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LAKE OTISCO . Marietta.NY
Following my Florida tour, I took it easy last weekend, catching up with stuff at home, and gave racing a miss. My original plans were to do the ice racing events at Lake George NY on Saturday and Sherbrooke QUE on Sunday, but things did not materialize. By the time this weekend approached, I was getting hungry for some action, and planned to visit Round Lake (near Malta NY) for some AMEC ice racing. After the ice was found to be unsuitable the event was called off, and that idea got scrapped , until the CNYIRA ( another NY ice racing group) came up with a late fixture at Lake Otisca at Marietta . This was a 'first time' for ice racing on this lake ( one of the smallest of the Finger Lakes) and also the first time the CNYIRA has ran races for quite a long time. ( there were no races held last year due to insufficient ice thickness)
I left Maxville Ont, at 5-30am and had crossed the border into the USA by 7-15am only to run into a big snow storm between Watertown and Syracuse. After a pitiful excuse for a breakfast, at a restaurant near to Central Square ( the one slice of bacon that accompanied my French toast was wafer thin and only about two inches long! ) I got to the track just before 10-00am.
There were , about twenty or so cars present, with many of them from the AMEC club. I was able to meet up again with racers, Claude, and Claude Jnr Hutchings aswell Mike Kamm who organized the Euro Style RallyCross at Corinth last September. Claude Jnr, who was diving one of their familiar Saabs, told me he plans to be racing a DIRT SPORTSMAN at the FULTON SPEEDWAY this year.
According to one of the orgainizers the, road-course style track, was approximately 1.2 miles in length. This tended to make the races last quite a while, so after seeing two completed, at about 12-30 , I decided to head for home to avoid any, weather related delays.
This was my TRACK # 159
photo #1 The start of the first race at Lake Otisco NY
photo # 2 Claude and Claude Jnr Hutchings at Lake Otisco NY
photo # 3 Dave Burnham # 48a was winner of the first race at Lake Otisco NY
photo # 4 Action at Lake Otisco NY
photo # 5 Action at Lake Otisco NY
photo # 6 Mike Kamm re-fuels at Lake Otisco NY
14th Jan Brockville Speedway (Ont) Winter Enduro
27th Jan St Edouard De Lotbiniere (Que) Ice Racing
4th Feb Laviltrie, (Que) Ice Racing
11th Feb Beauharnois (Que) Ice Racing
14th Feb Orlando Speedworld (FL) Legends, Bandolero's
14th Feb Volusia Speedway (FL) SUPER DIRT SERIES
15th Feb Daytona Speedway (FL) NASCAR Gatorade Duel
15th Feb New Smyrna Speedway (FL) Asphalt Mods
15th Feb Volusia Speedway (FL) SUPER DIRT SERIES/ WOO LATEMODELS(RAIN)
16th Feb East Bay Speedway (FL) Open Wheel Mods
17th Feb Volusia Speedway (FL) SUPER DIRT SERIES/WOO LATE MODELS
18th Feb Daytona Speedway (FL) "500" NEXTEL CUP
4th Mar Lake Otisco, Marietta.NY (Ice Racing)
Finaly, I would like to mention SHORT CIRCUIT MAGAZINE, generaly excepted as Europes leading oval racing publication, which I`ve had the honour of contributing to, for the past few years. Aswell as my SHORT TRACK AMERICA feature which appears most months, The "RICK @ the RACES" reports and archives, are now available on the magazine website. www.shortcircuitmag.com
Just click on to "features" and the rest is easy.
"RICK @ the RACES" also appears regularly in the "news" section of ROGERS UK OVAL PAGES www.ukovalracing.info/
which is one of the original and best sources of information on the UK oval scene.
"RICK @ the RACES" also appear occasionally on www.raceproweekly.com , one of the leading websites devoted to North American DIRT racing .
My photographic work can be seen in the following
INSIDE TRACK NEWS which is "THE" magazine for Canadian autosport www.insidetracknews.com
AREA AUTO RACING NEWS ( New Jersey, USA) A long established weekly autoracing newspaper www.aarn.com
GATER NEWS (Syracuse NY) , A weekly newspaper that concentrates on NE DIRT racing www.gaternews.com
RACEPROWEEKLY www.raceproweekly.com
A great website , devoted to the Golden Age of UK Stock Car Racing ( 60`s and 70`s) that is excelantly maintained by David Kipling in Vancouver.BC
A website hosted by Randy Lewis, the worlds # 1 TrackChaser ( my ice racing photos are in the guest section)
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