Season opener at HMP

[tps48]

A sixteen car field took to the track for the LoneStar Legacy main event at Houston Motorsports Park last Saturday. The legacy class race was action packed with a good mix of rookie drivers and veteran drivers.

[NickHolt]

Anyone knowing the history of the Lone Star Legacy class in Texas, knows that James and Janette Huff brought that class back to life after it been dormant - if not actually dead - for several years.  

He stuck with the original al Allison rule book which, on paper anyway, did away with a lot of the "improvements" teams had made to the cars as the class fell apart.  It was a battle since several teams had figured out where to obtain better heads, how to "tweak" the ignition and timing systems and discovered the advantages of custom-built shocks.  Folks don't willingly give up their advantages in the racing world 

With my help, James stuck by his guns and slowly, but surely, cars that had been seriously outclasses by the "improvements," emerged from the back lots and dusty garages and over the course of three years, the class grew to 12-14 cars running Central Texas Speedway.  

No, we hadn't plugged all the loopholes, but were about to implement a serious technical inspection plan that would have evened out the field even further.  But, as fate would have it, Tim Self pulled the plug on CTS and the class had nowhere to run but the TWS and Houston Motorsports Ranch road courses.  That didn't sit well with most Lone Star Legacy teams and James, Janette and I retired from running the series.

Fortunately, there were folks who picked up the series once HMP showed signs of life and the series has grown from that point. It was good - and personally satisfying - to see Lone Star Legacy Series producing the largest car count at HMP last weekend.