Every year across the country, millions are attracted to a litany of forms of gambling in this country, from casinos, to poker rooms, to dog tracks and horse racing and even state run lotteries. The attraction in the simplest form is the potential chance to win big. In every form of gambling, whether it’s pulling […]
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Big Gamble: Could Betting Bonus Add To Participation Attraction For Racing Competitors?
May 26, 2014 by 2 Comments
Morning Musings In The Midday Maybe: Indy Love, Light Love Lost And Radio Gold
May 25, 2014 by Leave a Comment
A little bit of this, a little bit of that. Who really knows what’s in here. It’s the Morning Musings In The Midday Maybe. — We get that there’s a pageantry that goes along with the Indianapolis 500 and with that comes levels of pomp and emotion that might not exist in the same fashion […]
Plenty Of Blame To Pass With SK Mod Safety Issue, But Ultimate Responsibility Is On Teams
May 25, 2014 by 18 Comments
When the SK Modified teams of Craig Lutz and Keith Rocco rolled into the Waterford Speedbowl on Saturday night, those with direct knowledge of the cars involved went there knowing they were spitting in the face of one of the biggest safety issues at any racetrack anywhere. One can sit and play the blame game, […]
Propagating Lies Of Hate: Shocked Seeing It From Some In Positions Of Power And Influence In Local Racing
May 20, 2014 by
We don’t often go down the road of mixing personal and content outside of some rare tongue in cheek meanderings in this space, but every now and then the times comes when something needs to be said. Propagating social hate, in any form, is ugly. Whether it’s targeted at race, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, whatever […]
No Shows: Lack Of Whelen Mod Tour Teams Shouldn’t Have Been Any Surprise At Lee Bullring Bash 100
May 17, 2014 by 31 Comments
From online racing news sites, to fan blogger pages to all channels of social media, it proved the hot topic of conversation – and more so consternation – in the days that followed the May 11 Bullring Bash 100 Open Modified show at Lee USA Speedway in Lee, N.H. Where were the NASCAR Whelen Modified […]
Sandbagging For Wins Brings Unfortunate Bad Look To Short Track Competition
May 14, 2014 by 34 Comments
The first race of the much ballyhooed Tri-Track Series has come and gone, and by most accounts Sunday’s Bullring Bash 100 proved a rousing success at Lee USA Speedway. There was a quality car count, a stout group of big name competitors and a major event feel to the festivities at Lee. The most unfortunate […]
An Open Letter To Keith Rocco Hater Nation
May 8, 2014 by 51 Comments
Dear Keith Rocco Hater Nation: It’s said that everybody hates a winner and in racing that philosophy often seems far more in play than in other sports. And it becomes even more pronounced when it’s a winner who wears their confidence openly in everything they do, like local driver Keith Rocco. The fact is, Keith Rocco […]
Special Edition Honey Badger Award Winner: Glen Thomas Jr.
April 21, 2014 by 1 Comment
The Honey Badger is back. Well, for this week that is, with cash and prizes no less. Really, how do you not bring the Honey Badger out of retirement briefly after a weekend performance so impressive it had the masses rolling to Facebook to get a better view of the carnage? And its hard not […]
Opening Weekend Disqualification Opens Many Questions About Short Track Post Race Procedure
April 9, 2014 by 23 Comments
It’s not anything anybody in short track racing wants to see. A successful driver with a team coming off an ultra-successful season at another facility visits a track for a season opening event, wins and then gets disqualified. All of the sudden the chorus of naysayers and critics only gets louder. So successful at one […]
Face Lift: Todd Szegedy Arrival Raises Profile Of Modified Racing Series
March 20, 2014 by 5 Comments
The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour’s loss proved the big gain of the Valenti Modified Racing Series late last week. Szegedy’s arrival to run full-time for Kevin Stuart’s Lowell, Mass. based Modified Racing Series team in 2014 brought more than just a new driver to the fold for the series, even beyond the cache the title […]
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