Rich Vogler, High & Fast- Who would have guessed?

We don't hear little stories like this nearly as often as we should. Rob & Dick, thank's for sharing yours.

Happy New Year!
Marshall

[QUOTE=nowingsjeff;22635]I don't want to burst anyone's bubble, but did any of you look at the logistics of the TNT Tour schedule? Not including the Iowa race, the travel distance between Lucas Oil track on Monday till the end at Lakeside on Saturday is close to 1200 miles! Mapblast.com says it

[QUOTE=nowingsjeff;22635]I don't want to burst anyone's bubble, but did any of you look at the logistics of the TNT Tour schedule? Not including the Iowa race, the travel distance between Lucas Oil track on Monday till the end at Lakeside on Saturday is close to 1200 miles! Mapblast.com says it

Greg the Okc track is promoted by Lanny Edwards. It is a 3/8's mile track that was extended from a 1/4 mile. Between turns one and two there is a slight dogleg. You can always tell the drivers who are not regulars by those turns. Weather around Oklahoma usually is 100 degree temps and no rain day after day in August. So it is a common place to see dry slick tracks. Although, Lanny does have a reputation that when special shows come to the track he will work the track over and make it a good one. Going off of past races there should be one support class and that should be an imca style modified class.

Any of you guys thinking of coming to OKlahoma let be the first to send an invitation to you and if you do come you will be very welcomed for being here. This is the only time people in the state get to see non-wing sprints and we show up in droves.

Last time I was able to to the TNT tour was a couple years ago,when they had the OKC fairgrounds track on the schedule, followed by Tulsa. (RIP)

You never know who you'll run into on trips like that,and I was sitting in the Tulsa grandstands and Court Grandstaff wasnt sitting all that far from me. Court e-mailed me many years ago when Brooke Tatnell was first announced to drive his Trop Artic 66 sprinter, and wanted to know where he could learn more about Brooke,seeing it was the off season at the timehere,and racing season was well underway in Australia.

I finally met Court in person for the first time at a NCRA/ All Stars race at Haubstadt the following season After that I would usually see him at Knoxville for the Nationals etc. That day at Tulsa Speedway though,when I walked down to get a cold Coke, I said hi to Court on the way by. Surprised to see me there,he said "Andrew you are a LONG ways from home this time"!

Andrew, Court is from Bartlesville which is about thirty to fourty five mins to the north of Tulsa. We take our sprint car racing here in Oklahoma serious. I grew up around 1200 cc mini sprints and I have won a crew chief championship in that division. I though about moving to Indy and running a midget after I graduated from college but never got around to it.

We are a friendly bunch. If any of you guys need a place to work on your cars after a crash or what not please ask. I know of some guys that would open up their places for you guys. Yes, we are competitive to the hillt but we also do not what to see some guy go home if it is a simple change over. We love to race against the best and do not what to run against a field of ten.

Thanks for the info. I still have to see how the entire season's schedule shapes up and what we end up being screwed over per gallon of gas this Summer.