Response To Article on Florida Sprint Car Fans Site By Rex Guy - Auburndale Speedway

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This is in response to an article on Florida Sprint Car Fans.com from Rex Guy,
Owner of Auburndale Speedway… This in no way reflects any of my personal
views or opinions, Rex asked me to post this since he and computers don’t get
along very well.

The article entitled:
WE´RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND CALL SHENANIGANS ON THE PAVEMENT TRACK OWNERS IN
THIS STATE.
can be read in it’s entirety on the Florida Sprint Car Fans website… This
particular portion is what Mr. Guy is responding to:

So now there´s this thing called the “Track Owners Alliance” going on here in
the state of Florida. Never heard of it? Well, sit up and get ready.
First we need to talk about pavement late models, I know, I know,
painful…but really it´s germane, I assure you.
So pavement late model racing used to be a big deal in this state. The past
couple years? Not so much. It was pretty much on life support as a traveling
series (and even weekly shows really) until the FAST series got started and
ran with a blended engine rule (9:1 compression, Florida spec and crate
motors) that balanced everything out with weight rules and such. Healthy
fields of cars showed up, just about every track made money, fans came out,
almost everyone was happy…until one night at Auburndale Speedway the track
took it upon themselves to overturn FAST series officials due to some on-track
altercations with one of the founders of the series Wayne Anderson and
Auburndale favorite Kevin Ingram.

Response from Rex Guy, Owner of Auburndale Speedway:

To whom it may concern:

Auburndale Speedway has no favorites in any division of racing. Going back to
the FAST Late Model incident, the following will clarify what happened that
evening:
When Wayne Anderson and Kevin Ingram got together and had their “moment” on
the track, the Race Director for the FAST Series said to put both drivers to
the rear “if they can continue.” When Anderson could not return to the race,
the Race Director said to park both cars which was the wrong call. That is
when I, Rex Guy, over-ruled the Race Director because Ingram was able to
continue. I would have done the same if it were another driver other than Ingram as well.
If everyone knew all of the rules and would read them, it states “zero”
tolerance of any on-track actions as were perpetrated by Anderson. According to
the “rules” laid down by the Series itself, Anderson should have been
penalized, but with the stacked deck of officials, it was overruled. When you
talk about support of this Series, all you have to do is go to their web site
and check the entries for each event. You will find there were only 6-8 real
“supporters” and most of them were cars either owned by or worked on by Wayne
Anderson.
Wake up people. The writing was on the wall for the FAST Series. All Mr.
Anderson had to do to for his Series to survive was to run it and not race in it
himself along with going by the rules that were written.
REX GUY

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Mr. Guy still misses the POINT. It’s NOT his call to make! It’s the Series officals that make the calls and rules for their series period! Not for the track owner or director to do.

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Rick,you have not supported Rex since he called Arron wrong. Dave O’Steen

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If the series has a Race Director that is making the calls for series and the track has been told this up front. Then I would say there rule would stand. A owner of the track should not over turn a Race Directors of a series rule. It would be between the drivers and the series to disguess the call.

I know as the owner/race director of the Outlaw Street Stocks traving series I had the last say so of a call made.

The again it would be what the track and series had agreed on about who was making the calls at the track.

Gary Laplant

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Hi Dave, it has nothing to do with what happen to him. I just think what Rex did is wrong. And I would feel the sameway if anyother track did it.

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If Rex wanted people to believe what he had to say he should have left the first sentence out of his reply " Auburndale has no favorites in any division". Trust me they have plenty.

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Thanks Mike for saying that. It’s so true!:ernaehrung004: I don’t know why he is even telling a whopper like that. If I had said that Dave or someone else would have come back with something about me not likeing Rex for this reason or another. It’s just a fact at this track. And I’m sure some other track have theirs too. I just know about Auburndale.

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It goes on elsewhere too Rick. You can bet on that. Seen it firsthand at both of the state’s southern “tracks”.

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I’d recommend that folks visit the Florida Sprint Car Fans.com web site to read the article this thread pertains to. There has been a pretty good and civil discussion on those pages. And the discussion has almost nothing to do with Rex Guy or the Auburndale incident. However, it does have a lot to do with the so called track alliance. It was a pleasure to read, although I’ve chosen not to comment on it yet. Too bad this board can’t have the same type of discussions.

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Oh I know it happens at alot of tracks. I just haven’t seen it. Because I have been there very often to see it at others.

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My guess is that this whole track alliance is just another way of colluding to keep profits up. Tracks are struggling and if the owners stand together, then the drivers can’t continually play them against one another like I have witnessed since I got here. I have never heard so much" f— you, I ain’t never comin back here again, I’m going to (insert track). Then 2 months later, they are back at the track they left singing it’s praises. It’s a screwed up state for racing. My prediction, this alliance will fail. Maybe the ill mannered dolt down south might actually come out on top on this one. Should be interesting. Stay tuned.