Bobbie Reid Recap for SMS 04/09/11

Today was great! My thanks and congratulations go out to all the crew of volunteers and other hard workers at Sandia (dirt track) today! Despite the wind and sand that came with, there was a practice session today. Mike Bertetto made endless efforts in the water truck, trying to get water on the track. Robert Shay was extremely patient with the weather and the anxious drivers today. I would also like to thank all of the fans who showed up today! This was a wonderful start to the season!

The Reid Racing crew put in multiple hours this weekend to get the #15bj dirt modified out for the opening day.

Thank you to my crew chief(Daddy) for coaching me as well as the car with this new surface. I did alot of learning, as the wind forced the track to repeatedly dry out.

Unfortunately, the wind didn't allow as much practice as we'd have liked. The plan is to return in two weeks (April

23rd) for the next practice session. The ReidRacing team would love to see everyone out there! Contact us with any questions!

Race Recap for Show Low Arizona July 4th Weekend -- by Butch Reid (see pics Show Low Arizona)

The Coach's racing crew of Tom & Ruth Brooks, Bad Brad Winters, Bobbie Jean Reid, and myself headed out on Friday to try and get in some much needed practice at the track that nite. We unloaded and got right after it, making several trips out to try different setups, we were happy with what we learned.

Saturday in the tall cool pines, we had clouds and a slight breeze, wonderful day about 80 deg., Bobbie jean's pill drawing would not be as awesome as last time, starting 6th in the first heat we finished where we started thinking the track had moisture, we were wrong. Missing the top 8 for the main event pill draw, we lined up 11th for the feature, being on the inside for the start was not good, i slid back towards the back of the pack till i slid to the top side, finding the groove i liked i proceeded to pass at will with a good hotrod, passing the #8 of Parker was certainly a highlight, about lap 12-15 i was in 7th-8th when the track locked down to rubbered up, as hard as i tried to pass the F5[thought i had him a couple times] i finished behind the F5 at the checkered in 6th.My goals were to first finish, then a top 5,well almost, only damage was some 1/4 panel from the outside wall, you can't race here without meeting the wall!

On to Sunday, we woke up to generator problems, leaking radiator and no fan belt, so all Ruth's food in the fridge had to be thrown out! Darn it! This is a hungry crew? After spending much of the morning dealing with those problems we [crew] got after prepping the car for some more racing.

Next pill draw was a little better, starting 4th in the 2nd heat, i was too slow getting to the bottom where the mud was, so i finished 5th out of the pill draw for the main again, shucks.

Now we were 10th in the starting lineup, as soon as the green dropped we all new the track was locked down one lane rubbered up, the outside all gained one spot so i finished 9th,NO passing for 30 laps, boring!!!!!

Anyway we had some good racing with some old and new friends and look forward to next time.

See ya at the track...........

Race Recap at Canyon Raceway 05/29/10 and 05/30/10 -- by Butch Reid

CANYON RACEWAY IN PHOENIX,ARIZ.5/29 AND 5/30 MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND BEEN A WHILE SINCE THE COACH'S LATE MODEL WENT RACING, BUT ESPECIALLY ON THE ROAD.

WITH TOM BROOKS, STEVEN FRANCIS, JR, BOBBIE JEAN AND MYSELF WE HIT THE ROAD ON SAT. MORNING LOOKING FORWARD TO SOME FAST AND FURIOUS ACTION IN SUNNY PHOENIX ARIZONA, LONG TIME LOCAL FRIEND AND SOMETIME TRACK PREP EXPERT EXTRAORDINAIRE ANDY CRITZER WAS ON HAND TO HELP AS WELL.

SATURDAY WE UNLOADED TO HEAT AND A BREEZE, PERFECT RECIPE FOR DRY SLICK RACING, SURE ENOUGH THAT'S WHAT WE GOT.

WITH 28 CARS ON HAND I COUNTED ON MISS BOBBIE JEAN TO GET US A GOOD STARTING SPOT AND SHE DID JUST FINE AT THE PILL DRAW, FRONT ROW OUTSIDE OF HEAT ONE, WITH A GOOD START WE RACED IN SECOND PLACE AROUND 5-6 LAPS BEFORE THE CAR DIED IN CORNER 2 WITH NO FIRE IN THE IGNITION SYSTEM, COASTING IN TO THE PITS WE CHANGED IGN. MSD BOX TO NO AVAIL, SO WE PUT A NEW COIL ON IT AND THAT GOT US GOING, BUT THE 'B' MAIN WAS ON LAP 3 WHEN I PULLED OUT, DARNIT, WELL WE MADE SOME LAPS TO CHECK THINGS OUT, IF 2 MORE HAD DROPPED OUT OF THE B WE WOULD HAVE MADE IT.

SUNDAY WE WERE VERY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT OUR CHANCES CAUSE WE WERE RUNNING SECOND IN THE HEAT SAT. BEHIND THE FEATURE WINNER THAT NITE.

ANOTHER GOOD PILL PUT US SECOND HEAT FRONT OUTSIDE ROW OF THAT RACE, RUNNING A SOMEWHAT LOOSER SETUP THAT SAT. I PRETTY MUCH FLAT FOOTED THE HEAT TO RUN SECOND, TOP 3 FROM EACH HEAT REDRAW FOR MAIN STARTING POSITION SO OFF TO THE PILL DRAW WE WENT.

9 SPOTS UP FRONT UP FOR GRABS, KIDS OUT OF THE STANDS TURNED PISTONS UPSIDE DOWN TO EXPOSE A NUMBER ON THE DOME GIVING YOU THAT STARTING SPOT, MY KID FROM THE STANDS WON HIMSELF A REALLY COOL RC CAR FOR PICKING ME THE #1, POLE BABY, FRONT ROW JOE!

NOT SURE HOW GOOD WE WERE I HAMMERED DOWN HARD AT THE GREEN TO STAY SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE 48 CAR FOR MUCH OF THE FIRST 20 LAPS RUNNING AND PASSING HIM SEVERAL TIMES ONLY TO HAVE A CAUTION NEGATE MY ADVANCE TO THE FRONT. ABOUT LAP 11-12 THE #8 CAR MUST HAVE BEEN FRUSTRATED WITH MY RUNNING IN FRONT OF HIM CAUSE HE DROVE IT IN SO HARD THE CAR PUSHED UP AND HIT MY LEFT FRONT, PUTTING A TON OF TOE-IN IN THE CAR, SO I GOT LOOSER AND LOOSER, AT LAP 21 I WAS ON THE HIGH SIDE TRYING THAT LINE WHEN THE 50 CAR SPUN TOWARD ME CAUSING ME TO SPIN OFF THE TRACK TOWARD THE BACK STRAIT WALL, STALLING THE MOTOR IT WOULDN'T REFIRE SO AFTER BEING PUSHED IN TO THE PITS COACH FOUND THE FUEL PUMP BELT OFF. TOO LATE TO GET BACK OUT WE STARTED LOADING UP FOR THE WEEKEND, SOME REALLY GOOD RACING WITH MOST, BUT THE MORON IN THE #8 BETTER GET A GRIP, WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND.

WHILE RUNNING UP FRONT AND LEADING THE RACE I REALIZED HOW GOOD WE WERE, TOO BAD ONE GUY HAS TO MESS UP YOUR DAY BECAUSE OF HIS BAD DAY, OH WELL, ON TO THE NEXT ONE,

SHOWLOW, ARIZ 4TH OF JULY, HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE.

State of Affairs (updated 2/1/10) -- by Butch Reid

WELL FOLKS, IT'S BEEN A LONG WINTER, NOT OVER YET BUT RACING BEGINS DOWN SOUTH HERE SOONER THAN WHAT I'M USED TO IN ALBQ., NICER WEATHER I GUESS. ANYWAY, I'M LOOKING AT MY OPTIONS TO POSSIBLY RACE IN EUNICE SOME AT CARDINAL SPEEDWAY ALONG WITH BUTCH JR AND GRANDSON ZACHARY. WITH THE CURRENT JOB SITUATION WORKING AT WIPP, AND TAKING CLASSES AT NMSU-CARLSBAD, MY TIME IS SPREAD PRETTY THIN, BUT THE FEVER IS STARTING TO SET IN (YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT), SO WITH THAT SAID HOPEFULLY I CAN PULL IT ALL TOGETHER AND MAKE A PLAN.

ALSO THINKING OF THE WINTER MELTDOWN IN LAS CRUCES UPCOMING. WE'LL SEE IF I HAVE TIME TO WORK ON THE CAR IN THE NEXT MONTH.

BOBBIE WOULD LOVE TO DO SOME RACING AS WELL SO HOPEFULLY WE CAN MAKE THAT HAPPEN TOO.

THE COACH'S LATE MODEL HAS BEEN PARKED FOR LACK OF MONEY. RUMOR HAS IT CASA GRANDE WILL REOPEN THIS SEASON SO WE CAN ONLY HOPE THE ECONOMY GETS BETTER FOR RACING'S SAKE! I DON'T KNOW IF TULAROSA WILL RUN L.M.S OR AZTEC EITHER BUT LAS CRUCES/EL PASO HAS THE CHIP L.M. CLASS SCHEDULED WITH THEIR LIMITED L.M.S.NOT SURE WHAT THAT MEANS FOR OUR CAR.

ANYWAY STAYED TUNED, HOPEFULLY SOMETHING GOOD WILL HAPPEN, LOCALLY THE PLANS OF A DIRT TRACK IS IN THE WORKS SO DOWN THE ROAD MAYBE A SECOND GENERATION DUKE CITY RACEWAY?

SE YA AT THE TRACK SOMEWHERE.........

Tuscon, Arizona 10/05/09 Recap -- by Butch Reid

The Coach's racing crew has hit the road again!

Making our way to Tucson, Ariz. by way of 1-25 & 1-10 we unloaded to some great weather to start wheel packing under.

Track was wet since they've had lots of rain there as of late, so we packed, and the mods packed, and we hot lapped in the wet, FAST track, certainly nothing like what we see here in N.M. anywhere!

