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Bill, thank you for starting this positive thread. An Congratulations to you and Brian on your win last Saturday!
Mudpacker knowns how much this Manzanita race fan misses her home track and how fast the rug was pulled out from under the valley race fans when Manzy went away. On a positive note I have heard great things about ET Motorsports new facility east of Phoenix, the valley race fans are lucky a new venue is on the horizon to run sprint cars at.
To all of the negative posters I second Mudpackers thoughts be careful what you wish for when a racing venue like Manzy is lost it is very rare that a new racing venue is built in the same area. It is also rare when a race track comes up for sale that there is a buyer standing in line that wants to continue to operate it as a race track. I have refrained lately about talking about my other home track Oswego Speedway Home of the Supermodifieds, for those of you that don't know Oswego is going thru a sale right now. It has been an on going process since last September, just recently they have had to postpone the May 7th ISMA race because the sale still is not finalized. Since Christmas time I have heard at least six times the paper work was finalized only to have one snag after another prevent the paper work from being finalized.
So to all those bashing Eldora and Tony Stewart ask yourself where Eldora would be today if Tony didn't step up to buy it? Would you prefer a shopping mall or new housing development sit where Eldora sits today? I for one don't want to see anymore of these famed race tracks lost.
Most of the mid-west race tracks try to open at least a month to month and a half earlier than what I was accustom to growing up in central N. Y., you should consider yourselfs lucky you can get an extra four to six weeks of racing if the weather co-operates than we would on a pavement track.
K. O. & D. O. described my thoughts exactly on this weeks show "mid-west racing in the springtime is a crap shoot at best".
This weekend sounds like mother nature may prevail again, all I can say is support those that try and don't condemn those that pull the plug they are all dealing with what mother nature sends their way.
Patti
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