NASCAR, Google, Raceceivers, Dusty Poessnecker, AND MAYBE YOU.

Some of you wonder why I write so often about the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series when my blog is called The Rest of the Dirt.  The easiest answer is because I have too.  I wish word of mouth would be enough to spread the word about my blog, but it isn’t.  We all use Google and other search engines and unless we are seriously researching a topic, we will go to one of the first sites listed in search results.  All search engines have a formula as to what sites are listed first, and the object for any site owner should be to get on the first page of results.  That is done through key words or phrases.  You may have noticed a list of key words at the end of every one of my blog posts.  I often use words such and phrases like auto racing, dirt tracks, and maybe names of drivers or race tracks. Hopefully these words help get me listed on the first page of search results.  Unfortunately NASCAR is a prominent key word and to help drive traffic to my blog I need to use the word early in my blog.

 

My son Matt feeds me a lot of good information on tours, drivers, and tracks.  Today he sent me an email about Deer Creek Speedway in Minnesota. The track has made raceceivers and transponders mandatory for the 2010 season.  More about that below.  Deer Creek has also brought in over 125 loads of new clay to make the track multi-groove and racier.  What a unique concept.

 

One of our racing friends commented on the raceceiver and transponder issue.  For now he will remain anonymous, though if he wants to comment and take credit for such good ideas he certainly can. His comments:

 

“Osky had raceceivers on Sunday and they had lineups – and double-wide restarts – in almost no time at all.  Had it not been for the fact that they only had one tow truck and a 7-car pile up in the stock car feature that took 30 minutes to clean up, it would have been a 3-hour show.  Non-stop, wall-to-wall racing.  ______ and his band of _______ had about the same number of cars for the __________ and it took 6+ hours to run that disaster of a show.  Guess that’s one reason why Osky had a halfway decent crowd (for November!) and ___ had 200 people in the stands. 

 

Raceceivers should be MANDATORY everywhere, especially if we’re going to have a million classes of cars at each track.  Very, very seldom do you hear about Raceceivers not working, and it’s almost always because someone forgot to charge the battery.  Osky was probably the fastest-paced show I’ve been to, outside of Fairmont.  And Fairmont has one of the most successful weekly shows in the Midwest, I wonder why????”

 

Yes I did do a little editing in his email, to be politically correct by not mentioning the guilty party.  I have no clue why so many promoters do not get the message-fans WANT a fast-paced show. It is time to take every track into the 21^st century and use raceceivers and transponders.

 

I talked with Dusty Poessnecker last night.  Dusty is an IMCA hobby stock driver from Nebraska, and we were setting up a night for me to interview him.  Someone on Facebook asked me why I am writing about Dusty.  Well, he used to live in North Bend, and so did I.  I like his driving style, smooth but aggressive too.  I also like the fact that week after week his car is one of the best appearing cars at any track he races.  He is a nice young man, and his enthusiasm for racing is catching. But mainly, I am doing a story on Dusty-and it will be like a magazine article without the magazine-because his brother Jay asked me too.

 

I have mentioned many times that I am willing to do blog posts on drivers from anywhere in the country.  I have proven that by writing about Lake Nichoalds from Illinois, and Chase Hansen from Utah.  I think every weekly show driver has a story to tell, and many of them are a lot better than the stories we read in national magazines about Sprint Cup and Indy Car drivers.  I want to tell that story, BUT I can’t unless I know about the story.  So, if you are a driver or know a driver who you would like to see get some publicity, contact me.  I am brutonnb on Twitter, Ron Meyer on Facebook, or my email address is:

brutonnb@yahoo.com

 

Thanks for stopping by.

 

 

 

 

~ by Ron Meyer on November 13, 2009.