Jeff Ferrin really had the conditions perfect for riding, the dirt was about as good as it gets and in typical Whitesands fation the track stayed perfect througout the day. The weather could not have been much better either, after all the bad weather we have had to endour latley it was a pleasure to finally see a day with tempatures over 40. So if you don't plan on traveling far this weekend to go racing, then Whitesands is the place to go, with their first race of the season being rained out a couple weeks ago, technically this weekend would mark Whitesands Raceway's actual season opener, so make sure to visit www.wsraceway.com for detalied information on race schedlue and direstions to the track.
Today we saw Denny Stephenson, Chris Hunter, Ricky Draper, Dillon Cloyed, Chase Evans, and a bunch more of the areas top racers out having a great time. With a great forcast for the weekend it's looking to be a great weekend to go racing. I should have all the photos that I took today, up on the website by monday night. I will be heading to Winterset for the Sunday Event at Riverside Raceway, so if you are heading to Winterset tomorrow make sure if you see me there stop me and say hello and give me your bike nubmber so I can make sure to get some photos of you. Well have a great weekend of racing everyone and we will see you at the races

Thank you
Randy Toy
Photos should be up by 11:00 Pm Monday Night
Photos Now Avaliable from April 14th 2007

Finally a good weekend to race, with most of the areas season openers canceled due to weather, Whitesands also had their season opener canceled a couple weeks ago. SO this was technically Round 1 of the series and this would be Ricky Draper's round 1 from coming off a broken wrist in practice at the Guthrie round of the BooKoo series Arenacross (Click Here for full story on BooKoo round). So Ricky has been looking get back in action and race again. After Practice Saturday at whitesands Draper really looked smooth and confident. I asked him how his wrist was holding up and he was happy with it for the most part, he said it still has a little pain but all in all he told me he is 100% good to go, and super excited to finally race again.
Ricky entered 3 Classes this weekend taking top honors in all 3 classes, I would say that is defiantly how you make a comeback so Congratulations to Ricky for that. After a great weekend of racing Draper headed home with some winning cash in his pocket and a huge smile, but unfortunately on the ride home ricky was Driving him self home in his Ford Pickup and up ahead Ricky saw something in the middle of the road at the last second, he swerved to miss what ever it was and rolled his truck several times. Ricky is lucky because he was wearing his seat belt, and from the Police reports in this instance if he would not have been wearing his seat belt he would most certainly been killed. Having an awareness of safety at all times while racing probably gave him the intuition to BUCKLE UP you never know when something like this can Happen and thank god Ricky had safety on his mind. Yeah he was excited about winning this weekend but in his excitement he didn't forget buckle his belt.
With the Loretta Qualifier this weekend in Illinois, a little sore but nothing really bad Ricky will still be racing this event. I will also be attending this event to take photos so if you are also racing this event make sure you email me or stop me at the track and say hi. So we will see you all at the races.

Randy Toy