Welcome to the voting for our annual Dirt Track Digest Awards. To make your vote, please click on your selection. You will see that your selection gets highlighted, and then you have to scroll down to the bottom of that particular award, and click “VOTE”. Come back often! What driver has the best website? DTD Sprint Car Racer of the Year: Sportsman Racer of the Year Rookie of the Year: Promoter of the Year: Pro Stock Racer of the Year: Most Improved Facility: Most Improved Driver: Best Action photo Best Candid Photo Modified Racer of the Year: Late Model Racer…More

By Craig Revelle – Finish Line Web Design It is that time of year again that all race fans have been waiting for.  The Daytona 500 is lurking just a couple weeks away, with qualifying and the Budweiser Shootout on tap for next weekend.  While it is live racing on the television, my true feelings for Daytona will remain intact.  NASCAR in itself seems to have been in a downward spiral as of late and the “racing” at Daytona, and its sister track at Talladega are just some of the changes that need to be made in a hurry. While…More

    First: Ah, where to begin?  OK, not racing related, in a way, but did you happen to watch the football game this past Sunday between the Giants and Packers?  Yes, I’m a Giant fan.  Jets, too.  But it seems I wasn’t the only one that happened to see a couple of bad calls by the refs in the game.  First one was what sure looked like a fumble, to me, but it was rules the Packer player was down.  Next, when the Packers really needed to score, and it was 4th and 10, there was an incomplete pass. …More

      First: Hey, might as well start off this weeks column with some “rumors”, huh? A “Rookie Crate Class at OCFS ? Note:  Someone posted about an announcement at the OC Banquet about  bi-weekly Rookie Crate Sportsman racing at OC. No more sail panels on the modifieds at Accord? Note:  Someone posted on the Internet that a certain driver wasn’t happy about the no sail panels, since he had already painted his. WoO Sprint Cars back to OCFS. Sure looks that way.  Talk about SPEED!  The last time they were at OCFS, I’d venture to say that for…More

    First: Well, if you’re reading this then I have to figure you’ve survived the New Year?  Personally, I don’t care to watch the “Ball” fall anymore.  Waste of TV time I think.  Then again, I was on the computer at midnight, anyway.  Guess I have a somewhat boring life?   Second: Getting a little difficult to get any racing news now that we are in this time of the year.  Most news, for a while, will be from NASCAR and maybe some from Indycar.  Locally, things are kind of kept quiet with mainly rumors floating around.   Third:…More

Special notice:   I was playing around with this column after it had been published, to see if it would be possible for me to copy and paste photos into the column once I started to get it published, and it seems as if it was going to work.  As you know, any time I’ve had photos, you would have to go to the New England Tractor website to view my column over there.  Hopefully, you won’t have to do that anymore.   First: I sure hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and that Santa was able to drop off…More

  First: I sure hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and that Santa was able to drop off the kind of presents you desired!  In a few more days, 2011 will be history.  How it will be remembered is up in the air, for now.  Hopefully, 2012 will be a better year for all of us.   Second: More than likely, over these next few months, things will be kind of quiet on the motor sports scene.  Hey, I might even take off a week or two. I did find the following, however, on one of the message boards/forums that…More

    First: I’d like to take this time to wish all of my readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!   Second: If you recall, last week, towards the end of my column I had this, about some problems at home: “A few more problems on the home front.  It seems that for the second time in a couple of weeks, the little lady isn’t quite feeling up to snuff.  I’m, in a way, cutting this weeks column a little short because we’re hoping to get her to see a doctor on Wednesday morning to see what…More

    First: In last weeks column I linked to a video of an accident that Johnny Heydenreich had during the PRA Silver Crown race down in Florida back in 2006.  I also had a photo at the end of my column of Johnny and my daughter, Sarah. Well, Johnny has been in another accident.  From what I’ve read, it happened in North Carolina.  This one, a highway accident, is quite a bit more serious than the one he had while racing. From what I’ve been able to get, so far, via the Internet: Sad news, folks. Some disturbing news…More

    First: It’s been a little hectic – this last week or so.  The e-mail problem, as of Sunday evening when I’m doing this part of the column, is basically fixed so I can both send and receive e-mails on my Yahoo mail.  I’m still waiting to see if either part or all of what was deleted from my mail can be restored, no thanks to some hacker.  My apologies to all that received the bogus e-mail about me being in London, out of money, and looking for monies from anyone that would be willing to help me out. …More