Goodbye 2007! Hellooo 2008!
(No Comments) Posted in The Desk by Gayle on January 8th, 2008

Goodbye 2007! Hellooo 2008! If there is anybody ready to begin a new year, it’s me. Like most human beings , I look at January as a fresh start and twelve months of endless opportunities-not only on a personal level, but also for the entire operation of Kamp Motor Speedway. I have had my brain storming the past week on what kind of things I, or should I say “we” can do to bring attendance up for Kamp Motor Speedway in 2008. I have also included some of my brainpower into ways to up the business at K-Motion Racing. The two businesses go hand in hand with each other and it takes support for both to make each other survive.

In my brainstorming ideas I have put into plan a racers coffee area at K-Motion. This will be a place to sit around and drink coffee, have a snack and give your input on how to save the world from global warming or even your thoughts on racing ideas. You might even want to do some shopping while your here; after all we are a race shop with products for racing on hand.

I have done some brainstorming on how to get families to attend the races at Kamp Motor Speedway. In this brainstorm I have come up with things for your kids to do. If we can keep your little ones entertained while you have a night out to enjoy the spectacular racing at Kamp Motor Speedway with no babysitting charge, wouldn’t that be a great night out. I have plans for the kids that involve a Christmas party, a Valentines party, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, Halloween costume party and driver interaction. These are just a few of the things we will have in store for the little ones. With gas prices threatening to raise to record prices this would be a great place close to home to entertain the whole family at a reasonable price.

Speaking of prices, if you have explored the website at all you will notice the front gate prices have risen a bit. This is a necessary evil to make ends meet, but if you do some exploring there are ways to get a discount on weekly programs. Such as factory discounts, Triple AAA discounts and special fan nights such as Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and a few other brainstorming plans that’s been going through what has now become a tornado aftermath inside my head. If you have reasonable ideas to make things better please give me a shout and we can at least talk about it.

In all this brainstorming we have also been working on the schedule and some things are done but it is not finished. Hopefully we can nail that job down within the next week.

This weekend we will be attending the UMP banquet along with a promoters luncheon in Springfield, Illinois. We are looking forward to seeing a lot of you there and seeing the drivers being honored for their racing accomplishments in 2007. A lot of those drivers and champions are from our speedway and we are proud of each and every one of you that race with us. Not only the ones being honored but all of you. Don’t forget the racing Expo is also going on at the fairgrounds in Springfield. You won’t want to miss that. There are usually some great bargains going on that weekend. Oh and don’t forget you only have a couple of days to get your award votes in.

The holidays weren’t so pleasant for everyone in our racing family. We would like to send our thoughts, prayers and condolences out to Modified driver Jammie Wilson and his family on the loss of Jammie’s Mother. Jammie’s Mother lost her battle against cancer on December 27th she was 53. Our thoughts are with the Wilson family.

In closing I hope the holidays were good for you and that the new year will prove to be prosperous. It is time to put 2007 behind us and focus on making 2008 a year to remember. I would also ask everyone to keep our armed forces in your thoughts and prayers as they wage the war against terrorism. They do their job to keep us safe to do our jobs. I would also like ask you to please keep the flood victims in this area in your thoughts as they fight the raging waters from the area creeks and rivers. With all that said until next time be happy and be safe.

Gayle

Christmas is out the New Year is in.
(2 Comments) Posted in The Desk by Gayle on December 27th, 2007

Christmas is like racing it came in with the speed of a late model and went out with the same kind of speed. We had a great Christmas with family and friends. Dinner was good , I love being able to use my Christmas dishes, I wish I could use them all year round, but poinsettias just don’t look right when it’s a hundred in the shade.

The most fun on Christmas was watching Hayden unwrap his gifts. He had a ball but he did tell me a couple of times “Grandma, I don’t like unwrapping clothes”, I guess it was good only a couple of packages were clothes. He had his new big wheel flying down the driveway as fast as he could peddle. Bob did a good job Christmas shopping, I guess when I was showing him sales fliers and saying I would like to have that, he was listening. I do believe everyone in our household had a good Christmas and I hope everyone in yours also had one.

With Christmas gone we all know that the New Year is just a few days away. I hope if you are going to celebrate with liquid cheer that you will designate a driver for the evening to keep you and others on the roadways safe. I hope we all are able to make a New Years resolution we can keep. I vow every year to loose weight and I am going to work hard on keeping that resolution. It’s either loose weight or buy new clothes, hmm! I do like to shop. No really, I am going to work on it, (there are a lot of after Christmas sales though), no I am going to work on it. I am not like Hayden, I do like to unwrap clothes even if it is just pulling them out of the Macy’s sack.

January 1st reminds me that we seriously need to put a schedule together for the 2008 season. There are some things already scheduled and we have a few things we are working on but nothing is concrete or in writing so we will just have to see on those things. The UMP banquet is on January 12th at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Springfield, Illinois I hope everyone sent their votes in. The Speed Expo will also be going on that weekend at the State Fairgrounds in Springfield so mark your calendars for a full race related weekend. Hopefully we will see a lot of you on that weekend. I believe the Chilly Bowl is also on the 12th.

I did hear yet another rumor this holiday season about Bob and I and the track as well as K-Motion. Kamp Motor Speedway is owned and operated by Bob and myself no one else. Tony Stewart does not own any part of the speedway he is also NOT a partner in the operation. The speedway is an LLC with two partners, Bob being one and me being the other. End of story, if you hear a rumor call us to check it out don’t pass it along. We have sold the machine shop part of our business to Jeff Houchens of Williamsport. Jeff worked for us for many years as a machinist and engine builder. You can still bring things to K-Motion and we will get it to Jeff for you. We still have the parts business and the valve springs part of K-Motion. We are planning some different ventures for K-Motion. K-Motion supports Kamp Motor Speedway, Kamp Motor Speedway supports you the racer. We are looking for your support in 2008.

In closing I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and I hope the New Year proves to be prosperous for all of you. I would also like to send our thoughts and prayers to our armed forces serving in Iraq as well as at home and other parts of the world. They are doing their job to keep us safe to do ours. With all that said until next time be happy and be safe.

Gayle

“Wishing you and yours a happy and prosperous New Year”.