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All the news that is fit to print.

 

2009 Duel In The Desert Shaping Up As Best Ever

 

212 pre-entries have been received for the 2009 IMCA Modified Duel in the Desert to be held in Las Vegas next week.  The list reads like a Who’s Who of IMCA modified drivers and includes national champion Dylan Smith.  Drivers from 22 states and 2 Canadian provinces are already entered for the $7,777 to win, $500 to start feature.  There are so many must see events anymore, and this is one more.  If you can’t make it to Las Vegas you can still listen to the races on the internet.  Check out the links below:

 

Thursday, November 12, 2009
http://www.ezstream.com/play/index.cfm?id=141F9AACC7

Friday, November 13, 2009
http://www.ezstream.com/play/index.cfm?id=141906AD08

Saturday, November 14, 2009
http://www.ezstream.com/play/index.cfm?id=1419CBAD22

 

 

New Home For Show-Me 100

 

The Lucas Oil Dirt Late Model Series purchased the naming rights for the Show Me 100 and the Memorial Day weekend event will now be held at the Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, MO.  The 2010 event is scheduled for 5/28-5/29.

 

 

Josh Richards Wins Hungry Man

 

Racing conditions that brought about facial injuries to four drivers caused the Hungry Man 50 Topless Late Model race to be rescheduled from Wednesday to last night.  Officials also decided to race with full bodies-i.e. tops on.  Josh Richards took home the $12,750 winners share of the purse.

 

The WoO finals continue tonight and tomorrow at The Dirt Track at Lowes Motor Speedway in Charlotte.

 

 

Dirt Track Racing A 12 Months A Year Sport

 

Late model racing does not end this week.  There are seven events scheduled next weekend, and six events scheduled in each of the final two weekends in November.  Crate late model nationals are scheduled for mid-December at East Bay Raceway Park in Tampa. 

 

Makes me dream of retiring and hitting the road with a little motor home.  That would be called the impossible dream.  I won’t be retiring anytime soon, and Jane is not a race fan at all.  Still, it would be fun to travel to Florida in the winter-the modified and late model weeks at East Bay, then up to Volusia County and Daytona for a week.  Catch some of the big open shows in what used to be the racing season-April through early October, then November races in the southeast U.S. or Las Vegas  and the crate late model nationals at East Bay in December.  Right now just doing one of these events one time seems unlikely.  Maybe some day.

 

Thanks for stopping by.

 

 

 

Matt Does A Lee Corso On Me

I received a “Not so fast my friend” email from my son Matt this morning.  A few days ago I wrote how a trip to Charlotte, NC in early November, 2010 seemed like a great vacation.  In the day there are all the Sprint Cup shops to visit, along with the NASCAR Hall of Fame, and a tour of Lowes Motor Speedway.  At night season finales for three WoO divisions are scheduled to be held at The Dirt Track at Lowes.  Who wouldn’t want to see the WoO sprint car divas in action, along with the WoO super late models and big block modiifieds?  It sounds like a fun weekend.

 

However, once again The Dirt Track is experiencing problems hosting an event.  It seems the story from every race held there is not the action, but the condition of the track.  Unable to, to almost unable to race seems like normal at this track.  Last night four drivers were injured by dirt clods or rocks during qualifying for the topless late model show.  Chub Frank and Jeff Cooke were hospitalized.  Frank was treated and dismissed, while Cooke remained in the hospital for observation.

 

Flying dirt clods or rocks aren’t a problem suffered at only The Dirt Track at Lowes.  Many other tracks have that problem.  Years ago Hall of Famer Joe Kosiski told Matt that many mornings after racing his hands were so sore from being hit by clods and rocks that he could hardly bend them.  Still, The Dirt Track can’t seem to go a race without problems, and that is difficult to understand.

 

How many other dirt tracks in the U.S. have the resources available that The Dirt Track at Lowes has?  No more than a handful, if that many.  So, why can’t this track get it right? Matt suggests it is because my race forum namesake Bruton Smith does not want any dust marring his racing palace.  Maybe-if I owned one of the half-million dollar condo’s at the track, or had an expensive membership to the dining club there, I wouldn’t want to be sharing it with dust from a race track.  Still, you would think money + brains would come up with some type of solution.

 

Or, maybe big time promoters don’t do things any better than their grassroots brethren.

