Palmer's Ben Goodman takes advantage of a brisk first-lap pace set by Danny Marsh in the Banana Belt 800. Photos by Alan Versaw.
You're bound to learn something when you put this many teams on the track for a season-opening meet. What's never quite so clear is what, exactly, it all means. I'll try to decode some of that in the paragraphs that follow, but I'm as subject to misinterpretation as anyone.
To be honest, it didn't exactly seem like the Banana Belt on Saturday. The day had it's moments, but, let's be clear, nowhere in Colorado is guaranteed tropical kind of temperatures in the middle of March. Still, if you have to pick a place to be, Pueblo is rarely a bad choice in March.
Numerous performances on the day stood out, but none more so that the boys 800. Palmer's Ben Goodman came to the start line attired in a new-style two-piece speedsuit (by universal consensus of Palmer athletes and coaches alike, a dramatic improvement over the Terrors' old speedsuits) an...
