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PDP Racing to Start the Year Off Big!
This weekend, we at PDP racing are going to do something that I still can’t believe Chad or Jim (my partners in the race team) have not talked me out of.
Tonight, as soon as everyone gets to the PDP Racing World Headquarters in lovely Argos, IN, we are going to head south to Anderson (wait for it……….no, not Indiana), South Carolina to Race with the USCS tomorrow (Friday) night. Anderson, SC is a semi banked 3/8 mile paved track. The USCS is a winged 360 series that runs on both dirt and pavement. I believe they are the only sprint car series left that run both dirt and pavement. Many teams still run the same car on both.
Then Saturday, we follow the USCS up to Southern National Speedway in Kenly, North Carolina where we will again run with the USCS. This is a very quick, but slick .4 mile paved track. Even though they have seen winged 410 sprint cars there, Kenny Adams in a 360 car with the Pete Walton’s USCS group holds the track record.
Then the real challenge begins. Even though I’m sure we will be mobbed by legions of PDP Racing fans after the races, as soon as we get loaded and paid, we will rapidly heading north to Anderson, Indiana to make the Glen Niebel Classic. This is a 100 lap non-winged race on the high banked ¼ mile speedway in Anderson on Sunday afternoon.
While some teams have winged and non- winged cars, we will be running the same car all three races. And with a 40 lap feature both Friday and Saturday and then 100 laps on Sunday, I’m sure we’ll have everything well broke in by the end of the weekend. Plus, we are keeping the small engine in for all three races. I’ll be driving all three nights and I really hope my middle aged body can take it.
We have test fired the car and found my rear end was leaking severely, but that turned out to just be a bad chili dog! We are ready to go and I am personally fired up. Jim and my youngest brother Tim are going along to crew and help drive the truck. For you old timers, while we are not racing a Kurtis chassis with an Offy, but we are doing it all with a pickup truck and an open trailer.
I’ll try to give an update each night on our PDP Racing Facebook page, so stay tuned!
Tom Paterson
"The good ol' days weren't always good, and the future isn't as bad as it seems." Billy Joel
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