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THE HARDEST WORKING MAN IN
Kreitzer’s track(s) record lands him in national hall of fame
Story by Shawn Wood
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James Brown, known as the hardest working man in show business once said, “Music — it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.”
Change the quote to motorsports rather than music and you’d be referencing Alan Kreitzer.
The son of a World War II U.S. Navy Veteran, Kreitzer was born in 1953 and almost immediately into the world of local dirt track racing.
That same year, his maternal grandfather Ray Garver Sr. built the 3/8th-mile Silver Spring Speedway in Mechanicsburg.
Seventy years later, Kreitzer’s passion for the sport, his love for his motorsports family, and the global respect that he has earned find him being an inductee in the promoter’s category at the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in Knoxville, Iowa, next month.
“Bob Baker from the Hall of Fame called me to let me know