 

There are still a few races left, and though you have to travel to a warmer clime to watch them, you can listen to them on Dirt Cast.  Matt sent the link below for anyone interested in listening to upcoming events.

 

http://dirtcast.com/2009/11/05/sherman-barnett-modifieds-late-models-fall-dirtcar-nationals-110509/

 

Thanks for stopping by.

 

Fast Cars & Dirt Tracks & Fans Who Are Crazy-A Few Of My Favorite Things

When the dog bites,

When the bee stings,

When I’m feeling sad,

I simply remember my favorite things,

And then I don’t feel so bad.

 

-From The Sound of Music

 

 

I have had my share of dog bites and bee stings and feeling sad this year. Today I am smiling, pressing some 2009 racing memories between the pages of my mind.  And no, rstar, that book does not have a lot of empty pages. 

 

Favorite show of 2009?  It would be toss up between the wingless sprints portion of the TNT Bandit program at I-80 Speedway and every Modified A feature at Eagle Raceway.  If the wingless sprints came to this part of the Midwest more often, I would fast become a sprint car fan.  The action in these races is incredible.  And the Eagle Mod A features?  Simply the toughest IMCA mod feature to even make, and when a driver did make a feature, he had to gird up for a 20 lap war.  I am surprised that Dylan Smith was able to capture the IMCA Mod championship when one of his weekly tracks was the most competitive in the nation. The Eagle modified A features gave a whole new meaning to “Dancing With The Stars.”

 

Favorite tour-WDRL of course.  It is always a pleasure to talk with tour director Jim Wilson, and the WDRL has the best drivers and best purse of any super late model tour in the Midwest.  I only wish more promoters in Nebraska would understand this series is better in every way than the MLRA or NCRA, or is it MLRANCRA since so many of their events have to be co-sanctioned to get a full field?

 

The track that always reminds me of what racing once was-US 30 Speedway.  I love the place. I always have a smile on my face when I walk in the front gate, and when I leave too.  That doesn’t happen at a lot of tracks I visit. I only made it to the Abe Lincoln Memorial race this year, but plan more visits in 2010, with or without Matt.

 

Scariest moment of the season-when Joe Proctor and Marc Dover tried to put out the fire burning the legs of one of the TNT Bandit drivers as the I-80 “safety” crew was nowhere to be found. “Ferris Bueller, you’re my hero.”

 

I enjoyed every moment I was able to spend with the Sunday Night Irregulars-even under the grandstands in the rain at Knoxville.  I miss not seeing them every Sunday night like in the past, but I know we all miss why we used to get together on Sundays.  Matt, Steve Basch, Tom and Judy Schwartz and their friend Don from Lincoln, Mike Pierson, and Rick Bradley (though I much prefer his shorter half, Jody Sortino) are the most irreverent fans around and have produced some of the best racing one-liners ever. And, I will not forget Steve and his wife Edie coming to my Dad’s visitation, nor will I forget Tom and Judy coming to the funeral.  You are all great friends.

 

My favorite new track this year was Mineral City Raceway at Ft. Dodge, Iowa.  Ft. Dodge is a long way to travel on a week night, but it was trip I hope we will be able to make again in the future.  Brian Birkhofer put on a great show in the WDRL feature, I love the hillside seating, and the hamburgers at this track are the best at any race track I have been to.

 

The most amazing sight this year, and maybe ever, was the turn out for the Eagle Labor Day show.  I have heard 10,000 people were there, and I have heard other reports of up to 12,000 attended the event. The Eagle parking lot filled early, a make shift parking lot filled, cars were parked for a mile in every direction on the two highways that connect at Eagle Raceway, and police stopped people from entering the facility shortly after the races began. That is a problem every promoter would love to have. I am looking forward to Eagle-Stock II in 2010.

 

Kid’s Night at Eagle Raceway is the best promotion of any kind at any track in the U.S.  It does not come with the NASCAR hype of the Prelude to the Dream, it happens because of the hard work of Rhonda Bryan and her entourage.  Watching semi load after semi load of bicycles unloaded on the front stretch of the track is almost surreal, and seeing hundreds of kids walk away with a new bike makes this the feel good story of this racing year, and every other racing year too.

