The Off-Season … What Off Season?
Nearly a week has gone by since breaking the ice into the ITP blog world, at least that’s what my calendar pop-up reminder tells me anyway. I live by pop-up calendar reminders and little yellow stickies!
Even though it is technically the racing “off season,” it has been anything but an off-season, at least for me. After getting a call from Jason ‘Bodee’ Bodenhamer to join the Missouri State Fair Speedway (MSFS) team, everything has been full-steam ahead. Rules and regulations drafted, meetings set up, accounts created, forms designed, scheduling, etc. I really enjoyed the administrative portion of the setup process for preparing for the speedway reopening. All of our hard work will be put to the test at the MSFS rules and registration meeting on February 6th and of course when the track reopens in mid April.
Speaking of rules and registration meetings, the CMS annual meeting takes place this Saturday the 23rd, time sure has gone by quickly since the last CMS checkers fell. It’s always great to see old friends and to see who all is registering and in what classes. Hopefully the CMS street stock community can get their stuff together this year; the rules meeting will definitely paint a vivid picture! A lot of behind the scenes work has been going on in the CMS camp as well and some not-so-behind the scenes work. The next time you’re in or around the ‘Burg, drive by the track and get a glimpse of the new admission and concessions building going up! Earl is at it again, he just keeps making the place better every year!
This time of year actually has some excitement to it … the late model races out west (my man Billy Moyer won 3 of them!), the rules meetings, Bodee’s Auction on January 30/31, and great late model racing at Golden Isle, Volusia, and East Bay is fast-approaching and of course the registration meetings. After that, the lull sets in until Snake Saturday and opening night at all the tracks in March and April.
I hope to see some of you at the upcoming meetings and certainly at Bodee’s Auction. Next week’s blog will feature a little bit about the auction. Hopefully, I will have the new CMS website up and running by next week too; I’m taking the plunge as a first-time Webmaster to add to my crazy racing life!
The answer to the trivia from last week was the movie “Heathers” staring Wynona Ryder. The line, “Greetings & Salutations” was frequently used by Christian Slater as Jason Dean in the movie. If you’ve never seen it and you like odd-ball eighties comedy, be sure to track it down!
I’ll end with another little bit of trivia. What band did the surviving members of Lynyrd Skynyrd form after the tragic plane crash ended the Skynyrd band?
Until next time take care,
SOTM