"Jim, I think what set Bob Lowe apart from the others is he ran the club as a dictator. He did it his way and if you did not like it you could go home. I think that is needed at times because as I am sure everyone will agree, racers like to ***** ALOT!"

J.L. I really couldn't agree with you more on this. No polling the pits to find a concensus on what should be done. Bob called it like he saw it based on his many years of experience in many forms of racing.

But, everyone understood that Bob was doing what he believed was best for UMRA, rather than what was best for his race team. That's been the problem for 18 years, even if a president or a member of the board of directors tries his damndest to be impartial.

I think Travis Stickles tried very hard to do the same thing. He worked extremely hard to improve the types of facilities TQs raced at, though I must also agree I miss some of the old stops where UMRA was THE SHOW rather than a filler class with the feature ran after everyone else went home. They can put on some great racing that too many people miss.

While there definitely needs to be new attitudes in the direction of UMRA and TQ midget racing, and maybe even another benevolent dictator like Bob Lowe, what's been happening with the negative comments on here achieves little constructive.
Again, I sign my own real name, like others are afraid to do.

JIM MORRISON