So the crew, Tom & Ruth Brooks, Bobbie jean, Steven and myself readied the hot rod for some hammer down racing. Coach and Steven have been working on the car at the shop as well and the car was definitely ready for the action.

I won a prize at the drivers meeting which was a $100.fuel card from pilot, problem is it was for the worst pill draw! Shucks. For the heat with 20 cars and 3 heats I was 7th in heat two, on the wood not lifting on this fast track I worked by a couple cars to begin working on the 11 car. I went low while he was high, he came down causing me to lift, he went low, I went high. Again he would change his line, darnit. Finally I tried to shove it in there and got myself out of shape and had to lift finishing 6th, boy this place has showed me how out of shape I am, no time to rest at this joint!

With a few adjustments for the drying slowly race track we would line up 16th in the feature. At the green I worked the high side passing quite a few cars. The track was drying/slicking off on entry so I moved up against the wall running the very high line, not good since I clipped the front strait wall about lap 10-12. Pulling into the pits to look at the damage I went down some laps. Re-entering the track I finished the race about where I started since others pulled in early, 15-16th I think. Well we have a taste of this place now, lots of things for me as a driver to work on for next time!

Plans do change, but Tucson is it for the winter, a two day show in Nov., 7th-8th I think, and the week long event in Jan. starting the 8th.

New job at W.I.P.P. well under way and looking good long term so wish me well in the career dept., next year? We'll see, Bobbie will probably get more racing in somewhere.

See ya at the track.......

White Sands Speedway 09/05/09 Recap -- by Butch Reid

Boy folks if you missed last nite at Tulie you missed some some good ol' dry slick racing at it's best!

On hand from the Coach's racing team we're Tom and Ruth Brooks, bad Brad Winters, Steven Francis jr, Bobbie Jean,and myself. Also hanging with us in the pits were Kevin Nueville taking pictures.

We drew pill #12 tonite so we ended up on the front row of the heat and the main, for the heat we lead a few laps before the #11 of Mark Myers smoked on by to win, with a few changes we hustled out to barely tag the dash and tested those changes with a combined race with the mods (was actually a pretty good/close battle) also won by the #11.

We (crew) have worked really hard trying to find a good enough setup to give the #11 a battle for the win, but always seem to end up way too loose no matter what, the same happened tonite as well. At the green I fell in behind the 11 car as I watched him get smaller and smaller i started really pushing the car and spun myself coming off turn 4,darnit, on the restart I went high and stayed on the outside making it back up to second at the checkered, whew!

Next race, Tucson 10-03-09

see ya then......

White Sands Speedway 08/22/09 Recap -- by Butch Reid

The Coach's Late Model team made the trip to Tularosa this weekend to make our second race of the season in the Rocket chassis late model.

While i'm working down south and came up through Cloudcroft, Coach, Ruth, Darren, Steven (traveling in the rig), and Bobbie Jean with boyfriend Zach in tow, made the trip down south from the big city to Tularosa! Thanks to all you guys for your efforts this weekend, been awhile since we last raced, but we hit on at least 7 cylinders sat. nite!

We made some wet hot laps early on but learned nothing, so we tackled the heat race with a loose car not sure of where we were on setup, but we knew now! Starting 5th I made some ground up to finish 3rd in the heat.

With the heat behind us the fire drill began to tighten up for this VERY slick track, so let the learning curve begin, we had qualified for the trophy dash but didn't quite make it out in time with the fire drill going on, so we geared up for some intermission hot laps to see where we were at for setup.

With more adjustments made we lined up for the main in 4th,passing on the high side I took the lead at lap 3, pulling away from the field until a caution, on the restart the 11 car got under me and took the lead away, trying different lines to no avail I came home in 2nd, shucks.

thanks to all who helped out, we'll keep everyone updated!

Cardinal Motor Speedway 08/15/09 Recap -- by Butch Reid

As some of you know I've taken a job down here in Carlsbad in the oil patch cause work there at home was non-existent, and with that said my race cars are parked for now waiting on the lottery to come in? So when I tell you I raced last nite you'll wonder how, I had planned to go with Butch jr and Zach to Eunice to help pit and I did, but after we got there Robert Gregg asked me to drive his modified so we were racing!!!!

Friday nite we all went to Roadrunner/Happy Valley raceway in Carlsbad so Zach could get some laps, after a good run in his heat he was ready for the feature, at the green he battled hard and made his move to the front wearing out the leader, at the white he drove it in hard in turn one to come out of two side by side, bumping and rubbing all the way down the back chute they entered turn 3 side by side, coming off turn four we were all on our feet as Zach came home in a photo finish 2nd place, darnit, but what an awesome run for the 15 yr old,next time we told him 4 wheels turn better than two so don't lift!

Off to Eunice we were, with Butch jr's mod and Zach's hobby stock, since they had a rain out last time they ran with only the heats being finished, we were in for a double feature nite.

Butch jr started 3rd row outside and wasted no time getting to the front, at lap 3 of the first feature he was in the lead and checking out on the rest of the field, if not for the one and only caution he would have lapped most of the field, as he went on to win the main event, Yeah!!!!!!!

Zach ran 7th in the first main as he was trying to race with no tearoffs, not good!

This is when my ride developed as Robert Gregg asked me to shoe his hotrod cause he wasn't feeling good, so with my racing gear 90 miles away in my truck I hustled some stuff and headed off to the heat race, knowing I was gonna take it easy in this unfamiliar car I backed up at the start only to charge back toward the front in the latter laps to finish 4th(right behind jr) in a 7 car field, so that qualified me for the front half of the main, cool!

Zach ran his main first and the not raced on track for 6 weeks or so came apart to the point of holes the size of Volkswagens, YIKES...being a rookie this was another step in his development towards stardom (someday).

anyway he struggled some and again came home 7th in the main, good run.

For the mod main I lined up 4th,jr was 7th,at the green I got a good start falling in line 3rd on this rough, one lane, around the bottom dry track, hoping I could keep up and maybe move forward we were a freight train around the bottom making it hard to pass, on lap three I got hit entering turn one and he finished me off spinning me into the infield, darnit, an ol foe #85 from years ago getting some payback from ??,who knows, but he got sent to the rear and I got my spot back, back to green, as I raced this NEW car I was trying to learn it and race to win at the same time, others with a zillion laps at this place and not in a NEW car where going to the front, so I backed up a few spots till I got the best line I could find to keep up, Butch jr passed me on the high side (I was holding him up) to finish 7th,and I was under his quarter panel at the checkered finishing 8th,alot of bruised ego's after a follow the leader race like this, and bent bumpers as well, but as time passes cooler heads will prevail, or so they say?!

Thanks to Robert Gregg for the opportunity to race tonite, as time goes on we'll see how much racing I'll get to do, but I did tonite, and got to race with Butch jr as well, how cool is that!

Next week we'll be in Tularosa at White Sands Speedway with the Coach's Chassis late model team hoping to have too much fun!!!!!

Sandia Motor Speedway 08/08/09 Recap -- by Butch Reid

The late model team plans to take on White Sands speedway on 8-22-09 at Tularosa, so make plans to come watch.

At Sandia last nite I had Bobbie Jean their to help with setups and Robert Shay to crew as well, thanks guys, for the heat we lined up 7th,someone oiled or anti freezed the track down cause it sucked all nite. Anyway I raced pretty good for a few till I realized track was the issue for all of us, finished toward the rear of the heat.

With some deliberation between me and the crew we made some changes, went to the scales for pre tech and as we rolled on we noticed we had a flat left rear tire so back to our pit. Next trip to the scales we were too low, different tire I guess, next trip we were good to go, so at the green from our 11th starting position we moved forward from the git go to race with the 31. At lap 14 I was under him down the back shute and could see the 0 car way high up ahead, so as we entered the corner it was me side by side with the 31 car, as the 0 car decided he was coming to the bottom, whoa...some excitement I reckon as we locked em up, the 31 locked em up, the 31 hit the 0, I made minor contact with the 31, and the 0 spun from the contact. So...I thought a trip to the hot pits was in order to examine the damage, with everything looking ok we rejoined the field toward the rear and hammerd down headed back to the front, some pretty exciting racing going on as I finished 5th at the checkered flag nipping on the 00 cars heels. race was won by the 63 car of Charlie Daniels from his pole starting position so congrats to him!

WE will miss most of the rest of the shows at Sandia for the remainder of the season, but want to say thanks to most out there. Monte and crew are working very hard(against in house old ways) to try and bring this place back to a good place to race. Keep up the good work Monte, hopefully you'll get some support down the road!

see ya'll at Tularosa in two weeks......

White Sands Speedway 08/01/09 Recap -- by Butch Reid

My original game plan was to travel to Tularosa to help pit for Butch jr, Mark Myers, and maybe help out Alan Bowers, but with TOO much free time on my hands i've been working on B.J.s modified and on Sat. I realized it could race today if I got with it, so I got with it and 'got er done'!

After calling Bobbie to see if she could make the trip and drive her car(she had to work) I decided with money a tight as it is to load up the open trailer for economy reasons since JR would be there with plenty of tools etc.,and that made it a 1 tank round trip, this being a test session since this car was in the fence last time out I would be happy if we finished the race.

Thanks to Leroy @ BodyCrafters for his continued help, and Coach's Chassis as well, couldn't keep going with out them,  there two were instrumental in getting the black car back as cherry as it is!

To the track, lots of familiar faces every time I travel to tularosa, and Butch jr had some buds in tow as well, so we got some serious bench racing done while there. Mac McCutchen does such a wonderful job promoting White sands speedway it makes you want to support him and the track!

With pill draws in order I drew 49 for me,46 for jr, damm, could of been worse,'not', of 50,anyway,I was lined up in heat one starting 6th,with a decent start and unsure of my mount, I realized early I had no rear brakes, not good on a wet track, so.....I quit using em so as not to slide the nose to the wall, and finished 4th with a very good turning race car, but now I needed to find out waassuupp with the rear brakes!

After trying to bleed hoping that was the problem, we found the brake pushrod was backed out of the clevis, 'what', so with that repaired we readied for the main.

