2008Rt66RacewayPetition

Please sign this e-mail then send it back to me at [email protected] if you would like to see this happen. Help us local racers. If you can please send this e-mail to your racing buddies. If they sign it please send me their names and I'll add them to this e-mail and send to Mr. Matt Alexander President of Chicagoland Speedway and ask him if he can at all possible help us and tell ISC International Speedway Corporation to give these guys a chance and let them promote the Route 66 Speedway and give us local racers in the Chicagoland area a place to race. If your a true racer you'll help out.

Route (Rt.) 66 Speedway (dirt track) I beg you all who help run the dragstrip, 1.5 mile oval, and the dirt track please let us local guys race at the dirt track. Over the past 23 or so years the Chicagoland area has lost so many tracks to the growing economy; mostly because of cities and town that hate only the noise. Track that we have lost include: (lost in 1995) Santa Fe Speedway in Burr Ridge/ Willow Springs; (lost in 2006) Crown Point Speedway in Crown Point, Indiana; (lost in 2008) Kankakee Motor Speedway in Kankakee, Illinois; (lost in 1985) Rensselaer Speedway in Renseleer, Indiana; (lost in 2001) Raceway Park in Blue Island, Illinois; and possibly Grundy County Speedway in late 2008 because the airport next to the county fairgrounds wants to expand. Leting us race there would help us tremendously in saving gas money, money for parts, & most important of all we wouldn't have to travel so far just to race at places like: Shadyhill Speedway in Medaryville, Indiana; Fairbury American Legion Speedway in Fairbury, Illinois; LaSalle Speedway in LaSalle, Illinois; & Kamp Motor Speedway in Boswell, Indiana. I can pretty much guarantee to you all with Mr.Jan Gabriel, Jim O'Connor, Jim's son Reese O'Connor and possibly Jim's daughter Chris the grandstands would be fill every race night. Please send this e-mail or if possible make sure this letter gets to Mr. Matt Alexander President of Chicagoland Speedway. Matt, if or when you get this letter please if your able to do anything for us local racers I beg you with mercy help us if at all possible we need this to work and tell ISC (International Speedway Corporation) please just give Mr. Jan Gabriel, Jim O'Connor, & Reese O'Connor a chance at promoting the dirt track. I have been going to the local dirt tracks for almost 25 years, when Mr. Jim O'Connor (former track Champion at Santa Fe Speedway in Late Models), his son Reese O'Connor, & his daughter Chris promoted the Kankakee Motor Speedway in 2003 & 2004 and Crown Point Speeway in 2004 & 2005 I can honestly say they did an awsome job with each facility packing the grandstands every night with their biggest shows each year being the "Kevin Roderick Memorial" $15,000 to win 75 laps UMP (United Midwestern Promoters) dirt Late Model race. The race was created in memory of Kevin Roderick; a former competitor at Santa Fe Speedway and dirt late Model driver who tragiclaly lost his life at the LaSalle Speedway in LaSalle, Illinois in 1995. When Jim and his two kids promoter Crown Point Speedway & Kankakee Motor Speedway I belive with great integerity they did the best job I've seen any promoter do with either track and with Mr. Jan Gabriel's help this could be a great opportunity too get to see up close and personal how a dirt track is promoted successfully the right way. Just imagine a big dirt track show like the one's they put on at the "The Dirt Track @ Lowe's Motor Speedway".