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NORFOLK DAILY NEWS, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2015

STRIVING FOR CONSISTENCY

Boone County Raceway has third manager in as many years

By MIKE RENNING

sports@norfolkdailynews.com

ALBION — Race fans in Boone County and the area hope the third time is the charm as the Boone County Raceway will be under the supervision of its third manager in as many seasons.

Ron Sutton, a St. Edward native, will take over the track this season and brings plenty of experience to attempt to make a go of it here.

“I started going to races here since I was little,” Sutton said. “Then I started racing around 1984 — seems like I’ve been around racing in some form my entire life.”

Sutton said the fact he is the third different manager in three years is no reflection of the job the previous managers did.

“They both were great,” Sutton said.

“Local racing is just tough right now — there is a lot of competition for the fans’ dollars.”

He also added there is plenty of competition in getting young people to become fans.

“It’s like everything else,” he said.

“Sometimes it’s just too easy to sit at home watch or play games that emulate race car driving. There are also plenty of other activities kids and families are involved with — there are only so many hours in the day.”

Although Sutton stopped racing in 2010, he’s stayed involved with the sport and

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RON SUTTYN, manager of the Boone County Speedway in Albion, stands in the grandstands next to the track Sunday afternoon. his daughter, Amanda, has been at Boone County Raceway in some capacity for the past few years. That’s part of the reason he decided to take on management of the track.

“I think it is very important to keep all of the tracks going,” Sutton said. “Every time one goes down it doesn’t seem like it comes back. I hate to see tracks close — not that I feel this one was going to close. I just wanted to keep doing something for the sport.”

For Sutton to move forward at Boone County Raceway, he first figured he should look back.

“I remember back when I was little and this place would be packed with people,” he said. “Families were all sitting together in the grandstand and there were a lot of cars racing. It was an event every week.”

In addition to keeping the races fanfriendly, Sutton said he also believes the road to success has to go through the drivers.

“If there is no one there to drive the cars,” he said. “There obviously won’t be anything to watch. You need to keep it as inexpensive for the drivers as possible. They already have a lot of money invested in the

cars.”

He also noted the importance of consistency.

“You have to be very consistent,” he said.

“Consistent in dealing with the drivers as far as rules and consistent with keeping the condition of the track the same each week, as much as possible.”

Sutton’s plan for this season is to try to keep everything reasonable for the fans and the drivers.

“We’re going to concentrate on the weekto-week races,” he said. “We’re not going to go with a big race every week — just a bunch of good races.”

Boone County raceway will continue with the Shane Thome Memorial Race in July 14 during the Boone County Fair and will be a part of the new Summer Storm Dirt Series along with US 30 Speedway in Columbus, Off Road Speedway in Norfolk and Stuart Raceway in Stuart.

Racing is set to begin on April 24 and nearly every Friday night until Championship Night on August 14.

Sutton has set aside May 8 for Mother’s Night, June 19 for Father’s Night and July 3 for Kid’s Night.

“I’ll fight for the fans to keep racing going here and everywhere,” Sutton said.

“Racing has been such a big and important part of my life — I want to pass that along.”

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410 Outlaw Sprint Cars - National Sprint League, 410 Sprint Cars: National Sprint League, Sport Mods, Sport Compacts, Hobby Stocks

First Annual Facebook Frenzy Night, Modifieds, Sport Mods, PJ Bombers, Sport Compacts, Hobby Stocks, Stock Cars Modified Madness!, Modifieds, Sport Mods, PJ Bombers, Sport Compacts, Hobby Stocks, Stock Cars

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Nebraska 360 Sprints, Midwest Sprint Touring Series (MSTS) 360 Sprint Cars: Nebraska 360s with MSTS 360 Midwest Sprint Touring Series, Sport Mods, Sport Compacts, Hobby Stocks

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Prelude to the Iron Cup, Modifieds, Sport Mods, PJ Bombers, Sport Compacts, Hobby Stocks, Stock Cars 2nd Annual Iron Cup Prelim, Modifieds, Sport Mods, PJ Bombers, Sport Compacts, Hobby Stocks, Stock Cars 2nd Annual Iron Cup Finals, Modifieds, Sport Mods, PJ Bombers, Sport Compacts, Hobby Stocks, Stock Cars Open Wheel Fest Featuring Nebraska 360 Series - Sprints and Mods! 360 Sprint Cars: Nebraska 360s, Modifieds, Sport Mods, 305 Sprint Cars

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April 23.............RWS with IMCA Modifieds April 30.............RWS with Limited Late Models May 3.................Sunday Funday!!