 

The 2009 Kid’s Night will always be a special one for me.  Thank you Rhonda for including my Dad’s name on the banner listing members of the racing family who had passed in the preceding months.  I appreciate that more than you know.  And to Randy Palmer-well, I already liked you, but when it was announced that your bike donation was in memory of Hank Meyer, I totally lost it.  You are quite a character Randy and a bad influence on Matt, but you know I got your back from now on.

 

Thanks to drivers, friends, fans, and promoters for all the smiles and memories, and thank you for stopping by. I’m ready to go racing.

 

 

BleacherReport.com-Again; Big Wind From Matt; Snickers, Coke, and Lay’s Potato Chips

Once again I am encouraging any of you who have not already subscribed to go to BleacherReport.com and do so.  The site sends NASCAR related articles to subscribers, usually once a week, and five to ten or more articles each time.  This week’s articles include ‘How NASCAR Ruined Talladega,’ ‘NASCAR’s Top Ten Tracks,’ and ‘Jimmie Johnson’s Season, Hate It or Respect It.’ Go to BleacherReport.com to subscribe.

 

Matt has an interesting theory regarding why cars continue to go airborne at Talladega despite efforts by NASCAR to keep all four wheels on the asphalt.  A study done to determine why the new Yankee Stadium is producing so many home runs found that the angle of the seats is a contributing factor.  How has the design of the COT (car of today, car of tomorrow, car of torment) changed aero patterns in regard to the grandstands? 

 

Yes, that does sound crazy, but no crazier than trying to tie anchors to the cars when the problem at Talladega is, has been, and always will be the track.  I don’t picture the France family tearing up the place and rebuilding it though.  So, NASCAR will continue to tinker with the rules, and fans will continue to get boring races at Talladega. I think the sanctioning body could make cricket even more boring if given a chance.

 

I often awake in the middle of the night with very strange thoughts.  I don’t think too many people wake up wondering how many Snickers are sold everyday. 

 

Mars candy produces 15,000,000 Snickers every day.  That comes to nearly 5 ½ billion candy bars per year.  I don’t how many are bite sized vs. “regulation” size.  It does pale in comparison with Coca-Cola products being served 705,000,000 times per day. I wonder how many potato chips Frito-Lay sells each year. I have no idea where I am going with this, other than Mars and Coca-Cola do spend a lot of money on racing advertising, and Frito-Lay is part of Pepsi which produces the AMP energy drink, and was sponsor of Sunday’s Alabama fiasco. Maybe I am looking for more people to blame for what racing is becoming.

 

Thanks for stopping by.

 

 

 

November 2nd-Post #2 I’m Not The Only One Upset With NASCAR

Two posts in one day.  Be sure to read my first post before you check out these links.

 

Thanks to Matt for finding some great links to sites that are also blasting NASCAR for that stinker of a Talladega race yesterday.  I have been a little hesitant to go all out in what I have to say, but after reading and listening to what these people have to say, I am not going to be as shy in the future.

 

Anyway, here are some links you might want to check out:

 

Frontstretch
http://www.frontstretch.com/mmclaughlin/28110/ 
http://www.frontstretch.com/bkeith/28113/
 
Mike Mulhern (formerly of the Winston-Salem Journal, now an independent journalist after the WSJ quit its NASCAR coverage)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-ZyHeANoQc&feature=player_embedded

Which Marathon Was Racier, Talladega Or New York City?

Seen today on Twitter-“I’m glad I recorded the Talladega race today, because if I ever have trouble sleeping I’ll just watch the first 160 laps.”-Chris Hancock11 from Vancouver. It shouldn’t take 160 laps to fall asleep. 

 

I switched to the New York City Marathon during the middle of the Talladega farce because the marathon was racier.  An American man won the race and several others finished in the top ten.  It seems like it has been forever since Frank Shorter and Bill Rodgers were dominating the marathon. I actually talked with Bill several times when I was chairman of the North Bend Old Settlers Road Race.  We wanted to have him appear in our race, but he was going to be in an Omaha race a few weeks earlier and it didn’t work out.  I remember him saying “I don’t know if I eat like I do so I can run, or run so I can eat like I do.”  Just say at that time he was not the most nutrition conscious.

 

My son Matt made a good point yesterday.  He said NASCAR should just run 25 or 30 lap races at Talladega and Daytona because no one races until the final 30 laps anyway.  Matt also calls NASCAR’s truck series the raciest of the NASCAR Big Three.  Maybe if the Sprint Cup series ran 150 or 200 mile races we would see action from the start of the race.  It won’t happen though-shorter races mean fewer commercials which means TV networks pay less for the rights to the races and NASCAR elite might have to cut back on jets, helicopters, and limos if that happened.

