All,
My name is Gary Range and my son Josh races in the class this year. I ran the class the past two seasons. I know what your saying...(Who Cares) but humor me for a minute as this is a board to voice your thoughts or opinions or whatever.
I am posting on here to represent what I think is a group of racers who are caught in the middle of this deal, and really could care less one way or another as we are not going to win a championship or whatever regardless of the claim. So we really do not have any skin in the game as even out for 4 weeks, Chris, Mark, and Justin will most likely still beat us in points. So instead of $40.00 prize money we will get $20.00 at the end of the year. Who Cares. We just do not want to be frowned upon as we plan to associate with and race our friends at Buechting Racing, and plan to race and talk to the folks who were claimed. We have gotten to know all the Buechtings, decaled their cars, and they sponsor our cars. I have known them to be upstanding People.
We enjoy talking to the Fisher family, Chris is a good kid, and a good driver, His Dad (Jim) has always been very nice and helpful to our family. Baldwin group has been nothing but nice to us and we try to get along and help everyone. If we are fast enough on a good night, we enjoy racing against their cars.
I have told my family to stay out of this mess and drama,etc. as we try to get along with everyone in the class and we truly are here for fun.
There have been a lot of people on here supporting the claim and bashing the Buechtings. So it sure has stirred up like 4000 views on the post, and for a filler class that no one comes to watch anyway it is drawn allot of attention.
My buddy Trey Lawrence(PRO 4 and Sportsman Driver & Attorney by week when he is not racing) can maybe give me some legal verbage or whatever to use here . However RangeRacing,or family or whatever was in no way shape or form involved in the claim, had no idea it was happening, etc. We do not agree or disagree with it.
With that said, I do not think they did it to buy a championship for Jake as someone earlier stated. If they were going to claim folks to win a championship, they would have done it last year when Jake got 2nd in points right behind Homer. Just my take on it.
I think they did it because the first week this year WE ALL STOOD AT THE DRIVERS MEETING AND WERE TOLD..... IF YOU DO NOT THINK SOMEONE IS LEGAL AND YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, USE THE CLAIM RULE AS WE REALLY HAVE NO GOOD WAY OF TECHING THESE CARS AS THEY ARE ALL DIFFERNT.
Now if you are one of the folks who was claimed, it really ****s. But Jim Fisher told me the first week that Chris was not running for a championship at Pevely this year and was going to run several differnt tracks to get UMP points. So I am not sure how much this is really affecting him as many other tracks offer ump points.
Baldwin racing does not really have a place to race now, so I feel for them. But in my eyes, it took courage on Gerald's part to stand up and look them in the eye and say I think your not legal, and I am putting my money where my mouth is. That's what Troutman told us all to do at the beginning of the year. He didnt get behind a screen name and bash people. He did what he was told. In my eyes that took courage. It was not popular and now will probably divide the class, but he did as the officials said.
As racers, we just hope that everyone moves on from this and have some good, fun, safe, clean racing the remainder of the season. This class is about fun........
Sorry for the long post
My name is Gary Range and my son Josh races in the class this year. I ran the class the past two seasons. I know what your saying...(Who Cares) but humor me for a minute as this is a board to voice your thoughts or opinions or whatever.
I am posting on here to represent what I think is a group of racers who are caught in the middle of this deal, and really could care less one way or another as we are not going to win a championship or whatever regardless of the claim. So we really do not have any skin in the game as even out for 4 weeks, Chris, Mark, and Justin will most likely still beat us in points. So instead of $40.00 prize money we will get $20.00 at the end of the year. Who Cares. We just do not want to be frowned upon as we plan to associate with and race our friends at Buechting Racing, and plan to race and talk to the folks who were claimed. We have gotten to know all the Buechtings, decaled their cars, and they sponsor our cars. I have known them to be upstanding People.
We enjoy talking to the Fisher family, Chris is a good kid, and a good driver, His Dad (Jim) has always been very nice and helpful to our family. Baldwin group has been nothing but nice to us and we try to get along and help everyone. If we are fast enough on a good night, we enjoy racing against their cars.
I have told my family to stay out of this mess and drama,etc. as we try to get along with everyone in the class and we truly are here for fun.
There have been a lot of people on here supporting the claim and bashing the Buechtings. So it sure has stirred up like 4000 views on the post, and for a filler class that no one comes to watch anyway it is drawn allot of attention.
My buddy Trey Lawrence(PRO 4 and Sportsman Driver & Attorney by week when he is not racing) can maybe give me some legal verbage or whatever to use here . However RangeRacing,or family or whatever was in no way shape or form involved in the claim, had no idea it was happening, etc. We do not agree or disagree with it.
With that said, I do not think they did it to buy a championship for Jake as someone earlier stated. If they were going to claim folks to win a championship, they would have done it last year when Jake got 2nd in points right behind Homer. Just my take on it.
I think they did it because the first week this year WE ALL STOOD AT THE DRIVERS MEETING AND WERE TOLD..... IF YOU DO NOT THINK SOMEONE IS LEGAL AND YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, USE THE CLAIM RULE AS WE REALLY HAVE NO GOOD WAY OF TECHING THESE CARS AS THEY ARE ALL DIFFERNT.
Now if you are one of the folks who was claimed, it really ****s. But Jim Fisher told me the first week that Chris was not running for a championship at Pevely this year and was going to run several differnt tracks to get UMP points. So I am not sure how much this is really affecting him as many other tracks offer ump points.
Baldwin racing does not really have a place to race now, so I feel for them. But in my eyes, it took courage on Gerald's part to stand up and look them in the eye and say I think your not legal, and I am putting my money where my mouth is. That's what Troutman told us all to do at the beginning of the year. He didnt get behind a screen name and bash people. He did what he was told. In my eyes that took courage. It was not popular and now will probably divide the class, but he did as the officials said.
As racers, we just hope that everyone moves on from this and have some good, fun, safe, clean racing the remainder of the season. This class is about fun........
Sorry for the long post
