either so I don't really have much input but I was surprised that he was so candid and I imagined that he pissed some folks off.

Who does both? Troy Herbst comes to mind but I cannot think of any others off the top of my head.



I think that if you put a short course racer in a desert race at first they would drive to hard and kill the truck. And most desert racers don't drive balls out all the time so it could take them so time to adjust to racing short course

The better the driver the shorter the adjustment period

[Samco Fab]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjzfg-ieDlM

[adbaker]

I completely agree with Mike S.

One thing for this elitest arse(Currie) to consider might be the element of an ever changing course. I am sure that he can maximize his speed through a series of corners after he has seen them a dozen times. In a desert race, you might not quite know what is around a blind corner or over the next drop. Even if you went over it on the pre-run you can count on different little suprises.

I think this guy is out of line