DuQUOIN, Ill. (BP)–BPSports columnist Tim Ellsworth went to his first auto race on Labor Day — the ARCA Southern Illinois 100.
Although not on the same level as NASCAR, the ARCA race did include a couple of NASCAR drivers — Tony Stewart and Ken Schrader – “so it wasn’t just some podunk race of no consequence,” Ellsworth writes.
“I thought seeing an event of this caliber in person might soften my distaste for the sport. But it didn’t.”
Read more of Ellsworth’s column at BPSports, www.bpsports.net.
–30–
