Budman

Earlier in this thread (back in February 2020) I mentioned the time I was introduced to Ryan Blaney at Texas Motor Motor Speedway by Dan Longley. There is a pic of Dan on this thread in my post above. Ryan was running the truck series at the time. My, how things have changed since then. 🙂

Not just Texas. A look back at NASCAR Rookies of the Year. For the list, Click HERE ----> Full list of Sunoco Rookie of the Year Award winners | NASCAR (NOTE: When you bring up the list you may have to click on "Continue without supporting" )

'preciate the offer HT, but no, it ain't gonna happen. Everybody nowdays wants to sit on their asses, grow huge beer bellies and play with their little things on a Saturday night. They ain't gonna show up at a racetrack.

HUH? What? A racetrack less than 150 miles from me? I can only hope. Haven't been to a car race in years.

COTA? What race?

Well, HT, you know the old saying about hammers. "If you can't fix it with a hammer, You need a bigger hammer." Happy belated birthday. Had one of those myself a couple weeks ago.

Great idea PA. If we can't watch or attend racing right now, lets watch some good vintage racing. Any of you who have been on here long have probably seen it. I've posted it here before. But it's some classic stuff. I first met Jud when I was 6 years old. He and his brother (our next door neighbor) stopped by with a race car to get my dad to make some timing adjustments on the car. That night my dad took me to the first race I can remember attending, as we watched Jud win the feature at Oak Hill Downs just southwest of Austin. In this video, Jud drives Foyt's sprint car in a USAC race some years later. Enjoy.

Hey BB and H'T. Thanks for posting. Don't let your guard down. I think it is way too early to start opening things up. Now even the med professionals are warning against what could come next fall. Remember the 1918 H1N1 flu virus came in three waves, killing 675,000 Americans. It may lay low during the summer, then come roaring back. It was still around through 1919. Stay safe!

I just want to say thank you to Robert for his Romco Super Late Model Series. Robert, you put on some incredible shows for us. Thanks so much. I as a fan followed your series all over the state. I'm sitting here with my Romco SLM cap on even as I type this.

Got a call from my son little bit ago. He's a director at KEYETV42. Travis and Williamson counties going on lock-down as of this morning whatever that means. We are already on lockdown at my place as far as I'm concerned. Burnet and Llano counties out here by me currently have one confirmed case each. Currently 86 Travis, 14 Williamson.

We're good, at least for now. Here's something to think about. How many door handles do you touch in a day's time? How many other people have touched that same door handle before you arrived? How long, if ever has it been since that door handle was sanitized? How about the steering wheel of your car or truck? The gear shift lever, the turn signal lever, the brake release? Have you sanitized any of those? Think about it. Trust me, it's going to get a whole lot worse before it gets any better.

all it takes is one ------- and then they go back home and take it with them and the sh#t spreads exponentially. ------ and that doesn't even include what they leave behind for the locals to deal with.

Here ya go -----> https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-pandemic-h1n1.html

I like it that we can get on here and poke a little good natured fun at one another every now and then. Me and my good friend, 'ol H/T have been at it with each other on here for years. Right now though, maybe we all need to pause and take a little closer look at what is going on around us. I get the feeling there are quite a lot of people out there who are not taking the threat seriously enough. Let's take a look at what happened in our world in 1918. Then, as now there was no vaccine for a particularly pesky little flu virus that was going around. The problem is there is no one left who remembers what happened. It COULD happen here again! I came across this last night on the net. It will be in my next post. Take a look.

Just remember H/T and BB, the briefer your bikini at the beach be, the greater your chance of exposure be.