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The Citrus Hauler's 151
Where the GGW Racers will go that extra mile for you!
Located about 20 miles inland from Florida's Nature Coast on the Gulf of Mexico, and around 70 miles north of Tampa Bay, you'll find the thriving town of Inverness residing on the western shores of Tsala Apopka Lake.
This is the largest town in Citrus County and it serves as the county seat. Located a couple of miles south of Inverness on U.S. Highway 41 (Ever hear the Allman Brothers' play Ramblin' Man?) you'll come to the Citrus County Fairgrounds. Included on these grounds is "The Friendliest Track in the South!", the Citrus County Speedway.
This is beautiful country just north of the sprawl radiating out from the Tampa - St. Petersburg - Clearwater area. Wildlife abounds from the Gulf Coast inland across the Withlachoochee State Forest. It's not 
unusual to see Manatees cruising in the tidal waters and rivers along the coast. Deer and bears are present on the state 
lands along with all sorts of smaller critters. Yes, there are alligators, snakes and lots of bugs, but it wouldn't be Florida without them. This is a recreation area with lots of boat ramps and camping 
areas.
Both fresh and salt water fishing are considered good to excellent.
Golf anyone?
I've heard it said that there are more yards of golf fairways in the state than there is Florida coastline. Now I find that hard to believe, but the more I travel around and the more golf courses I find, it's beginning to make me wonder!
Before the Civil War one of Florida's most well known citizens, David Levy Yulee, had a sugar cane plantation out along the Gulf shore near the present day town of Homosassa. Yulee was one of the first legislators elected when Florida became a state and quite influential. According to the locals, the damned Yankees, for no good reason at all, invaded the area in 1864, ransacked the Yulee home out on the gulf coast, burned down the cane planting and the old sugar mill. Today one
can still see the ruins of the Yulee Sugar Mill near the Homosassa River preserved in a State Park. In more recent times several large orange plantings were farmed on the north end of the county, thus the county's name. Thank goodness there is still room to roam in this part of Florida and lots to do...
Its too bad that today the economy has left its farming roots and now depends so heavily upon the building industry in these parts. It's turned into an ongoing struggle between the developers and the environmentalists and I for one don't want to see the beauty of this country paved over. The current economic conditions have virtually put a halt to new construction as a potential home buyer has many good deals to choose from with an overabundance of spec homes having been built. Still, if you're 
considering looking into buying a home down in this area, you better be sure to find a reputable real estate person. Some will sell you a home on the water that's just too good to be true!
Now that you have a taste of what this country is like down in west central Florida, let's tour the racing facilities in Inverness.
The race track known as the Citrus County Speedway (CCS) was built in 1955. It's a semi-banked oval measuring 1,320 feet (that's
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may be as obvious as an intentional walk to get to a batter you believe you have a better chance against or to set up a certain situation, then there are some that are of a much more subtle nature. For instance, late in a tight game the manager of one team might have a right handed hitter step out of the dugout and begin to loosen up as if he will become a pinch hitter, just to see if the opposing manager will get a left handed pitcher up in the 
bullpen to possibly counter the move. Then the manager sticks with his hitter already in the game, just to see which pitcher might be used in the future. Then there is the pitcher with men on first and third and less than two outs who fakes a throw to third or first rather than throw the first pitch to a new batter who happens to be a good bunter, just to see if the batter starts to square around to bunt, thus giving his infielders a heads up.... Baseball is full of subtle strategic moves that less attentive fans miss while the game unfolds. Baseball is a game of statistics and these are used to form a book on each opponent and their players. Managers are constantly referring to the stats to come up with a means of defeating the opposing team. Which of my pitchers has performed well against the other team's hitters and so on. Then there are the signals used between coaches and players to call for certain pitches to be thrown or certain defensive alignments to be used or for a hitter to hit away, take a pitch, hit and run, or bunt. Stealing an opponent's signs is just a part of the game. Many times you'll see a fast player out on first and the situation calls for a steal of second base. The manager might signal for a pitch out putting his catcher in a much better position to try and throw out the base runner if he thinks he's picked up the other team's steal sign. 
