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hey everybody, take a minute and check out the widget in the bottom right corner. Yep, thats right, South Boston is the next race on the schedule. That means we get to go racing really soon. I can't wait. South Boston is a really fun track to race on. It's a lot like Motor Mile Speedway in that it's a .4 mile bullring. It's not banked quite as much as Motor Mile but it is still plenty fast. The crazy thing about South Boston is that confounded inside wall that they put up a few years ago for the Busch series races to separate pit road from the track. It really gives you the illusion that the track is super narrow. Wait a minute, it is super narrow so I guess that wall doesnt mean didly huh? Seriously, every driver meeting will start off with "cut your fellow competitor some slack coming off the corners and all spotters need to be on there toes coming off these corners, the track really tightens up and when one car gets sideways it bottlenecks the whole thing". I promise we will hear that at least a dozen times. I know Jimmy (race director) will get tired of saying it, but honestly, all of us need to be constantly reminded of it. None of us want a massive pileup on the front straight.

So how do you get around South Boston? The straights are short and the start/finish line is really close to the entry of turn one. You barrel off with a big head of steam into turn one. Drive it in deep cause the exit of 2 opens up and you can carry a lot of speed on exit. So stay in the throttle as deep as you can, use the brake pedal to set the nose and take the car down to the white line and hug it all through the corner. You'll be just a couple of feet off of the inside wall so dont take it down too low. Once you're in the center of the corner ease back into the fuel, remember dont floor it or you'll spin the rear tires all the way on exit, and let the car start to drift to the wall. The rear straight is pretty short, as I said earlier, so about the time the steering wheel gets straight you need to prepare yourself for turn 3. Just like turn one, drive it in deep, just this time you'll have to use a bit more brake because the exit of four is tighter and you'll need to keep the car low. The lower you can keep the car on turn 4 exit the better. The winner will be the guy that can keep the car on the apron of the track in turn 4 and still get good traction off. Late in the race, guys will be all over the track. A few years ago, Clayton Rogers won a race there using the top groove. Some guys will try that, but I believe the car that can stay on the bottom will be the car to beat. Hopefully, that car will be ME...