
RICK @ the RACES (8/9 March 2014)
Sat 8 March Motorsports Expo Syracuse NY
Sun 9 March Trois-Rivieres ( Hippodrome) Que
Last weekend was a busy one, which got under way with an early start on Saturday, for a drive down to Syracuse. NY. It was the annual Motorsports Expo at the New York State Fairgrounds, that’s put on by the Patrick Family and their respected weekly journal, Gater Racing News.
It’s a show I always look forward to after the long winter without my regular diet of dirt racing.
I know there will always be plenty of friends there to chat with and catch up with all the latest gossip as well as some good racing machinery on show. I arrived around midday and after spending a couple of hours there, I was ready to head back to Canada. It’s a three hour drive from my place in Cornwall. Ontario, and I had another three hour drive in the opposite direction, planned for the next day.
I heard through the grapevine, that the REVSTAR Tobias Speedsters would be appearing on the program of a snowmobile event at the Hippodrome (a horse trotting track) in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, so that was going to be my destination. It would be an opportunity to add a new track to my TRACKCHASER totals.
Snowmobile’s are not a ‘countable’ form of racing in TRACKCHASER rules, but the REVSTARS definitely are.
It was a weekend event, and some of my TRACKCHASER friends had opted to attend the Saturday show, but with me preferring to go to Syracuse that day, Sunday was best for me.
I arrived around lunch time at the down town arena, which is very reminiscent of the Hippodrome in Quebec City, where I’d seen Dirt Modified racing, a few years back. One of the first things I noticed was the familiar voice of Cornwall Motor Speedway announcer Brian Mulligan over the loudspeakers. There were only a few REVSTARS in attendance but the five cars that took to the track, were enough to claim me a new track .
The Trois-Rivieres , Hippodrome became TRACK # 215 on my TRACKCHASER totals