May 7.................RWS with IMCA Sprint Cars Our regular weekly show (RWS): May 14..............RWS with Limited Late Models IMCA Sport Mods, IMCA Street Stocks, IMCA Hobby May 21..............RWS with IMCA Modifieds Stocks, & IMCA Sport Compacts May 28..............RWS with Limited Late Models June 4................RWS with IMCA Sprint Cars Sunday Funday: GOTRA, MCSA, Modified Lites, June 7................Sunday Funday!!

Bike Races, Big Wheel Races, Power Wheels Races.

June 11..............RWS with Limited Late Models This is a non-sanctioned show June 18..............RWS with IMCA Modifieds June 25..............RWS with Limited Late Models July 2.................JULY CELEBRATION!!! SLMR, IMCA Sport Mods, IMCA Street Stocks, IMCA Hobby Stocks, IMCA Sport Compacts July 9.................NO RACES SCHEDULED July 16...............RWS with Limited Late Models July 23...............RWS with IMCA Modifieds July 30...............RWS with IMCA Modifieds (KIDS NIGHT & INFAMOUS NICKEL TOSS) August 2............Sunday Funday!!

August 6............RWS with Limited Late Models August 13..........RWS with IMCA Sprint Cars (LAST NIGHT OF TRACK POINTS FOR SPRINTS) August 20..........RWS with Limited Late Models August 27..........RWS with IMCA Modifieds (LAST NIGHT OF TRACK POINTS FOR MODIFIEDS) August 30..........SLMR – Additional Classes to be Announced Sept. 3...............RWS with Limited Late Models (LAST NIGHT OF TRACK POINTS) Sept. 18 & 19. . .18th Annual Abe Lincoln Memorial – Rain Date September 20 Oct. 3 & 4..........Cornhusker Vintage Nationals 113704

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2015 RACING SCHEDULE

NORFOLK DAILY NEWS, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2015

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Two racing series debuting in 2015 Trio of area tracks participating

By JAY PRAUNER

Tiebreakers will be determined by most wins, then seconds, thirds, etc.

Two new series will each include a trio of area race tracks in the Daily News’ coverage area.

The Bragging Rights Series for Grand National/Crate/Late Models is a six-track collaboration between Boone County Racway in Albion; Dawson County Raceway in Lexington; I-80 Speedway in Greenwood; Junction Motor Speedway in McCool Junction; U.S. 30 Speeway in Columbus and the Off Road Speedway of Norfolk.

Drivers finishing among the top 10 will pocket a portion of a $10,000 fund that includes $1,500 and a $1,000 crate engine certificate to the winner through $350 for 10th place.

For drivers to be eligible, they must compete in a minimum of five races at each of two different participating tracks.

Points will be awarded as follows: 100, 96, 94, 92, 90, 88, etc. A driver not qualifying for features will get the minimum of 40 points.

Standings will be determined by a driver’s best 20 finishes, with at least five having come from a second participating track.

THE SUMMER STORM DIRT SERIES for International Motor Car Association (IMCA) classes of Sport Compact; Hobby Stock; Stock Cars and Northern SportMods.

This series is a four-track collaboration between Boone County Speedway, Off Road Speedway, Stuart Raceway and U.S. 30 Speedway.

Points will be accumulated during an eight race schedule in which each track hosts the series twice during the season.

U.S. 30 Speedway opened its season on April 16. Boone County Raceway will open on April 24 and Off Road Speedway will open Saturday, May 2.

The 2015 Summer Storm Dirt Series schedule will be as follows: THURSDAY, MAY 21: US 30 Speedway SATURDAY, MAY 23: Off Road Speedway SUNDAY, JUNE 7: Stuart Raceway FRIDAY, JUNE 19: Boone County Speedway SUNDAY, JULY 12: Stuart Raceway THURSDAY, JULY 16: US 30 Speedway FRIDAY, JULY 31: Boone County Speedway SATURDAY, AUGUST 15: Off Road Speedway

*IMCA Sport Compact *IMCA Hobby Stock *IMCA Stock Car *IMCA Northern SportMod *Limited Sprint

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May 3..................................................4:00-6:00 p.m. Test & Tune All Races Start at 7:00 p.m.

