2015 NSL Preview

The National Sprint League is nearly all set for their inaugural 2015 season. With 35 teams signed up to run the 28-30 race schedule across the Midwest and $350,000 in point money up for grabs it is shaping up to be a good start for the NSL.
 
Looking at the NSL “roster” my top ten power rankings are:  1. #2 Danny Lasoski, 2. #21 Brian Brown, 3. #24 Terry McCarl, 4. #18 Ian Madsen, 5. #82 Dusty Zomer, 6. #17B Bill Balog, 7. #77x Wayne Johnson, 8. #13 Mark Dobmeier, 9. #56 Davey Heskin, 10. #55 Brooke Tatnell.

1. Danny Lasoski - I have to pick Lasoski as the favorite. He has experience, a good team behind him, and a lot of the race tracks the series is going to a lot of drivers on the roster haven’t seen before, such as Denison, Britt, Farmington, and Moberly. The benefit of financial support will be there with Big Game #2 car to compete at the front every night. As long as Danny and Guy Forbrook can work together, they not only are the favorite to win the NSL Series, but the Knoxville KCCS, and are a serious contender for the Knoxville Nationals. Predicted NSL win total: 8

Tony Stewart: The Entrepreneur

The All Stars and Renegades split is over. I am happy a guy like Tony Stewart is willing to step up and help the sport of sprint car racing. You cannot deny his passion for dirt track racing, in particular sprint car racing. To invest so much financially and emotionally, after the year he has had to endure is amazing. Especially when you consider the undertaking this will be and the problems that will come with it. Sure the instant reaction is appreciation and thanks for coming in with your cape and rescuing this situation, but in the long run every racing series has its ups and downs. Where will the point fund come from, what political implications will come from owning a track and a series when it comes to scheduling events, rules, all those sorts of things is where you get your hands dirty.

Tony now owns a World of Outlaws team with Donny Schatz, a secondary team with Steve Kinser, he has backed away from USAC team ownership, owns one of the premier dirt tracks of the world in Eldora Speedway, and now the most legendary 410 sprint car series next to the World of Outlaws. He is without a doubt one of the most powerful and influential people in the dirt track racing today.