08/23/2026
Ok so the Battlefield Blaze is in the books but it didnāt turn out like I wouldāve liked with that being said..
Iām sorry for the track conditions
Let me start from the beginning itās going to be a long post so here goes..
Monday, I made a post about the Battlefield blaze two day show on Tuesday I got a phone call yelling at me asking why I am racing on a Friday night like I had done something wrong ļæ¼ well this Race has been on my schedule since February when I made the schedule so after that phone call it didnāt set right, but I brushed it off. I went down to the track after work. And I uncovered it so that Wednesday it could dry out some so that I could break the surface up and give it a smooth new surface. So me and a few Buddys went down there and broke the surface up and rolled it down, but the track did not cooperate. It started clumping up and pulling apart and at this time it was about 1230 1 oāclock in the morning so I said OK weāll just come down here Thursday and see what we can do. So I left work early on Thursday and went down there and worked on the track until a massive storm come through with the most amount of rain in the shortest amount of time I have seen in a long time at this point it was about 1 oāclock in the morning. We finally got loaded up and went home to start all over again on Friday. I got to the track about 10 oāclock in the morning and worked on it all day for it to end up not having the greatest surface at all. I mean sometimes things just donāt go your way if it could break down it definitely did within two days so not only wasnāt working on the track. I was working on the equipment. Just trying to get a Race surface to Race on. ļæ¼ Friday evening only about 10 to 15 racer showed up so I told everybody just to have fun on the track. Weāre not racing on this surface that Iām gonna spend all night long fixing it. Thatās when a gentleman by the name of. Jimmy Hawkins said hey I have a tractor with a box blade. Do you want me to go get it? I said man it would help a whole lot so he drove 30 minutes. Home loaded the tractor up and brought it to the track so that I could fix the surface at this point. It still wasnāt great, but it was a lot better than it had been so we all finally laid down about 2 oāclock in the morning to get up Saturday and try to have a good day of racing ..
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Saturday morning a few racers started rolling in checking the track out and Iām explaining to them what all has happened and a lot of them are understanding but with that being said there was a few that said man why is it so bumpy? Itās hard to race on trust me, I understand, but if yāall only knew what it took to get it to where it was a lot of people donāt understand how much work goes into a track how much work it is for a promoter to even try to get racers to come to an event to try to get the track in perfect condition in the promoters eyes which it never is in their eyes perfect but all we can do is try and Iām here to tell you I never gave up but at this point I was disappointed in the track. I was disappointed in the crowd that showed up. I was just ready to leave and I never wanted to get this way but sometimes you can only take so much until you say youāre done well I have reached that point so I hope everyone had a good time and I hope to see yāall all around ..
 With all of that being said Iām (cookie) ļæ¼ giving up the promoting of Battlefield Raceway. Iāve really enjoyed doing it for the past year, but man, I can only take so much especially when other tracks wonāt work with you when I took this track over there was maybe four tracks within 100 miles so it wasnāt that complicated now it feels like thereās 10 and Iām here to tell you if they donāt start working together there will not ļæ¼ be any because the promoters and the tracks canāt last without the people I mean the people is what makes it and without them you have nothing ..  within these past few days Iāve come so close to saying Iām done with RC racing. And that is not what I want because I really do enjoy it. I love it so this is one of the biggest reasons. Iām stepping away. Iām gonna try and go and enjoy the sport that I love.
Dion left the decision up to me to pick who I thought would be the best promoter for the track so I have made my decision. It doesnāt come lightly. It doesnāt come easy, but I do believe that these two will do a great job.
So your new Battlefield Raceway track promoters are
Zack Bailey and Jeff Bailey.
Iām Still gonna be at Battlefield helping them through the transition throughout the end of the year, but they are running the show and I know theyāll do a great job .
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