Big time at a short track
The short track in question is the Martinsville Speedway, and the big time is the Bailey's 300, which bills itself as the largest annual short-track race in the country. It's so big that (a) three drivers plan to run the 07 (but none are named Clint Bowyer), and (b) qualifying takes two days. The race itself won't get run till 3 p.m. Sunday.
Take a look at the entry list and see which names you know - other than Dennis Setzer of Truck Series fame and Justin Labonte of my-dad-has-two-Cup-titles fame, the rest are a bunch of nobodies.
Relatively speaking. I type up the short track report every week for Wednesday's paper, so I recognize a few names - Travis Swaim, who won the 2005 Caraway title (and the 2004 one as well, I think); Rodney Cook, who just won the Ace title; and a few other folks who have won some local short track races.
Also: Dustin Long has written about Drew Herring, who won the South Boston track title. There's also Philip Morris, who just won the NASCAR Weekly Division I title. (Morris had a little run-in last week at Motor Mile; Roanoke's Jared Turner, who helps out at Martinsville, has the story here.)
Should be a good time. Check it out if you need a racin' fix and you can't get to Kansas.
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This used to be a bigger deal before Hooters Pro Cup came into existence. Back in the 80's and early 90's this was a triple header weekend and an off weekend for Cup. There were times you would see Mark Martin and Ken Schaeder in this race.
John I think you missed one other big name. If you check the owners you'll see 3 entries from JR Motorsports. Isn't Little E's team? I also see a Curtis Truex, Jr. which I think may be Martin Truex, Jr.'s cousin which would make sense as one of the JR entries. If I'm not mistaken there were two Truex brothers racing in the 70's to 90's in the northeast.
Posted on September 28, 2006 8:11 PM