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Low blow

Why do you even post here?

Right back atcha....

Is PeteP deleting all his incriminating posts or did that tool finally influence enough people and win enough friends to get himself banned  

The older I get the faster I was

Evidence suggests that Elvis has left the building, probably not on his own terms.

That's twice that guy has gotten kicked off. Pretty sure he was ghladn.

We need a big ol like or thumbs up button on here...

The older I get the faster I was

I just wanted to stop back here and apologize for my meltdown last week.  I'm dealing with an illness and lost an uncle who was like a brother last week then my son was threatened by racers at the bar last week.  I'm off all social media as well as this message board.  I admit it, I struggle with mental illness and it has cost me a lot of heartache.  Hope everyone here stays well.  My son threw his red hat away and I got ride of my blue hat.  Neither of us plan on voting or fighting about it at thanksgiving dinner anymore.  
 

It's too bad that crap has infiltrated racing to the point that some of us are no longer welcome at the race track.  I'm going to be getting rid of my entire collection of about twenty years of racing photos and fifty years of memories.  All the best to you.  By the way, I am not "kicked out" but leaving this sport by choice.  I'll hang onto Floracing but no more commenting online.  Later guys and gals! 
 

My son laughs because I go into crazy veteran mode.  He compares me to John Goodman's character Walter in the Movie Big Lewbowski.  I tend to flip into combat mode at the slightest provocation but come across more like Mr. Rogers than Rambo.  

Stan Meissner

You can  & should vote

You don't have to discuss it with anyone!

Plus, nobody has the right to make you feel unwelcome at the track. Just go... its a free country. Screw 'em if they don't like it

100 percent agree. I don't pretend I know all the answers but I respect other people's choice of who and why they vote it's what is Americans. Now how about the holy rollers tonight.

Politics are transactional.  I worked within walking distance of the Capitol and governors residence for three decades and never met a governor or any elected official.  If I could afford to rent a tux and pay $1k per plate I might get a handshake and a selfie.  I look at the whole process as a necessary evil.  The thing that triggers me as a cult survivor is Project 2025 but that's another long story.
 

I'm old, don't travel well and don't have friends in The grandstand.  I spent a couple decades running around the pits and infield with a camera.  Never sat in the stands and don't even know any other fans.  I'm more about what happens when a guy with experience doing interviews, magazine articles and photos ages out and can't chase his passion anymore.  I'd rather go over to my neighbors and bullshit while they're working on their 410 than sit in a grandstand by myself. This was never about being a fan in the stands.  It's about riding to Jackson in Roger Ragers hauler and to Arlington with the owner of the 14t that Brook Tatnell drives.  It's about attending a pre Princeton Nationals press conference in 2004 and having lunch with the Dollanskys and Barry Braun the owner of the XR streaming company.  It's about being within arms length taking pics at a Dale Jr. press conference and interviewing Matt Kenseth and Dave Blaney and spending an hour of phone time with Bill Balog putting an article together then bullshitting about electric guitars for a while.  It's about interviewing Scott Bloomquist and getting to the point where he would walk up and strike up a conversation.

That's what I miss.  Not sitting in the stands arguing with some clueless drunk.  From that ten years ago to my kid being threatened in a bar and being so fatigued from lymphoma I can't make the long drives.  I'm fine watching streaming but sitting in the stands is the last thing I think of.  The neighbors had a good night for a rookie but missed the transfer.  Luke is adapting to the 410's from 305's well and I hooked his dad up with some people early on when they were getting started so it's fun to watch his progress.  I still love the sport but when I was chasing it I had an entirely different motive than sitting there watching.  There really isn't a forum where people who took a deeper dive in racing can share experiences.  Here they attack people and can't have a give and take discussion.  That's what gets me in trouble, trying to interact with people who don't understand what that frustration is like.  I had some great interactions with Tom Schmee who used to run the NSCHOF until I got off Facebook.  Likewise Tom Savage from the Sioux Falls area, those are the kind of people I enjoy interacting with.  Me and GRP. Motorsports put together an article for the Nationals program one year about Jerry Richert the 1962 Nationals winnner and spent a couple sessions with Jerry Jr. gathering information.  Those are the things I miss about racing.  Fifteen years ago myself, GRP and our friend Vinster were traveling to races together.  Today GRP is sponsoring Justin Henderson and a bunch of others and posting big bonuses at Jackson, Knoxville and Husets.  We rented a motorhome and went to the Million in 2003.  I spent whole nights in the infield taking pics and bullshitting with Doug Johnson and now he is managing race tracks.  That is what I miss.  Today I rarely leave the house due to fatigue and I miss interacting with a lot of great people that are still out there doing the legwork.  Age and mental health problems turned people off and cost me all of that.  Something that could be related to the blood thickening from Waldenstroms and how it affects blood flow in the brain.  Don't ask me, I just roll up my sleeve and get poked by needles a lot more than I care for.  Things have kind of gone to hell for me personally and it spills over to the internet.  Now if I could just have enough self control to stop checking my posts and put it all behind me I'd be in great shape.  