Butch jr pulled off in his heat because of a vibration, which turned out to be mud in the rr wheel, whew!

For the main I lined up 10th,jr was 12th. At the green I picked off a few and raced hard with jr battling behind me, with a yellow coming out I lifted and jr went by, thinking he made the pass he fought the ol man hard for the spot so I gave it up thinking I had a good enough car to get it back, well almost, we ran the high line, we ran the low line, we had a good race with jr  finishing 10th,and me 11th,Johnny Scott won from the pole? What's up with these line ups? Anyway, other than the track watering the top at intermission and causing a couple of wrecked race cars since they told no one and didn't pack it in, the racing was good and clean!

I got to watch some of the late model action and it was all Mark Myers uncontested, looked like a good battle from 3rd on back but I don't know results, this will be an awesome track to race on regularly!

Next week I should be at Sandia with the ever growing car counts there, maybe we'll eventually win one this year, lots of good competition this year so hope to see you there!!!

Like most racers this tough economy is definitely a factor in my racing, so we're constantly looking for someone to work with as a team for sponsorship, so jump on board and let's win some races!!!!!!!

see ya at the track........

Sandia Motor Speedway 07/25/09 Recap -- by Butch Reid

Well folks I have to say i've been excited about this weekend since I found out my grandson, Zachary, was coming this weekend with his hobby stock to try some asphalt racing (he is a big #24 Jeff Gordon fan), his dad is still a die hard dirt guy, but I won't hold that against him.

My good friend and engine builder for many years (Kenny Myers) was honored last nite, along with others who have passed on but have touched us all in some way in the racing world, I will always have fond memories of my many hours spent either riding down the highway headed to some distant track, or in the engine building room talking about cam timing or ? for hours on end, or listening to Roy D.Mercer in the cassette talking about 'Whoop a grams"! I miss ya bud!

On to racing, Bobbie jean made it to the track tonite to help out dad and hang with brother Butch jr and nephew Zachary, after making several spring changes during the week to try and help my loose entry problem I think we made some improvement this weekend, after practice though we did make a shock change as well which also seemed to help, anyway for the heat we lined up 6th I believe and knew right away we were headed in the right direction, when the green flew I followed the 08 through the 12 car field heat race toward the front, the 7 won, the 08,and myself seemed to pull away to a pretty fast paced race, I was decent but now I knew what I needed for the main.

Zachary started outside pole of his 8 car hobby heat race, being his first ever pavement race I knew he would find the limit to tire grip, and he did spin once, but that's a good thing cause now he knows how hard he can drive it in?! He did great and finished 4th in the heat.

Sam Hodges from Eunice, the track owner at Cardinal Motor Speedway there, was here also with son Cody and his hobby stock to try their hand at the $1k to win prize, unfortunately they fought axle bearing problems all weekend, sorry guys for your bad luck, they had fun and said they would come back for some pavement racing again soon.

On to the mains:

With much confusion at the line up board over why we run a heat race?

We were lined up 8th for the feature, again behind the 08 car, at the green we followed the 08 through to be in 3rd after a handful of laps and began trying to run down the two leaders (wasn't sure who the leaders were for a while with all the lapped traffic), boy there wasn't a dull moment out there with the x-mods running their own race along with the A mod race at the same time!

It was exciting from where I sat so I would imagine it was from the stands as well.

As the laps wound down seemed like I would catch the two leaders then lapped traffic would slow me down some then to my surprise the 7 car running second would spin coming off turn two with 10 to go, i'm thinking this is my shot as I was on the 08's bumper at the restart, never slipping too much I actually gave the 08 a love tap at one point, but I couldn't get by as fuel burnoff, hot tires, got both of us loose toward the end, so we were bridesmaids one more time, you know, first loser.

So congratulation the Willis Johnson on the win tonite in the A mod feature!

To the hobby main, with the car count lower than the track had hoped, they decided the combo mod and x-mod race was so good they combo'd the hobby's and street as well for their main, with the streets starting to the front Zachary was about 12th or so in line at the start he raced hard and battled with the #1 for while and would pull away to lap him, to a 3rd place finish in the main, Good job Zachary!!!!!!!

Stay tuned to my upcoming schedule as the budget and the late model schedule will change.

see ya at the track!!!

Sandia Motor Speedway 07/11/09 Recap -- by Butch Reid

With my crew chief absent tonite cause she's working, I set out to go have fun and try not to stress over setups etc. Well I did have fun but trying not to stress over pavement setups is asking a bit too much!

With 16 cars on hand we had two heats and I lined up 4th, at the green we went forward a lap or two then I realized how darn loose the car was, I should've finished 2nd, but 4th was it. It's that setup thing you know?

Tired of the loose car I've fought the last couple of races I made a major spring change to tighten 'er up! Good luck with that huh!

Starting 7th in the A I raced hard a the beginning with a much better car, but still loose of the corner, anyway had some exciting laps running the outside line for many laps side by side with the 00, finishing 6th at the end, oh well next time.

We hung out tonite and didn't work too hard, hot tonite too, so this ole guy took it a little easy!

I don't know what our immediate schedule will be with a motor at the engine shop, and a car on the frame machine, and work slow as heck, stay tuned for the updates.

see ya at the track.......

Aztec Speedway 07/04/09 Recap -- by Butch Reid

After much work to repair my Coach's Chassis modified since our one and only trip to UCS in Grants, I've been making the switch so as to be able to race the car at imca race tracks such as aztec, eunice, etc.

So special thanks to Coach's Chassis, M.A.D. graphic's, Bodycrafters, Wyoming Service center, and the crew, Bobbie Jean, Leon Schmitt, and Alan Bowers, who was a great asset this weekend!

With Alan pulling Bobbie's car to aztec she was able to race this weekend with a quik break between school and work, we all converged on the banked speedway on this 4th of july early enough to do so much needed catching up with bench racing around the area with some locals.

With no point average we would both be in the back of heat races, her in the second heat, me in the third, 20 mods on hand, I took the green and worked passed a couple cars to finish second chasing the 98 car of kevin brown at the checkered, that would put me in the front 12 inversion for the main. Bobbie did real good passing to finish 4th in her heat (more from her on that).

With lots of setup prep from crew Leon & Alan, we readied for the main, I would line up 12th,Bobbie 14th,at the green I got a pretty good first start picking off a few on the first corner and down the back shoot when the yellow flew, looking down the back strait I could see a car in the wall at turn 3, darn it, it was Bobbie's car. The car was wounded but Bobbie was ok, but not happy! Some schmuck put her in the fence driving like an idiot! Making it very hard for me to continue the track crew stopped me to reassure the Bobbie was ok, so on to the restart we went, with a few restarts we got to green flag racing and we had a pretty good hot rod, with this being our first trip here for our setup we were close, not perfect, but close. Anyway we raced up to 5th at one point but with the engine over heating I slowed on the white flag to finish 8th, good racing here with the front runners, the rookies in the back need to get a grip, but I guess you have some of that everywhere?

Good to see old friends here in aztec, good crew up here from the tech guys to the flagman, to the awesome announcing from Lynn Hensley!

We'll be back.......

Bobbie's car is wounded, but not her spirits, she was on my tail looking to race with dad for 24 more laps, so we'll try and fix her car and schedule another weekend in the future!

With the 15bj driver turning 19 this tuesday we will be having some cake and ice cream to celebrate!!!!!

See ya'll at the track.......

Aztec Speedway 07/04/09 Recap -- by BobbieJean Reid

Well this was a very fun weekend away from school and work for me. I had a tight schedule with school and work but found time Thursday and Friday to help out Daddy and Leon get the cars ready to rock and roll up to Aztec. Alan Bowers was kind enough to offer to tow up the black #15bj modified that I've been driving lately. Thanks Alan! Once our whole crew was there(Leon, Me, Daddy and Alan), we got the cars off the trailers and started to get ready to pack. Unfortunately, modifieds were asked to pack (seems a little silly with the Crate Models there with wide tires). But we headed out onto the sloppy, slimy track and tried to stay as clean as possible. That didn't work out to well since we forgot to lube the cars up with baby oil. Good thing we had a great hard workin crew that is experienced at scrapin'!! ;)  I lined up in the back of the second heat race since I didn't have a point average for the season. It took me awhile to get a good handle on the car. After all, I don't race too often! But I was keepin up with the field and also keepin the car under me! I was chasin down the #4 car and trying to watch his line. I felt confident and was fast enough and passed him coming out of turn four at the white flag. I kept him behind me to the checkered and finished fourth!

As Leon, Daddy and me discussed what we thought the track was gonna do; we made adjustments and watched some good racin'! Again, I'd like to thank the crew for being so amazing and on top of things all night! With two cars, to get ready and alot to do, we had to rush to get ready. We headed to staging with hopes that we made the right decisions in regards to setup. I lined up on the seventh row outside, right behind the famous #5 of Butch Reid :). With such a pro ahead of me, I decided I'd just follow him to the front! They gave us the "one til green" sign and the field packed in tight! My heart was racin' and I sure was excited to race with all these guys! They threw the green and I followed #5 around the outside. We cleared alot of cars by the time we were coming down the back stretch! My car felt amazing, I barely lifted! I was right on Dad's bumper as we headed into turn three. I was about the lift off the throttle as I felt a rough contact! I was headed straight towards the wall with no chance of missing. I did all I could by standing on the breaks and letting go of the wheel. I hit the wall nearly head-on and within seconds, I felt another hard hit. A car couldn't miss me and clipped my right rear. After hitting the wall so hard, I had the wind knocked out of me but I was ok. As soon as the tow truck drivers let me know the car wasn't able to race, I started to unstrap myself. I was pretty upset because I sure was lookin forward to racin with my dad, especially with such a hooked up car! They towed me in and I got a good look at it. The right front bump steer bolt was snapped in two and the right frame horn took a pretty hard hit. We're not sure if the chassis is bent yet but we'll keep you posted with updates. The fan hit the radiator and that's always a bummer. The #4 car that hit my right rear didn't do any damage to the frame (thank goodness), but he did put a pretty good dent in the fuel cell. So, our crew has alot of work to do before the car is ready to go again. We're not quite sure when I'll be able to race again, but hopefully not too long. Until then, I'm going to continue to focus on school and makin a living. Be sure to check the schedule to see when and where Dad will be racing next! Thanks for all your support! I'd like to give a big HUGE thank you to my amazing father for allowing me the opportunity of racing this weekend. You're the best, Daddy-O!

