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July 15, 2007
Have the winds of change
been blowing over racing this half season or what? Take a second to
reflect about it. How about:
- Erin Crocker, Aric
Almirola, and David Gilliland outgunning all the high profile
honchos for the pole positions at Daytona
- Popular, respected
Dave Blaney winning a Nextel Cup pole at NHIS ... in a Toyota
- Tony Stewart’s massive
success at Eldora’s Prelude, highlighting the infectious dirt
track fever sweeping through the Nextel Cup pit area
- Young Erica Santos,
pretty as a picture, becoming the first female NEMA winner in
history at Stafford, Connecticut’s wild "Xtreme Tuesday" event
- The painful
deconstruction of the once mighty Nazareth Speedway in
Pennsylvania where racing in one form or another had been
offered up for 80 years
Some things, though, never
change. There’s still the chilling thrill of the sprinters at
Manzanita; there’s that huge thirsty crowd each Thursday night on
Budweiser Hill at Ken Squier’s Thunder Road in Vermont.
And then there is Red
Farmer. Season after season, decade after decade, the guy from
Hueytown, Alabama stands steady in the high winds.
Check him out.
TEAROFFS Story about Red Farmer - TIMELESS
Originally published
by Dick Berggren's Speedway Illustrated,
March 2007
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