A word from the Bill...

Hello my name is Bill Keener, age 35 from Chapmanville, PA, a small rural village 8 miles west of Titusville. As with many of you I was born into this sport with my father racing Semi-Lates and Late Models from the early 1970s through the early 1990's. Dad had many feature wins at Tri-City, Mercer and Sportsman's Speedway during that time period, and being raised more or less at the tracks, I knew someday I would want to race.

I went through some Hell raising years, in and out of high school back in the 80's with my friends Robbie Blair and Curt Dille. We were quite the trio! I can remember one day in particular in high school when Robbie drove a hatch back Nova to school and that night we gutted the girl out to take it racing! Curt and I knew then that someday Robbie was going to make a name for himself in racing with his determination to be a winner. I bought a race car from Robbie for $300.00 bucks and I raced it for 1 year in 1987 at Sportsman's Speedway with my best feature finish being a 7th. After that season I more less just helped my dad on his pit crew until he retired in 1990, then watched Robbie make his mark in racing.

When I look back at us it's kinda ironic what the three of us are doing. Robbie is a ''MACS SUPER LATE MODEL TITLE HOLDER", Curt he is taking some of the best photo's I have ever seen for AREA AUTO RACING NEWS and RACING NEWS, and I started this web-site and late model message board in hoping it would be the BEST NEWS SOURCE FOR TRACKS AND DRIVERS in this TRI-STATE REGION! I have met many people from this message board since I started it back in 2001. I can't say enough for the drivers, fans and race tracks that have made Bill's Dirt Late Models where it is today. FOR THAT I THANK YOU ALL!

--Bill