The growing popularity of NASCAR and racing worldwide will continue to develop both fans and drivers, and the 1996 birth of a fourth Hunefeld generation, Robert William, to Chris and Georgette seems to insure the future of 99 Speedway. The Late Model division, like the feature headliners of the past, is all but over, with the car counts at all area tracks down, and the cost to field a competitive team outrageous compared to the purse money being paid at local weekend tracks, leaving those who want to continue no option but Southwest Tour competition. Barring some miracle, our heroes of today will retire or move on and become a piece of history for another book such as this, fifty years from now, and the Grand American style cars will most likely become the top division in the near future.

If my fifty year Stockton research has shown me anything, it's the fact that every new division born to racing comes complete with 'cancer', and the day it's born is the same day it starts to die. Each new division is cheap to run, easy to maintain, provides lots of cars, crash and bang action, and attracts new fans, and then somebody says "let me improve that", "Let me upgrade this", " Let me add this", and very soon the cost factors are out of control and the division dies a sad death.

But all in all, both the sport and 99 Speedway will survive to give future fans every bit as much fun as it has in it's first fifty years. Stick around and be a part of the next book.......Stockton 99 Speedway, 100 years and still turning left.