Anyone who knows me, knows I've been around open wheeled racing all my life and you won't find a bigger supporter. I've even been to the track to watch them with a few people on this forum, including HAPPY!
Memorial day weekend is traditionally the biggest open wheel racing weekend across our country, the USA, starting with the Indy 500. With the way our tracks are struggling here in AZ and across this country, I'm not sure what kind of support you'll get. As a whole, the open wheel community is very conservative, and they just might not like the idea of not racing at home on Memorial Day weekend, and they will have a lot of traditional choices for that weekend.
One more thing..That "hole" that you call it blocked our access to one of the best shore fishing and snorkeling area's close to town, and I'm still pissed about that! :lobster:
I've posted this on Robbie Allen's (see message board) site, it's mainly for AZ, but also for all of our open wheel community. So far 91 people have looked at it in apparent disbelief; but you can be sure it's being checked out as I write this. http://www.abcmotorsports.com/ You might want to check back if your interested in what they say when they do reply.
That was a very sneaky deal Joe. After getting Manzy for a spit because of his long good standing in AZ's racing community, Mel Martin sold Manzy out the back door on the sly. The man's name as the promoter, along with his brothers is on a 1962 program I have from a Champ dirt car race at the old fairgrounds that I attended in the 8th grade,1962. Manzy was sold to Mel with the thought that he would take care of our historic facility. Manzy by most people's thoughts in the community would still be operating now, if it hadn't have been sold to a Crane Co that hasn't done a thing with that property as of yet. Mel Martin was voted out of the Arizona Motor sports Hall of fame by the member's, and that was happily announced by Windy MacDonald at a hall of fame race in Tucson.
Well...the fuel issue would kill it right there. I've gotten hassled at the border just bringing a couple 5 gallon jugs of fuel on my jetski trailer. Can you imagine what would happen with a barrel or two? And don't talk to me about the city(Penasco) or state of Sonora making arrangements for that. I've seen what happens when some people try to bring down used computer equipment for charitable purposes, and have "paperwork" from the city....it still doesn't make it down!
Robbie is a great guy, and he's a one guy you can always count on to be there for our sport. He was instrumental in getting those Sprint car races together at the new track outside of Phoenix, and even though he's also racing for point's with ASCS, he had his car out there for both shows.
It's really too bad Keith Hall lost Manzy. I have all the inside information going all the way back to the beginning and the way the track was basically taken away from him was terrible. If Keith still owned Manzanita it would still be the best place in AZ to go watch some open wheel racing. We would still have an outlet to go watch the World of Outlaws and USAC Sprints every year. It's really too bad.
Would you care to say what assocation? If it's sprint cars in AZ there's only one, so I'd say that was a loaded question. If they are expecting quite a few cars, it's funny that no one is going near that thread to the tune of 160+ views. Truth is, it's not only not a hot topic out there right now, it's being looked at on Robbies forum as if they can't believe it, even though most know me on there.
