This past month I have been on the road quite a bit. Here is a recap.
Since I last blogged in June I have been on the road quite a bit. Traveling and taking in the races and meeting race teams is what keeps our fingers on the pulse of short track racing here at CT. Here is just some of what I did.
I traveled up to Norway, MI to Norway Speedway for a unique Pay-Per-Lap race. See our blog here and stay tuned for a report in an upcoming issue of CT. I spotted for a Grand Am DP team at Daytona for a race that was a preliminary event to the Cup race. I did attend the Nascar race and entertained some of our advertising partners in the company suite. Rob and I enjoyed a very good (for a plate race at Daytona) race that saw Kyle Bush come from last to first after some early trouble.
Then it was off to Boggy Creek where my wife and I volunteered for a few days at a camp for serious and chronically ill children. I then drove to the west coast (of Florida) to Charlotte County Speedway for a test with our dirt late model project car. Yes, CCS is an asphalt track. We were preparing our car for a unique race to be run on asphalt later in August for the dirt LM cars. They were shoed with Goodyear asphalt tires that were former Hooters Pro Cup tires.
I will be going to Alabama this weekend for more racing and soon I will be traveling to Alaska with my wife for a much delayed and well deserved vacation. But, while I am there, I am going to visit the dirt track in Fairbanks and the asphalt North Star Speedway just north of Anchorage - I can't help myself. This trip is an ambitious sixteen day, 2500 miles (750 miles north to south) journey that will take in Fairbanks and surroundings, a drive north to the Brooks Range via the Alyeska pipeline haul road, a drive south to Denali Park, a flight to Anchorage, another flight south to King Salmon and a float plane trip around the Katmai Peninsula and National Park, a drive down the Kenai Peninsula to Homer, a kayak trip across the Kachemak Bay and then we work our way back home to Florida.
After all of that, maybe I can get some rest before heading back to the race tracks. I hope so.