Yesterday my friend Walter and I decided to go to Mountain Speedway – a 1/3 mile asphalt track in the Pocono Foothills of Pennsylvania. It turned out to be a bad choice. While the track, pit area, and grandstands are nice. The rest of everything wasn’t all that good (besides the show Eric Beers put on). This was a 3 division show (features only) that cost $20 to get in. Being it was a “big race” for them, the price didn’t bother me that much. The speaker system was horrible, the only working speaker was way in the pits and no one could here it, yet they insisted on doing driver introductions. Maybe if the track has closed caption we’d be OK. As it was I couldn’t here a thing the announcer said. The food wasn’t anything to brag about and a little over priced. However, it wasn’t “NASCAR-priced” so it wasn’t too bad. I wish I could say the same about the officiating. It had to be the worst officiated/ran race I’ve seen in a long time (if not ever). A trained monkey would have done a better job. Check that, an untrained cat would have done a better job. (more…)
