It has been awhile since I have been as excited about a new racing show as I am about “Madhouse” airing this Sunday at 10 p.m. ET/PT. This is truly bullring racing at it’s VERY finest. “Madhouse” is being billed as a Hatfields and McCoys type of racing show, but, in my opinion it is more than that…MUCH more!
The track is the infamous and historic Bowman Gray Stadium, the first and longest running NASCAR weekly race track. Located in Winston-Salem North Carolina, Bowman Gray is a flat, oval, quarter mile, action packed, edge of your seat, nerve wracking, don’t you dare blink race track. The modified racing just can’t get any better than this. It can’t!
You get to meet, up close and definitely personal, every day people who work hard, race hard, fight hard and just happen to be the racing celebrities of this series…drivers like cagey and tough stuff veteran Junior Miller, 2009 Farm Bureau Insurance Modified Series Champion Tim Brown and the latest members of the legendary Myers racing family, racing brothers Burt and Jason Myers. You also get glimpses of those regular people who work in the race shops where cars are built, constantly rebuilt and scrapped in favor of replacements.
There are no major salaries, no major sponsor dollars or big race purses at work here…just race car drivers who live and love to race. They have to. It is who and what they are.
Please make sure to tune in Sunday night at 10 PM to watch this show. This type of local Saturday night racing is what made most of us the racing fanatics we are. This type of racing is where the big stars of NASCAR’s tomorrow are taught and bred and while 99.99 percent of these drivers will never make it to those upper racing levels, most of these drivers do not care. They don’t have the time or luxury to. They are too busy living, sleeping, breathing, eating and drinking the racing they are involved with. Their rivalries are real, tough, well earned and long lived. The show truly is a fantastic “Madhouse” of racing. Whoever said “rubbing is racing” had to have frequented Bowman Gray Stadium on Saturday nights. This truly is the next best thing to being there.
Check back with CF soon. I will be speaking with and writing about some of these amazing racing personalities in the next couple of weeks. You really do not want to miss this show. In the meantime check out the link below to get a glimpse of the drivers who are responsible for the racing excitement and mayhem at Bowman Gray Stadium
