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Below is the blog I posted on my own site this morning. I have mixed feelings about posting it on ColumbusSports.com. It does promote my own site, and I am not totally comfortable doing that on another blog. However, it promotes dirt track racing period. I have enjoyed this sport since I was five years old, and I think it is a shame that more people who watch NASCAR on TV don’t get up off the couch and visit a local track a few times a year. Dirt track racing is great entertainment and compared with other forms of entertainment, it is fairly cheap. With over 1,000 dirt tracks in the U.S., there is one not far from wherever you live. So:

I have six new videos on the multimedia section of my website. Yeah, I know, it’s about time. I promise to do better. I get wrapped up in writing this blog and forget that there is a tremendous amount of racing video that can be shared too. Matt picked out the videos, and he did a great job. Check out the following:

-2009 Sprint Bandits race at Lakeside Speedway in Kansas City. Yes, those are the topless 410 sprints I raved about in an earlier post.

-2009 Monster Modifeds from Lawrenceburg Speedway in Indiana. This is a top notch facility, and the 2009 Dirt Track World Championship will be held there in October.

-2009 COMO Modifieds from Proctor Speedway. No, Joe Proctor, aka Stroker, did not buy I-80 Speedway from LDI and name it after himself, although after his August heroics maybe the K’s should name it after him. This Proctor Speedway is in Minnesota, and the COMO mods are WISSOTA type modifieds.

-1995 I-80 Pro Am Season Championships. Racing was actually televised on Nebraska Educational Television (NETV) that year. The network also televised an UMP Summer Series race from the track. I have loved this division ever since the Sunset Speedway days, and for years it was the best support class at any track in the United States.

-1987 USAC Late Models at the old Santa Fe Speedway in Hinsdale, Illinois. This was a USAC race, and was actually televised on ESPN. Gary Webb started on the pole of the feature, and Billy Moyer and Ray Guss Jr. were among the late model drivers racing.

-1990 Busch All-Star Race from Moberly Speedway in Missouri. Great racing with all the Midwest NASCAR stars on hand, in this Jim Wilson directed event. 

As I said, Matt did a great job selecting videos. The videos include four different kinds of cars from six of the best tracks around. There is not quite an hour running time for these videos, and most are around ten minutes long.

I don’t have to visit my website to update my blog, so I don’t go there as often as I should. I forget that I do have some click ads on the website, for a variety of merchandise. It would really help me out if you would click on an ad or two occasionally when you visit my blog or website. You don’t have to buy anything-I’ll deny I said that if anyone from Google asks-but each time you click an ad, I do get a credit for that click. I am never going to get rich from click ads, but if enough of you click the ads, my blog will go from abject poverty to where I am almost making minimum wage on it. I do appreciate your visiting my site and blog, and that is the last spiel you will get from me for awhile.

Thanks for stopping by.

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