By Danny Burton

Danny Burton’s Hoosier Race Report appears courtesy of OpenWheelRacers.com

As the sun sets on another Hoosier race season, one realizes one of the few pluses of getting older. I drove to the world famous Lawrenceburg Speedway on a very warm October evening, window rolled down, the little truck humming as always, surrounded by both corn fields (many of which have been picked) and trees on I-74. Turning off onto Indiana Road One that runs up and down Indiana’s east side, I had a nice view of some of the most beautiful hills our state has to offer. Arriving just before the scheduled 7 p.m. start time, I felt as much as home as I could feel. And then getting the opportunity to watch 71 sprint car teams scratch and claw their way to grab the $10,000 to win feature money made all the delays and whatever issues occurred worth it all.   read more »

By Danny Burton

Danny Burton’s Hoosier Race Report appears courtesy of OpenWheelRacers.com

For a few moments let us take a time out from raging discussions that can be found on internet message boards and elsewhere about tire rules, car counts, track preparation, and greedy, incompetent promoters. People can get so exercised over words on a screen and can forget that, after all, it’s only the internet and those threats that they may make or read are often merely threats and no more. There are, believe it or not, more important matters and often they are right here among this dysfunctional racing family that includes most who may read this.   read more »