WHO'S SUPERSTITIOUS?
Dale, I really enjoyed your article this
month about racing superstitions. I bracket
raced from 1975 to 1994 and have experimented
with all kinds of ideas to win races. I like
having people with me at a race but I've found
through experience that I win a lot more races
when I'm alone. When you win races, your friends
and relatives want to come out and watch you.
Very seldom have I went more than a round
or two when I have an audience. I think it
was Chip Horton that said he had a losing
record running against women. I can relate
to that. I've probably run against a woman
driver about twenty times in my career and
won only twice. On the idea of what you eat,
I always drank a coke and ate a candy bar
while I was racing. I guess if you stay on
the sugar it would work the same as if you
stayed away from it as long as you were consistent
with what you do.
Thanks,
Wayne Holland
SUPERSTITIONS, THE NEXT
GENERATION
This was a great article. My daughter, Lauren
Freer, now 16 drives a jr dragster now for
5 years and if we do something different she
has a fit. No green, only odd #'s go on the
car, never even, she gets in the same way
and tows the vehicle the same way. If someone
asks to ride she will say no, it's breaking
the routine. Once she starts racing she won't
eat, and the list goes on and on. lol It's
kinda a funny thing but I guess it works.
Teresa Freer
SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND
Chris - Excellent column about Vegas. But
as a resident of the valley of sin, I have
come to expect the high prices. However, there
are great values to had off-track, IF one
is willing to seek them out.
And the prices for food at the track are
not out of line with what I saw at venues
like Joliet and Indy in the past several years
and certainly not out of line with what is
charged at any place where the is a "captive"
audience, ie: Major League Baseball, NFL,
NHL, rock or country concerts, etc.
Dale Tuley,
Chaplain, Racers For Christ
Bracket Racer
MAYBE DALE TULEY'S BOSS
CAN HELP WITH THOSE TRACK DOG PRICES
I just finished the Martin Chronicles from
Vegas. Incredible as usual. You took me to
so many places that my feet are tired!
By the way, I hate to break this to you,
we are only 2,070 feet. I hope that doesn't
take too much of the glimmer off of the diamond.
I'm surprised that no one has been asking
about that magic white powder that the LVMS
crew applied to the track on Saturday to get
the track ready? We experimented with some
stuff in the fall and it has worked wonderfully.
Unfortunately NHRA prepped the track on Sunday
so we lost some of our magic.
Whenever you need a credential at LVMS just
give me a call. I may even buy you a $8.00
Hot Dog (those prices don't come from us,
we sold our soul to the devil).
Chris Blair - Director
The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway
ATTA GIRL!
I would like to congratulate Susan Wade on
her magnificent piece about Carroll Shelby.
Well done! A pleasure to read.
Larry Carkner
Ottawa, Canada
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