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This is in response to an article on Florida Sprint Car Fans.com from Rex Guy,
Owner of Auburndale Speedway... This in no way reflects any of my personal
views or opinions, Rex asked me to post this since he and computers don't get
along very well.
The article entitled:
WE´RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND CALL SHENANIGANS ON THE PAVEMENT TRACK OWNERS IN
THIS STATE.
can be read in it's entirety on the Florida Sprint Car Fans website... This
particular portion is what Mr. Guy is responding to:
So now there´s this thing called the "Track Owners Alliance" going on here in
the state of Florida. Never heard of it? Well, sit up and get ready.
First we need to talk about pavement late models, I know, I know,
painful...but really it´s germane, I assure you.
So pavement late model racing used to be a big deal in this state. The past
couple years? Not so much. It was pretty much on life support as a traveling
series (and even weekly shows really) until the FAST series got started and
ran with a blended engine rule (9:1 compression, Florida spec and crate
motors) that balanced everything out with weight rules and such. Healthy
fields of cars showed up, just about every track made money, fans came out,
almost everyone was happy...until one night at Auburndale Speedway the track
took it upon themselves to overturn FAST series officials due to some on-track
altercations with one of the founders of the series Wayne Anderson and
Auburndale favorite Kevin Ingram.
Response from Rex Guy, Owner of Auburndale Speedway:
To whom it may concern:
Auburndale Speedway has no favorites in any division of racing. Going back to
the FAST Late Model incident, the following will clarify what happened that
evening:
When Wayne Anderson and Kevin Ingram got together and had their "moment" on
the track, the Race Director for the FAST Series said to put both drivers to
the rear "if they can continue." When Anderson could not return to the race,
the Race Director said to park both cars which was the wrong call. That is
when I, Rex Guy, over-ruled the Race Director because Ingram was able to
continue. I would have done the same if it were another driver other than Ingram as well.
If everyone knew all of the rules and would read them, it states "zero"
tolerance of any on-track actions as were perpetrated by Anderson. According to
the "rules" laid down by the Series itself, Anderson should have been
penalized, but with the stacked deck of officials, it was overruled. When you
talk about support of this Series, all you have to do is go to their web site
and check the entries for each event. You will find there were only 6-8 real
"supporters" and most of them were cars either owned by or worked on by Wayne
Anderson.
Wake up people. The writing was on the wall for the FAST Series. All Mr.
Anderson had to do to for his Series to survive was to run it and not race in it
himself along with going by the rules that were written.
REX GUY
Owner of Auburndale Speedway... This in no way reflects any of my personal
views or opinions, Rex asked me to post this since he and computers don't get
along very well.
The article entitled:
WE´RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND CALL SHENANIGANS ON THE PAVEMENT TRACK OWNERS IN
THIS STATE.
can be read in it's entirety on the Florida Sprint Car Fans website... This
particular portion is what Mr. Guy is responding to:
So now there´s this thing called the "Track Owners Alliance" going on here in
the state of Florida. Never heard of it? Well, sit up and get ready.
First we need to talk about pavement late models, I know, I know,
painful...but really it´s germane, I assure you.
So pavement late model racing used to be a big deal in this state. The past
couple years? Not so much. It was pretty much on life support as a traveling
series (and even weekly shows really) until the FAST series got started and
ran with a blended engine rule (9:1 compression, Florida spec and crate
motors) that balanced everything out with weight rules and such. Healthy
fields of cars showed up, just about every track made money, fans came out,
almost everyone was happy...until one night at Auburndale Speedway the track
took it upon themselves to overturn FAST series officials due to some on-track
altercations with one of the founders of the series Wayne Anderson and
Auburndale favorite Kevin Ingram.
Response from Rex Guy, Owner of Auburndale Speedway:
To whom it may concern:
Auburndale Speedway has no favorites in any division of racing. Going back to
the FAST Late Model incident, the following will clarify what happened that
evening:
When Wayne Anderson and Kevin Ingram got together and had their "moment" on
the track, the Race Director for the FAST Series said to put both drivers to
the rear "if they can continue." When Anderson could not return to the race,
the Race Director said to park both cars which was the wrong call. That is
when I, Rex Guy, over-ruled the Race Director because Ingram was able to
continue. I would have done the same if it were another driver other than Ingram as well.
If everyone knew all of the rules and would read them, it states "zero"
tolerance of any on-track actions as were perpetrated by Anderson. According to
the "rules" laid down by the Series itself, Anderson should have been
penalized, but with the stacked deck of officials, it was overruled. When you
talk about support of this Series, all you have to do is go to their web site
and check the entries for each event. You will find there were only 6-8 real
"supporters" and most of them were cars either owned by or worked on by Wayne
Anderson.
Wake up people. The writing was on the wall for the FAST Series. All Mr.
Anderson had to do to for his Series to survive was to run it and not race in it
himself along with going by the rules that were written.
REX GUY
I don't know why he is even telling a whopper like that. If I had said that Dave or someone else would have come back with something about me not likeing Rex for this reason or another. It's just a fact at this track. And I'm sure some other track have theirs too. I just know about Auburndale.
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