The opening night at the newly resurrected Capital City Speedway in Ottawa Ontario was like a sight from days gone past. Lots of fans, teams and crew, new cars, old cars, new faces and old. It seems that people still have faith in the old track, and the new (old) track promoter, Arnie Malcolm. Some will remember Arnie from a few years ago when Penny Bell ran the track, well he's back and doing a great job. Penny Bell was spotted in the pits talking to some of the old teams. The advertisers are flocking to the track in numbers, cars are well sponsored, and the mood in the pits was extremely positive.
A great recovery for the track that was stripped clean, every thing needed to be replaced, hundreds, perhaps thousands of boards in the main grandstand, and pit stands were replaced, the PA system, the lights, even the washrooms were removed. Truck loads of garbage and debris was removed to clean up the old place. What the new management has done in such a short time is remarkable to say the least.
I was there helping a team, but was still able to see some great racing again at a track where I used to hang my hat.
I spent most of the night rubbing the dirt off the bottom of the frame of an old LLM with my belly. Trying to get some tranny troubles sorted.
Saw a lot of old faces, some old chassis's (no, not talking about the ladies), and there were more fans in the stands an hour before the green than there were all last year.
Saw some familiar racing, Ricky rump and Steve Munro goin at it, Lyle Perkins sitting back and waiting for the smoke to clear to move into third, with "Motor Mouth" calling the play. Boy it really brings back old memories.
This old racer has just got to talk to Bob East about how to fix that tranny problem.
Congratulations to Steve Munro for grabbing first place in the points on the opening night and you can throw a blanket over second and third with only 2 points between them, Ken Baird and Brian Copp. In the Mini Stock a favorite driver of mine, Todd Musker, well he sure put the spurs to that Pony Car of his all night to start the season in first place in the points. The 4-4 FUN was run and completed at the stroke of 11:00pm. (curfew) with Trisha Quigg, Archie Watchorn, Leslie Musker clinching the points run 1st, 2nd, and 3rd respectively. In the other classes, Thunder Car driver Ken Fisher finished the night 1st in points, in the Legends, team Hossco Racing is running away from the field in the lead.
Kudos to Scott Drummond and Arnie Malcolm for turning it around.... welcome back to the old Capital City Track!! Check out the website(
http://www.capitalcityspeedway.ca/ ), for a track that has been up and running for just a few months, this website is far and above some other track websites that have been running for years, this just shows you the effort and commitment that is being shown by these two guys to make sure that this track becomes no only the success it once was, but to grow even bigger and better to become a track that teams will be proud to call their home track.
Oh ya, and it didn't rain, that used to plague the former owner enough to give the nickname "Waterdrome" to the track.
Canada's national bird was a force to be reckoned with that night, yup three of them suckers grabbed on to me and lifted this 200+ lb racer up and tried to drag me into the woods. Going to have to use more mosquito repellant next week.
Well, so long for now, and see you in the pits!
Greasemonkey.
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