Chad's Dad

Brachmann said in an interview in AARN from Canandaigua, from the night before Lernerville, that he is working hard to learn the switch from torsion bars to coils.  As he was quoted, "it's a whole lot more involved."  So Lernerville and Tyler were most likely R&D for him with the new technology.

As the article pointed out, some might be surprised to know that his full time occupation is a farmer.

Rudolph is equally as successful running TQ midgets on the indoor tracks, which is a completely different kind of racing.

He ran every race of the Summer Nationals, one of only four drivers to do the entire hell tour.

In my few dealings with Billy, he seemed to be pretty decent.  Please give him the benefit of the doubt to help straighten things out there.  We don't need any more lost speedways.

Sandusky pushed their race from Saturday the 6th to Saturday the 13th. 

Forecast should be more favorable, of course, it's hard not to be better than a high of 7 degrees.

My father and I shared a memory of Bob yesterday, and I'd like to pass it along.

Back in the late 1970's, my dad was high in points in the Semi-Lates at Tri-City, but we had engine trouble and we were going to miss a week of racing.  Bob graciously offered his car so we could keep up our points.  Takes a special guy to loan his car to somebody to race at a track that he didn't race at.  Started in the back of the feature, and my dad worked his way up to fifth place, but pulled off late in the race.  

"Why did you pull off?" Bob asked when he got back in the pits.

"The engine got hot.  Didn't want to hurt it so I pulled off," my father replied.

"Aw man, you were in fifth place,"  Bob replied.  "You should have stayed out and run it until it blew up."

Didn't care about the car, he was too busy enjoying a good run.  

Nice guy, will be missed.  

RIP Bob.

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I am/was looking forward to August 5, pending how the rumor mill shakes down.

I didn't go to many, but the biggest crowd at any race that I went to last year was at Midvale, for the Main Event Super Late Models.  I was lucky to get a seat an hour before race time.

Their modifieds and stocks run 602's with hard, long lasting American Racer tires.  Controlled engine cost and low tire bills, 20 cars weekly in each class.

To their credit, they have done a nice job of keeping the place up, and Adam Mackey handling announcing and PR is one of the best.

Would like to thank everybody for their prayers, they did wonders.  She had her operation on January 29, and at the followup appointment yesterday, the report came back that she is cancer free.