Full Throttle

The just announced marriage of convenience between Brad Daugherty and JTG Racing has spawned dreams of grandeur in Charleston, West Virginia’s Kanawha Valley.

Charleston councilman David Higgins, noting Daugherty’s racing connections along with hometown football hero Randy Moss, thinks the two should persuade the powers that be to build “a large speedway on a Wal-Mart site” near the area’s Riverside High School.

Higgins - who has been pushing the proposed Quincy track for years - also claims a track “would draw multitudes of race fans to this region, bringing a flood of tourist dollars.”

Report of this flight of fancy comes courtesy of the West Virginia Gazette in the form of an editorial.

I won’t argue with the last point, a track of considerable size will bring cash into the area.

Just as obviously, they are caught up in a dream of grandeur of their own making, with nary clue one about NASCAR’s over stuffed schedule. Not to mention others on what amount to a waiting list of present tracks or soon-to-be tracks looking for NASCAR dates.

It’s good they are thinkin’ big and maybe they can sweet-talk Bruton Smith into looking in their direction, but I highly doubt it.

In the mean-time I’ve found a couple buyers of some stuff I wanna unload.

Like a trans-Pacific bridge, a nuclear powered hand drill, some excess (fools) gold and a pig-in-a-poke.