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

As yet another racing season in the Midwest slowly reaches its end, so do other matters, or even careers. Kevin Briscoe has had a racing career that is one we all could admire, but one should remember that first and foremost, he doesn’t race for a living. Instead he races for the love and joy of it all. He is also a businessman and a family man as well. So as he gets a year older maybe he feels the need to consider what the next move should be.   read more »

By Danny Burton

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

A society that makes a priority of remembering and honoring those who are a part of its past is a society that has gone a long way toward progress. Such a society will surely thrive and, at worst, continue to exist. More to the point the American short track/open wheel segment of our society does rightly honor its own when it can be done.   read more »

By Danny Burton

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

Sometimes the luck of the draw matters in life and racing, and sometimes it doesn’t. No matter what draw you receive you get to play the hand that is dealt you as it were. Often you make your own luck to a certain extent, and sometimes good fortune falls into your lap as it were.   read more »

By Danny Burton

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

I may be repeating myself, but years ago I was having a conversation with my sister-in-law about our respective jobs. Her comment was something along the lines of… if you’re making your job look easy, then you’re probably doing a good job. We all know, or should know, that driving any race car on any track is seldom, if ever, easy. But this past weekend, Jeff Bland Jr., Kevin Swindell, and Levi Jones, among many others, made it look easy as they made their way to victories at both Bloomington and Lawrenceburg.   read more »