[Jerry Shaw]

I've a little different take on the weather here in racing central. I tend to look at it in more of a macro sense. While it may be frustrating sometimes when we have to dodge the storms and endure these elements, in order to see the individual events that we are looking forward to, our climate is what makes it possible for this area to be what it is, as far as racing goes. Hoosier dirt didn't become hoosier dirt by chance. It took eons and eons hot summers, harsh winters, frequent rain and countless life cycles of the type of plant life that flourishes in that kind of environment, to produce the dirt and clay that makes up these racing surfaces. And to develop generations of the country's best dirt scientists and soil experts, otherwise known as farmers, who were very instrumental in a lot of these tracks getting their start. Also, those living in such weather extremes tend to be a hardier, more optimistic lot. Those are both qualities that you need to have, in spades, to chase these races all over the place.

Jerry