May 24................................................Opening Night May 31................................................Late Models June 7.................................................Summer Storm Dirt Series June 14...............................................Regular Night of Racing June 21. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NO RACES June 28.........................................................Late Models July 4...................................................Midwest Classic Stockcar Association Fireworks Show July 12.................................................Summer Storm Dirt Series July 19.................................................Regular Night of Racing July 26.................................................Good Old Time Racing Association August 2..............................................Regular Night of Racing Check us August 9..............................................Regular Night of Racing out on August 16...........................................Championship Night 113708

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NORFOLK DAILY NEWS, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2015

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NORFOLK DAILY NEWS, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2015

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Family enjoys February trip to Florida

Norfolk Daily News staffer takes in his first Daytona 500

By MICHAEL AVOK

mavok@norfolkdailyNews.com

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Auto racing has always been about family.

Family-owned companies manufactured the first cars. Families looking for extra income decades ago found ways to make those vehicles faster to haul moonshine.

And, like ’em or not (and some don’t), the Bill France family built NASCAR. At the Daytona 500 in February, I contemplated this as I sat in the seats where my dad sat for about 25 years.

“I get the aisle, now,” my sister said, staking her claim.

We were not a NASCAR “family” but I grew up watching races on television on the weekends at our house in Yankton, S.D. There were only three channels to choose from at that time. And back then, there was one TV in the house and it belonged to Dad. We watched what he watched.

So, I grew up seeing Cale Yarborough and Richard Petty on a console TV with an antenna out back that I had to go out and turn from time to time.

When everyone moved south, I stayed in the Midwest. Dad got tickets to Daytona and renewed them for more than two decades. My sister went with him as kind of “their family tradition.”

It is something that ended when my sister and I went to the 500 this year. It was

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DRIVERS GET READY to leave pit road at Daytona International Speedway for a 300-mile race the day before the Daytona 500 in Februrary. her 20th (or, so) and my first. We gave up the seats and Daytona is actually removing the old seats as part of a renovation that began the same year Dad died, 2013.

The new seats will be ready in 2016.

It’s a part of a project called Daytona Rising. It’s a $400 million revamp of a Daytona International Speedway.

Five expanded and redesigned entrances, or “injectors,” will lead fans to a series of escalators and elevators, transporting them to three different concourse levels.

Which is good, because even at age 45, I found the stair climb brutal. I actually had to stop to rest. Nobody laughed, because we were all huffing and puffing.

Each new level features social areas, or “neighborhoods,” along the nearly milelong front stretch.

By next year, my dad’s seats will be gone. About 40,000 seats will be gone. Ticket prices are going way up.

At the conclusion of the redevelopment, Daytona International Speedway will have

approximately 101,000 permanent, wider and more comfortable seats, twice as many restrooms and three times as many concession stands.

In addition, it will feature more than 60 luxury suites with track side views and a completely revamped hospitality experience for corporate guests.

The “Great American Race” certainly has change in 57 years.

But this sprawling, 480-acre motorsports complex is a special place for me now.

I sat in Dad’s seat. I got to see “The King” and I won a signed Michael Waltrip “Lucky Dog” stuffed animal in a game of “Simon Sez.” Waltrip signed it about two hours before getting into his car for the race.

Out of 500 race fans playing the game, my sister and I were the final two contestants. We didn’t even know this until we were called to the stage.

After about 15 minutes, it was clear neither of us would give in. (People from the Midwest are smart and follow instructions.

Thanks, Mom.) They gave us both “the grand prize.”

And so it was.

Despite the corporate money, there is still a place here for the people. People who call their drivers “Junior”or “Kyle” or “Kurt” or “Danica” — just like they are referencing a son or uncle or aunt.

Like a family.

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NORFOLK DAILY NEWS, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2015

New digs for age-old tradition

Off Road Speedway’s opening night set for Saturday, May 2

By JAY PRAUNER

jprauner@norfolkdailynews.com

PHOTO BY BRIAN SIGNOR

DECEMBER 10, 2014: Workers do some of the early work building up dirt for the bleachers/press box/sponsor suites/ concession stand/rest rooms area.

PHOTO BY BRIAN SIGNOR

MARCH 2, 2015: A payloader maneuvers two 2,000-pound concrete blocks used to build the barrier surrounding the track. In all, more than 600 blocks were used.

PHOTO BY BRIAN SIGNOR

APRIL 11, 2015: A view of turns 3 and 4 from the press box as workers install 12 rows of C-channel on a concrete grandstand that will seat an estimated 1,000 spectators.

