New interview site:
The gotomn.com website has been online since 1999 and typically gets 20,000+ unique visitors per month and 30,000+ hits per month during the height of the summer racing season. I am pleased to announce that the Minnesota Dirt Track Racing Website located at gotomn.com has been joined by a new affiliate, midwestracingtalk.com.
Many of you are familiar with the interviews I did for dirtcast.com and racemn.com during the 2009 racing season. Barry Braun, owner and founder of the XR Network, recently announced that the racemn.com website will now serve as the new online home of the Racemn Modified Series. My racemn.com interviews were subsequently migrated to the dirtcast.com website and merged with a variety of racing content from around the country. I am grateful to Barry for giving me the opportunity and encouragement to refine my podcasting and interviewing skills.
Nevertheless, I made the decision after the conclusion of the 2009 season that I wanted to put our local tracks and drivers back in the spotlight. In my column for the Midwest Racing Connection I cover racing in the upper Midwest with the emphasis on racing that takes place near the Twin Cities Metro area. I felt that a racing interview site could be of greater value to the local racing community if it were to focus on tracks near the Twin Cities area of Minnesota and western Wisconsin.
Dan Plan, publisher of The Midwest Racing Connection, will be contributing interviews and video clips which will expand our coverage to asphalt racing making the site even more appealing to local racing fans. I will be doing some video projects with Vance of Fry Pan Productions as well. The lineup will include racing discussion, video clips, pit reports and telephone interviews. Again, the new site is located at midwestracingtalk.com. Midwest Racing Talk is owned and operated by Stan Meissner. The midwestracingtalk.com website will be adding new content to debut during the annual GRP Racing Trivia Contest scheduled to take place on gotomn.com in January of 2010.
If you would like to find out how you can support midwestracingtalk.com contact Stan Meissner at: mndirt@hotmail.com
Photography and the 2010 season:
During the 2009 racing season I increased my attendance substantially by adding a new series as well as assuming a share of track photographer responsibilities at one of the local tracks. Now that the 2009 season has come to a conclusion it is obvious that the downturn in the economy has resulted in a correspondingly significant downturn in photo sales. Going forward I have decided to limit my photography and race attendance in order to lower my expenses and devote more time to midwestracingtalk.com. Starting with the 2010 season all events that I attend will include Sprint Cars as part of the lineup along with the included support classes. This change will enable me to reduce my expenses without having to sacrifice my favorite type of racing.
Even though I will be concentrating on Sprint Car racing next season the Midwest Racing Talk website will cover all of the classes that appear at our local oval tracks. I may decide to attend some other events besides Sprint Cars when the opportunity presents itself but my exact schedule is uncertain at this time.
I am looking forward to the 2010 season and seeing you at the races!