Sandia Motor Speedway 06/27/09 Recap -- by Butch Reid

With a week between races you would think you couldn't mess things up too bad, tinker itus?

Great turnout tonite with 14 mods, some first timers so we tried to spread some good will and help several guys get up to speed tonite, and most were a lot happier after the changes than what they showed up with.

I started 6th in heat two, at the green I followed the 08 thru and the 00 followed me, that's the way we ran for 10 laps, my car was a little off but not junk, so we made minimal changes for the feature.

For the main we lined up 5th, I heard pill draw was 8 for the inversion, anyway at the green (after a 3 wide salute to the fans) we fell into 3rd at lap 1 but started going backward right away, way loose off the corners. So when a caution came out at lap 3 or so, I darted to hot pits and had the crew put some rounds in to the sway bar and headed back on track, at the green I don't think they knew what to do with me so even though we had lapped a couple cars, they left me in the rear, so at the green the 04 was slow to get going and not to pass before the flagstand, I waited till turn 1 to make the pass and the field was gone! So on the hammer with a much better car we raced all the way to the checkered without another caution and I made it to 6th I believe at the end. Not happy with my setup efforts tonite,  cause I usually don't miss the main setup that bad, but we made up some spots after the hot pit and hopefully put on a show trying to get back to the front!

Thanks to crew; Bobbie Jean, bad Brad Winters, Leon Schmitt, and caitie woosley (Bobbie's friend) for their awesome efforts tonite!

Coach's Chassis, couldn't do it with out them, Danny @ Action Alignment, and Wyoming Service Center. Thanks to you all!

Management at sandia seems to be headed in the positive direction and I give them a big pat on the back tonite as well!

The game plan is to head to Aztec next Sat. with both dirt cars, after mucho repair since our Grants weekend, we should be putting graphics on this week.

So,we'll see ya at the track...........

Sandia Motor Speedway 06/20/09 Recap -- by Butch Reid

After sitting for a full year the Reidracing team drug out the trusty ol'Harris Pavement car and began the restoration so we could tear up some pavement tonite!

The Friday nite practice was a much needed test session for us since we worked on car issues more than setup, but after a couple sessions on the track we had a game plan for the Sat. show, a gear change for one, and fine tune the setup on the car. So sat. the crew made the gear change, made jet changes to the carb, worked tires to find the right setup and called it ready in time for the second practice session.

For the qualifying we went out second and set second fast time, so what they did was invert the fast times to put me 5th in the dash line up out of the quickest 6 cars? Don't know where that procedure came from, but oh well, so at the green the 63 got loose in turn one and I shot low to lead every lap of the dash, YEAH! Dash winner!

For the main they drew a pill to determine how many would invert, pill 3 was drawn so I started 6th in the feature, some different stuff went on in line ups tonite but I guess it all turned out ok.

At the green flag of the A, the 08 was in front of me and entering turn one the 31 slid up the track, the 09 slowed a bit, so the 08 cut low to take the point off turn two and I followed. Racing had only one caution at lap three, then all the way to lap 50, whew, as we raced I knew I was better than the 08 so I thought I would save tires and ride along far awhile, well entering turn one I got in a little hot and the 00 got me off two, darnit @#$%^&* (must of been napping), anyway I had to get up on the wheel the rest of the way to make up for that mistake, trying the outside line I couldn't quite get it done cause the 00 would slide up off four and take my line away, so back to the bottom I tried to follow the 00 as he passed the 08,but it took me another few laps to get it done, and the 00 had made serious ground before I cleared the 08,pushing hard I reeled the 00 in but came up short at the checkered to finish second! Great race with lots of good racing going on, congrats to the 00 car on the win!

Thanks to crew Mike Walker, Robert Shay, Bobbie Jean, Curtis Berry who made his pavement debut, and Tim Lamm who came and had fun as well!

Good job to Monte for his tireless efforts in trying to help the track, hopefully a new vision and direction will be the end result!

Also, I'd like to congratulate Butch Jr. on winning the modified main event at Cardinal Motor Speedway on 06/20/09. Good job!

Finally a shout out to Charlie Daniels, who supplied me with some used tires. Also thanks to Danny from Action Alignment for he continued support! Thanks guys!

We will be back to Sandia to race, not sure of the dates as of yet, but we'll let you know!
See ya at the track...........

Uranium Capital Speedway (Grants) 06/06/09 Recap -- by Butch Reid

First off I want to say thanks to all the club people that run this race track, always make you feel welcome, and on their budget a pretty good facility. It does need some attention in a few areas but like they say 'at least we still have a race track'! Lighting would probably be my biggest issue. The racing surface was surprisingly good, I say that because I've not been there since 1997,and from what I could see looked like lots of good racing in all divisions, so thumbs up to the track personnel!
 

Now to the other stuff, my day here didn't start out too good, in the hot lap session I new I should've pulled in instead of going green cause the track was way too muddy still. But I did, with some cars slicing thru the field trying to win hot laps, the 12 car spun in turn one and I slammed right into him, I should have pulled in! Limping to the pits we thrashed to make the heat race, hoping we found all the issues. Well we didn't, but starting 2nd in the heat we finished 2nd with a very ill car. Back to the pits!

After more thrashing we lined up 6th for the main, lots and lots of yellows, track very dry and slick, cars driving so low in turn two they kept loose stuff all over the track in that corner. With going backwards for awhile I managed to find a better line for a while and moved up to 3rd at one point, but my HIGH line went away at the end and I finished 5th, Bobbie Jean must of been in the hunt cause she finished 7th, good job Bobbie Jean!

Thanks to crew; Steven Francis jr, Leon Schmitt, myself, and B.J.

Other notes; to the driver of the 09, none of us had a good race but the winner. You need to calm down after the race before you shoot your mouth off in the future. I might be an old guy, but you don't know me very well if you think your lip last nite will be forgotten. There may not be anyone there next time to keep me off you, so consider this my only warning, I don't do lip service, next time there will be NO warning!

I can't say exactly where my next race will be, repair work continues, so stay tuned. Was really good to get to race with B.J., and I think she had a really good time. She'll be driving right by me pretty soon.

see ya at the track!!!!!!!!

El Paso Speedway Park Recap 05/29/09 Recap -- by Butch Reid

On the road again, something I've always loved doing, but now it's the highway or no way at all for dirt racers in the Albq. area!

With the car loaded up on Thursday I headed out Friday am and had a game plan with several stops in mind, methanol from Rick's performance, fuel from the pilot in Las Cruces (had a gift card from the march race down there), a stop at Barnett Harley to say hi to those guys,and to the track by 5pm,so that's how it went.

With no point average (they do the imca point average line up procedure), we would line up 6th in heat three,23 cars on hand with 4 heats, with a tight car I worked the track trying real hard to get comfortable with this hammer down fast 3/8 mile track, finishing 5th in the heat I would start 15th in the A main. As the track slicked off I hoped I would be a little better than the fast hammer down heat race. At the green we moved forward to join a fierce battle right in front of me between the g-17 and 67,with the 44 and 111 also in a battle. Going into turn one the g-17 set it sideways to avoid the spinning 67 and I drove right into him straightening him out I got sent to the rear(!@#$%^&*() dammit, to try and battle my way back to the front I moved to the high line for a few laps on the restart only to realize I wasn't going forward, so moving back to the bottom I began to pick cars off about one per lap, at the checkered we were scored 10th, not bad since 10 laps before I was in last place, but the track was black and oh so smooth! Just my style! Anyway, thanks to Royal, Jimmy, Bryan, Annette and the rest of the el paso crew who made me feel at home. Also to my crew; Vince LaPasti who lives in El Paso and came out to help an old guy play in the dirt!

I drove to Las Cruces Friday nite and found a room to ready for sat in Cruces, after the incident in turn one I had some repair to do and a gear change was in order as well!

And being offered more southern hospitality I had somewhere to do all that, more on that in the cruces recap...........

Southern New Mexico Speedway Recap 05/30/09 -- by Butch Reid

With the southern hospitality continuing I was offered up the opportunity to hang out at Jimmy Ray's shop to make a gear change and do some serious bench racing with Jimmy and Hobbs, N.M. racer Greg Jenkins #2,so after all the racing world problems were solved we headed out to one of Jimmy's favorite mexican food restaurants and chowed down on some good green chili fixins.

Off to the track now we would all put on our race faces to hopefully challenge for the win!

The track decided with so many out of towners to do a pill draw for the mods, I drew 32 which put me 3rd row outside in heat two. Off at the green we made a charge to finish 3rd at the checkered, cool, no B main for me!

For the A we would line up 10th,at the green we made some progress early making it to 7th-8th or so, thinking I wasn't too far off on setup I think the rough track just wore me out or my line went away cause after 3 locals passed me I finished 11th out the 30 or so that showed up and all started the A,not where I thought we would finish but I suck on rough race tracks,jusy won't stay in it lap after lap and abuse MY equipment!

Thanks again to all the Speedway people who made all us locals feel right at home!

Congrats to Jimmy and Royal on their wins this weekend!

See ya'll at a track down the road!

Odessa Texas; Butch jr ran 4th in the feature-good job!

Hollywood Hills Speedway 05-16-09 Recap – by Butch Reid

Tinal race for all but sprints is in the books, whew!!!!!!!

Bury the hatchet on this joint (insert photo of hatchet buried in casino hollywood marqius), whatever the future of this joint brings to the people of N.M. we all need to understand it's not for anyone's benefit but the tribe!

Thanks to the Benji Lyons promotion team for trying to make something good happen at this finest of racing facilities, sorry you took it in the shorts like the racing community has been here for some time.