Weather permitting, there will be stock car racing in Norfolk on May 2.

You can thank Kevin Signor … or Robert Haase … or Jerry Pospisil … or the dozen workers who transformed a cornfield into Off Road Speedway.

“A few years ago Robert (then owner of Riviera Raceway) stopped by and said ‘I can see a track out at your place, but not until I’m gone,’ ” Kevin Signor of Norfolk said. “That kind of planted the seed.”

Haase passed away in 2011 and during the 2014 season, his wife, Janet, announced Riviera would close its gates after 50 years of racing.

Soon after, Pospisil was in Signor’s ear.

“I probably pushed him as hard as anyone to build a track because I didn’t want to see the sport die,” said Pospisil, who will serve as the track’s promoter. “Norfolk is a racing community and always has been, and when Kevin showed a sign of interest in it, I was thrilled.”

After a little soul-searching, Signor went all in.

“For a while there I wasn’t sure I wanted to do it,” Signor said. “But my wife (Wendy) said ‘Somebody has to stand up for these guys,’ so I thought, let’s do it.”

WORK BEGAN IN early December on the 1-e-mile race track, and everything that comes with it … bleachers, lights, bathrooms, concessions stand and a press box.

“Kevin had a great idea of expanding the press box to include two VIP suites,” Pospisil said. “So, we have our announcer/score keeper’s booth in the middle and on either side are rooms for our sponsors to bring whomever they want to watch the races.”

To date, 40 business billboards have been sold and will be displayed along the front-stretch catch fence.

“Our hope is that this track re-energizes the racing community. So far, the support we’ve gotten from race car drivers and business in the community has been awesome,” Signor said. “But we’re not done. There are over 700 businesses in town and we want to give everyone a chance at getting a billboard.”

Helping keep the tradition of dirt-track racing alive will be a pair of Riviera Raceway fixtures. Janet Haase will be the official score keeper and Mike Jensen will be the flag man.

“As much as we could, we wanted to use resources from Riviera,” Pospisil said.

Dana Pospisil from Grand Island, Jerry’s son, will serve as race director.

So, after a 50-year run at Riviera Raceway, Norfolk’s dirt-track racing tradition will live on at Off Road Speedway.

“I just hope everyone appreciates Kevin stepping forward like he did,” Pospisil said. “Without him, this would not have happened.”

PHOTO BY BRIAN SIGNOR

FEB 10, 2015: A crane assists worker building the shell of the press box/sponsor suites/concession stand/rest rooms facility.

PHOTO BY BRIAN SIGNOR

MARCH 12, 2015: A dozer spreads some of the 7,100 yards of clay around the 1-e-mile track.

PHOTO BY BRIAN SIGNOR

APRIL 11, 2015: A view from the press box of turns 1 and 2, and the 20-foot concourse where fans can stand to watch the races as well as access concessions and restrooms.

NORFOLK DAILY NEWS, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2015

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A night at Off Road Speedway

Facility’s owner, promoter, construction workers did not cut corners

By JAY PRAUNER

jprauner@norfolkdailynews.com

It’s all about family.

That’s been Kevin Signor’s mindset since deciding to build a race track on his property near the southwest edge of Norfolk.

Weather permitting, Off Road Speedway will begin a new chapter of dirt-track stock car racing in Norfolk on Saturday, May 2.

If all goes according to plan, it should be well worth the admission price of $12 for adults, $6 for kids age 13 through 17. Kids age 12 and under are free.

“Beginning at 5 p.m., we will have a happy hour,” track promoter Jerry Pospisil said. “We want fans and racers to bring their families out early and enjoy some good food. And, we’re not just talking hot dogs and hamburgers. We’ve got a caterer lined up and I think people are really going to enjoy his food.”

An estimated 1,000-seat grandstand is over 100-feet wide and runs 12 rows high.

“The neat thing is we poured the concrete so there would be no openings underneath the seats,” Signor said. “It will be much safer for kids and a lot easier to clean up the trash.”

At the top of the grandstands will be a 20 foot deep, 200 foot wide concourse providing access to the rest rooms and concession area.

In all, 7,100 yards of clay were hauled in.

The surface of the 1-e-mile oval is two feet

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TRACK OWNER Kevin Signor (left) and promoter Jerry Pospisil pose between turns 1 and 2 at Off Road Speedway on Thursday. thick and is 70 feet wider and 70 feet longer than the track at Riviera Raceway, which closed last fall after 50 years of racing.

