Entries from December 2004 ↓

I didn’t make it to as many new tracks and new states as I hoped this year, but I still made out OK and did get one (expensive to get to) state that I didn’t plan on getting. Overall stats for 2004 are (approximately) 57 events at 30 different tracks (13 new) in 12 states (2 new) and 1 (new) province, in 2 countries (1 new). Continue reading →

Phil, who lives in New Zealand, let me know on the AUTORACE e-mail list about a link to a TV news report informing me that a ruling goes against speedway.

I wish it were better news. I watched the news cast report and they said the World Series for the midgets in January is up in the air. Continue reading →

USAC has announced three 2005 Ford Focus schedules including the Northeast one. The Northeast series will be racing at Oswego (NY), Adirondack(NY), and Seekonk (MA). Continue reading →

Looks like Western Springs Spedway in New Zealand is being held hostage by about 70 people. In an article that appeared in The New Zealand Herald, Peter Chatteris is telling people who moved next to a race track to deal with it. Continue reading →

ISC (or NASCAR for those who don’t believe they are different companies) has just bought 450 acres in New York City (on Staten Island). Here is an AP article from the Arizona Republic. According to the article, ISC “has its sights on completing a new facility there as early as 2009.” Continue reading →

My site was down for a little over a day because of power and hardware problems with the machine it is hosted on. It seems to be working again. Hopefully, this extended outage won’t be repeated again. Overall, I’ve been happy with Redwood Virtual and I’d still recommend them, but it is a little frustrating that it took them over a day to get the hardware issue (a bad hard drive) fixed.

United States Auto Club unvield the “next generation” Silver Crown racecar at the PRI Trade Show the other day. Overall it looks like a nice car but I don’t really care for all of the body work on the bottom. That part almost reminds me of a bumper car or go-kart at the amusement park. That said, I can understand why they are doing it, as I’m sure having the wheels more open is a bigger safety hazard and also would probably effect the stability at higher speeds.

At any rate, I’m looking forward to seeing what these cars can do on the bigger (1.5 mile) tracks in 2006. BTW: The dirt cars will keep the same specs as they currently have.

I just read on the Evernham Motorsports website that
“Evernham Motorsports partnered with Kasey Kahne Motorsports and has signed Crocker to an agreement that involves her running the Silver Crown Series in a Kasey Kahne Motorsports car along with three Busch races and three ARCA races in an Evernham Dodge.” Continue reading →

The Bentley Snow Crystal Collection of the Buffalo Museum of Science is a small digital library created by a digital library class in the LIS program at the University of Buffalo. It is an interesting collection and course assignment. The photographs of the snowflakes are worth a look. Continue reading →