 

Talladega proved the theory I have been expounding on my blog since my first post in June, 2008-there are hundreds of races every week more exciting than a NASCAR Sprint Cup race.  Fans need only get up off the couch and head to the local dirt track to see some real racing.

 

The Dirt Track at Lowes Motor Speedway in Charlotte hosts the WoO finals this week, with both super late models and sprint cars in action.  From what I hear, sprint car fans watch only the sprint car portion of the show.  I don’t know what late model fans do.  I am a late model fan, but I would watch both divisions race.  Next year there will be three divisions competing as WoO will add the big block modifieds to the show.  That makes it a very attractive program to me.  It has been several years since I made a real road trip to a race, but with the new NASCAR Hall of Fame and all the Sprint Cup shops near Charlotte this looks like a good late season vacation. I’ll keep my fingers crossed.

 

Thanks for stopping by.

 

 

 

 

 

 

How To Make 195 MPH Boring-The NASCAR Guide To Losing Fans

Congratulations to NASCAR on accomplishing a task I did not think possible.  The Daytona based sanctioning body turned a Talladega race into a bore.  How do you make 195 miles per hour boring?  You threaten drivers with penalties if they make on track aggressive moves.  I thought aggressive on track moves was racing. After his late race wreck, Ryan Newman said it all. “If you enjoy this kind of racing you don’t belong here.  Go home.” NASCAR and their TV partners continue to hype the drivers as the best in the world, so let them race. The sport is fast becoming another version of wrestling.

As he led the race driver Kevin Harvick wanted cruise control for his race car. Boring. Tony Stewart wanted someone to say anything to keep him awake.  Boring. Lap after lap after lap of single file “racing” was what we got today. Boring.  I wonder what Bill France Sr. and Bill France Jr. are thinking about all the next generation of their family is doing to the sport.  To, not for.  Big Bill France once got behind the wheel of a race car at Talladega as he was trying to create something magical for auto racing.  Grandson Brian France just turned Talladega into another Fontana, and that is about the worst possible insult I can think of for this track or any other track.

Maybe NASCAR can continue to pass off thousands of empty seats at every race as “the economy,” but fans aren’t just voting with their dollars, they are voting with their channel changers too.  NASCAR ratings are down, down, down. A few more “tricks” like this Halloween weekend race, and I’ll jump ship too.  They say NBA basketball is getting better. At least the NBA TV ratings are up.

Thanks to a bone headed last lap stunt by Brad Keselowski,  basically taking out everyone who remained close to Jimmy Johnson in the Chase, Johnson can stroke it the last three races of the season.  The Chase should be over before the Sprint Cup series heads to Homestead, FL for its year end race.  Apparently his rookie status must have led to Keselowski’s right foot being disengaged from his brain. One moment Mark Martin, Jeff Gordon, and Juan Pablo Montoya were looking at a big points gain on Johnson, and thanks to the “Big Keselowski,” the next second Martin is flipping and Gordon and Montoya are pin balling off other cars. After Talladega Martin is a full race behind Johnson in points, Gordon is well over 200 points in arrears, and Montoya is even further back.  So yes, the final three races of the year are going to be boring. 

At least Paul Menard did not beat Dale Earnhardt Jr., so Tony “The Tax Man” Anville won’t be emailing me about Menard defeating Earnhardt for the 20 bazillionth time in a row.

 

 

I Need Your Help

Tony “The Taxman” Anville, or maybe we should call him Snow Man since he has been in Denver this week, emailed me a link you might find interesting.  The link takes you to an article on Davey Allison, and what might have been.   

http://www.nascar.com/2009/news/opinion/10/30/remembering.dallison/index.html

Thanks Tony.  Go Dolphins and Vikings.

I have a favor to ask of any of you who might want to lend this blogger some assistance.  It seems that I have run afoul of what Facebook considers proper contact.  I have been too aggressive in “finding friends” on the site.  In true racer fashion I took a gray area and tried to expand on it, and came off as not fitting a template.

