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Race fans under 30 may not realize it. In the pre I-Phone, internet, cable-TV and live racing telecast days National Speed Sport News was the life line to the racing world. Many times we would not known who won at New Breman, Putmanville, Willams Grove... until days later when NSSN came in the mail. The biggest disappointment of my week was on Wednesday when the latest NSSN was not amongst the bills and flyers in the mail. That meant I would have to wait a whole 24 hours to read NSSN cover to cover. Reading; that is something as a kid I didn't do much of until Chris and National Speed Sport News became a part of my personal pop culture. I guess I could credit Chris for me finally starting to pick up a book to read every once in a while.
Today we don't know how lucky we have it. I can get the results of a heat race from across the state of Indiana within a couple of minutes of it being run. All the devices and electronic gadgetry may have lessened the importance of NSSN to the point of having it an electronic medium only. But it cannot erase the importance National Speed Sport news has been to the motosports world for a very long time. Our sport has some legendary names like Foyt, Petty, Andretti and Vogler. Economaki belongs up there with all those legenday names. Without Chric Economaki how would we have ever known?
Thank you Chris and may you rest in peace.
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