“I’ve been in the business many years. I wanted a track that was smaller, but wide,” Pospisil said. “On bigger, longer tracks the racing can become follow the leader and get boring. On narrow, small tracks racers end up beating the heck out of each other’s equipment until there’s nothing left. I

thought this was a good compromise.”

The speedway will feature five classifications of racing. Four — Sport Compact, Hobby Stock, Street Stock and Sport Mods — are sanctioned by the International Motor Car Association (IMCA). The other will be Late Models.

An interesting note pertains to heat races. According to Pospisil, cars will be given one lap to leave the track after taking

2015 schedule MAY 2: .........................................................................Regular program MAY 9: .........................................................................Regular program * special Late Model purse MAY 16:.......................................................................Regular program MAY 23:...............Regular program (Summer Storm Dirt Series) MAY 30:.......................................................................Regular program JUNE 6: .......................................................................Regular program *special start time at 6 p.m.

Special Compact & Hobby Stock purses JUNE 13:.....................................................................Regular program JUNE 20:.....................................................................Regular program * special Sport Mod & Street Stock purses JUNE 27: .....................................................................Regular program JULY 4:....................................................................... Regular program

the green flag. Once the final car leaves the track, the next set of cars will enter the track two-by-two on the back stretch and head into turn third, before receiving the green flag coming out of turn four.

Feature races will still include a parade lap, allowing fans to wave at their favorite drivers.

“We’re really looking for ways to run the program as efficiently as possible,” Pospisil said.

Other amenities adjacent to the track include RV camping and a beer garden.

“We’ve already had some interest of people wanting to make an entire night of it by taking advantage of our camp sites,” Signor said.

A special event on the schedule will be Saturday, June 6, in conjunction with the Off Road Ranch’s Midwest Bikefest.

“On that particular night, we will hold three classes of racing from 6 to 9 p.m., and have one of our bands start at 9 p.m. and the other at 11 p.m.,” Signor said. “For $25, folks can enjoy both forms of entertainment.”

With the finishing touches still underway, Signor has nothing but praise for the construction workers who have went above and beyond to get the track ready on such short notice.

“They have done an incredible job,” Signor said. “For the amount of work that needed to be done, I’m absolutely amazed how the facility has come together.”

Regular program schedule

*special start time at 6 p.m.

JULY 11: .................................... Closed due to Madison County Fair JULY 18:.................................Closed due to Silver Dollar Nationals JULY 25:......................................................................Regular program *plus Super Late Model Racing (SLMR) AUGUST 1: .................................................................Regular program AUGUST 8: .................................................................Regular program * special Late Model purse AUGUST 15 ........Regular program (Summer Storm Dirt Series) * special Sport Mod & Street Stock purses AUGUST 22 ................................................................Regular program AUGUST 29 ................................................................Regular program SEPTEMBER 5:..................................................Championship Night *special Compact & Hobby Stock purses

5 P.M.........................................................................................Gates open 6:30 P.M.:..................................................................................... Hot laps.

7 P.M.: ................................................................Heat races (All 6 laps) ..........................................................................IMCA SportMods ............................................................................ IMCA Compacts .......................................................................IMCA Hobby Stock ...........................................................................IMCA Stock Cars ....................................................Bragging Rights Late Models FOLLOWED BY................................................................ Intermission FOLLOWED BY .............................. 12-lap Sport Compacts feature FOLLOWED BY ....................................15-lap Hobby Stock feature FOLLOWED BY .................................... 18-lap Street Stock feature FOLLOWED BY .......................................18-lap Sport Mods feature FOLLOWED BY .......................................25-lap Late Model feature

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CHAD JENSEN (center), Brian Signor (right) and Josh Jensen are three of dozen or so workers who have played a major role in building Off Road Speedway.

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NORFOLK DAILY NEWS, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2015

THE ART OF DRAG RACING

By RANDY POSPISHIL

sports@norfolkdailynews.com

For some, drag racing conjures up the image of a pretty girl waving a scarf to send two cars down a quarter mile stretch of blacktop on the outskirts of a small town.

For others, the image comes from a television sports network showing two dragsters, with tires smoking, as they react to the lights descending to green and accelerate side-by-side down the straight-away track until parachutes appear to help the cars slow down a quarter-mile later.

But the casual observer, according to Pierce native and longtime drag racer Tom Meyer, probably doesn’t realize the intricacies of the sport — a sport which Meyer excelled in from 1975 to 2009 and describes as an “art.”

