Much to my parent's chagrin, I was a gearhead with gasoline for blood. I subscribed to over half a dozen rags and scanned a few more for years. For the midwestern racer in me though, there was one which stood above all the rest and which sadly published its last issue just the other day................
National Speed Sport News has been around since the depression and one of the early writers became the editor 20 years later. Chris Economaki WAS the voice of racing in America and he interviewed the biggest drivers and owners from Indycars to NASCAR to Formula One.....and right on down to the guy who spent his last dime to get his jalopy racer to the local dirt track every weekend. Many careers advanced just by their mention in NSSN. If you wanted to know what was going on, this was the place to find out.
NSSN remains in an online form but for a lot of us old racers, it just isn't the same nor is it the same without the old man himself. It was inevitable of course but it also is like a death in the family and I shall miss it.