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Sunday, March 29, 2009
On this date in area sports history …
Seven years ago on this date, March 29, 2002, the News-Sun published an update on local auto racer Bobby Bowsher. Complete story on the jump.
BOBBY BOWSHER’S SITUATION `UP IN THE AIR’
By KEVIN VAN BRIMMER, News-Sun Sports Writer
When Bobby Bowsher climbed back into a race car last summer for the first time in five years, his plan was to stay there for a while.
The Harmony Township resident and former ARCA series champ returned to the track in Memphis last September and ran the last three races on the American Speed Association (ASA) circuit, something he planned to parlay into a full-season run this year.
But like a lot of other things in the nation, sponsorship fell through after September and has left Bowsher wondering how much of this season he’ll be able to run.
“At this point, it’s up in the air,” he said Wednesday. “I was working on some deals last fall that fell through after September 11. Everything seemed to tighten up after that.”
Bowsher has his ASA card and wanted to run the whole season, but said he decided in mid-November that it just wasn’t feasible from a financial standpoint.
Now, Bowsher is focusing in on getting ready to run a handful of races on the ASA circuit beginning in late June or July.
“I was looking at the schedule the other night and I probably won’t run until June,” he said. “Location makes a difference, obviously. Probably, the ones that are fairly close to home I’ll run.”
The series begins its “local” loop in mid-July when it visits Jennerstown Speedway in Pennsylvania. A week later, it makes a pitstop in Salem, Ind. Also on the schedule are races in Toledo (Aug. 10), at Indianapolis Raceway Park in Clermont, Ind. (Sept. 20) and Winchester, Ind. (Oct. 5).
Bowsher ran at Memphis, Winchester and Clermont, Ind. last season. He said there are some tracks he ran while on the ARCA series, on which his younger brother Todd is currently racing, that he’d like run in the ASA races — tracks like Five Flags in Pensacola, Fla. and Memphis Motorsports Park in Tennessee.
“There’s some I’d love to run, but they’re too far away from home,” Bowsher said.
While Bowsher is disappointed his plans for a full-season didn’t come to fruition this year, he’s still looking forward to the races he can make it to. And, he’s considering racing on another circuit.
“I’m not ruling out the possibility of running some other series,” Bowsher said. “It would only be a handful of races, you probably wouldn’t even need a second hand. But it’s something that I will probably look into doing more in the future.”
But for now, what circuit it would be remains a mystery.
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