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Isn't Lanny's contract up this year? If so, why would they bring someone else in for just one year? Or better yet, why would Lanny just sign on for one more year? It kind of looks like this could be the last year of racing here in the city. I would say that anything after this next season is way up in the air.

I'll tell you this though, I will be there at some time next summer taking about three hundred pictures of all the different views of that place so I can always have it in my memory. That place is very special to me and to a bunch of other people. I always get so excited walking up the ramps in the grandstand, then coming out of the shoot to go up and sit. That first glimpse of the freshly worked race track you get when you come out of the tunnel has never gotten old for me. I'm always five years old at State Fair Speedway.

"They're steering them sum bi***es with their right 
foot!"

I did make a group on Facebook to save State Fair speedway. There are approx 80 people on there some of which I have no earthly idea who they are. I am familair with some of the names. Shoot one of the first people to join was Cheese. I think some of those people are his groupies though.

Anyhow back to my point. That place does hold alot of memories and holds a place in peoples heart. I know that place kept me out of trouble on Friday nights. I was at the track instead of being a stupid teenager and young adult. That was one of the few places me and my father could go and do something as a father and son. The place as a kid I fell asleep at a winter nats on one of the benches waiting to see a out of town driver we met at a motel ealier in the day. It also let me be around people that I felt comfortable with and not have to put on a fake personna. It was a place I could be me and be around people that were like me.

I know that place gets a bad rap alot of times but if it goes away it is kinda like loosing a member of your family or that old car that sat in the pasture for so long. You grew up around it knew everything there is about them or it and then all of sudden it is gone. Never to come back. Yea you can replace it with other tracks and build new memories and new friendships. That is jsut human nature to move on. To alot of people, me included, it was the first taste they got of racing.

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands 
in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he 
stands at times of challenge and controversy." 
Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Erich Petersen 

i can still hear the supers roar at the fairgrounds in tulsa....you guys need to fight with all you have so you dont lose your old friend.fight till there is nothing left to fight for......i liked the 5 yr old comment....for me its six. i am six years old and with my Dad at Tulsa Speedway. the world was right back then......

"its useless to put on the brakes when you are upside 
down"   -Paul Newman

I grew up in the Northeast, and almost ALL the tracks up there have gone away...Trenton, Langhorne, Harmony, Allentown, Nazareth, Hershey, Old Bridge, Wall Stadium...the list goes on and on. What amazes me about the rest of the country is that new tracks still get built every once in a while. Who in their right mind would be willing to take a chance on tying up that much money and real estate to build a speedway, especially a dirt track? It's a good thing racing has never even TRIED to make sense, or it would have died young. Something will come along, I'm sure.

Sounds just like Enid! They have been out trying to sell out ' and been turned down ' if that don't work the words out that there giving it up next season because they lost there butts this season. Cant say I blame them if your losing money and you know its going to be worse next season. Who would want to buy them out of there last year on the contract and not know for sure you would get the track the next time it comes up for bids? Just wish they would let everyone know so we can decide if we should stop on are cars now or look at other tracks rules! Come on guys the whole town knows, please give us a finale answer!

I DON'T PLAY GAMES I JUST, GIT-R-DONE!

I'm 5 or 6 at Lawton when I let it feel that way............I never had a bad night there unless it was a rainout.

Even I know the Fairgrounds ties us in with the rest of the state and for that matter the nation when it comes to our weekend religion.

By the way, my icon picture is of my Grandfather in the infield pits between the old 1/4 mile and 1/2 mile in 1965. Steve Stevens

"They're steering them sum bi***es with their right 
foot!"