To all of you who say you want to race in the Detroit Iron division, but you can't afford to compete with what's already there....have you ever considered that if all of you showed up with what you could afford...there would probably be more than 1 heat and feature?  Then you might be able to compete with the cars in your race.  I raced Trophy Stock for several years without having tons of money in the car, but with higher car counts I was able to compete in the heat and feature I qualified for.  Just a thought...

Maybe Painesville ought to think about doing a fan appreciation night...everything 1 doillar...that seems like a good idea.  www.sanduskyspeedway.com  for all the local racing fans..they have one tomorow night. 

Okay guys,

I will admit it, I actually thought about going to Painesville on Saturday night, but I opted to go to Lorain instead.  I love the camper pulls, but i did not want to be dissapointed if only 3 guys showed up.  I was just curious what was the car count? in the camper pull?  Were more fans there than before. I mean i did notice they did some more marketing for this event.  Did Bobby make an announcement in the stands regarding any of this talk on the website or whatever?  I have my guesses that it was completely ignored and nothing was said and all was happy! haha.  From reading everyone's blogs it seems like it was a good 4 cylinder race but what about the other divisions?  And for any of you Joe Coursen fans he won his 4 th feature straight at Lorain. 

 

Thanks for the updates

Tyler

Finally for the first time in a month we can talk racing! Let me agree with the rest of the site and give kudos to t.j.! You little man have only one way to go and that looks like trouble for the rest of the class! Congrats on the win and here's to many more, maybe a new big dog is emerging! Racing ah yes Charles….. Jeff was outside I was inside and you went inside inside? Too many insides there! I’m use to a 21 painted on that inside inside car! Hehehehehehe don’t worry your car will look nice with blue paint all over it! Hahahaha and who the hell was driving that car in the feature! Dam got to get me a set of those tires! Lastly to Danielle I have gotten complaints too about the things I say here but a opinion is never wrong remember that it may be only yours but it’s never wrong! There are only 2 people who have any clue what really happened and they are on the track racing! I actually have an example for you: heavy weight figure eight pursuit-the afore mention comments I went in to the turn thinking me and the 7 where in for a ride but it didn’t happen (thank you Charles ha-ha) but I went in to fast and pushed right in to Jeff. How should management see that? How do you know what a driver is thinking in the split second he has to react. When it comes to racing there are 2 sides to every story, or maybe 3 or 4 depends on how many people you ask! But you are right we show up every week because we love the racing how ever it may go! And we all should say what we feel!     P.s. they were mad at me for going high in the turns!

We put on a great show last night...reminded me of the good 'ol days!  To TJ...great job, you drove the wheels off that thing.  I'm really impressed how quickly you've figured it out.  There are guys that have been racing 20 years that still haven't figured it out.  Chad~the "White Whale" was an awesome tribute...regardless of what anyone else says...I think you're a real class-act!  Don't worry Chuck, I always respect the guys I race with~no worries about me trying to take you out.  When I blow by you...I'll be on the outside (lol)!  I think the fans had a good time, I know I did, so thanks to all of you. 

Been keeping an eye on the weather all morning,

there are storms waaaayyyyy off to the west, but going north east,,,

it looks like they are gonna miss us. (its been in western ohio, southern michigan all day)

We just might get to have a full show tonight.

 

Soooooooo,,

getting the kids outta the pool and through the showers,

and were gonna go for it. 

They are excited.

waiting for friends to show up so we can fill the van and ride out together. 

 

Has it been 5 weeks?

 

If yall see us in the stands,,,say hi.

 

 

 

I just called and on the answering machine says nothing about Friday night and it says that Saturday they will have mid-season championships and the camper pull.  I dont think anything else is happening on that night...oh and i saw an article in Scene magazine online which had Jason Bateman explaining about the Camper pull for this Saturday night.  I just wanted to give everybody the update from what I saw.

 

 

Hey i was just wondering...Did they ever mention anything else about the IMCA cars. I had a feeling that was not going to happen.  The most i ever saw was two cars there at the very begining of the season! Oh and I highly doubt you would see them have double weekends for racing, but i guess you never know. 

I have three favorite drivers of all time. I loved watching Joe Coursen in a car that probably wasnt as good as the rest win championships with it. I still take advice from him today. In street stock my brother was the biggest influence on me. Things he did with his car than and now were amazing.And of course in figuer 8 it has to be chad tekavic. He will race you clean lap after lap in a figure 8 race not get a scratch on his car and win, thats a driver.

GREAT question Drew.  I've been going to Painesville Speedway for as long as I can remember.  As a kid, my brother and I would play Figure 8 with our hotwheels CONSTANTLY.  We would even melt our model cars with a candle to make them look smashed.  Growing up in Grand River you had racecars everywhere you went, so I guess it was engrained in me at a very early age.  When I was in high school I always took a new girlfriend on a date to the track within our first 2 or 3 weeks of going out.  If she loved it I would keep her around.  It wasn't soon after high school that I had my first Figure 8 car and the rest is history.

As far as influences and favorite drivers go, the list would be impressive.  As a youngster, I was a huge fan of #01 Kyle Matteson.  He was always charging thru the pack and fighting for the lead by the end of the race.  I still have a button with a picture of him and his car that I wore every week in the early '80s.  As I got older I really started to become a fan of Herb Reynolds, #93.  He was a very competetive driver who always managed to do a lot with a little.  In my opinion, Herb was one of the most exciting drivers to watch.  I am fortunate to have bought the car, that I currently race, off of him a number of years ago.  The list wouldn't be right if I didn't say that Joe March, THE #21, hasn't been a huge influence on Figure 8 drivers, including myself.  Joe March... What else can you say?  Once I began racing, I would say that by watching, and trying to stay with, both of the Marvin Brothers was a experience in and of itself.  Both of them could wheel ANYTHING that you put them in.  TRUST ME.  I take a lot of pride in the fact that I had, or still have, the opportunity to have raced with most of these drivers.  This list would go on, but I'm just posting a blog, not writing a book.  I believe that I learned from some of the best in the 'School of Hard Knocks'.

Well, the question was 'who was your favorite driver?'  For me this was easy... This guy epitomised SHOWMAN on and off the track.  He was the first to wave to the kids from his famous 'White Whale', and sign an autograph for a fan without rushing you thru.  To this day, I still have a 1984 Painesville Speedway program with his autograph in it.  I don't even have to look at it because I have it memorized.  It reads "To Chad, Good Luck and God Bless, Augie 'The Dog' Landsmann.