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Why this site exists
Thursday October 21 2010, 11:00 AM
This is perhaps presumptuous but I am going to tell you why this site and what Jeff Gilder is doing is so very important to racing.I was in the Fingerlakes of New York State over the weekend of October 15, 2010. On Wednesday, October 20, I stopped...
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Ray Preston. Don't know him? He's another of racing's true characters
Sunday August 1 2010, 1:17 PM
Back in March 2010 I posted on the blog a story about Larry Nuber. Tom, from Lockport, NY commented that he knew Ray Preston from Romulus, NY. Ray and I collaborated on a sprint car operation for a couple of seasons in the mid-90s and it was the...
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Jack Miller - Some things need to be said twice
Sunday June 27 2010, 7:00 PM
(Larry Holman being interviewed by Jack Miller in the late 60s, Oklahoma City, Mar-Car Inc. Photo Collection, provided by Shane Carson) There are a lot of cross-over racing fans. It's not unusual for stock car fans to also be...
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Andy Belmont - Another of Racing's Characters
Thursday March 25 2010, 5:24 PM
Andy Belmont is another one of racings characters that make the sport so interesting for me and, I am sure, for so many others. He is competitive by nature, hard-working, and is admittedly a fiery guy. He is also one of those guys who have found a...
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Janet Guthrie - Racing Character, Pioneer, or Both?
Thursday March 18 2010, 6:15 PM
NOTE: In September 2003 I wrote a story about two women pioneers in racing, Janet Guthrie and Lynn St. James. The story appeared in Trackside Magazine, which has since stopped publishing. Janet competed in NASCAR stock car racing so her part of...
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Larry Nuber, another of racing's characters
Monday March 8 2010, 7:18 PM
Not all of racings characters occupy the drivers seat. Larry Nuber was one of the original commentators on ESPN when they took on auto racing as part of their programming. After a couple of chance meetings with a young man named Peter Cozzolino I...
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Andy Hillenburg - One of Racing's True Characters - By Leo Dougherty
Tuesday February 23 2010, 8:43 PM
Racing history is as much about the characters as it is about the cars and the races. When all is said and done, its the characters who have brought us from the back roads and moonshiners to the dirt tracks and then to the asphalt tracks, and...
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