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Subject: Re: My thoughts on racing

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Rainbow Man

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Date Posted: 10:49:54 07/06/04 Tue
In reply to: Becky Cotton 's message, "Re: My thoughts on racing" on 20:23:39 07/05/04 Mon

>My son is the driver of car #56. If you know somebody
>who has a copy of the race that you'd like to sell I'd
>be happy to purchase it. (My camera quit and I missed
>the final presentation.)
>I�ll try to address all your concerns:
>You wanted to know how long people have been
>driving.....we�ve been racing the Waco tracks for over
>20 years. We race as a family. My husband retired
>and my son raced his rookie season in 2002 in the Hot
>Stock class at Heart O' Texas Speedway against drivers
>with 20+ years of experience. Brandon placed 4th in
>points that year in a field of 25 very aggressive
>drivers. He was only able to race occasionally last
>year due to military obligations.
>
>The incident on the back straight was caused by very
>close racing; it's easy for the driver close behind to
>run up on the driver who has just hit his brakes.
>Although the hit was unintentional, track rules in
>Waco would have placed him on the back of the restart,
>as did Hill Country. The rest was just racing.
>Moving under a car in the turn to set up the pass is
>not pushing around. To pass a car you must leave your
>preferred line. There were instances in the race when
>56 checked up to allow you to gather your car up
>again.
>
>Brandon has been taught to drive a clean race and to
>be good sport no matter what the outcome. Feel free
>to contact either race track in Waco to verify the
>integrity of Brandon or his father Mark.
>
>I'm sorry you felt the driving was too rough. You
>gave us a good race.
>
>Kudos to the employees of Hill Country Raceway.
>Everybody was friendly and the race program was
>completed in a timely manner. The officials reacted
>quickly to situations and conducted the races fairly
>and without bias. We�ll be back the next time we�re
>able to come.
>
>We'll be racing at Heart O' Texas speedway on July 16,
>Brandon's last night home before returning to Iraq.
>We'd be happy to give you a rematch. Great racing!
>Becky Cotton
Becky thank youfor your response we at Hill Country Raceway try to run a show as fair and in a timely manner as we can we have all race and still race other tracks. I know it is easy to find fault in any racing incident but racin is very intense and as a good friend told me if you are not on the egde of wreckin then you are not racin. Come back any time Brandon put on a good show and that is what we do as racers. RAINBOW MAN MOUTH OF HILL COUNTRY RACEWAY track announcer

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: My thoughts on racing	Becky Cotton	12:42:47 07/06/04 Tue