I just went to my 3rd Canadian Sprint Car Nationals. It’s a two day show that got rained out on the Friday. This year they tied the record for entries at 76. I spoke with Matt’s father on Saturday morning while they were waiting to be teched. They ran a 305 sprint series in New York in ’08-10, and he won rookie of the year in the 360 Empire Super Sprints series in ’11. I was shooting qualifying when he got a little too high and flipped ending a very long and expensive weekend on the track. A New York based photographer walked over and mentioned how he felt bad and they couldn’t afford a wrecked race car. Much to my disgust as a Canadian and a race fan, I read about the theft on Sunday. Talk about adding insult to injury, I am sure glad they got most of their stuff back.

I know all of us are race fans, but outside of Indiana there isn’t too much non-wing racing around. This is a great show at a wonderful facility, I don’t like to see these things happen!