The Shane Carson Collection

Shane & the "Dude" at the Kansas Speedway	Missouri's Danny the "Dude" Lasoski, and Oklahoma City's Shane Carson were at the Kansas Speedway over the weekend driving Winston Cup style stock cars for the Richard Petty Driving Experience. Carson one of the regular drivers for Petty was working with the "Dude" in an effort for him to gain super speedway experience for the upcoming IROC schedule that runs events around the country. Lasoski, the 2001 Pennzoil World Of Outlaw Sprint Car series Champion ran a very respectable 6th in the IROC opener at the Daytona Speedway in Feb. but realized the need for more track time at the paved ovals in the stock cars. KC has a lot of similarities to the other 1.5 mile facilities where he will be competing and will try to work in a few days next week at Indy, another stop for the series. Carson, now driving full time for the Richard Petty Driving Experience is president of Mar-Car Inc. which promotes World Of Outlaw Sprint events at the Fairgrounds Speedway in Oklahoma City where the Outlaws will make their annual stop June 18th for the Bud Carson Memorial. Shane was inducted into the Knoxville Sprint Car Racing Hall Of Fame in 2001 The Petty group runs about 40 different speedways around the country year around.
	1979 - this is how it was done at the Iowa State Fairgrounds for qualifying, it was kind of a ballancing act with this car, no wing to hold you down, the car didn't weigh anything. It would bite you if you were not paying attention. This is the car I sat on the front row with for the 79 Knoxville Nationals, we thought it was ours to win, turned out to be mine to lose though. We chose to run a harder tire and run the top groove the line that was always preferred at Knoxville, seems as though nobody told Ronnie Shuman, he found the bottom and before we could react he was gone....thats sprint car racin.
	1978 - This was my first race for Des Moines, Iowa's Bob Trostle in the 20 car, Lake City, Florida, this is the same car that Doug Wolfgang drove to 40 + wins in the 77 season. 78 was a good season for me, I moved to Iowa, winning over 20 features, the Knoxville season championship, the NSCA championship and rookie of the year honors at both places. Running behind me is the 18 car that C.K. Spurlock owned, then driven by Charlie Swartz. I drove the same 18 car for C.K. the spring races in Florida 1979. He then formed the Gambler Chassis Co. based out of his home town of Hendersonville, TN.
	1977 - This Dewey Okla. race promoted by John Kalb from Tulsa, the Firestone racing tire dealer was won by Rick Ferkel, but I had just moved into the Nance sprinter from my 6 cylinder modified and chased Rick for 50 laps for a 2nd place finish. It got me a full time ride with Laverne Nance from Wichita and got me the exposure I needed to get going with a full time sprint car ride.