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On Sunday June 3, I drove from Wyoming up through Eastern Montana almost all the way to Canada. My destination was a daytime race at a dirt road course in Plentywood, MT (about 10 or 15 miles south of the Canadian border). The thing that was obvious on my drive up is if you are not on the Interstate, you better get gas when you see a station. Eastern Montana can be pretty desolate. I didn’t know what to expect in Plentywood since I never saw, or even hard much about a Montana Bump N Run race. The best way to picture it is to think about the Dukes of Hazard and how then ran races on dirt roads during the TV show. Just make the dirt road a 3/4 mile dirt road course with tight turns and bumps, and that is what you have. They only had a small set of stands, but in a nice touch in the hot sun, they were covered with portable tent-tops. I watched all of the classes race once and it was quite enjoyable, but not as much as bumping as I expected. All of the classes had another race left on the scheduled, but it looked like rain and I wanted to get to another race in North Dakota that evening. so I took off early. I’m not sure it was worth the long drive from Wyoming (with gas prices and all), but it did enable me to get another new state and it was something I don’t think I’ll get to see in New Jersey anytime soon. It also allowed me to leave with just enough time to make the Sunday night races at the Nodak Speedway locates on the North Dakota State Fairgrounds in Minot, ND. Montana became th e 40′th state for me to see a race in and the 47′th state I have visited overall (only Utah, Idaho, and Alaska left to visit).

My 2007 race stats after the Plentywood Bump N Run races on June 3 are:
Races: 15
Tracks: 10 (6 new) (156 lifetime)
States: 9 (5 new) (40 lifetime)