According to Meyer, 95 percent of all drag races, no matter the site or class of cars, are run as a “dial-in” or “break-out” style of racing. This system is used as part of a handicapping system.

That means, a racer can lose by going too fast.

“You have time trials which give you an idea of how fast your car is going to run on that track at that time under those conditions,”

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he said. “So when it comes time for ‘eliminations’ — in which two cars go down the track and only one comes back to race again — you basically take shoe polish and mark on your windshield the ‘dial-in’ time you expect your car to take to cover the quarter-mile distance.”

The estimating by both drivers of their “breakout time” is critical, because to win the race and avoid elimination means that the car must reach the finish line first while either matching the estimated time or finishing with a time that does not go below (quicker than) the estimated time.

An elapsed time that is less, or in essence faster, means disqualification.

So, for example, if a driver estimates a time of 11.2 seconds and finishes at 11.1 — in a timing system that extends into the thousandths of a second — he has been disqualified and has lost the race, if the other car completed the race without ‘breaking out’ of its designated time.

But, according to Meyer, there’s much more that a driver must know, which contributes to his belief that “drag racing is an art.”

“You roll up toward the start-

ing line and your front tires activate the ‘pre-stage’ lights (yellow) at the top of the tree. Then you have another six inches to go to get to the ‘stage’ lights (yellow) on the second row down the tree, and then your car is ready to race,” he said. “After both cars are staged, the other three amber lights will begin sequencing toward the green light on the bottom. There’s five-tenths of a second between amber lights. You need to react on the last amber, but if you leave too soon, the red light comes on, and

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you’ve been disqualified.”

However, with the handicapping system built into the race’s start, the lights on the tree do not sequence exactly the same for both drivers.

“If my dial-in time is 11.2 seconds and the other driver’s dial-in time is 12.2, the lights on his side of the tree are going to sequence ahead of mine, so he’s going to leave sooner,” Meyer said. “The idea is to finish ahead of him by just enough to win without breaking out. That is one of the biggest challenges.”

Meyer described the intensity involved in chasing a car down the track that is already a hundred feet ahead at the start.

“By the team you reach the finish line you are going 25 miles-per-hour faster than your competitor, but you only want to beat him there by the smallest of margins,” Meyer said. “That is the most special moment, when you cross the finish line and look at the ‘win light’ on your side of the track — hoping to see if it lights up or not. The results are immediate based on the track timing system.”

Most races are won or lost by a thousandth of a second. Race times are measured by photo

cells place at intervals along the track that are printed out after each run, which will also help the driver set his dial in time in the future.

The winner, then, becomes the car that completes the quarter mile race first, while not doing so with a quicker elapsed time than the dial-in time on the windshield.

According to Meyer, this means that the winner may actually be braking at the finish line, depending on his car’s position in relation to the opponent’s car.

Each driver’s reaction time — the amount of time that passes between the green light on the tree illuminating and the cars first beginning to move is also measured. This is used to resolve an improbable tie between two cars that might finish precisely on their ‘dial-in’ times.

If both drivers break out by finishing faster than their dial-in estimates, the win goes to the driver whose time is closer to his dial-in time.

“Sometimes it seems like there are more ways to lose than there are to win,” Meyer said. “It’s a game of thousandths of a second.

That’s why consistency is everything. It’s an art — a quest for a perfect run.”

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Premer is quarter-mile crazy Pierce graduate among best Top Sportsman drag racers in Kearney

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Ashton Premer has made a name for himself driving a Ford Escort — fast, very fast.

Over 200 miles per hour, as a matter of fact.

Premer — who graduated from Pierce High School in 2008 and currently lives in Kearney — is hoping that during the upcoming drag racing season he’ll go even faster.

Premer got his start in drag racing after tagging along as a child to races with his father, Brent, as well as watching and learning as his father worked on his car.

Eventually, at age 18, it was Ashton’s turn to earn his Advanced E-T racing license and get behind the wheel.

Brent, who is an anesthesiologist at Faith Regional Health Services in Norfolk, no longer races but continues to help with Ashton’s car, and the two — frequently accompanied by Ashton’s mother, Angela, and some younger siblings — enjoy traveling to races in various states throughout the Midwest. The only track available in Nebraska for Ashton’s type of racing, is in Kearney. It serves as Premer’s home track.

