PABLO — Racing reverberates off the Mission Mountains as Montana as cowboy boots or Griz and Bobcat football, engines straining for turn three at peak revolutions.
For those lucky to be seated close enough, shreds of rubber mix with nachos, flung from the tires of high-horsepower beasts completing 3/8th-mile laps in 15 seconds.
“Why not?,” Travis Sharpe, a former NASCAR Truck Series crew chief turned Montana racer, said. “The most honest, truest, hardest-working people [I’ve met] have come from racetracks.
“It’s the relationships. That’s why I keep coming back and working because these are all friends to me out here. It’s friendships for life, it’s different.”
A collection of good ol’ boys, gearheads turned racers by the decades-long presence of a high-banked asphalt oval racetrack in their backyard, toil in the afternoon sun, tinkering between test runs.
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They’re placing the finishing touches on their pride and joys before the sun sets and the beating and banging begins.
Ronan’s Donny Webster elected to start in the back of tonight’s hobby stock main after winning his heat
In 25 laps, Webster navigated the field and won
Webster and his team were racing with a heavy heart tonight after recently losing a friend to cancer
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