NH how we love thee!

Well unless you are footing the bill for a bent race car.

Once again the WMT goes to NH and once again the crowd goes away very satisfied. This race had everything, passes back and forth for the lead, plenty of drafting, a new driver at the front, controversy, hot tempers, 39 very good looking cars and a nice crowd.

First of all congratulations to Donnie Lia on his first win since coming back to the tour, a nice run by Ed Flemke with a second place, Ronnie Silk finished a fine third and in post race comments took the blame for the last lap crash, other great finishes, Rowan Pennick in 4th and TC in 5th on 3 tires. I understand the 36 is a complete write off. Also seeing rookie Eric Goodale in the lead shows that there are up and coming drivers on the tour.

Further down in the field a top 10 for Glenn Tyler, its nice to see Glen in the top 10 at the tours biggest race. Also a great finish for the 18 of Ken Heagy in 13th after a 34th place start. Ken is one of the tours low budget teams but shows up each week with a nice looking machine.

OK and now the blame game and there was plenty of it going around, even an article that make TC "Public enemy#1", I think we are over dramatic on that one since another driver took the blame.

Next up Spencer Speedway in upstate New York, the furthest west race of the year since Mansfield is off the schedule. Then on to the only race on Long Island on August 1st at Riverhead Raceway.

Where is Noah when you need him?

Wow, when I spoke about rain last week I had no idea it would just keep raining. The only tracks to get their shows in were places like Stafford in CT, Williams Grove in Pa., Spencer in NY and a few others.

It just keeps raining, which on one hand is really bad for the tracks, but in a way good for the teams. Racing costs money and a lot of it. I know racers want to race but if you run 15 nights instead of 18 or 20 the costs to run the team go down . The end result should be more cars later in the season at the tracks.

As for the tracks, less shows mean less money coming in. But with that said, losing shows before schools close mean less lost revenue than starting this week, when the summer season kicks into gear. Crowds should be on the rise and with good weather the next 2 months are the key to a good season at the tracks.

This week will be one of our yearly road trips to Williams Grove. Times are tough but 1 trip to Williams Grove is always on our list.

Go see a short track race and support your local racers.

Rain Rain Rain

So you like to race, well if it doesn't stop raining soon we will all need boats. This weekend looks bad again. Lucky for Nascar they are in Sonoma where it almost never rains.