Stan Meissner

My dad became a fan of  Roger Rager when he spent some time here in Pa in the early 70s and we were at Indy the year he ran a stock block motor supposedly pulled out of a school bus and rebuilt ,he also liked Roger Larson when he replaced Jan Opperman in the Bogar 99 that was a great era here in Pa. He also saw Jerry Richert at Reading in a USAC race.

I rode along with his car owner a few time.  Roger drove a few times for my cousin in the early 70's and I'd see him just about every weekend for quite a few years.  Even spent a night having burgers and beers after we waited out a rainout in his hauler.  He was a good guy who took a liking to me and was always fun listening to his stories.  I have been sponsoring a bonus for the non-wing Sprints at the JR Memorial but don't plan on going this year.  Might throw a few bucks their way for the post race hot dog feed this time.  I need to get busy as it's coming up soon.  I want to help them out but it's more comfortable to watch from home.  Haven't been to a race yet this year.  Between the welts on my ass from the lymphoma and a twenty two year old two level neck fusion metal benches are too painful.  I have a luxury booth body on a general admission budget and can't turn my head to check oncoming traffic by the end of the night.  I fight the pain by using legal home grown medical cannabis with the blessing of my PCP and Oncoligist at home but am a criminal if I bring it to Wisconsin to get some pain relief sitting on metal benches.  They're twenty years behind on that stuff in Wisconsin, Iowa and the Dakotas.  I'm not Willie Nelson or Snoop Dog, just using a mix high in CBD in the evening so I can sleep pain free.  In Wisconsin they can't see the list of dangerous pharmaceuticals my wife and I were able to stop using.  They just think I'm a 73 year old drug addict but I never take it with me, it's limited to the house and garage have maybe one beer per month when we go out to eat.   
 

The only place I interact with racing people these days is online and that has gotten to be a booodbath.  I just need to get it through my thick skull that the good times are over and forget the past.  I don't get out anymore and my wife isn't a racing fan and doesn't want to talk about it.  The online world has been my "racing community" but every good thing comes to an end. 
 

it would probably be in everyone's best interest if the were to block my access to this forum.  It's not a good place for me but I have been here since day one way back in 1999.

Stan Meissner

If HH is your only way to interact with other racing fans, why leave?

I don't recall you being involved in any "bloodbaths".... its usually 2 guys & one of them is gone  (or sometimes me, if politics comes up)

Stick around, I like to read your stuff (makes me feel grateful for what health I have, a few months older than you...)

It's really more about me than anyone on this board.  Every once in a while I go into these rants and can't even stand reading my own posts a couple days later.  I belong to other boards on various subjects and never cause problem.  If the moderators would see fit to block me as they suggested they would I think everyone here would let out a sigh of relief.

Dealing with illness and no longer being able to chase races is hard on a person.  I am being watched for prostrate problems in addition to my lymphoma.  If rumors are true a similar burden caused one of the biggest bad asses to ever hold a steering wheel to fly his plane into the side of his barn.  If the one side wins and strips my Medicare and retirement and throws me out on the street like they say they're going to in Project 2025 I will be looking to buy a plane.  The extreme Evangelical movement behind that wants to make the US a religious theocracy and force everyone to accept their interpretation of Christianity.  That Is what triggered me and I know that I'm going to get worse in spite of my efforts to stay on point.  They should just block me and get it over with.  They say that racing people are the best and how they look out for each other's ther but that has not been my personal experience.  It's obviously my fault but I can't just snap my fingers and make myself well right now.  Maybe next year if I haven't lost everything to the regime that has made it clear that they are going to cancel the constitution I will be in a better state of mind.  

Stan Meissner