Well CK has a saying that goes like this... if your going to wreak/ wreak BIG and if your going to fight/ fight in front of the FANs
Tonight that got every bit of there moneys worth with the "lil shoe" opening a can of whoop on Rayburn. That was the main event as the were plenty of fights on the undercard.

Went to the fights and a car race broke out....

Well I had pretty good seat and would love to see some video of it. Everyone in the stands were on there feet for it

Big shoe might not be too happy about this.......

Kevin and Jimmy Irwin

Kevin could be " Shoe, part Deux"
Lol

Awesome show altogether from the racing to the fighting! Some of those guys looked more into fighting than racing,as soon A's checkers flew they were throwing bombs it was great!!!! Not so great getting home at 5:30 and not being asleep at 8:00 but worth it!

Can't get over what an awesome show it was and the perspective from the infield for SS race was so intense those cars were awesome!!! And Danny Roe moving from 21st to 11th in his 4th SS race against the baddest dudes in California and loading the 14t up with no damage was the icing on the cake!

I know alot of old timers who are proud of Chris's decision to let them fight it out. As long as they take their helmets off like the old days. (none of this "i'm scaird to get hit in the face" sissy stuff.
As far as kids watching, It teaches them, for every action there is a reaction. Kids watch UFC all the time. this is a mild version.

I've got two young boys and 55 got me thinkin and he has a good point but gait and crewguy also have good points I guess it's up to the individual promoter it would be nice to see new and more fans come out but at the end of the day it's mostly the same crowd and we like to watch races and fights don't bother most of us! Merced bans guys for the year for boxing and SMS is far better off than Merced so gasit wins this one!

I was at Bakersfield two weeks ago and made sure I was respectful and didnt want to touch anyone the short time I raced there. The Irwins were the first people in my pit to ask if I needed help when I had motor problems.
Fast forward to last night. Last lap I am in a transfer spot after starting dead last and not touching a sole. Little Irwin went for it all and drove through my car going into turn one. Thats not being a shoe by the way. There was plenty of track above me. Whatever its last lap racing. I get hooked coming to the checkered by Robert Read and smashed into the wall. So obviously my car is done and as I get out little Irwin comes up against me to jaw at me. That was it for me. So I jumped over his car and decided to get into a weak ass wrestling match. That was it and done with. I still like the guys I just had been smashed too often last night and was fed up.
Later that night as I was loading my car, Chuck Cecil and his woman started throwing full bear cans at me and my pregnant girlfriend and then came at me with a shovel. All the while crying about me beating him two years ago. REALLY? Big Irwin drug him away because he obviously was way too drunk. Cecil, your a class act.
Irwins, its was done with me ten minutes after I walked away. I have no hard feelings.

So let me get this straight, Chris this is what you want in your racing program?

What’s going to happen next time when the cops get called and they stop the program?  So you want people to have an arrest record?  You really think it going to stay on the track and fights are not going to break out in the stands between family members.  Where I grew up in the southeast this was a nightly occurrence at the races.

This isn’t 1950 Mayberry were people forgive and forget and the cops just let you cool off.  People today don’t let it end in a fist fight they now grab a knife or a gun.  Just this year people have been stabbed and shot at football and baseball games right here in California.  

I love the racing here in California because of the culture and camaraderie.  I really love Santa Maria speedway and I think Chris you are one of the best promoters in AMERICA.  I have been to tracks all over the country and they are trying anything to save their programs.   I can't see how promoting fighting can help a program

I never recall seeing fights.

I actually thought the fight on the front shoot was a fitting tribute to the Simkins memorial.