What was Sallack Motorsports ?

Sallack Motorsports was the utilization of one business working with another in order to achieve a common goal. To be the best at what we do. Put simply, Our sponsors help us to be number one at the tracks we race at and we in turn, advertise for our sponsors to let the public become aware of their company or product therefore helping them to be number one.

Sounds simple well it's not. I have been in the racing game since 1987 starting out in the hobby stock class. the car I built my self in my uncles garage in one week. I purchased a 1970 something, Pontiac LeMans, gutted it out and put in the role cage. I towed to the tracks with a home made tow bar. this method was fine, unless you racked up your car so bad it had to be trailered. This was the blood and guts class! You usually end up working on the car every night whether the damage was your fault or not. but that was part of the racing experience and this is the class that will make you want more or break your spirit. I ran this class for two years, I never had any top finishes heck I didn't have a clue on setting up the car or anything. All I knew was I was Racing!

Sallack Motorsports is
( a sort of on going history )

    Yes I was racing and I was also getting a hard lesson in the economics of it, along with some other lessons. I found out it takes money and experince to race, even more so if you want to win. Remember, I was only 19 at the time.

    Oh it was fun, after all, I had no pit crew, no trailer, no experience and little money. This was when I learned the lesson," The guy with the experience, meets the guy with the money." Well, the guy with the experience now has the money, and the one with the money now has the experience. That's what happened when I went to buy a new engine for the ol' LeMans. apparently if your race engine has 80,000 miles on it, that doesn't mean its a seasoned motor, but rather it's ready for retirement or at least a thorough rebuild. When the original engine did finally go, in about two races, I bought an engine from a guy with experience.    Yep he got my money and I ended up with an engine that wouldn't even turn over, let alone start. It was locked up tight! What an experience!

    My Dad and Uncle helped me out with another engine, not the best but it held together through out the season to give me lasting memories like that of being hit from behind coming out of turn two at Mckean County Raceway, spinning me 180 degrees in front of the whole feature field. Of course I was on the pole that night, I did the only thing I could do...Throw her in reverse and mash the gas! I went down 3/4 of the back stretch in reverse, finally got off the track, spun back around and kept going until the first yellow came out.

    My second lesson, get a trailer. I gained this wisdom at Marion Center Raceway. Good ol' boy Mr.Bowser apparently didn't realize you can lift going into turn one, which sometimes is a good idea, especially when the whole field in front of you is doing just that. Basically my left rear tire left a big burn out mark on his hood because when I was on top of his car  once again it was mash the gas time! This little incident bent the axle. Of course I used a tow bar to get to the races.  I towed it home and it kind of  looked like one of those "toddler" toy cars, you know with the wacky wheels. I think when I towed it home the car was going 55mph forward and 105mph up and down.
  I figured this would be a good time to sell this car and move up a few classes, after all I had one year of actual race experience,  next stop, Late Models.

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