One year ago, on one of the west coast 'jalopy' boards, a general cry for "somewhere that is not Sears Point or Sacramento" went out. Indie strips are not, apparently, simply defined as not sanctioned by NHRA or IHRA. It is an attitude...inclusive, open to car club funsters, open to the definition of 'family' as family-of-choice; certainly, many car clubbers are closer than nuke family in actuality. Redding and Somoa seem to fit the bill. Redding's tenuous existance seems to be threatened by the very attitude that a non-corporate drag strip is superfluous in the 21st century..and is, therefore, expendable. Many people who mutter such spew under their collective breath are the very same suits who claim so loudly in the marketing motorsports spot interviews and columns how many great ideas they have to 'save' our sport. They remind me of people who visit auction houses to buy livestock from failing farms and, promptly, ship to slaughter. Corporate marketing wags are a danger to the sport. Unlike 'happy wappy' AJ, we cannot afford to turn a blind eye......

This is the 50th posting on Sustainable Autoculture. I am not suggesting anything I do has more than subjective purpose from a street-level culture vulture. The lack of objective reporting and journal-ism in the sport of drag racing and general progressive (ie alt fuels) racing scene this year is ....frightening. I started out just writing about what I wasn't reading in the big trade publications. How horrible to be floating out on a drag racing ice flow that seems to get smaller each year..........