Saturday Notebook - Things Change, Car Show Pics

There was a reason that I put that question mark in parentheses following the title of Wednesday's Back Stretch as things can change pretty fast. The Eisele's decided not to make the trip to Beatrice, I am choosing a friend's 50th birthday celebration over going to Highland, and Mike VanGenderen announced that the two-day show in Memphis for next weekend has been cancelled due to the late winter weather.

So now we can look ahead to that final weekend in March that I spoke of previously, but don't forget that the King of America Modified event runs three nights this coming week down at Humboldt, Kansas. Also during that final weekend of March, the LaSalle Speedway kicks off with two big nights of Late Model racing including the West Region debut of the American Late Model Series (ALMS).

Shannon Babb topped a field of 22 UMP Late Models and Dean Hoffman took the UMP Modified feature last night at Belleville, Illinois, and the show at Highland is still a "go" for tonight. And in the opener in Beatrice the winners were Dylan Smith in the Modifieds, Tyler Frye in the Sport Mods, Lance Borgman in the Stock Cars and Devin Smith in the Hobby Stocks.

Instead of making the four hour drive to Highland I went to the 34 Raceway car show at Westland Mall in Burlington and took some pictures of the cars on display. You will find three of them below, but if you are a Facebook user, go the Positively Racing page and "Like" us as there you will find more pictures from today as well as the many racing photos that we have in albums there.

After several good seasons in a Stock Car Jeff Mueller is making the move to the Modifieds for 2013

Donnie Steward's winged sprint car drew plenty of attention at center court of Westland Mall

14-year-old Devon Rouse earned two new fans when I introduced him to my mother Dee and my cousin Jean