Archive for Brian Penrose
Jan
05
Random Sprint Car News and Notes.
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That car to the left we affectionately refer to as, “the World of Outlaws #59…a Florida Sprint Car.” And this year we also lovingly referred to it as, “The Crockernham Express” as the driver was oft-debated Erin Crocker.
The owner of that car is one John Lang, he a Floridian. He was hoping to put the Crockernham Express back in the car for 2010 but things couldn’t work out due to Erin’s tv deal and also family life. Rumors persist she may be preggers, but we have no idea.
Nonetheless Mr. Lang is pressing on with his team with…Brooke Tatnell. We sure love our Australians here at FSCF.com don’t we? Brooke is our kind of wheelman – drives anything anywhere anytime and much like Wendy Mathis, is currently racing over in his homeland of Australia.
Mr. Lang and Mr. Tatnell are looking at 60+ races, more if some sponsorship can be picked up. (If you want to help out, drop us a line and we’ll put you in touch.)
Other news in no particular order…”Short and Sweet” Traci DeCaire is moving to Virginia in a job-related move, but still plans on coming back when time allows to run some non-wing races…Our Editor at Speed finally solved the geometry issues plaguing his mini sprint and put in a full day of testing on Sunday without a single broken chain, thus ruining our desire to paint, “The Two Lap Special,” on the side of his car…though we hear his female fans will still refer to him as that regardless…Our podcast we recorded last week? The file has been corrupted, so we’re debating whether to do the whole thing over or just type up the list of winners, but we may do both…and we do have a winner on the name for the awards and it came from a driver that won one of the awards and doesn’t know it…and if you haven’t noticed yet, the TBARA has a new website, as does the CFWS…it’s a new year, out with the old and in with the new.
And also, if you enjoy this kind of thing, I installed a “meebo bar” which you will see at the bottom of the page. Go ahead put your mouse over the picture of the Crockernham Express. See how it says, “drag to share,” now? Drag the photo and you get options to share it on your Facebook, Twitter or just e-mail it to your friends. You can also click down in the right hand corner to get a meebo account which allows you to do things like chat with your Facebook buddies without even being in Facebook, all while you’re sitting on our website.
Technology is your friend, embrace it.
Dec
12
Notes and things from the PRI Show.
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If you need a driver for for your sprint car in 2010, give Mickey Kempgens a call.
So we rolled on into the PRI show on Thursday amidst some rather unpleasant weather and the first thing that struck us was the reduction in the size of booths and floor traffic. Now if you know anything about the trade show industry, everyone has taken a major hit, so this was really nothing different.
Then we promptly ran into Mikey Kempgens down on the floor. If you’ve not had the pleasure of meeting Mickey, a nicer person you will not meet. He’s rather soft spoken and lets his right foot do the talking for him.
Unfortunately for Mickey, some changes have been made at Shane Miller Motorsports (more on that in a moment) and Mickey is now looking for a ride for 2010. If you’re a regular listener to the podcast you know that we’ve spoken very highly of the progress Mickey made this year as he’s fast, smooth and easy on the equipment. So if you need a driver for 2010, you should put Mickey at the top of your list. And for the record, Mickey had nothing but nice things to say about Shane Miller and his operation. It’s just “one of them deals.”
We spent some time over in the Bell booth looking at a new lid for our Editor at Speed and during that time Steve Park and Rick Francis were in the house as well. Some other sprint car peeps we talked to were all abuzz about Tony Stewart Racing. It seems you can’t go anywhere these days without some TSR rumors, so here goes…first one we heard was Kraig Kinser to the #11 with Quaker State and The King to TSR in the #20. We found that one hard to believe since Donny is a J&J man and Steve is a Maxim man. So we poked around and then heard Kraig is in at Steve Kinser Racing (go figure) and that TSR was going to have a working relationship of some sort with Steve, but he’s still driving for himself. It just gets wackier by the day.
Joey "The Ace" Aguilar and Tommy Nichols, the face of Shane Miller Motorsports for 2010.
So on Friday, our own Factory Driver Flyin’ Ryan Partin was in tow and the first person we ran into was…Shane Miller himself, and his drivers for 2010. That’s right, looking all dapper in their team gear was Joey “The Ace” Aguilar and Tommy Nichols. Tommy was clean shaven so we couldn’t attempt any more Joe Nemecheck jokes. As of now, it’s not set in stone whether the team will run all of the TBARA series, or race wherever they see fit in 2010, much like they did in 2009. One thing is for certain, keep an eye on this team as we’re sure they will be the center of attention when they roll into the pits.
Shane Miller is a great team owner and does a lot for sprint car racing here in Florida and we wish them nothing but the best in 2010. Hopefully Joey will continue to bring Orange Crush soda to the track with him in 2010…
Oct
09
This weekend’s sprint car races – 10.09.09
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Things that go great together:
* Chocolate and peanut butter.
* Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard.
* Australian sprint car drivers and beer.
* Joey “The Ace” Aguilar and Orange Crush soda.
* Sprint cars and East Bay.
* Greg Hodnett and “Lethal” Lee Stauffer.
* Our Editor at Speed “The Hot Foot” Brian Penrose and FSCF.com Factory Driver Flyin’ Ryan Partin.
* Yuengling and buffalo wings.
And this Saturday night, you will have points #3, #5 and #7 wrapped up in one nice little package. That’s right, if you are so bold in theory you will see the FloridaSprintCarFans.com staff setting up shop right next to each other in the pits. If all goes to plan, we will be setting up the Penrose and Partin camp next to Paulie Milum’s rig and settling in for the evening.