For some reason, track promoters, as well as series promoters, must think that racers have some innate ability to know when and where races are scheduled. Sometimes I think they actually want to keep their event in the dark, just to ensure that we do hang on to our “grassroots” label.

I’m not really sure what the proper medium for advertising is these days. There’s certainly plenty of free options in the form of message boards, and I often wonder why promoters don’t utilize these MORE

Sitting through a couple of weeks waiting on a new motor can be, well, a bit boring at best. I love dirt racing, but I’m not the type who heads out the local tracks for a regular Saturday night show very often unless we are actually competing.

If you race just 30 times a year — once a week for 30 weeks — that can still leave little time for family outings. Baseball games, the pool, hanging with friends or even catching a movie can all take a backseat to racing.

So when I am forced to sit out MORE

From time to time, I comb through the racing message boards and happen to stumble upon a post that leaves me wondering why I wasted so much of my day reading it. We’ve all been there.

You see a stupid post and it’s kinda like a train wreck ... you hate to see it (in this case read it), but for some reason you just can stop looking at it.

Actually, it doesn’t take long to find such posts. In fact, they’re usually predominant on most of the boards out there. Filtering through the rubbish and MORE