This is an opinion piece; just the opinion of someone who has supported, participated in, has worked at events and has loved the sport for over 40 years. My entire life has been spent at flat track races across the country.
I am not whining; I’m making observations and expressing my opinion. I’m not alone in having an opinion on this. Please keep the hate mail and hateful comments to a minimum as I love this sport as much as you do.
Unfortunately, we are not able to be at the race this year. We are going to be watching the race and continuing to monitor the events. Here in New England, although it’s warmer today, it continues to snow occasionally.
Be safe and Go Fast Sideways!
Hello all.
After looking at and sorting through lots of pictures around working my regular job, I have picked a bunch of pictures to put up for both the Daytona TT Singles and Twins galleries. This is the format that I’m going to follow for all of the American Flat Track events that we attend; Pre-race, Singles and Twins. I have a one change that I want to make, but the galleries are fully up. That change will be done within the next hour or so.
Have fun and let us know what you think. Thank you.
It hasn’t been a week since we’ve been back in CT, but going through the pictures and setting up galleries takes a bit more time than I thought. With between 2,000 and 5,000 pictures to go through at every major event, I should have really expected this.
As of this moment, I have built the framework for the galleries for the AFT events that we attend and have put up a number of pictures from before the races. Obviously I cannot put all of the pictures up, but I’m going through them to present as much of the feel at the event as I can. Seeing the riders take on the 6 foot TT jump was one thing, but watching Bubba Blackwell jump 11 cars and trucks before the racing started was great.
It was a great race and a great start to what should be an incredible 2018 AFT season.
We arrived just before noon today and just got back to the camper. It was a very long day at the Daytona International Speedway. We were able to get a number of interviews, made some inroads in other directions and took several thousand pictures. We also had a friend of ours take third in one of the main events.
We’d like to congratulate Dan Bromley from NY on his win in the singles class and Jared Mees from FL on a repeat victory in the twins class on his Indian FTR.
Once we get back home to CT and the cold (CT’s highs are Florida’s lows this week) we’ll go through the pictures and post a bunch. We are looking at making the radio station live as soon as we can so that we can start broadcasting our interviews, information and results from races and tracks all year.
This is only the beginning!
Our media credentials for the American Flat Track race season are in hand so now we wait. Our first stop is the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach Florida tomorrow morning and get set up for the rest of the day and night’s festivities. We are planning on getting interviews and pictures with the pros and fans and whatever else we can do.
We are here to promote this sport, at all levels including the local racers since that’s actually where all of this starts. Our goal is to show the essence of flat track motorcycle racing; where it begins all the way through to the professionals and after.
We already have one company that has sponsored us in a way that we didn’t ever expect. We will definitely be talking about them throughout the year as a big thank you, Lightshoe.
We have also started the turn-on of the FlatTrackRadio.com RADIO STATION and are working to have that go live ASAP.