Mods on hand were 27, with 4 heats, a 'B' and an 'A' main on the line up board, with the extra money several hitters showed up to try and take the prize.

Bobbie drew me pill 20, she elected to run scratch in the heat, her in heat 2, me in heat three row 2 inside. At the green I pulled into 3rd place behind the 58 car. After a lap of knowing what I had under me I pulled under him off turn 2, I think he must of been loose cause he came down the track sending me into the infield. Not stopping, I finished the race in 4th with a ton of toe out in the front end.

We repaired and readied both cars for some more action. Bobbie was in the 'B' starting 10^th. They would transfer 8 to the 'A' so she would have to get a little racey to get er done. As the race progressed you could see the rookie learn as each lap went by. At the checkered she made the pass on the 8th place car to make the transfer YEAH............!

So now two cars to try and put up front, my finish put me 15th in the 'A', Bobbie 25^th. At the green of the main I started behind the 82 of Sherm Barnett. Entering turn 3 of lap one he went high. He must of known something I didn't, cause I went low and the 58 got sideways right in front of me, darnit. with no room between him and the implement tires I clipped the BIG tire off turn 4 and got a flat. So after a trip to the hot pits, I restarted in the rear of a 25 car field. They began cutting laps every time a yellow came out and there where a bunch of yellows, dry track I guess. Anyway we had a good hotrod and each time we got some green laps in I went forward. Finally at about lap 10 (green flag laps) the checkered flew and I was battling for 7th place, a little loose off turn 4 I finished 8^th. Wow, from 25th in those few laps, who knows how good we really were in the whole field because of the shortened race, but both cars came home without a scratch so that’s a plus! B.J. finished 15th, great race for her.

Thanks to crew on hand; Mike Walker, Leon Schmitt, Bad Brad Winters, myself and Bobbie Jean.

Lots of friends around visiting tonight about history and what might of been, and where do we go from here?

We all know this deal really sucks for all of us in the racing community. Maybe it's a reality check for some, a chance to go to the lake, home projects etc. what will happen though is we will lose some racing people because of the void, cars will sell, trailers parked or traded for rv's, and so on. I've seen it before, so whereever we end up, it will be between trips doing other stuff, and supporting my college student.

OTHER NEWS:

Butch jr lead every lap of the 'A' main in Odessa to win the feature, congratulations to him, he must be on a roll cause he left the casino in Ruidoso with $750 of their money this week also, cool!

Zachary continues his learning curve in the Hobby stock division, finishing one spot out of the 'B' to 'A' transfer, you'll get em next time.

They will be in Eunice next week.

See ya'll somewhere!

Hollywood Hills Speedway 05-16-09 Recap – by BobbieJean Reid

Well tonight was a great night. It started on Friday night with the great help of Mike Walker and my awesome Daddy-O! We got the cars ready to rock and roll and loaded 'em up pretty late that night. Then came the night of rest of course! The next morning, Mike Walker graciously towed my black car out to the track while me and Daddy towed the big trailer. Since we were already ready to go for the most part, we just did a little touch up and small maintenance before they sent us modifieds out to pack in the track. It was pretty wet and slimy for a rookie!

They gave us about three hot laps which didn't do much for me :( After that, we got both Modifieds ready to run the heat races. Thanks to Bad Brad, Leon, and Mike W. for all your help tonight! You guys really are amazing help! I started scratch in the second heat race. Trying to find a line and learn my way around the track, I just followed the pack. I ended up finishing where I started but sure learned a lot about the track in those 10 laps. Since the top four transferred to the "A" and there were seven cars in my heat race, I had to run the "B" Main. That turned out to be a pretty good thing. I got a lot of laps in and raced pretty hard for the transfer spot. As I was given the white flag, the leader was about to lap me and was given the checkered. I was also coming up on a lap car while racing side by side with the number 3G car. Coming out of turn two, I lapped the 23 car on the inside while the 3G decided to take the high side. I turns out I picked the right line cause I passed 'em both and took the checkered flag at 8th place- the last transfer spot!

So we added some fuel and headed to staging for the "A" main which was $100 to start!!! Now, I wasn't racin' for the money but it sure was a bonus! I lined up near the back in the 23rd spot since I transferred from the "B" and started behind the number 55. I was so excited to go out and see what I could do after such an amazing "B" main! Well, there were QUITE a few yellow flag laps so I didn't get the chance to really race anyone. It seems there was a yellow every other lap. Unfortunately, some drivers didn't want to cooperate with the black flag. Some stayed on the track after causing two or more cautions and continued to cause cautions... So, we ran about 50 or so yellow flag laps and possibly five real green-flag/racing laps. Fortunately, I was not involved in any cautions, nor did I cause any. I do have to say that was one of my top goals for tonight! YAY! I avoided a lot of wrecks by serving to miss spinning cars. Again, I learned a lot out there! I ended up finished 15 out of the 25 cars that started. Please check the website frequently for any updates on our racing schedule. Hollywood Hills Speedway will no longer be running this season so we are forced to find a new place to race. With College Summer classes, my schedule will be pretty booked! I'll letcha know when we're goin and where as soon as we know! Check the "schedules" link on the homepage for this information, as it may change frequently. Thank you for your support and I hope to see you soon!

Lady Luck Speedway/Cardinal Motor Speedway 5-08-09/5-10-09 Recap – by Butch Reid

Thank goodness racing season is here and we racers have so many options!

A buddy in Carlsbad asked if I was coming racing this weekend and offered up a ride in a 06 Shaw modified since mine is not imca legal,so off to Lubbock, Texas I headed on Friday to meet up with Brian Prouty and crew and my son with nephew Josh as crew.

This car I was to run hadn't been run since it was Brian’s backup car, so gremlins were expected (by me anyway). At the track we prepped for a track I had never seen before—Lady Luck Speedway--Lubbock, Texas, a small, flat, hammer down place, always turning. With it being my first time there I started in the back of heat 2, which was a good thing for the car was all wheelied up trying to knock the fence down when on the gas. So we pulled in early (white flag) and started making changes to ready for the main.

Starting 23^rd, I hammered at the green and moved past a few cars to 15th or so in a green to checkered race when the leaders came around to lap the back cars, so I moved to the top to not be in the way and finished 19^th. Butch jr was 12th, Brian was 20th, not all that good but all the fenders were still on the cars so we could work on more setup stuff on sat morning instead of crash repair, and that's what we did.

At Brian’s shop in Carlsbad we put a setup on both his 07,and the 06 I was driving. While tearing into everything that I thought was an issue, I found several, so we were much more optimistic about sat nite in Eunice at Cardinal Motor Speedway. Butch jr, Josh, and my grandson Zach were busy getting the 101 mod and Zach's hobby stock ready for some sat nite action. After finishing up/loading up at Brian's I helped finish all that up. So off we all went, me riding with nephew Josh as co-pilot we caught up on family b.s.!

At the track me and Brian both planned to hot lap and we did, both cars were still a little tight so we made last minute adjustments, Zach ran second in his heat, I started 7th and finished 4th,butch jr. got hit and pulled in, and Brian ran 3rd in his heat. So with all that the scenario was Brian would be on the pole of the 'A', I ended up pole of the 'B' main, and Butch jr was 14th in the 'B', which only eight would transfer out of. Beside me in the 'B' was Jimmy Ray of Las Cruces. At the green we battled hard swapping the lead a few times until I changed my line running the top of 1&2, and the bottom of 3&4, checking out on the rest of the field to win the 'B' main, Butch jr ended up 9th, one spot out of the transfer (darnit). So now I would start 13th in the 'A' car was so good for the 'B' minimal changes were made for the 'A', at the green I moved in hard on the 17m and was on the move when the 16 knocked me up the track to the outside groove (which wasn't there). Now going backwards like gangbusters finally a yellow came out and I got back to the bottom on the restart. From 13th to 20th back up to 10th at the checkered, the car was pretty good, probably top 5 car, which in this bunch is awesome. Brian finished 9th from his pole start and was very excited. I think my setup helped cause it was his best finish in a while, cool!

Zach had some issues with the very slick track while running second in the main and after spinning came back to about 6th in a field of 10 or so. Spinning out is part of the learning curve when dirt racing, and he'll be just fine!

Thanks to Brian Prouty for the opportunity to drive a very good car this weekend, his crew-Pops & A.J., Josh, Butch jr, and Zach, always fun when racing with my kids.

Next week-HH for the Modified show

Hollywood Hills Speedway 5-03-09 Recap – by Butch Reid

After a Saturday rainout the track rescheduled the show for Sunday @ 2pm So with 3 race cars at the track we were all chomping at the bit to get some racing going on.

With most of our Coach's racing/Reid racing crew on hand; Tom and Ruth Brooks, Kenny Todd, Bad Brad Winters, Steven Francis jr, truck driver extraordinaire Darren, Mike Andrews, Robby Smith, Mike Walker, myself and Bobbie jean, we had a full day ahead with lots of racing on tap.

Bobbie drew me a good mod pill-#6, but Steven did even better with a 24 for the late model heat, way to go Steven!!!!

Bobbie elected to run scratch all day.

Both of us were in the first mod heat, at the green I took the early lead with the 74t of J.Tanner on my heals. About halfway he cleared me and I went on to finish 2nd for the heat.

The late model heat was slick, we drove 'er in hard to turn one and slid to the wall,keeping it on the track I moved forward to finish 2nd in the lm heat as well behind the 96 of whitwell.

With the ever slick track we would make some different adjustments for the main than normal in the l.m., the mod changes were minimal since I have been testing all winter and we were pretty sure of setups. So with both mods set to go, we took to the track. Me 5th row inside, bj in the rear. With a yellow or two we got going for some green flag racing and began our march forward. Toward the end I came up on bj in her black beauty as I lapped her trying to chase down the #4 of Stormy Scott. She was looking good and finished 12th. Lapped cars made it exciting at the end, but we held onto a second place finish and were very happy after the results of the first race of the year when we got spun, and bj finished with not a scratch, cool.

