Steve Kaminski of The Grand Rapids Press wrote this about the STA-BIL Great Lakes Summer Nationals Race for Huntington’s Disease, held in Sparta, Michigan on the third weekend of July:
Allan Brown of Comstock Park has watched at least one race in all 50 states and has visited about 2,000 tracks in all during the past 35 years.
But Brown said he never had seen anything like he saw Sunday afternoon.
The eighth annual STA-BIL Great Lakes Summer Nationals Race for Huntington’s Disease Research returned to Paul C. Miller Airport, and Brown and his wife Nancy took in the second and final day of the races.
Brown co-founded the National Speedway Directory in 1975, and that kept him traveling to tracks all across the country. He sold the publication this past December, and that has enabled him to catch more races closer to home.
Brown came to one conclusion Sunday — they really will race anything.
“This is completely different,” Brown said. “I have known about this for a number of years, and I always wanted to come up and see it, but never had a chance.
“It’s pretty cool. It’s surprising how those fast ones go through the corners and survive without tipping over.”
Grand Rapids Press photographer Joel Hawksley took these great photos:
To read the rest of the article, and see more great photos from the weekend in Sparta, head on over to mlive.com. To see results from the races and more, click here.
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