The end of the 2010
racing season is slowly drawing to a close. While the last scheduled RMLRA race
will be ran at Colorado National Speedway on October 2nd, there will
be a few more opportunities to race later in October at the road course at
PPIR. Information on those races will be announced in later Newsletters. So far
this season we have ran seventeen feature races with two rain outs and one
cancelled.
This week the Legends will
return to Big Country Speedway in Cheyenne, WY. for a Saturday night of racing.
There are no scheduled races for the weekend of August 27-28.
Not mentioned in the last
Newsletter, was driver #57 Jason Stewart. He is also heading out to college
this fall. Jason is headed to the University of Colorado in Boulder. A
mechanical engineering degree is in his sights.
Last Saturday night I had
a chance to talk with Ron Oneil at Big Country Speedway. Ron is racing a Late
Model, black and orange paint with the #0 on the car. He told me that he races
the #0 in memory of his son Garret, whom he lost earlier this season in a
bicycle accident. Ron won his third consecutive feature in the car and climbed
out of the car. While standing on the door, he bent over and kissed the #0 on
top of his car and thanked God and Garret for riding with him during the race
and bringing his sons number to the winners circle. Ron had told me earlier
that the Late Model would have been Garret’s next race car. Ron also mentioned
to me that he considered racing the Legend car but was unable to do it. The car
and all parts have been sold. The memories will last forever. God bless this
family.
I received the following message from the #25 Legend Racing team.
Adam is expected to be active racing the #25 Legend next season. He has had the
car on the track this season practicing and getting used to the car. He will
turn fourteen soon and will be able to get his license and start racing.
Taste
of Colorado Adam Pechman #25 car will
have a booth at the 2010 Taste of Colorado Friday September 3rd from 4:30 to 8:30 stop by and say hi. Adam will have his legend and a few of his Quarter midgets in the booth Check out his Fast time award and trophies after coming back from the 2010 Grands Nationals where they put all three cars in the A mains. Adam will be handing out info about Quarter midget and Legend racing.
Racing from several rows back
Remember when you started
your first feature in a race car? Chances are that you were not on the front
row, and all you thought about was the butterflies that was in your stomach and
all you wanted to do was get through the first two turns, and stay out of
everybody’s way, on your way to finishing the race. I think I can say that we
have had a lot of first year Legend racers with us the past few seasons and
some are headed to the front rows for better starting positions. Several of the
tracks that we race on have you start in the position that you finished in your
heat race. Sort of puts the driver in the position to drive his car to the
front for that good starting position. There are a few who are taking their
time and learning to get a feel for racing their Legends. That goes back to the
old saying, to go fast, sometimes you have to run slow. Keeping the car in one
piece and rolling the car onto the trailer at the end of the night is the goal
for many of these drivers. For those cars that have not been to the track this
season the RMLRA hopes to have you racing soon. Racing a Legend is a lot of fun
and it does involve travelling to race tracks. I can remember my first season
of racing, when very few people had trailers and pulled their cars (1949 Chevy)
to the track with the aid of a tow bar bolted on to the front bumper. This was
the early version of street stocks. You might say we raced locally in those
days. Not a lot of bumping in those early days of racing. If you messed up the
front end you might not be able to tow the car home until Monday when the track
reopened for the workers at the track. Those were the days. Legend racing in
Colorado has been good to many a driver who has climbed into their cars. You
don’t see a lot of open trailers any more and for sure no one brings the car to
the track with a tow bar. Racing has changed even to the point of installing
water coolers in the trailers for those hot summer days. The racing season is
long and you can race as much as you want with our cars. The biggest problem is
we live out west in an area of the country, where you do have to travel many
miles to race.
Just a reminder to make
your motel reservations in Gering for the Rocky Mountain Classic. As mentioned
before we race in Gering on Friday night and then travel to Colorado National
for Saturdays race, and then on to Big Country for Sunday night. This schedule
has been changed from previous years and may change your plans on traveling
after the races. Motel 8, Gering 308-635-1600 Monument Inn, Gering 308-436-1950 Comfort Inn Gering/Scottsbluff 308-632-7510
Have fun race safely. I will see you at the Rocky Mountain
Classic.
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