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 everyone.
I’m running a little behind due to changes in a number of areas as well as to our other site requirements, www.SunflowerRadio.com, our music station. Check it out.
Here’s a list of what we are going to try to do this year: Read more “2019 Site Updates”
We had made it to the memorial race. Unfortunately, I have not been able to go through the pictures yet. We have been to a number of other events including several races at WVR, an AFT race in Weedsport, NY and pictures for that will be coming as well. Add to that other events and another picture gallery.
I wanted to apologize and let you know that all will be posted soon.
The first race at WVR was on May 26th and was not a points race. Starting with nearly 1,400 pictures, I narrowed it down to almost 100 for the gallery. I’d like to get it down to 60 or so, but I was having too much fun, so I went with it.
With Mother Nature not playing nice this spring, between the leftover snow and weekend rain, we haven’t been able to ride much at WVR. I’d call the May 26th race a ‘WVR warmup’ for the Annual Jamison Minor Memorial Race on June 9th at Wachusett Valley Riders Club in Winchendon, MA.
I look forward to seeing all of you there.
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.