Premer, who races in the Top Sportsman class — which he describes as “the most extreme bracket-racing class out there” — has recorded a speed of 202 mph with his car in the past. Premer said he thinks recent improvements and technology will allow him increase that to somewhere between 215-220 miles per hour this season, a speed which would help him achieve his goal time of 6.50 seconds in a quarter mile race.

“It’s a 2006 Ford Escort and the first car I ever stepped foot in — a ‘seven-second door car’ — it’s pretty rare. I found it on the Internet, and we had to go to South Carolina to pick it up,” Premer said. “We actually bought it from the prime minister of the Aruba Islands, so it was a really cool deal.”

The car’s paint scheme represents the sunset on the Aruban Islands, with the sea green on the bottom and the orange and other colors above in the night sky.

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Premer’s first win was an Ignite Quick Series race in Kearney in 2013. It was special because it was his first and because it was on his home track.

The highlight of Premer’s racing career so far — qualifying as a 21-year-old during his rookie season for the prestigious Jegs All-Stars Race event in Chicago — was also the site of his most frightening moment.

“The race was going to be on ESPN on a Saturday, and after the festivities the night before, I was walking back across the lot and a sudden storm came through.

A huge 20-foot-tall and 40-foot-wide advertising blimp broke loose in the 85-plus mph winds and hit me,” Premer said. “My body flew over a hundred feet through the air, and I landed on top of a guard-rail, which snapped my upper arm in half. The back of my head hit a semi’s bumper, and I was hospitalized in Chicago for five days. I was on oxygen because my lungs were so bruised.

My body was just black with bruising. I still have a steel plate in my upper arm.”

Premer said qualifying for the Jegs race was a lifetime goal. “I did it in my first year by acquiring the most points in Division 5,” he said. “I did my qualifying runs the night before and then got hurt, so that pretty much ruined that experience. So it’s my goal to get back there.”

Premer, who wants to finish in the top three in the Top Sportsman class, also hopes to set the track record in Kearney for a “door-car” which means, literally, a car with doors — as opposed to the traditional streamlined dragsters.

With recent improvements, including electronics and the use of nitrous mixture in the fuel, Premer said he believes that his motor has “untouched potential.”

The start of the race for Premer’s car involves a “trans-brake” that controls when the car leaves the starting line by basically holding the car in a position between reverse and its forward gear. The electronic device is synced with the changing lights on the starting tree. As the driver waits

with the gas pedal floored, the car will be propelled forward when the trans-brake triggers its movement — a feeling that Premer describes as “intense” since the car is producing 4800 rpm’s.

“When you let go of that button, precisely on the first amber light showing, you don’t know when the car is going to take off,” he said. “You just hold on. From that point on, it’s just driving. A pneumatic shifter shifts for me unless I feel the rpms telling me to shift manually. I focus on the front of my opponent’s car, which is different than the strategy some driver’s use by aiming for a spot down the track.”

Another aspect of the run is getting the car, now traveling over 200 miles per hour, stopped safely in the quarter of a mile beyond the finish line. For Premer’s car, this involves two parachutes.

“It’s mandatory equipment in my class, so when I get 1,000 feet down the track I reach up and hit the lever just before the finish line,” he said. “They both come out at the same time. It actually hurts when they hit, because you’ve got your five-point harness on and your head just snaps forward.

It feels like you’re folding your steering wheel over. My rear wheels are lifted off the ground a couple of feet by the force.”

Safety is the emphasis in all aspects of the sport, according to Premer, who describes the biggest mistake drivers make to be “over-correcting” a car that “gets loose.” But he admits that, all things considered, it’s necessary to ultimately “leave your fears behind you.”

The racing season will begin with testing on May 2 in Kearney, with the first race in Great Bend, Kan., May 13-15. Premer is eager to get started, although his perspective is not based entirely on winning races.

“Winning matters because there’s a lot of time and a lot of money involved, and I enjoy the competition,” Premer said. “But at the same time we realize we’re out here to enjoy our lives and meet new people.

We’ve got a motor home that we travel in, so we’re basically just camping and racing as a family.”

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Family’s love for racing runs deep U. S. 30 Speedway’s season under way

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COLUMBUS — Mari Melcher stood atop the grandstand, gazing out at the fresh layer of clay covering the reshaped track at U.S. 30 Speedway as if it were a mountain lake at sunset.

There is no place she’d rather be.

“It’s really pretty,” Melcher said, admiring the work crews completed in preparation of the track’s upcoming season.

Melcher loves racing. It’s in her blood.

Melcher and her husband Ron are beginning their first full year as owners of the track her father built 29 years ago.

