Dirt from the Stands by Greg Cybulski

Dirt from the Stands by Greg Cybulski

Ontario Promoter Takes Super Stocks To The Front

In the world of dirt track racing, you don't have to go very far to see which car classes garner the headlines on the internet and motorsports magazines.  Open wheel and late model racing cover the majority of what is available for information-hungry race fans.  Many dirt tracks will advertise specials with touring groups in these same classes.  If you were to attend one of these special race events, the headliner would usually follow a local support car class.  In many instances the support would come from Super Stocks. 

What if the support class were to become the event's headliner?   Emo, Ontario's Anthony Leek has done just that by taking the Wissota Super Stock class and creating the Northern Super Stock Touring Series.  After going on a one-man crusade, getting help from some Winnipeg drivers to help move the concept along, to garner sponsorship for a driver's point's fund for the new series and getting an increased purse on race night, Anthony realized his goal.  In it's inaugural run in 2007, the NSSTS made 3 tour stops at Emo Speedway, Ontario,  Greenbush Race Park, MN and Winnipeg's Red River Co-op Speedway.  A total of 44 race teams from Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Ontario, Manitoba, and Wisconsin participated in the tour which has now grown to 4 dates for the 2008 race season with the addition of Bemidji Speedway, in Minnesota.

Although still in it's infancy, the Northern Super Stock Touring Series appears to have started out with a bang.  With careful guidance and nurturing, it will become something race fans and teams can look forward to for many years to come.

A promoter is defined as "someone who tries to encourage something to happen or develop".  If that is true, then Anthony Leek deserves the title of "Promoter".

If more people in racing would lose the word "CAN'T" from their vocabulary and replace it with the words "CAN DO", then maybe, just maybe we would all enjoy something a little more special on race day.
 
Until next time, take care and good racing.

Greg Cybulski

For more information on the NSSTS check out:  http://www.northernsuperseries.com/index.htm

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