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Written by 66dvlbrd68   
Friday, 01 August 2008 23:31

By Tom Reynolds, with editing by Michael Sepulveda

When Will ("Fox") asked me to start writing a monthly column on racing, I was really not sure what to write about and how to make it worth reading.  Lets face it, I don’t have any serious experience – I’m an amateur autocrosser and run time trials when I can. If you subscribe to Doug Hayashi’s "Pyramid of Speed", I’m not even at the top:

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The above image is courtesy of NSXfiles.com

I’m just an "Average Joe" trying to race out of the same budget I feed myself, my family, and pets, and in the same car I drive to work in.  However, the reality is that if you are reading this, you probably have a lot in common with that sentence. 

If you have ever tried to stuff eight tires into something not classed as a wagon, truck, or minivan, you might understand my sense of humor.  If your garage smells like tires and you have more sets of wheels for your car then you do pairs of shoes for yourself, you will appreciate where I am going with this.  If you have driven 5 hours to drive for less than 5 minutes of racing, you might have the same sickness I do.  If you are still reading this, you obviously don’t mind my grammar style starting that many sentences in a row with the word if.  With that in mind, I’ll start at the beginning like any good story should.

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Written by Greg   
Saturday, 21 June 2008 09:43

ABQRacing.comDirt track racing has been a part of the Albuquerque area for well over 60 years. A great many people have participated in the sport, from drivers, to announcers, to sponsors, to interested spectators. Curtis Berry was just old enough as a child to remember watching his father race in the early 1970’s. The experience was brief, but the memories stuck with him for years to come until he was old enough to try his own hand at racing for a brief time in 1986.

After that, Curtis became a mere spectator, making the Saturday pilgrimage to Seven Flags Raceway — later renamed Duke City Raceway — and then later to the tracks that we have today, such as Sandia Motor Speedway and Hollywood Hills Speedway. Unable to race, Curtis wanted to do more than simply watch; he wanted to contribute something to help promote the sport and generate the kind of interest he held. So in the fall of 2007, he created a website called ABQRacing.com, which still runs today.

ABQRacing.com has been built into an informational site serving the racing community. Curtis has developed bio pages for any drivers whose pictures or information he has been able to gather through his own efforts and through fan/driver submissions. The site is also a reference point for racing news within Albuquerque , New Mexico , and abroad, as well as weekly racing schedules for venues across New Mexico.  Curtis has also created a “tracks” page, where viewers can find historical, contact, and map details on different facilities across the Land of Enchantment.

Please stop by ABQRacing.com and feel free to submit any information or feedback that will help further racing in our community.

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