Originally Posted by Kirk Spridgeon:
I really wish we could get out of a mindset from 10-20 years ago or more. This is 2009. As much as the pavement side of things is in the tank, I can't believe that you could ever find better racing than we have on dirt right now.
This is a point well taken. Racing is ever changing, like the shifting sands. It's always been like that and always will be. Racing was great back then, but as far as dirt is concerned, it is great right now, too. There have been low points, but we're not in one, right now. In fact, it took a couple of days after Midget Week was over for me to decompress. It was just that good, IMO. One of the best weeks of racing I've ever experienced. The bar has been set very high for Sprint Week.
Asphalt racing obviously has problems, right now. With it's tradition, it deserves to be fixed. I hope someday they can find a way to add more events and find away to get more people to compete. When they do, hopefully it will be adding to the overall schedule or running it as a separate entity and not in a way that takes away from their already successful product, dirt track racing. JMHO.
Jerry
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