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Abe Lincoln was a dirttrack racer for as long as Melcher can remember.

He traveled across the area to compete, ranking as high as 15th in the nation in IMCA late models while behind the wheel of a Dodge Charger in 1975.

“Dad always did race,” Melcher said. “I remember even as a kid dad racing all over the place.”

He also was instrumental in growing the sport he loved locally.

Lincoln owned a track south of Platte County Agricultural Park for a few years before a downturn in racing’s popularity led to its closure.

He was undeterred, working at a Schuyler packing plant to make ends meet until the time was right to give it another shot.

Melcher was working at the gas station her father ran, Abe’s Riteway, on that Friday in the spring of 1986.

She watched as all the cars passed by, knowing exactly where they were heading.

It was opening night at U.S. 30 Speedway and her father’s vision of creating a local attraction with both horsepower and staying power was about to become a reality.

“I remember coming down the highway and the place was packed — and I just started bawling,” Melcher said.

Her father’s hard work had paid off.

Family Business Melcher and her husband purchased U.S. 30 Speedway from her mother Louise “Sam” Ganskow late last year.

The transition from mother to daughter, Melcher said, will ensure U.S. 30 maintains its “family atmosphere.”

Melcher has two sisters who help manage the track and a slew of other relatives, friends and volun-

teers — many paid in beer and love — chip in to keep things running smoothly.

Ron, who got hooked on racing after marrying Melcher in 1987, took a fourdays-a-week position at Mid-Plains Industries last fall so he can dedicate more time to the track. Melcher still works at Vishay and the couple also farm near Monroe.

Their six children all play a part in the day-to-day operations at U.S. 30 Speedway.

Lincoln ran U.S. 30 Speedway until his death in 1997. His funeral was held at the racetrack.

“All the people wouldn’t have fit in a church,” Ron said.

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The upgraded track at U.S. 30 Speedway is smoother, and faster, something fans and drivers are sure to appreciate.

“We’re going to take it back to our heyday in the ’90s,” said Angey Johnson, the Melchers’ oldest daughter, while describing the new track setup.

Melcher said the focus on Thursday nights will be on fast racing with fewer delays. Sunday Funday events added for May 3, June 7 and Aug. 2 will include special features and children’s activities such as Power Wheels and Big Wheel races.

The 18th annual Abe Lincoln Memorial is set for Sept. 18-19 and Cornhusker Vintage Nationals will be held Oct. 3-4.

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“He always wanted another track,” Melcher said, and the opportunity presented itself again as racing picked back up in the 1980s.

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Stuart Raceway set to open on May 24

By MIKE RENNING

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STUART — Sunday night has always been a pretty active night here.

In fact, for the past 62 years you could hear the roar of the cars on the dirt oval on the north end of town each Sunday evening.

This year will be no different in this community west of O’Neill — but maybe even better.

“We always try to add something every year for the fans,” longtime track manager Keith Larabee said. “It’s important to remember why we do this. We try to keep that in mind all of the time.”

The track, which is manned entirely by volunteers, has been a community project and destination since day one.

“All of us who volunteer every year are like one big family,” Larabee said. “Then you throw in the drivers and it’s really a great place to be on Sunday.”

Larabee also likes the way racing in the entire area is becoming more like a family.

“For the first time in quite a while all of the area tracks kind of got together for the betterment of racing,” he said. “We had a lot of new people with Norfolk changing, Albion changing — it was great to meet and figure out something to benefit all of us.

It doesn’t do any of us any good if a track closes.”

What the group figured out was the new Summer Storm Dirt Series that will run at each of the four area ovals; Boone County Raceway in Albion, US 30 Speedway in Columbus and Off Road Speedway in Norfolk twice this summer. The Summer Storm Dirt Series is slated to be in Stuart on June 7 and July 12.

In addition to the Summer Storm dates, Stuart Raceway will also welcome back the Midwest Classic Stockcar Association (MCSA) out of Columbus on July 4.

“The MCSA is some of the older cars that used to run on these tracks back in the day,” Larabee said. “They come early and drive in our parade and then you can see them race later that night. We’re happy to have them back.”

The track will host the Good Old Time Racing Association for the first time on July 26. The season will end with Championship Night on August 16.

“We may be all volunteers, but we are still professional in what we do,” Larabee said. “We and the drivers try to put on a good show each and every night we run — it’s the least we can do for the fans. They’re our family and friends.”

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