I am pretty bummed out to here that Scott Kalitta died in crash at Englishtown. Although I don’t follow drag racing closely, I always like the Kalitta’s (probably because his cousin Doug Kalitta was a USAC Sprint champion in 1994used to race on oval tracks. R.I.P.
It is not often that local short tracks get a nice article in “main stream” newspapers, let alone big city papers like the New York Times. However, that is what happened for New Egypt Speedway today. The article, At Small Tracks, High Fuel Prices Put Racers in a Pinch is really more about the effects of the high price of fuel on the racers than the actual racing itself, but still an interesting read.