Attending?.. Participating?.... Watchin?....

There's been a few events up here in the Northeast, but to me, the season is really kicking off this weekend.

Let us know if your weekend plans has "racing" in there somewhere.....

Since Williams Grove, Lincoln, Georgetown and Bridgeport all cancelled their scheduled shows, looks like Port Royal with the 410 car.  My first trip back to an in person event since my season ending open heart surgery in November.  Looking forward to seeing my racing family again.

Grandview sat, Tas Awards Sunday 

Truck race tonight at times (flipping to Phillies and Flyers at every commercial) until Stew crashes, is not competitive or finishes in the top 5. Tomorrow, digging out the long johns (and pint of Yukon Jack) and heading to Grandview.

You better check before heading out!  Posted by the track elsewhere.  

" 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞'𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠; 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬, 𝐰𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧;. 𝐖𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐀𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠;, 𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬.

𝐖𝐄 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐍𝐎𝐓!!! 𝐖𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧;𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐲. "𝐈𝐟" 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐞, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰. 𝐔𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧, 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐛𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐞.  "

Heading to Grandview for the Bruce Rogers race. On a side note, LOOK OUT LADIES !! When Ol' Ed gets into the Yukon Jack, all bets are off !

As of now plans are to be at New Egypt tomorrow night to cover the nights action through my Nikon.I will also be watching some short track action on Flo and Dirtvision starting with tonights World Of Outlaws show and some 360 racing  from Silver Dollar on Flo.

--crank another turn fo wedge in the recliner  !!--watcing NASCAR -

Martinsville is the best racing all year !!

--when they invariably talk about THE  hot dogs , and show the infield hot dog stand, i tell my wife " i stood  right there at that spot  and ate worlds famous martindsville hot dogs !!

blessings !!

bill------------

With Georgetown rained out, it will be a Flo weekend. 

Allen

Our race season starts next Friday night at Linda's.  We have two cars this year, we have added a 600 Micro.  Shook both of them down at Greenwood Valley last weekend - all went well. 

Saturday we are doing a sponsor event at Invertase Brewery in Phillipsburg (1 to 4 pm).  We will have both cars on display.

I might watch something on FLO tomorrow night and catch the cup race on Saturday.  Not available to get out to a track this weekend as I need to attend to my honeybees so they are not hanging in the trees.

Come out for a beer and support the team if you are nearby on Saturday.
Address: 51 Broad St Phillipsburg, NJ 08865

Truck race and Grandview tomorrow with Stew. Hopefully he's hung over from a win!

Beautiful cars.  Good luck this year!

Can't get caught up this year.

Thanks Kevin.  Korey and I spent a bit of time trying to improve the look of the cars for the Invertase sponsorship.  We put extra time this year in trying to land on an iconic look that we could stay with and I think we will keep this design pattern for years to come.

As Rick Shive will tell you - and anyone else that has done race car graphics, it's hard to find the balance to get a good look that checks the box on key points.    

We wanted simple geometric shapes and easy-to-read numbers. We wanted a more classic look and not the swoopy swishy stuff going on these days.
- We had to carry the legacy of the Darrel Waltrip Orange that my brother had as part of his profile from years ago
- We want the number to be readable from the other side of the track. It is a little harder to do on the 600 and we might have made it bigger there, but it will look good on the XCEL.

It is an art and a science and here is to hoping that what we came up with will endure. 

Korey applied the graphics and he's developed a knack for 'stickers' which I never loved. Maybe someday I can convince him to hand letter one of the future variations for nostalgia sake, but these came out as a good package.

Thanks for noticing. 

They really look great!  Now the real test is track lighting.  It makes or breaks a race car look, most of the time.  Wall Stadium always had terrible lighting, so when you think bright colors you almost had to double the brightness whitch could sometimes make it look tacky during the day.   Always a tough balance.  Big, legible numbers are critical I think.