Category Archives: Late Model History

The past racing year has been one of the hardest on me since I started racing 47 years ago. Once our home was sold I asked the new owner if I could rent a room for Buttons and I at the home I lived in for the past 12 years and he said yes, but […]

Thanks to Jerry Abramowicz for this photo ………………I wasn’t sure we could do it, we had to qualify, finish each race to be able to start the next one, and then have the energy to jump from one car to the next. Well we did it, compeleted every lap of the five features we were […]

I am excited, and couldn’t be prouder of my son and his accomplishmets since he started racing. It began in 1988, when I got him started in stock car racing. He had no previous experience in Go-Karts or Mini Stock, jumped right into open wheel high powered in line Hobby cars. I always wanted to […]

We ran our Modified with the OMRS Modifieds at Flamboro Speedway on Friday October 2nd. The weather was terrible, cold and windy. There were lots of cars and people in the pits, but only a few fans decided to face the weather and watch the qualifying for this years Frostoberfest, a new name combining Octoberfest […]

1200th Night in the books….well almost. If we hadn’t qualifyied I wouldn’t have to count this night, but it was official once we ran the heat races. Unfortunately the feature was postponed until October 24th and on that night there will be double features in the Modified. We ran awesome in our heat race, finishing […]

October 4th I will be taking my Modified to Willow Creek Baptist Church in Midhurst, just outside Barrie. I will be joining Lloyd and his wife Suzette for a wonderful morning service and stay after with our race car and talk to kids big and small about racing. All are welcome….see you at Church

Tonight we will reach the milestone of 1200 career nights at Flamboro Speedway. We will be racing our Quaker State Modified with the OMRS Modifieds. This 47 year journey has been awesome and it could never happen if it were not for my amazing family, my awesome pit crews and friends over the years, my […]

Veocity bit us. It was our worst night in the Mods points wise since June of 2014. The car was awesome in the final hot laps. Corey Horner and I were tied for 2nd in the points. He had a great night and we had our worst in some time. Even though our car was […]

Velocity 250 this weekend. Tied for second in OSCAAR Modified points with the awesome rookie team of #79 Corey and Daryl Horner. This will be our 750th consecutive night of racing dating back to June 5th 1987. Last year we celebrated our 700th in a row at Sunset Speedway on June 29th. It will also […]

I had to post this picture by Terry Robarts of our feature win at Full Throttle Motor Speedway on Sunday September 13th. We got the lead with 4 laps to go and on the while flag lap Paul Milligan and I tangled and the result was a flat tire on the left rear. The tire […]

Mycomputer was down, I had no way to post on our website but thanks to Eric Uprichard, it did get posted on facebook. We ran our 1198th career night at Delaware Speedway on Friday night. This flyer created by Eric Uprichard says 3 to go, but that was before this race. Just to clairfy. It […]