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Here it is a Friday at the end of June here in Okc. We should be gearing up for some Friday night racing and watching point battles start to take shape. But, instead, there isn't a show in the area worth traveling to for some sprint car racing. I have been to 3 races this year. That stinks! I hate it that the tea sippers downtown took our facility away.

Sure, people can say "hey, you can go to lawton or meeker or blah blah blah" but fact is, it is a long way to drive just to go to "another" dirt track. Fairgrounds Speedway was "the" track. Nothing can replace that. The kids could play with their little sprint cars on the stands and have plenty of room, especially at the top. It was very relaxing and peaceful and fullfilling. Now, if you go to a track and the kids try to play, oops, your car just fell 25ft below through the gaping stands. You need to go to the bathroom? Here's a nasty little place to go. Nothing can replace a premier facility and I don't hold that against the other tracks, I'm just saying that THIS SUCKS and it's starting to get worse!

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

Are you kidding? This is the tightest battle for the Fairgrounds Speedway point championship in ALL divisions that I can remember. And I have been around since 1969.

Frank Dittman, Chris Burns and Michelle Decker are all within twenty-five points of each other while Shayla Waddell is looking very strong this first half just forty points behind Dittman for the champ sprint points lead. Joe Wood, Jr. has won the last two features at Fairgrounds Speedway and has the Hog Wagon filled with pork and on fire after a slow start.

Stanley Reed, Jr. (surprise) is leading the USA modfiied division but Allen Chickering and Doug Bragg, both tied for the runner up spot in points, are just thirty points back. Eight different winners in six races there ya know.

Travis Gorbet, Jeremy Allen and James Beane are neck and neck with Allen and Beane just five points out of the pro stock standings lead. Mark Brill has either won or had mechanical gremlins but leads with five feature victories thus far and is just twenty points out.

Jeff Autry and Kenny "The Butler" Jr. have dominated sport mod action and won most of the races but it is Justin Allen who is the points leader for that division.

And the always exciting super sprints, Darren Stewart holds forty point advantage of Danny Jennings while Lee Jennings is 50 points out and Wood, Jr. 55 points out.

If I added it up correctly tonight is the half way point in the championship chase and looks to be the toughest in history for all five divisions.

David Smith Jr.
www.oklahomatidbits.com

And I, have yet again, blown another motor. lol

When barrel-rolling down the front straightaway & near unconscious-ness is reached,and the car stops moving,crawl out & just walk towards the bright light.

No wait, that's a funnel cake trailer.

Never Mind. LOL !!!

Ahhhhh, Memories......

We have not even mentioned Burritos this yeat as much as last either.

I feel lost, most of the time I look like it as well., w/o the track. I have heard numerous times that the racing family has been seperated and we only get to see each other here and there. I keep looking at the sprint bandits schedule and go the date of the 19th was for the fairgrounds. As I went to Creek and Wichita I thought to myself we had it so good.

"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 

We did have it good for a long time. I said for years that SFS is the nicest facility in the area.

You guys are gonna make me cry!!

When thetrack was trying to be saved people were trying to make this known to the higher ups. People can build new tracks and update old ones but it will never be the same. The fairgounds had its own personality to it, its own quirks and each one of us knew them. As I type this the grandstands are just sitting there. Fences falling down, grass growing all around the track. That place is locked up tighter than cheese's blown motor.

When I was at Wichita Sunday I texted David and told him that the track had a fair atmosphere to it. I told someone I was never so thrilled to watch a crusier race lol.

"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