things as fuel strategy, tire strategy, playing the odds that the racing will continue under green flag conditions and determining when to pit when fuel becomes an issue. It seems to me that the 'Car of Today' and with the 'Chase' format installed, NASCAR has removed a fair share of the gray areas where strategic thinking once played a much broader roll. The 'Chase' format has brought a new strategy to the forefront, it's 
called points racing and involves doing whatever it takes to qualify for one of the twelve 'Chase' positions through the first two thirds of the season so that you and your team stand a chance to win the Sprint Cup by generating more points during the final 10 races of the season than the other eleven qualifiers. Strategy definitely has a place in NASCAR...
out there on the court and in my opinion this sport leans much more heavily on the athletic skills of the individual performers than on using a lot of strategy to overcome an opponent. The game is played by great athletes basically working around a few plays designed to take advantage of an opponent and their weaknesses, but when it comes down to it, the individual's 
ability to perform ultimately determines whether the team is successful. Strategy in basketball is almost spontaneous and this accounts for the number of timeouts in each game while the coaches attempt to take advantage of certain situations. Do you think basketball features a lot of strategy?
happen to be one of them. I'd venture to say that there is more strategy employed in this sport than basketball, but I think it is similar to round ball when it comes to individual ability. It seems to me that a couple of excellent performers can strap a team on their back and make a run at the Stanley Cup. Sure the team has to have a good goalie and one or two good men on defense, but don't all the teams have those? How much strategy does a team with a Sidney Crosby 
but soccer? I'm definitely not the person to discuss soccer as a game, let alone soccer strategy and yet I'm sure there is a fair amount of strategy going on, it's just that my untrained eye has a hard time picking it up. The game literally looks like a bunch of people running around chasing an elusive ball to me. Then suddenly one of the contestants breaks free, guiding the ball and attempts to kick it past a goal tender into the goal area to score one whole point! I mean all this running around may go 
on for half of the game before one or the other of the opponents actually scores a point! I see very little strategy here, it's just survival of the fittest in my book...? 
They have a weak back hand shot? Force them to use their back hand whenever possible. They aren't very quick? Consider using the drop shot more often. They appear to get winded easily? Force them to move laterally from one shot to the next, and so on... Yes, there is strategy in tennis, but I believe it's about 20% forethought and 80% spontaneity. 
How well you can control your athletic ability and respond to all sorts of situations, but the strategy remains pretty much the same: Perform consistently regardless of what is going on around you. Block out the distractions and trust yourself to put all those hours of training and practice into play, one shot at a time. Each golf course presents it's own set of circumstances, but in a competition all of the competitors are faced them equally. There really is no one to blame when things go wrong in golf but yourself.
where you line up directly across from your opponent. The game is run on a play by play basis like chess, but probably the biggest factor that brings about in-depth strategy is the amount of time from one game to the next. At the beginning of the season, football coaches first work their teams until they recognize their strengths and weaknesses, then they work to accentuate the strengths and eliminate the weaknesses. Once the season begins they study each opponent 
prior to actually meeting them on the field. They identify every one of the opponent's strengths and weaknesses and attempt to negate those strengths and exploit their weaknesses. Each team's coaching staff develops a game plan for each individual opponent and they work their team, practicing what they intend to do during the game. Coaches will devise a set of plays that they will run early in a game just to see how their opponent's defense reacts, then they will make adjustments while the game is being played designed to give the opponent the same 'look' but the play has actually been adjusted to take advantage of the opponent's tendencies. This same procedure is being carried out by the opposing team's coaching staff so each in turn works to not become predictable and so it goes. Coaches use signals to notify their team on the field of certain plays to run and they will sometimes shuffle players in and out to get their plays sent in. Professional football is now going 'high tech' using speakers in the quarterback's and the defensive signal caller's helmets so the opposition doesn't have a chance to read their signals... 
driving from their own 11 yard line all the way down the field with only a couple of passing plays. The drive ended with what has become known as "The Catch" with Dwight Clark snaring a Montana desperation toss under extreme pressure to the back of the end zone. The 49ers had dethroned the perennial powerhouse Cowboys to set up a dynasty of their own. Walsh's strategy of running the ball when the whole football world thought pass was out of the box and his courage to think that way eventually led to five Super Bowl Championships. 