The late model race was on from the green, slick,smooth, and a little dusty. The first start had the 47 of K. Hill spin in turn one taking out a couple cars and sending me to the hot pits for a right rear tire change. Restarting last after the hot pit I had to make a charge from 15th or so. It took me a few laps to find a line I could make some ground on the competition, but once I did I moved forward to 7th. After a yellow on the restart I worked by the 18 for 5th and was up on the 40 car on the white flag but he shot down going in turn 3 in front of me. Thinking 4th wasn't worth wrecking for I yielded and finished 5th, not bad in this field, #8 parker jr won it congrats to him see ya'll in two weeks for the next mod show at HH. Tell your friends, and bring them along to the next race. we need all the fans we can get to help support Hollywood Hills Speedway!

Hollywood Hills Speedway 5-03-09 Recap – by Bobbie Jean Reid

Thanks to Mike Walker, my Daddy and myself working hard on Friday night to get the car ready, we headed out to Hollywood Hills for my dirt track debut! Mike hauled my car out there for me! (THANK YOU) Unfortunately, the whether was not on our side! After being rained out for Saturday night, our marvelous new promoters decided to reschedule for Sunday May 3rd. Thank you so much!

After all this anticipation AND practice rainouts, I sure was ready to get out there and give the dirt a try! With a marvelous crew on hand tonight, the car was ready to rock and roll. I suited up and got ready to slide around in packing laps. I gotta say though, it was pretty fun trying to keep the car movin and not get stuck! :) After that, I headed back to the pits to help scrape mud and get ready for the heats! This was a hectic night since our crew had three cars to get ready! Again, I'd like to thank you all for your dedication and hard (but marvelous) work!! I went out for heat races, with not much experience behind me on the dirt and had a BLAST! I tried my hardest to be comfortable with being sideways and letting the car slide through the corners. It was pretty tough comin from the pavement! But I learned a lot out there and felt I was starting to get much more comfortable in the car.

I started in the same heat race with my daddy, he was on the pole (thanks to my pill-drawing skills) and I was starting scratch next to Stormy Scott. My focus was to stay on the track, hold my line and learn the track lap by lap. I feel I did pretty well thanks to a reliable setup by Mr. Butch Reid. I finished seventh out of eight cars and I only spun once! Luckily, I was clear of traffic and got back on the track quickly. I had such a great time out there, just learnin a little bit at a time. I headed back to the pits to tell the crew how the car felt and to consult with Mr. Reid himself! Didn't have much time though; remember we have 3 cars to get ready! Mike Walker, Robby Smith, Mike Andrews, Kenny Todd, Bad Brad Winters, Steven Fracis, Daryn Fastnacht, Coach, Ruth and some of Mark Myer's crew were thrashing and did a great job! Ruth and Lisa made some GREAT food to keep us all on our feet! Me and daddy headed out for the main event and I was full of excitement! Again, my concentration was to be smooth and increase with speed a little bit at a time. 24 cars lined up side by side and bumper to bumper and waited for the green to fly!

I started in the tenth row on the inside. My heart was racing the whole time and I loved every minute of it. There were quite a few cautions out there (but I didn’t cause any, accomplishing one of my goals) which took a little too long to clean up. But the racing went quick and when I saw the checkered flag, I couldn’t believe it was already over. I finished 12^th and learned so much! The track was so slick and it was hard to get around the track but it sure was a fine learning experience! A HUGE thank you goes out to my daddy for giving me the opportunity of racing! I’d also like to thank the new track promoters for doing such a great job with the show. Also, I had some really clean racing tonight and that’s always a bonus! I hope to see you all out there for the next race! May 16^th at 7PM! The modifieds are the premiere division that night and it is also Armed Forces Appreciation night! Don’t miss it!

Aztec Speedway 4-24-09 Recap – by Butch Reid

Well we hit the highway again this weekend in hopes of making some laps in Bobbie Jean's black modified before she takes to the banks of HH next weekend.

Arriving a little pressed for time and travelling by myself, we got after the long tech line which was extremely long due to 65 modifieds being on hand for this two day WW tour imca race. After some issues being resolved after tech, I prepped for some hot laps on what looked to be some slick race track. Sure enough it was slick, but this track seems to have grip even when it's slick. Wow after 3 or 4 hot laps of getting faster each lap and catching the other cars on the track I noticed the oil light came on! @#$%^&* shucks (not really what I said). I shut ‘er down and coasted to the pits. After more examination the crank case is full of water(H2O), not good. So with some local help we loaded the car, returned the rented transponder, and got ready to watch some racing, which was fast and furious with 8 mod heats, 4 "B” mains, and an A main, with the winner being WW1 of Ricky Alvarado.

Then I headed home thinking “what next?” Thanks to Steve Potts, who helped out in the pits, and Allen Bradley as well(who won the stock car feature Friday night). Always look forward to racing in Aztec, you guys do a good job!

See ya next time.

White Sands Speedway 4-25-09 Recap – by Butch Reid

Arriving home at 4am sat morning sent me right to lala land. but at noon I was thinking “where can I go race today with little time to prepare?” White Sands Speedway in Tularosa!

So out rolled the black car and rolled in the Coach's car. After minimal maintenance with the time I had to work with, off I went. At the track I parked amongst the guys who all race Las Cruces/El paso on a weekly basis, 17 mods in all I believe was the car count. The new owners here have done a fantastic job renovating the place and new bathrooms and new clay on the track.

With the gail winds that tried to blow me towards Texas on the way down, I was pretty sure we were gonna see a black slick track, and we did! After the sun went down the winds calmed some for a great night of racing.

With a #37 pill I was in the 2nd heat front row outside, at the green the 3 car pushed me up the track going into turn 3 so as to let the second row get by as I'm now up in the weeds, chasing him down I got under him next lap to take over 2nd, with that I set my sights on the 111 car who was leading, as he got smaller instead of larger I was convinced I needed to tighten up some for the main event. Then to my surprise the 2S passed me of turn 4 for the checkered, so we finished 3rd, behind Bumper & Stormy.

The track did a nice intermission presentation by the Harlem Allstars with hoops and kids everywhere on the front straitaway, very cool!

Then the top three from each heat drew pills for the main. Everyone drew before me leaving me the last pill, which was #1,wow,I'll never draw again until last.

Well after the heat setup I was busy making changes for the ever drying and slick track, hoping to be able to hold off these hot shoes from the pole. At the green I knew I made the car too tight, great forward bite, but she wouldn't enter the corner in a 40 acre field, shucks! So it was a long night and I finished 10th with a plow for a race car. Hopefully I can say I learned something from it all at least.

I picked up some help at the track here as well, the driver of the j7 limited late model and his wife were extremely helpful, thanks guys!

Well I traveled a lot of miles this weekend but I did get some racing in, finally, looking forward to next weekend at HH with mods and late models running.

see ya at the track!

Hollywood Hills Goes UMP West Sanction for Modified Division-- by Butch Reid

New promoter Benji Lyons announced through division leaders that HH would follow what USA speedway in Tucson is doing, which he also promotes.

First race date at HH is April 18th,with the remainder of the schedule TBA. Also expected is the addition of the X-mod division for HH racers and fans with race dates unknown so far.

Stay tuned for future updates, which we'll post as we get the info. Our race plans this year are now unknown. With this sudden change of the game plan at HH, I am looking at all other options for my racing. Our budget does not allow for the changes in rules with the new sanctioning we have been hit with. We had planned on Bobbie racing a dirt mod this year as well, but plans have changed due to the change in track plans. Hopefully we can come up with some more budget to allow us both to race. We'll see.

Southern New Mexico Speedway (Winter Meltdown) -- March 05-08, 2009 -- by Butch Reid

We made the effort and trip to the Thursday practice night hoping to be on top of a setup come Friday night!

After several hotlap sessions we were certainly better than when we unloaded, but not that good. With a list of changes we planned for some Friday night racing.

With a mediocre pill on fri. I couldn't get going in the heat. Off a little in this field is not good, so we lined up for the 'C'. After some changes we made some progress and transferred to the 'B'. Running the 'B' I felt the car was close but still struggled to maintain my position. Anyway we couldn't get to a transfer spot and was done for the day.

Saturday-Looking forward to some dryslick day racing we were, and with the high winds that's what we got! 80 pills today and I got #71. 8th in the 6th heat we lined up. Boy I went after max forward bite for this deal so I had some high hopes for the heat.

At the green the car felt good, more bite than before. By one car and working on another he held me up for a lap letting the pack get away. Shucks, once by him I pushed very hard catching the pack at the checkered. Pretty good car but a 6th place finish puts you in a 'C' main. In the 'C' we ran ok to make a transfer to the 'B'. But once the green dropped in the 'B' I knew we we're gonna struggle and we did. Not making the 8 car transfer we we're done for the night to lick our wounds or make changes and improve!

Free beer and ribs for all, whoopee!!! Under the lights of the bonfire the crew worked relentlessly (between beer & ribs) making wholesale changes for the Sunday show. Getting off the rr two link setup we've run all this past year (with much success), we opted to four link the rr with spring on the birdcage in front (what most everyone else is doing). So thanks to all for sat' night!

Sunday-pill 11, not bad, starting 6th in the first last chance race. After the hot lap session we (crew) felt we we're definitely better than with the previous setup,although a little tight we hoped the track would come to us (go dry) real quick. At the green I hammered down with a way tight car, finding good moisture around the top and a fast track. Running 5th I was having to back the car in to keep it turning. Even though we we're hauling around the track, I felt tight in/loose in the middle/tight off. So at lap 3 I got a little TOO sideways on entry and spun,@#$%^&*(darn it)!

To the back I went for the restart, passing some cars I was in heavy traffic entering 3 &4, went to go high and the car would not turn........until it collected the turn 4 concrete barrier. To the hotpits I went. The crew changed a right front tire but I was told I caused two cautions and had to headed for the trailer ... done for the weekend!

If I had it to do over, I would have freed the car up some and been better, so did we learn anything? I think so. We will continue to work with the 4-link setup cause I believe for dry it's a better deal.

