KINSTON – As Mark Chisum drove toward a parking spot near the media entrance of the South Alabama Speedway on Wednesday morning, he recognized a familiar face setting up an
“I’ve got people who will be lifelong friends now and we meet up at other tracks and sit with each other, and it all started with the tickets and RVs,” Chisum says.
As part of the family that runs the speedway, Chisum does a little bit of everything leading up to and during the busy week. Chisum, who now lives in Ozark and works at a car dealership in Dothan, was introduced to short track racing at a young age. “The main thing I did back then is I wrote articles and sent them to the newspapers, mainly to try and get the word out that there was racing happening here,” Chisum said. “I did various jobs, but that was my main thing.
“I was flag man here for 10 years, but last year I started having shoulder problems and really couldn’t lift my arm up high enough,” Chisum said. “I ended up having surgery in November for that.
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