Scott Prentice, it’s nice to see someone that is realistic, although it’s unfortunate that you have to be. Florida has every single part of the puzzle available, but no one seems to figure out how to put them together. I absolutely stopped posting because it’s not worth my time to talk to a wall anymore. There are many I respect here, including some of those that feel it necessary to try and put me down, though to me that shows me they realize I am right and don’t know what else to do except go into defense mode because I am the only one with the balls to say what I say. The only track in FL with any sort of consistency is Showtime, and even though people seem to not like Yoho, he has something figured out. My fear is however, that his overhead is going to catch up with him eventually. Only time will tell and I pray that he is able to maintain and continue to be the role model for the state. I pray daily maybe someone can figure out what he is doing right and make it work at their track… But they are so hard headed, that’s not likely.
The fact is, no, I don’t have all the answers and I could probably never run a track myself, but there isn’t a single one of you doing anything either so tell me why I’m wrong and you’re right? You can’t. I live in a place with the most successful asphalt short track programs in this entire country bar none. I don’t always agree with how things are done here either, but when they do something right here, they definitely hit it out of the park and all the tracks communicate to try the same or similar things and 9 times out of 10, it works for them too. We are a COMMUNITY here. Not individual tracks fighting against each other. See the difference?
You guys go ahead and do things the way you want to and we will do them the way we do, and we will continue to have good car counts and full grandstands, and you can continue to… well… yeah. As EZ says, I am watching. I may comment from time to time. But I am absolutely 100% done with regular posting here. It’s just not worth it anymore.
And Scott, you’re 100% right. More people need to start in street stocks and learn and earn their way up. Like I am doing with my “trailer queen” lol
I could have bought a Late Model or Modified ready to go for the money I have in this car. I’ve run other peoples stuff prior and had some lucky runs towards the front of the fields, and I have run in the back. The reason I stuck with this type of car is to learn. I came into this sport as a crew member/driver only 4 years ago. Prior to that I was a fan who raced karts and drag cars. I learned how to work on my own car through building my own car and that is absolutely how it should be. Not like it really is where most of these kids are inside playing xbox while their dad is out in the shop working on the car. Money and spoiled kids absolutely are killing this sport. Unfortunately, there is not much we can do about it. I am not trying to honk my own horn here, as I definitely have a ton to learn STILL. But you never REALLY know it all, now do you? I bet even some of our older veteran drivers on this board are still learning new things regularly.
One other thing… Have pride in what you build and race. Hard work does pay off. Wednesday night I got to actually race my car for the first time. Didn’t set the world on fire and we had some small issues with the car with a power steering failure during the feature (my entire upper body feels like jello lol) but the sense of pride finally getting this car out was huge. More kids need to feel and experience that because it absolutely makes everything all worth it. This sport at our level was built on pride. This isn’t the Sprint Cup series… We don’t get huge purses. We make just enough to get us home in most cases. Other than that, it’s about pride. Have pride in your SPORT… Before it disappears.
