Speedweeks in the Mirror.

So Speedweeks is over and the racing season has begun. The next real Modifed race is in less than a month at Atlanta Motor Speedway, on the 1/4 mile track on the front strech followed by Orange County Speedway in NC. Lets hope the weather changes a whole bunch in the next 4 weeks.

Opening day for the Whelen Modifed tour is in less than 2 months away at the Thompson International Speedway. The Modifieds will be joined by 6 divisions of stock cars to get the season off to a bang.

The winter was relatively quiet this year. That was until until Donny Lia left the #4 Mystic Missile team 2 weeks ago to re-join the Camping World Truck series. Donny was running well at Daytona until he was involved an a big wreck.

Then at New Smyrna TC won another championship (His 8th by the way) which wasn't the biggest story. The Ronnie Silk/ Keith Rocco WWE SK night at the track grabbed a lot of the headlines. Keith is quickly becoming one of modified racing's bad boys. That is too bad because he can drive a race car but if he keeps this up no one will notice.

The 2010 WMT championship race will be wide open with Donny Lia not racing. Will Ted Christopher get his second championship. Will Todd Szegedy get his first after running so strong most of last year. Will Ryan Preece who is still so young but really came on last year take the last step and get his championship? Plus add in Eric Beers who will have a 2 team effort to try and win his first championship.

Every year at least 1 team steps it up. To do that you need experience, luck, money and a lot of hard work. This year Rowan Pennik could be that driver. Either in his own 93 or the rumored shift to the 4 car could move him up in the standings.

Bobby Grigas will have a new crew chief in Brad Lafontaine, could this be a big year for him? How about Ronnie Silk or Matt Hirshman both very capable drivers with great equipment and experienced teams behind them. This could also be a break out year for some younger drivers, Eric Goodale who had a pretty strong Speedweeks could have a breakout year in only his second full season.

Its just 50 Days until Thompson and counting down. It will probably be cold and with the weather we have had this winter maybe even a little snow left over. But the stands and the pits will be packed with thousands of people all looking to get their racing season off to a great start.

See you at the race track.

Jaws