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.