Where did you go and how was the show.  

Friday night to Accord Speedway for the King of the Catskills 50 lap event.  In general... a good experience.  One glaring fault I quickly picked up was the speaker system was very low volume and made for hard hearing of the announcer.  The track is a little bit out in the middle of the sticks, but a nice little facility.  Small bullring for sure and that is the type of track that I prefer.  Regular admission price ($15), even though it was a special 50 lap, high paying ($7,000 to win) event.  I had heard that the place was famous for being dusty.  Truthfully, the dust levels were acceptable through all qualifying, but the modified feature, with the full field on the track...was a bit worse, but not really terrible.  

  Saturday was off to Lebanon Valley.  Lebanon Valley is the complete opposite of Accord.  Huge.  I have been there before and I never mind getting to a track that I rarely get to, but after this visit...I think it might be a long while before returning.  The problem?  The track is just to long in the straights, making it purely a huge engine track.  Basically, the guy with the biggest, strongest motor is going to almost always win the event.  $12 admission and if you come from New Jersey...that is a bargain 7 days a week!  And I have to say, Howie Commander is a great promoter and knows the business, but even at Lebanon Valley, with Howie making the calls, not one of the four or five divisions there on a weekly basis had full fields of cars.  The modifieds had only 19 cars on hand.  The track has a massive amount of seats for fans!  The food is great, though I had very little.  In my opinion, the Lebanon Valley Speedway modified division is lacking in true superstar drivers!  After you subtract Andy Bachetti and Kenny Tremont, and Tremont's career is on the wain these days...and maybe include Eddie Marshall...but again Eddys halcion days of modified racing are long gone also.....absent those few guys...the field is wide open with young guys who are starting to make a name for themselves...but pretty much only at Lebanon Valley.  

   Sunday was Auto Racing Research Associates day at the annual Accord Speedway Racers Reunion and Hall of Fame inductions.  Good friend Frank Bush has extended an annual invite for us to come and set up our display and its always a nice day meeting folks that I normally don't see.  I made some great contacts with some people...possibly another historian that I might like to add to our ARRA roster of members...and a few others that came up to chat for a while.  Got to meet Accord promoter Gary Palmer.  Kudos to Frank Bush for another well put together Sunday event!