Love Of Sport Weekend could be the punchline for a trying scheduling joke, as we still emotionally process Shelton Airport doing it's long overdue revivin' for one big meet at a time.
Walt Austin putting up the moola keeps this from being taken too seriously as a purest attempt at revisiting the culture the track gave up in '67--the last time dragsters ran amok along the tarmac. Rahn Redman, exec. of the Shelton Dragstrip Assoc. is ambitious about 4-600 entries and upwards of 8000 tators double-stacking up each ditch. We're bracing ourselves: knowing that such an assembly is under a microscope is not guarenteed to bring out the best in people.

Unless stuff happens, the meet will be docudrama'd in Natural Dogfur. A different, perhaps much more predictable soiree is happening about half an hour north on Hwy. 3. Same two days...likely many of the same faces shuttling madly up and down the west sound highway.

My naieve Idealism wants very badly to see the Shelton meet succeed-10,000 folks looking on...the whole deal. It would evident how true-roots racing can draw, self-nuture and make money..for those in the sport who need that sort of reward. It would draw, as if from Mother Earth herself, the elements needed to recreate a true, non-corporate NHRA. We could then proceed to threaten lawsuits..if that's what Glendora insists upon. I want to be proud to be a part of the largest motorsports organization in the world...for all of those 'right reasons'. I'll be waiting for news at a currently esconsed..yet legendary for being 'temporary'..NHRA track.

Full Throttle News is showcasing the increasingly adroit reporting of Darrell Conrad. The man is what Richard would call a 'racer'. A racer, these days, is apparently one who can afford to run it up and down the coast under our current energy budgets. Damn good writer; gave the Luna's a multipage turner on..a rainout! That's the sort of stuff I thought only I had the nerve to do! Glad Cali now has a glorious postcard collection of Pacific Raceways under an inch of rain. The true and tight highlight of the August issue in beautiful black and white (my preference..) is the Walt Stevens/Jack McCloud "Poachers" FETF retrospect..complete with sociological ramifications, ie he told the whole story. Really nice read. Once again, if the top end of the economic scale on our west coast indie scene is your bag..plus midwest alky/nitro AAFA action..grab a subscription. Sat. night Lions wish-you-were- there's will love it. Those of us who also crave Weds. night/Sun. afternoon style are sadder......