What I hope to have happen hear is a chance to read some feel good stories about racing and fans alike @ Delaware speedway. Let us hear your stories and experiences, all positive please.
As a Christian we decided that we would name our car accordingly and we posted on the back end of the car RACE THE GOOD RACE. As a rookie driver perhaps my son and I should have done it on the front and in reverse so the cars ahead could read it.
Born Again a chaos car made it'd first appearance on Friday July 31st. Cameron Leeson piloted the car for 4.5 laps before an unfortunate end. During an impact on turn four his ECM was knocked off and the car wouldn't run. We had to push the car back onto the car hauler and head home.
We were very impressed with the family like atmosphere we encountered. The #3 car crew helped us make the final welds needed to get the car ready. And I would also like to thank the people who helped push the Born Again car back to To trailer.
All in all we had a greater time and when we get the car back together we will definitely be back. What A BLAST.
This sounds like an awesome thread to start. Feel good stories I have a pretty large supply of. Stay tuned.
An just to add something else...if you don't have a full blown story to tell, then why not thank someone for something?
My story really involves a lot of people here. The events here are what, to my mind, solidified the CRO/Delaware crowd as a bona fide community of people.
I believe as a community that our finest hour was a couple of years back when Racewoman's son Matt was hurt very badly in a car accident coming home from the races in Ohsweken. Racewoman is Teresa Castelain who hasn't posted much here lately but used to be quite an avid poster here.
Matt was hurt VERY badly, suffering multiple broken bones, and serious head trauma that incurring a couple of strokes as well if I recall.
Anyway, after a few days and we realized this was serious business, the CRO community started a fundraising effort. In the week preceding the APC 300 weekend. As far as we knew, Teri and co didn't have much in the way of coverage, and some of us older types knew that precrips don't come cheap, so tha fundraising was being pushed pretty hard here.
As a last minute add, we decided to do what we could to raise some money over the weekend at Delaware and Cayuga. Delaware allowed us to do it with the understanding that we were on our own to get the word out...that it was a CRO thing and not a Delaware thing.
So a few of us got together. I was running things up top and the 3 Super Stock team was runinng the show in the pits. Between us all, we came up with just over 300 bucks to add to what CRO had raised thru auctions etc. We figured it was pretty good considering we did it thru work of mouth only, and with only about 5 days prep if I recall. I don't know what the ultimate total was, but it was awesome considering that most of us don't know one another face to face, and we got it all out to Teri to start a trust fund.
We haven't heard much out of Teri in the last little while, but we understand Matt's gotten better. We haven't heard any bad news anyway.
The telling moment for me during all this, and that makes all this internet chitchat seem worthwhile, was the Sat night before Delaware's APC300 and I was in Cayuga for the NCATS race. I'd known I needed to be identifiable to help with the collection, so I'd made a t-shirt with "Shadowracer" across the back. After a thriller of a show, this old guy came up to me, looking like he didn't have two pennies to rub together, and shyly held out a crumpled up 10 dollar bill and said it was for Racewoman. This collection hadn't even been announced at Cayuga...yet here was this guy I didn't even know, 100 miles from my home and, he didn't know me from Adam, but he was handing over his hard earned money to help a fellow race fan.
That was a pretty fine moment for us as a community.
Any race day where the sun is out, no work commitments, and the pits are full......
What more could one ask for?
a cold beer