Debbie Cummins
Bomber Momma #19
big swig, You are just making me mad!
Jimmy has traveled to this race the last 3 years. He really enjoys it and has talked 4 other racers from here to go with him to experience "the Thunder " themselves. Before going, he always checks the schedules with local tracks for conflicts. There weren't any conflicts until tracks start changing the dates of their final races.
Last year Highland changed the date of the Robertson Memorial Race to a date that Jimmy would be gone to Wisconsin. Consequential? I don't know, but it sure looked like it. The 2nd place car, owned by Robertson, won the B-Mod championship then. All Jimmy had to do was drive his car onto the track for show-up points and the championship was his in 2016. But Jimmy decided to go to Wisconsin to a race that he and his Dad had planned on for months. Not fair, not right, but it happened. We move on but don't forget.
Now this year, Belleville moves the final points race to another date, and then another date. Guess when their final date is...during the week that Jimmy and his Dad and Doug Tye will be racing in Wisconsin. Again, Jimmy checked with AARA and made sure the final points night was before the week that he was scheduled to go to Wisconsin. All was good. Just so happens that Jimmy led the points at Belleville all season! Good for him. He deserves the championship. In fact, as we figure it, all he has to do to win is finish 15th in the last points race to win the B-Mod championship! Doug Tye has 3rd place now but won't if he can't race the final points night race.
This changing of scheduled dates at one track because another track makes a decision to add a class of cars without consideration of surrounding tracks is disgusting, disheartening, and embarrassing to our sport of stock car racing. Just stick with your night! Stop pitting tracks against each other as this is surely a dying sport today.
AARA and Belle-Clair Speedway...stick to your guns and stay on your scheduled Sept. 1st night of racing. We can fill the stands if we advertise it and talk to all those people who say they want to go to the races, used to go to the races but don't anymore, never know when we are racing, and just don't think about it.
Lower the admission price to $12.00 for the final points night (because Tri-City is charging $20.00 for their show) and fill the stands with people who don't want to see the racing stop at good old Belle-Clair Speedway. How about it?
