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Originally Posted by Keith Seymore
Sorry to be joining the conversation late but enjoying the Steve Kinser commentary.
I used to work with Steve's father-in-law, Owen Snyder Sr, at the Janesville Wisconsin assembly plant.
Owen was a character in his own right: he looked like an old gunslinger, with white hair and a huge white moustache, giant meaty hands and walked like he had been busted up a few times (...which he had).
He was a sprint car racer of some report, too, back in the day. In fact - he was so successful that GM asked him (as a ranking executive) to stop racing in order to protect their investment in him.
So he did what any good racer would do: he continued to race under an assumed name. He even showed me the newspaper clippings: "Who is this mysterious Roy Brown?" and "Brown breaks Snyder's record".
(lol)
His son - Owen Snyder Jr - is a bit famous, too, as the Crew Chief for Al Unser Jr during one of the years he won the Indy 500.
Good people, all of them. Owen is the kind of guy that would see me in the airport and swagger across the concours, foregoing a handshake in order to give me a big bearhug (picking me up so that my dangling feet would be swinging back and forth).
He was pretty proud of that "Stevie", too.
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Since I pay more attention to Winged 410 Outlaw sprint cars than probably anyone on this board I thought that I'd mention that this is Kinser's final year running sprint cars. The WOO is calling this the Kings farewell tour and at 60 YO this June he'll be retiring at the last race in November.
Kinser has 20 WOO championships to his credit and is trying for his 21st championship this year. This record is probably a record that will stand for quite sometime if it is ever surpassed at all.
If you want to see Kinser drive for his final time this season may be your last chance, there was no mention of him running any partial schedules after this year so it may be your last chance to see him wheel a 410 winged outlaw car.