BUDDIES BLOGS - Jim Clarke
Jim’s
Journey’s
By Jim Clarke, Clarke Motorsports Communications
March
8, 2009
I
think I can smell it. I’ll bet
you can smell it too.
Even
though it’s still about a month away, the warm weather these past few days has
started me thinking about racing season. Even
the casual fan has to be having dreams about watching racing at their favourite
track. The drivers are no doubt
burning the
One
of the things that has kept me busy is writing stories for Kawartha Speedway’s
web-site. We’ll have some new
drivers in the NAPA Auto Parts Late Model division and some familiar faces in
the Better Carpet Thunder Car class. I
could tell you who they are, but that might spoil the impact of having you visit
www.kawarthaspeedway.com
to see everything that’s going on at the 3/8th mile oval at
I’m
also looking forward to the pre-season car shows.
March 13th and 14th, I hope to be joining some
friends to head to an annual show in
If
everything goes according to plan, I hope to make it to Fulton Speedway
Saturday, April 10th for a big block modified tour event.
The weekend after that – April 17th and 18th –
I’ll represent Kawartha Speedway at a show called Fast and Furious at the
arena in Cobourg,
I
enjoy watching NASCAR events on television, but it’s the trips to the weekly
short tracks that really get my heart pumping.
This will be my 4th season working at Kawartha and I’m as
excited about going there now as I was the first time I walked through the gates
as a fan. Sometimes my ‘work’
schedule limits my racing travels, but it’s usually this time of year when I
get out a calendar and start marking off my ‘in a perfect world’ list.
These are the shows I’d like to get to if the schedule, weather and my
finances all come together as planned.
Gone
are the days when I’d hop in the car with some buddies at the start of the
weekend – armed with nothing more than a fresh change of clothes and a copy of
Allan Brown’s National Speedway Directory – with no idea where we’d
end-up. The last time that
happened, we stopped at a place called Raceway 7 in
Go ahead. Start planning now. There are racing thrills everywhere you look. With so much young talent running the neighbourhood dirt and asphalt ovals, the future of the sport is at your weekly short track.
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Jim's Journey - August 13, 2009