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It’s on, and we’re talking about big money bracket racing at its finest. The Derby City $100K is going to knock it out of the park at Kil-Kare Raceway, as someone is going to go home with really big money. $100,000 is money that can change someone’s life and we can’t wait to see who is going to be done and done. We’re sure there will be a lot of smack talk and a lot of close racing, while these racers battle it out. 

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It started in 2019 with three $15,000 to win races and a 64 car shootout paying a whopping $100,000! It’s back for it’s 3rd year and has grown to three $25K races on top of the 64 car $100K shootout. This year the race was moved to Kil-Kare Raceway just outside Xenia Ohio. With a limited number of entries and a fun family environment, expect this race to be loads f fun for the racers and local community. This is day 2, racing starts at 9:30 EST.

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In interviews leading up to his historic 1947 blast through the sound barrier, interviews that questioned what would happen to Chuck Yeager were met with answers that sounded roughly like, “Well, hopefully he’s paid up his insurance.” The sound barrier was beyond belief in 1947. Human flight was only forty years on, and only in the recent timeframe of World War II had progress been made from fabric cloth wings and wooden propellors. Airframes were sleek and metallic, radial engines powerful and faster than ever before, but the speed of sound? Until humans started looking to the stars, this was the frontier to cross next. And Yeager did it, with broken ribs he scored from falling off of a horse, over Rogers Dry Lake in California. To the world over, Yeager had crossed the realm from war hero to nearly superhuman. For Yeager, it was just another Tuesday, just a little bit more special than the others.

In his ninety-seven years on this planet, Charles Elwood Yeager lived a hell of a life. He started out as a farmer’s kid, a skilled sportsman as a teenager who jumped straight into the U.S. Army Air Forces and got lucky enough to make the jump into flight shortly after World War II kicked off. He had been shot down over France, evaded with help from the French Resistance, managed to score “Ace in a Day” after dropping five aircraft during one mission. After the war, he was selected to fly the Bell X-1 after the Bell test pilot demanded a huge payday for performing the task. Post-sonic boom, he was one of the first pilots to fly a MiG-15 after North Korean pilot No Kum-Sok defected to South Korea. He made Brigadier General in 1969 and retired in 1975 after 33 years active. Up until recently, Yeager was still flying, and his last known trip past the barrier was in 2012 as the co-pilot of an F-15 Eagle.

Faster aircraft have come and gone. The speeds from the SR-71 Blackbird make the Bell X-1 look dainty by comparison. But the Blackbird wouldn’t have existed without the X-1. Everybody remembers who did it first. Chuck Yeager had many things to be in awe of during his lifetime. But everybody will remember that he strapped into a rocket-powered dart and proceeded to prove to the world that the sound barrier could be broken.

Fly high.

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He handed me my first car while I was still crawling around in the shag carpeting in a house in Colorado Springs, a little silver Corvette that I still own to this day. He worked his ass off from the moment I became a reality in his world and he didn’t quit until his body could no longer keep up. He instilled many values in me that I hold dear…the ability to speak volumes without one word, the ability to remain calm and collected when the world was burning down around him, and the ability to resist the urge to choke the living shit out of someone who was rubbing that last nerve raw. (I’m especially thankful for that one, as I’m sure I came close to earning a full-on Homer Simpson throttling a time or ten.) He assisted me through my frustrations, stood by my side when I was facing down my own fears, and was always in my corner even when I couldn’t see that for myself.

Father’s Day is more than a chance to break out the grilling equipment, an opportunity to force the kid to mow the lawn or, if you’re really sadistic, the perfect moment to hand him a tie you knew damn well he’d never wear. It’s when you look at the man who did everything in his power to raise you up right and respectable, the man who would bury his boot in your ass if you needed it or would sit and listen while you poured your heart out. Truth be told, it took a village to raise this idiot, but in that picture is my father, Robert, who has been gone for a while now. One of the many things I wonder throughout the years is what he would make of this whole BangShift deal…he passed on shortly after my first tour of Iraq. He knew I was a gearhead, he knew cars were a priority, but he would’ve never seen this coming. I could just imagine what he’d do with the livestream chat.

Today, remember your dad. Call him. Go see him. Treat the old man to a beer…after bringing you up, he could probably use one. Actually talk with him. Listen to the wisdom, share the stories you both will laugh at. Lots of people remember the good times as kids, but if your pops is still up and kicking, return the favor and show him some love today. On behalf of Brian and Chad, happy Father’s Day to all of you out there.