Welcome to the land of cotton and the dusty plains of West Texas for this week's GGW Show Your Moon Tour Race.

The race is called  the West Texas Tubleweeds and Twisters 250 and it will be held at the Lady Luck Speedway   in Lubbock, Texas.

A little About Lubbock and the Plains:

Lubbock is an small city in the northwestern part of Texas. Lubbock's nickname is the "Hub City" which comes from being the economy, education, and health care hub of a multi-county region commonly called the South Plains. Longest stretches of wide open country, dusty plains, cotton and oil fields, and some of the greatest people make up the landscape of the Plains of West Texas.   

The South Plains area is  the largest contiguous cotton-growing region in the world.    The "Plains" area is also number #1 in the U.S. in petroleum production, number #1 in the U.S. in peanut production,  and  in 2007 became the number #1 in the world in wind generated electricty with a massive 450 turbine wind farm that stretchs along I-20 over a 200 mile area.  We don't just say we "Do it Bigger"  in West Texas. We can actually back it up.

West Texas is known for heavy winds, sandstorms, and massive thunderstorms that are almost a year round occurence.

 No that's not the  Iraq Desert in the pic above. That's a West Texas Sandstorm  moving in on a suburban Lubbock  neighborhood in springtime.

Unfortunately, with all that wind available and the volatile, unpredictible weather in the area, Texas and primarily the South Plains have also produced the most recorded tornadoes in the world throughout our history.

    With tornadoes, tumbleweeds,and  sandstorms rolling across the plains like Old West Outlaws in search of achance to "storm" the town,  its only fitting that this week, the  GGW Show Your Moon Tour takes us to an old dusty dirt track just south of Lubbock called the Lady Luck Speedway.

The track is a 3/8 mile clay oval that originally opened around 1967. The Race season at Lady Luck includes several different series including Enduro Class,Pure Stock, Outlaw Stock Class, IMCA Southern SportMod, IMCA Modified, and 305 Sprints.

A Few of the local boys'  (and girls)  rides:

     While the scenery "aint much" to look at  and the track is one of the smallest  in the area, it still continues to be the most popular place around Lubbock to catch a race or get your kids involved in the sport of racing. They host several events a year just for kids like battery powered car races for the "little ones" when the main racing series are not running. The Lubbock area is know for its friendly people and the atmosphere at all the racing venues out here is always an enjoyable one.

Classic Car Shows, burnout contests, charity events and taking a drive down to the old drive-in Movie Theatre in Lamesa(very close to where Speedbeagle is from) are all a big  part of the racing atmosphere in West Texas. Car Enthusiast and Racing enthusiast here are one in the same. It "aint real racing" if you just watch the race and call it a day.

Race  Night  in West Texas, whether its at the Lady Luck Oval  or a nearby 1/4 or 1/8 mile straight tracks, is almost as popular as the "Friday Night Lights" of High School football. There will be a mandatory caution sometime Friday evening for those of you that would like to catch some of the most exciting high school football in the country with Lubbock Monterrey hosting the Odessa Permian Panthers in a clash of high scholl football titans literally  just up the road from our GGW track. 

 Lubbock is the home of The College Baseball Hall of Fame, the hometown of Rock-n-roll legend Charles Hardin "Buddy" Holley,  and nearby Littlefield, Tx is the home of Legendary country singer Waylon Jennings.

    Many of the greats of oldies rock, classic country, and what has become Southern Rock, or rockabilly have roots in theWest Texas area.   Its part  in American music culture history  follows a line very similar to the grass roots of Memphis and Nashville and the days of Elvis Presley.

 So with this GGW race, we celebrate all  classics  and the so called "Baby Boomer" generation that  worked so hard to build this nation into the wonderful place we live today,and a big reason why terrible events like what happend 7 Yrs ago today fail to destroy the love Americans have for the things that so many of us take for granted.

    Apple pie, friends and family, football, and racing are the most important  things in the country no matter where you go.  Without that generation laying the foundation for us and putting in  long hours in steel mills, cotton fields, oil rigs, and cattle ranges, we would have none of those things.They didnt have a choice. To make a living during the great depression years when a lot of the southwest looked like dusty dry old West Texas,  they had to just maked do wiuth what they had.  No internet, cell phones, 5 cars per family,  747 Jets to travel on, or the other luxiries we have today.

 With that said,  the cars we are racing this week are all tributes to the classics  and the generations that made America what it is today.

   Okay!    Lets get to the qualifying. Being that we're racing in the center cotton country,  we were going to have a  Tractor Tippin' contest to set the qualifying order, seen here with Jokerswild abd Photogr  in the first round of qualifying.

We even brought in a "Tractor Tippin expert" to explain it