In every issue of Shorttrack Magazine, we plan to ask a question and ask you to respong here in the Shorttrack blog. THe question for March/April is this: Do you prefer the controlled-competiton approach of the American/Canadian Tour or the more open rules of the Pro All-Star Series super late-models?

No, I won’t chime in on this one. I leave that to you. C’mon, get a discussion going.

So after one season of running the Speedbowl Bill Roth has headed for the hills. The Bowl continues to be popular with racers, but this the place remains a source of speculation, with almost-sales and new plans and no changes and…

What’s your speculation?

Had an interesting conversation with Greg Veinote of Spud Speedway at the Northeast Racing Expo in Augusta. It seems they’re doing a nice job making Spud a viable option both for racers and fans up in Caribou, where everyone in America is always interested in the temperature. They’ve rebuilt built a lot of the “infrastructure” and Greg claims the racing surface is surprisingly smooth. Pretty decent crowds came to Spud in ’07, and I’m hoping I can be among them this season. Of course, I’m standing there in Augusta, where the snow was piled so high I got lost in the shopping plaza parking lot across the srett from the Civic Center, and they’re telling me the place is 6 hours north of there!

I wonder if they’re are any motels up there.