Thanks to Brett who made the trip over from Phoenix to help out,and to Leon Schmitt who just moved to town and was great help, and to Bobbie Jean (college student) who came to play and help this weekend as well. We all busted butt with terrible results, but thanks to you all for your help and support and to the fans who came and watched. We will get this deal figured out so don't give up on us! We haven't given up yet and neither has Coach's Chassis.

See ya at the track!!!!!!!!!

Canyon Raceway -- February 21 & 22, 2009 -- by Butch Reid

Been a nice long Winter series and I brought all my stuff home after Sundays race.

The drive over on Friday gave me lots to think about on setup stuff for the black car, so finally at the track Brett & I got after it getting her ready for some hot laps. After repairing brakes we finally had a good run on the tacky making us smile,so on to sat we go.

With 50 cars checked in the pill was gonna be important, #22, not so bad, 2nd row of the 5th heat. At the green we were 4 wide with some of the newbies looking for race track where it wasn't. With a good battle I made passes up to 2nd I thought. Running on the bumper of the leader, I thought, the leader was on the other straightaway. Shucks, finished 3rd so off to the 'B' we would go, working with a different car we still did what we learned with the Coach's car for setups. On the front row outside of the 'b' I beat the #10 of Yazzie into turn one and lead every lap to win the 'B' main. Wow, we're in the 'A' with this car, cool! Bobbie will be happy her car is working well.

Starting 14th we thought a top 5 would be awesome, so that was our goal. At the green I shot to the top passing some very good cars early and making some good ground. Around lap 8-10 the 73 car doored the 38 spl car spinning him right in front of me, @#$%^&Sh**T! Hitting him in the door I mashed the gas trying to straighten him out to no avail, they put the 38 to the rear and put me and the 73 back to our spots. Right at the restart I passed his a**, continuing to move forward. At the next yellow I realized my left front tire was flat from the contact with the 38 I guess. With multiple cautions it got real exciting cause the left front frame was hitting the ground going slow around the rubbered up track with the flat. So.....I got real defensive and never lost a spot for 20 or so laps, but wasn't real racy either, as I worried the tire would come off the rim. But it didn't and I finished 6th, almost top 5, and with Bobbie Jean's hot rod!

There was a wreck at the finish line, with the leader blowing up a rear gear coming to the line, the 98 running second tried to miss him and got squeezed into the wall, and 3rd place got around to finish 2nd,pretty exciting stuff!

With all that we began readying for the Sunday show,with great expectation.

Sunday-I went the pill draw feeling pretty cocky and predicted drawing my car #,can you believe it,I drew #5,pole of heat #5,cool,so lets go see how bad we can mess this deal up,so at the green I slid up into 2nd place pretty happy with myself,but had 0,no,forward bite,#$%^&*boy can I mess things up on setup,finishing 5th I just knew we would not make the 'A' main tonite,so we got after a 'B'setup going for all grip we got get,starting 10th I had to finish 4th to make the transfer,man did I have a good hotrod!To the front we were headed,finally making it to third I was realing in the two top cars at the checkered flag,cool..........

For the 'A'(I can't believe how good the car was in the 'B'),we decided to do some tire prep and leave everything else alone,so at the start I was 20th,working up to 14th or so on this one lane rubbered up track the 777 car pushed me over the edge of turn 3 causing me to spin,they sent me to the back so now were 24th or so,trying to pass to make some ground,I got turned around while working the f-1 car,they gave me my spot back,but I decided it was time to call it a day!Car was not torn up too bad,and no reason to give the morons in the WW tour the chance to do more damage,we were scored 17th at the end.

Thanks to the Doug Gabbard crew for all their efforts during my winter racing stay,to Brett & Brian,and my Sis See yall at Las Cruces in 10 days!!!!!!!!!!!

Canyon Raceway -- February 14, 2009 -- by Butch Reid

 

Final race of the 09' winter challenge here in sunny Arizona is now in the books. The next week's 2 day wild west tour will be my last weekend racing over here this winter.

After some more design work on Bobbie Jean's black car I loaded it up and headed west friday so as to get to the track for some maintenance on the Coach's car before bedtime.

Sat. was a busy day, as I had found a chassis issue friday that required welding(thanks Pete @ Flexi-Flyer). I loaded up some steel to bring home for Coach, and a much needed trip to the car wash for the Coach's modified, all before 10 am when the pits opened.

Finally at the track we got busy preparing both cars for some hot laps. The coach's car was fast as always. The black car had some fuel pressure issues, although it did seem to handle well besides that. So being short on time we focused on the car we had been racing and off to the pill draw I went, 39 this time, oh well, at least they seem to be getting smaller.

Lined up 6th in heat three we got off to a good start battling with the 97rl and 2 car for the lead, we managed to pull off a second place finish chasing Lewerke to the stripe at the checkered flag.

When we don't have to run the 'B' it's a major success, so off the the ever important redraw. For the 'A' feature the track looked to be a one laner around the top during the 'B' main so where you start in the 'A' would be very important. They let the top 4 from the three heats in on the redraw so 12 would draw. We drew #9. Could've been better huh?

With that done we made some main event setup changes that I (me), have been wanting to try for dry slick tracks, plus Brian and Brett siping and grinding tires right up till main event time.

For some reason the promoter decided to water the track while we're sitting in staging. History has proved that every time they water, the track takes rubber around the top, so what are they thinking?????

After the watering we got to pack, and pack, and pack, and then slop lap, I mean hot lap, as the track started to tighten up I heard some clanking going on under the car. Off to the pits I went hoping the crew could fix what ever the issue was before they went green. If I had known what the problem was as I was sitting in the car and the crew thrashed, I would have jumped into the black car and tagged the main. But I didn't and they went green without me!!@#$%^* darnit!!!

The changes I made the call on indexed the birdcage too much to the point the shock got bent and broke, which got into the lower trailing arm and broke it! Boy when I screw up I do it good, so we watched the race from the pits. The #7 car lead every lap from the front row and won the race. Congrats to Marlyn Seidler and to the 97rl of Rich Lewerke for winning the points title!

After some soul searching the crew all discussed our options for next week, with two trailers over there (and two cars). I have to make another trip to bring everything home so we're racing next weekend, But which car? As much as I want to work with my primary car, I need to make more laps on this black car eventually to work out the bugs, so we loaded the Coach's car and home I headed!

Thanks again to my crew: Brian, Brett, and Andy when he's available, my sis,and Coach's Chassis for all their help, and to Wyoming Service center for their support of the 377 we have been running over here this winter, thanks Alan!

We had a very competitive car over here and we learned a lot about our setups. With the disappointments of today I guess the testing was still a success, even though I sure wanted to win one of these races! The Coach's car needs some tlc before its next battle, so stay tuned to what's next!

See ya at the track!!!!!!!!

Canyon Raceway -- February 7-8 -- by Butch Reid

 

Making the trip to go racing always seems short going, but long coming home. After a few weekends the 500 mile one way trip does get long either way.

 

Friday night was a practice night but we spent those hours doing maintenance to prepare for Sat. racing, oil change etc. After losing the race the previous weekend to the 97rl car we realized with the new rule change, that the car that won had extensive tire siping done to all four tires, so.......I borrowed a siping iron from Coach and we siped....and siped....and ground tires to the point Brett said he would rather do a 9" gear change than sipe tires!

 

Anyway, Sat. pill draw was #47, so starting 6th in heat one we thought we were so good last week that we should do some experimenting. At the green I new I sucked--waaay tight--so finishing 6th I had to run the 'B'. So we went back to last weeks setup cause only 4 cars would transfer to the 'A', and I was starting 6th.

 

At the green I drove in low at turn one and slid job several cars coming out in 4th on the backchute, slicing and dicing the race was on. Up to the front 3 wide at times we had a heck of a race going on. Coming around for the checkered the 59 car got loose right in front of me. I slid into him straightening him out and gassing it up to the flag stand to finish 3rd.....whew!

 

Well with that finish I would start the 'A' in the last row 19th on the grid. So we got after the 'A' setup knowing we could only go forward. The track normally is fast around the top, but having run the 'B', I knew the bottom was coming in so I made the plan to run low and pick 'em off as they fought for the top.

 

After many restarts we finally got going racing. Sure enough the bottom was the ticket. It didn't take long for everyone (almost) else to get down there also. With the scorers giving away spots for me every time there was a restart I raced to finish 6th at the end! I said a top 5 would be awesome, so almost awesome huh?!

 

Thanks to Brett & Brian, Coach's Chassis and my Sis. Up to 4th in points for this deal that first week wreck really hurt, see ya at the track!

 

Canyon Raceway -- January 31, 2009 -- by Butch Reid

 

As I write this story and recap I say we are testing stuff for the bigger shows (more money), and we are, but the competition here at Canyon is as tough as it gets anywhere.

 

After the long drive and week long of gathering parts and supplies for this weekend, I arrived at the track (where my car and trailer are camped out), and began the prep for the Saturday only show.

 

The crew showed up after work and we made a long night of it getting 'er done for the next day's racing. On Sat we had very little to ready on the car so lots of B'S'n went on between drivers and crews (smack talk too). So off to the pill draw I went thinking we been on a roll lately. Pill 51 is what we got, which put us last in the last heat,! @#$%^& shucks! Oh well, I guess we'll see if all this testing is paying off.

 

So, with all that what could be worse, all the heavy hitters in my heat too? Of course! At the green we moved high and began passing right at turn one. By Madrid, by Seidler, by Logston, by Ward, to second pushing on the #12 who was leading. With the redraw of the top finishers out of the heats I didn't lean TOO hard, so second was good after starting 9th.

 

At the redraw you could start front row, or all the way back to row 6. Well a #2 pill gets you front row outside! YEEHAW!

 

At the green I held off the pole sitter through turn two and was in the lead. With only lap cars to deal with I focused on being smooth on this dry slick wide black track and no mistakes. With approx.20+ laps of green with no yellows I had checked out on the field by 1/2 lap or so. At the restart I realized I had the 97rl car on my tail, so the battle was on, side by side, top and bottom we battled with me holding on to a slim lead every lap, until a lapper not holding a very smooth line caused me to lift not to hit him or the 97 and giving up on the battle for the win, darnit. I really feel like I let that one get away. Sure Rich Lewerke is a pro and has won everything in IMCA, but nobody beats me in lap traffic! But he did, so congrats to the 97rl!