I have been trying to establish a network of racers and fans, especially a network of dirt tracks, drivers, and fans.  If you are like me, you feel we are all in the same family anyway, the racing family.  I have always believed that every fan I meant was a member of this family, and already a friend.  People like Steve Basch, Tom and Judy Schwartz, Stan Cisar, and Mike Pierson are friends I met at different tracks.  Craig Kelley, Jim Hitzemann, Joe Proctor, Rick Bradley, Tony Anville, and others are like members of my family too, though I won’t say which ones are black sheep.  Our common bond is racing, and that is strong enough for people in New York, Illinois, New Mexico, Washington, North Carolina, and virtually every other state to be friends with a blogger from Nebraska.

While I personally did not know many of the people who became Facebook friends, I knew that our passion for the sport overcame distance involved.  I started asking people with profile photos of modifieds or late models or sprint cars or hobby stocks or sport compacts to be my friend.  Over 90% of them responded favorably, and I reached the 5,000 friend mark, a limit on Facebook.  Many of my new friends were actually suggestions from Facebook.  Others were mutual friends, and when some of these mutual friends were obviously racers, it wasn’t hard to tell they were race fans too.

Over the weekend I decided to form a Facebook group.  As near as I could tell there are no limits to the size of a Facebook group, and there are thousands and thousands of racers and fans on Facebook that I had not been able to contact yet to join my racing network.  Earlier in the week I invited all of my Facebook friends with obvious racing connections-those with profile photos of racers or drivers and those I knew personally were members of the racing family-to be members of my new Facebook group.  This was something over 2,000 individuals, and may have been the action that resulted in my account being disabled.

I don’t think my account deserved to be disabled.  I contacted Facebook and presented my defense, saying much of what I am saying now.  I do not have any fancy software that I used to garner friends.  Those who know me know I am technically challenged.  I would say that each friend I added on Facebook took at least one minute of my time.  That is a lot of hard work spent to form a network.  For all of that work to go down the drain due to false assumptions would really be unfortunate.

I am also not a stalker, and to me if over 90% of the people I asked to be my Facebook friend confirmed their friendship, I would say my actions hardly could be considered stalking.  To date my blog is not a money making proposition.  I have not even recovered my initial expenses in having a website designed.  I have spent hundreds of hours on my blog because of my passion for the sport, and my belief that there are hundreds of wonderful stories to be written about members of the racing family who otherwise would not be written about. 

I have already blogged about several Facebook friends, and have over ten more that have talked with me about doing a blog post on them.  Every one of my Facebook friends is a potential story for my blog.  However, I can’t write any of those stories because my Facebook account has been disabled.  I would appreciate it if those of you with Facebook accounts would contact Facebook and ask for my account to be enabled.  As I said, I have already presented my thoughts to them, but have heard nothing in return, and the account is still disabled.  Your contact and asking them to enable my account may be just what it takes to get them to do so.

The email address that acknowledged receipt of my appeal is:  appeals+dbtudat@facebook.com.  If that does not work, the address I sent my appeal to is: disabled@facebook.com. 

Thank you.

 

 

 

 

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Talladega Trick Or Treat

Matt wanted me to title this post “Dega-Mean Trick or Sweet Trick.”  However, I don’t do “Dega.”  I don’t do Vegas either.  I don’t call New York City “the Big Apple.” The race this weekend is at Talladega.  As far as mean trick or sweet trick that sounds like the drive thru at the Fremont Dairy Queen-it is a mean trick having to wait in line so long for a sweet treat.  That does not mean there won’t be some tricks and treats at the big track in Alabama this weekend.

 

“The big one” is a racing analyst cliché I am growing somewhat tired of too.  Yes, there is going to be a major wreck during Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race.  There may be two of them.  The odds of avoiding a major incident at Talladega are not good.  It may be safer to be running up front, but that is no guarantee of avoiding “the big one.” My guess is that this mean trick is going to be played by Jimmy Johnson or Juan Pablo Montoya.  If Johnson creates a major wreck, he will somehow manage to avoid any serious damage.  If Montoya creates a big wreck, he’ll be heading back to the garage for repairs.

 

What Chase drivers are likely to be involved in a damaging accident at Talladega?  Mark Martin, Kasey Kahne, and Brian Vickers are my prediction.  Jimmy Johnson will leave Alabama with a bigger point lead than he had when he arrived, and Jeff Gordon will be in second place in the point standings, though the race for the championship is just about over, despite season ending races remaining in Arizona, Texas, and Florida.

