The issue has a nice feature on Whelen (Opps, excuse me. “NASCAR Whelen”) Series trooper Wade Cole. Find out why Wade continues to try to play the high-stakes game of NASCAR-Tour racing. Fred Astle also is featured. It’s the least we could do after he won the pro stock titles at both Thompson and Seekonk Speedways. Travis Benjamin comments on the challenges of gassing up for racing – in more ways than one.

For tech stories, we introduce you to a bunch of racecar parts that we hope someday soon will be the “Dirt, Cheap” Quad-4 midget, and Joe Publicover asks why supermod car builders and owners wouldn’t be interested in trying out a wing designed in one of the foremost aerodynamics labs in the world.

Vintage fans will enjoy stories about two colorful characters from racing’s past, Henry “The Frozen Logger” Montandon and Al “Blackie” Crockett.