 

Thanks to my tireless crew who makes this deal happen over there in Phoenix: Coach's Chassis for their support, and my family, who always encourages me! Doug Gabbard and crew at Canyon Raceway and my buddy Andy Critzer who tries to prep a smooth & dry track for me.

 

Next week will be more hectic with a Friday night practice and two days of racing. So we'll see ya at the track!

 

Should have some pic's too for ya'll!

 

Canyon Raceway -- January 24, 2009 -- by Butch Reid

 

After a few practice laps on Friday nite my new found setup for dry slick was found to be very good on heavy as well.

 

Saturday we unloaded to a field of 40 cars from all over the country. After much visiting with old friends we did the pill draw and drew a #7,awesome. That put us front row of heat 4 of 4 heats. At the start I lost a few spots until I worked my way to the top and hammered back to finish 2nd for the heat. The top three would redraw from each heat for A main starting spots, but being in the last heat and stopped in the infield for tech, I missed the redraw, so they put me 11th in the grid. Once again the top was the way around the track so starting on the inside I lost a few spots before I slid to the top and started my hunt to the front, passing up to 10th. I was working on the 59 car pretty hard when the 70 car behind me hooked my quarter panel and turned me straight into the front stretch wall. Spinning around backward airborne I ended up off the end of turn one. With a left rear flat I limped to the pits, changed the tire, and reentered the track a few laps down. I stayed out 7 or 8 laps till I pulled in calling it a night with the car not handling well after the wreck. Looking for someone to have a come to Jesus talk with, we replaced a front bumper and loaded up to ready for Sunday's race, scored 18th for the A main.

 

Sunday- A new day after a bad day looked very promising, we thought our hotrod was pretty good, just needed more forward bite, so we went to work on that (we thought). The Sunday pill wasn't quite as good as Sat. I drew #38, which put me 6th in the 2nd heat of 4. On the outside finally I was confident I would go forward, but at the start the 38 got crossed up and doing some crash avoidance I ended up on the wrong straightaway for awhile. Back up on the wheel I caught the back of the pack as a caution came out. On the gas I passed up to finish 3rd making the pill draw cut for the A main. At the pill draw I drew #4, awesome starting spot!

 

At the green I gassed it up to fall in line behind the 97 car in 2nd place. Holding on because we setup loose for the rubbered up track, I lost a few spots before the track tightened up enough for my car off turn two. As the race went green to lap 25 before a caution my car was awesome, with the 377 running very strong we were a one lane freight train on each others bumper. At the checkered we finished 5th, top 5 to the infield for tech, the 81 car was dq'd for roller cam/weight location penalty, so we moved up to 4th in the money! A great rebound after the Sat. wreck fest.

 

With a list of stuff to bring back this next weekend for repairs I guess we'll be back next weekend for some more of it!

 

See ya at the track!!!!!!!!!

Butch Reid

 

January 21, 2009 -- Schedule Update, Butch Jr. and More -- by Butch Reid

 

I'm heading for Canyon RACEWAY in Phoenix for their Winter series beginning this Sat & Sun.

 

Butch Jr. news -- He's out of the hospital and resting at home-hoping to return to racing real soon!

 

Bobbie Jean news -- First semester at UNM is behind her (survived) and she's hard at it already this semester-no racing for her for now ... school, school, school!

 

New pit cart has been installed in the trailer, tools loaded, and parts being organized daily. Coach's Modified has a new power plant--a 377 c.I. to start the winter racing with. Hopefully it will be as reliable as the 355 spare we'll be carrying with us that's been ol' reliable. We're expecting to test some setup stuff during this series to prepare for the big show at Las Cruces coming up in March, so it's hero or zero when testing sometimes!

 

See ya at the track!

 

USA Speedway 11-28, 29, & 30--by Butch Reid

 

Las Cruces and Fall Nationals --by Butch Reid

 

Hollywood Hills Speedway Recap World of Outlaws (Saturday, 10/12/08) -- by Butch Reid

 

Sandia Motor Speedway Recap Hot Pepper 40 (Saturday, 10/04/08) -- by Butch Reid

 

Hollywood Hills Speedway Recap Dashes and Mains (Saturday, 09/27/08) -- by Butch Reid

 

Hollywood Hills Speedway Recap Heats and Mains (Friday, 09/26/08) -- by Butch Reid

 

Aztec Speedway Recap (Friday, 09/19/08) -- by Butch Reid

 

 

Hollywood Hills Speedway 09/13/08 Recap -- by Butch Reid

 

Wow, last points race of the year in the Late Models & Mods-the team knew it was gonna be a tough and hard fought night (and so did the driver).

 

Not drawing the best of pills for the late model heat I lined up 2nd row outside in the first L.M. heat, (15 late models checked in tonight). Racing hard from the git go, we battled hard in the wet one-laner for a few laps before I was able to pass the 38 down low and the 69 as well to take the lead and go on to win the heat! YEAH!

 

As pill draws go we have done well in the modifieds all year, but not tonight. 29 mods checked in with 4 heats and we were lined up last in heat two. From the start, I new it was gonna be a battle. Sherm Barnett in the 82 checked out from the pole and, I proceeded to pass cars who were fighting handling issues, which made things interesting. At the white flag I made it to 2nd but couldn't catch the 82 car.

 

For the late model main, we decided on no changes as the track usually taks up and stays that way/or moisture comes back up. Well, it went dry in the corners, making for a loose race car with the tacky setup. Starting 10th in the main, I adjusted every thing in the topless cockpit that I could to tighten the car up on entry after a few laps were run. Then the 59 of Bowers was involved in a bad crash causing a red flag as he rolled over but climbed out ok. At this point in the race, I was up to 3rd. It was at lap 11 that the track cut our race to 20 instead of the posted 25 lapper? On the restart, I worked the 96 car pretty hard until I moved into 2nd. Now on the 69 I got under him a couple times but rather than drive through him, as he was sideways off the corners, I came home in 2nd and a damage free race car! Not bad with the loose setup we had!

 

For the mod main we lined up behind the 2m 5th row inside, at the first green we were moving forward pretty good as a yellow came out after the first lap. Now in 7th on the next restart, I continued forward through a few more cautions to take the lead (after a great battle with the 21 Hodgden car). About lap 10, through many more cautions we led the rest of the way to take the win and the checkered flag! That's five in the last six shows! YEHAW!!!!!!!!!!

 

So what does all this breakdown to? Two track championships this year at Hollywood Hills Speedway!

 

This has been a very special year for me.  I realize how hard what we as a team have accomplished. We did it in 2003 at DCR, now again in 2008 at HH. I'm blown away!

 

Thanks to Tom & Ruth Brooks of Coach's Chassis, to Mike Andrews of MAAD Designs, John Andrews of JGA Engines fame, to Bobbie Jean for her undying support of Dad, James the chef Sundsmo for awesome cuisine at the track, crew members Steven Francis jr (peanut butter cookies from Shelby & Harley & Mom), Mike Walker, Kenny Todd, Bad Brad Winters, and Curtis Berry for catching some surprise moments on camera!

 

A super job by the Tom Ball/Robert Shay crew (and Paul). Keep up the good work and we'll keep bringing on the shows!

 

Thanks to Barry Conant/RGSLM president on his work and patience with all of us,and to Mike who helps Barry and does the group's web site.

 

Thanks to Richard/Anna Johnson for all their hard work keeping the modified division the most popular division at the track, and to Mark McClarren and Lisa for their hard work keeping track of points.

 

All in all a good year for both divisions, and a great year for the Coach's Chassis/Reid Racing teams.

 

Stayed tuned as we're headed to Aztec next weekend for two days of it, and two more mod weekends coming up as well. I will be doing a winter racing schedule soon so we'll post that soon.

 

See ya at the track

 

A special thank you to my fans who showed up tonight with cookies! They are yummy.

Sandia Motor Speedway Recap (09/08/08) -- by Bobbie Jean Reid

 

Well, much like my dad, it's been a few since I was last on asphalt! I must admit that I got a little bit spoiled being on the dirt and being able to get sideways. Back to trying to roll through the corners and keep 'er stickin! After a few hot lap sessions, me and my daddy adjusted the #5 and #63BJ as we thought would do best. I went out for the heat lined up on the second row-inside, behind Race Safro and next to Johnny Dorcas. The green flew and I got stuck behind Race, who got a little squirrely in turns one and two. That let a few cars get by while I tried to sliver back into the groove. One lap later, I was back on the move when Bruce Martin did a backwards slide job and cut me off going into turn one. I braked and settled behind him for most of the race. Dorcas and myself had a pretty close battle. Running behind him, I noticed he was very loose off, as was I. We did our best to keep the cars on the track!! I struggled, being tight in the middle as well but came across the finish line in fourth.

After the heats, me, Daddy, Mike Andrews, Robbie Smith, and Steve Waldeck grouped up to decide what the best touches would be to improve our ill-handling cars. We lined up with what we had and I was on the outside poll, next to Race Safro. When the green light came on, I booked it and took the lead with and EXCELLENT car! I held off Garry Richards but not for long. He and I ALWAYS have some good, close, clean racing! He took the lead and I was right on his tail. A few laps later, my car was gaining some exit issues. Once again, the car was pretty loose. But I threw my dirt experience (Thanks to Mark Seifried!!!) in and drifted through the turns to hold off Charlie Daniels! As much fun as I was having, I certainly hated to see my Oil Pressure Light come on!! Darn it!! I decided to pull off the track and call it good for the night.

We sure gave 'er hell though! Thanks to Action Alignment and the great crew tonight! As mentioned once already-Both of the Reid Racing asphalt Modifieds are for sale. If you're interested, click on the "contact" link on this website to let us know!!

My next race will be back at Aztec Speedway in Mark Seifried's car on September 20th! Hope to see you there!!