Let's Hit The Road

by: PattyKay Lilley

Good day gentle readers. This week the teams take leave of the Northern tracks of Dover, Pocono and  Michigan, and head west to Sonoma Valley in the beautiful California wine country and the twists and turns of the track at Sears Point for the first of the two road races on the schedule. As always when the stockers will be making right-hand turns, I'm already hearing comments about it somehow not being "real racing" if it's not run in a circle, and how road racing is "boring."

Boring? Are we watching the same races? I have no problem when told that many of the oval track races this year have been yawners, often ending in suspicious yellow flags late in the race or cars running the fuel tanks dry and falling by the wayside.  However, when I hear that word applied to a road race, I have to question the knowledge of the speaker.