Last night I witnessed the epitomy of sportsmanship at uranium capitol speedway and felt it necessary to share this with those who might have missed it.
Driver paul Dorsett of Farmington,NM made the long trip down to run in the pure stock division . while running third in the feature and racing for second, he had a tire go down. The yellow flew and he was able to hot put to change it and get back out there. However, paul had no pit crew, nobody even pitting next to him. As he sat in the car in the pits a you'd man named Sam Sedillos ran across the infield to his car, he leaned in and words seemed to be exchanged. Sam the ran quickly over to the 19 trailer to grab a tire and then back to get a jack and on his own with veryblittle time, he began to change a fellow drivers tire. The crowd noticed this and began to cheer him on. Atvthisnpoint two other drivers, Scotty and Chris morlang hustled over to lend Sam a hand. Dorsett made it out just in time for the restart in what seemed to be a wash for him. He never asked for help, its not like they were even pitting next to each other. But because of the attentiveness and willingness of one young man, Dorsett was able to tag the field and work his way of to a third place finish!
Sam, you should be holding your head high today, because THAT was one of the nicest things I've seen at a track in years. It should be noted that without Scotty and Chris help, they never would have made it.
Ladies and gentlemen, that is how visitors are treated at uranium capitol speedway. We welcome them with open arms and are willing to help in any way possible. See ya at our next race at UCS saturday may 24th!email: tbrewbaker@hotmail.com
thanks for the post Tre, after I was told the tire was flat I went to my pit, shut the car off and had already taken off my gloves, loosened my belts and lowered the window net, I was ready to climb out and watch the rest of the race when Sam came running over. thanks to Sam and the other racers from another pit that changed the tire. thanks to the track for allowing extra time to get the tire changed even though I wasn't in the "hot" pit. thanks again UCS p.s. the tire was cut by what looked to be a piece of angle iron on the track, 2"x1" gash all the way through the steel cords!
Howdy pdorsett I understand your humbling experience. When we visited Las Cruces a few years ago a bunch of folks were helping us with the car I tore up. It was a really good experience and I didn't even know some of them, but they wanted us to race. That is what it's all about
Back in 09 when my dad made his first trip to UCS he had a LF go down while racing for the lead... he went solo and had no pit help... he pulled in the pits where my step mom was waiting, soon as he pulls in the EMT's and a flagrant ran over and changed the tire! Thought that was pretty darn cool... I've always been a huge fan of the people I've met and the way they treated us over there.. MOST of the time lol
Roy, How about the time you got caught up in that crash on the back stretch&rolled your GRT... Somebody started a rollover fund in the stands&they raised 2/3 hundred for you? ...thought that was pretty cool.
As far as "you"being treated well "most"of the time over there, Ya just gotta quit pushing little gurls in street stocks down in the mud&cutting thier tires...then everyone would love ya. lol.
Yeah it was like $320-330 something like that... pretty awesome deal the fans and other drivers did... and if you recall that night, show low got rained out, we called to grants at 3:30 az time and told them we were on our way and were going to tag main.... we got there and they ran all the cruiser/street/x mod and go kart heats... then waited for all 4 of us AZ cars to get there so we could run heat races.... last visit the guys running the show were pretty redicilous and they wouldn't pay us a lousy $25 for the main because you have to finish.... kinda bum deal especially when we towed 5-6 hours to race there.. $25 isnt gonna make ya or break ya, just the principal. .
Far as that little girl goes, dont crowd me down into the slop coming to a restart when 1,200 bucks is on the line...
on May 11, 2014, 11:18 am
GOOD STUFF! 