 

I can’t believe I am actually saying this, but the sweet treat this weekend may go to Dale Earnhardt Jr. It is a track he can win on, even if there are lots of questions to be answered before the 88 makes it to victory lane.  Questions like-can Earnhardt find his pit space and not overshoot it?  If he handles pitting properly, can his crew get all the lug nuts tight this weekend?  If they do, can he avoid getting caught up in other driver’s problems? An Earnhardt Jr. win would be very popular and leave a smile on the faces of NASCAR execs. At least if he beats Paul Menard I won’t receive another email from snowed in Tony Anville that Menard beat Earnhardt for the umpteenth time in a row.

 

Something that should cause a frown on the faces of NASCAR execs is another driver was charged with DUI.  I blasted Michael Waltrip for his multiple offenses, and I am going to do the same with the latest drink and drive driver, A.J. Allmendinger. You don’t reach the legal limit with a few beers while eating supper.

 

When I was eight years old I saw a head on crash in which a pregnant woman was thrown through a car windshield and killed.  A drunk driver caused the wreck.  I will never forget the scene, and I have never forgotten that a drunk driver was the cause.  How many times has a drunk run a red light or veered into oncoming traffic and killed someone?  How many times have they walked away from the crash uninjured?  How many chances do some drunk drivers get-multiple offenders are commonplace?  If you are going to drink, have a designated driver.

 

Maybe I hold celebrity drivers to a higher standard than others.  I don’t think so.  Still, these drivers have been given a chance to perform on a stage like no other, and to earn incomes that most of us can only dream of.  They are heroes, and like it or not, they are role models.  Part of the NASCAR hype is that the Sprint Cup drivers are the best drivers in the world.  There is no question most are superb.  However, there are many drivers who never had the chance to run a Sprint Cup race that are also extremely talented.  They are racing on Saturday nights and work as mechanics or truck drivers or factory workers during the week-the same thing Allmendinger and Waltrip would be doing if someone hadn’t given them a chance to race in the big leagues.

 

I do believe that most drivers do accept the responsibility that goes with the opportunity.  I also believe that for those who do not there should be some consequences.

 

Sorry for the rant, but it is what I believe.  Thanks for stopping by.

 

 

 

 

Weird Al Yankovic Scheduled For RPM Meeting, Humpy And rstar Pool Their Resources

I received an email today from a source who wishes to be anonymous.  This source advised me that Weird Al Yankovic has been added as a presenter at upcoming RPM Promoter’s workshops.  According to my source, Yankovic’s presentation will be titled DARE TO BE STUPID.  The email included a photo of a Yankovic CD with the same title. Yankovic should be a big hit among promoters.  I understand he helped design NASCAR tracks in Fontana and Chicago, and provided the Daytona based organization with input on both the Car of Tomorrow and the Chase.

 

I’m sorry if this offended any promoters.  I thought it was funny.  I could even see some promoters taking notes during Weird Al’s presentation.  I would include the CD cover photo sent me, but to do so might be some sort of copyright infringement and that I can do without.

 

I received another email yesterday from a driver who has a friend who is an employee at a Midwest track and apparently attended an RPM conference in the past.  While the information he provided me is easy to believe, I would need more confirmation before I stirred up a hornet’s nest.  Still, if the information he provided is true, I feel no remorse for all the bad things I have said about promoters.

 

Sunday is the date of the 2^nd Annual Racing With The Stars event which is a fund-raiser for the Holiday Horsepower Drive.  The event will be held at Velocity Indoor Karting in Omaha, and drivers such as Jack Dover, Billy Alley, Mike Boston, Brian Birkhofer, Kyle Berck, Jake Neal, Jay Noteboom, and David Murray are scheduled to race.  Action begins at noon.  Admission is $5.00, and for $10.00 more you can race a kart against these top area drivers.  More information on the event can be found at www.holidayhorsepower.com.

 

A certain Nebraska promoter should be watching carefully to make sure Matt Meyer (aka Humpy), and Randy Palmer (aka rstar), do not sneak up behind him.  These self-proclaimed men of genius are pooling their resources and thinking outside of the box about the 2010 racing season.  I have already heard these gentlemen are far ahead of their time.  To me, pooling their resources means coming up with almost one mind, but I have heard the word MENSA mentioned several times.  Late model and sprint car racing won’t be the same if the Dynamic Duo has their say.

 

Thanks for stopping by.