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Many people know Lenny Batycki as the pit reporter on the big screen interviewing drivers at Charlotte Motor Speedway's NASCAR and Summer Shootout events. But Batycki, who will turn 50 in August, has had a long career in racing, working at such places as Rockingham Speedway, Gateway Motorsports Park (Illinois) and Richard Childress Racing. He currently is hosting a new show, PRN at the Track, bringing news to fans on local and regional short and dirt track racing. Batycki is also working towards a degree at Belmont Abbey College. He recently talked to The Gazette about his career and current show.
You have a busy life spending time with your family, announcing at the tracks and being a student at Belmont Abbey.
I went to a junior college as a young person at Broward College (in Davie, Fla.) for business administration and now I'm going back for adult education classes at Belmont Abbey for Liberal Studies. My wife is Annette and my son Jacob is a rising third grader and a basketball player. I can do all my home stuff, my work stuff and, and instead of watching soaps and sitcoms, take two classes a semester from 8-10 at night. I probably won't graduate until 2015 or 2016, depending on the time I can put into it.
You are known as a motorsports announcer, but you actually got your start in another sport?
I grew up in Hollywood, Fla. and I was a professional BMX racer. I was a factory rider and my focus was on competing as a racer. I wasn't a big stunt rider. All kids try to be a little bit 'rad,' as they used to say, but that wasn't my forte at all. I raced all over the country. My best years were 1979 and 1983 and in between I had injury problems I had to overcome. I would get up at 6 a.m. and train up until 9 p.m. at night in my most competitive years, where at 9 at night you're doing hill sprints to squeeze everything out of you. You go to bed and wake up and have a protein shake, which was just peanut butter and a chocolate shake back then. I was the third best amateur in the country in 1979 at the highest amateur level you could compete at, as well as state champion that year.
How has your success in BMX helped you work in auto racing?
When I talk to a driver and they talk about going down into a corner and trying to outrun somebody into there, I translate that back to what that felt for me going into a corner and coming out ahead of another rider. And when it comes to talking to engineers, I had worked closely enough with bicycle company engineers to understand geometry and how things, like one adjustment, would make another do something different. The most difficult thing is that when a car racer tells you he's lowering his gear — it's the opposite of what a bike racer says. So I always have to double-clutch, even to this day, when somebody is telling me about car gears because it's the reverse of what a bike gear does. I also think that regaining a spot in the sport back then taught me how to come back from problems and changes or adverse situations. Whether it was going from Rockingham to the team with Childress and the ups and downs and the tragedy we all suffered there, to going to Gateway and having great success, and then coming here to Charlotte, it was about reinventing.
How did your announcing career get started?
I started out at Miami-Hollywood, Fla., was track announcer at Hialeah Speedway and then moved up to Rockingham. My real blossoming in the sport came from 1984 through 1987 as a BMX announcer. (In 1985 Batycki was rated the world's best BMX announcer in Super BMX Magazine).
How did you transition to motorsports announcing?
I can tell you the exact second I became a motorsports fan. It was 1986 in Peach Tree City, Ga. when I was announcing a BMX Nationals. A gentleman walked up to me and said, 'You're a really good announcer, you should do cars.' I said, 'I'm not really a car person, sir.' And he said, 'No, no, you're a good announcer.' I said, 'Like this? Richard Petty goes into the corner in the STP car and gets the Goody's Headache award…'. That's the only thing I could remember I said because that's the only thing I knew about car racing. And basically he said, 'Yea, you'd be a good announcer for this.' So for the next four years that man called me from Concord to Fort Lauderdale, Fla. and said, 'Call this person, call that person, here's who you need to call.' He was Randy Edwards and he opened my eyes to motorsports. (Randy's son is Jon Edwards, Jeff Gordon's public relations representative.) He had done caution lights in the tower at Daytona. He got me to a Talladega race. He said to go over and see somebody named Terry, who happened to be Terry Linger from ESPN. I walked up to him but it was a little busy at the time. Some guy had wrecked down the front straightaway and broken the whole stinking fence down. That was really my first touch with big-time auto racing, watching Bobby (Allison) spin down the front straightaway and Richard (Petty) end up in the mud.
You have a story about getting the Rockingham job in 1990?
Pat Patterson helped get me the interview. He said, 'Go up and present yourself as you are.' Frank Wilson was president of the track. The owner of the track was L.G. DeWitt. This was six months before he died. L.G. had a very expansive office and I had to sit kind of far away and talk loud enough. At the end of the interview, L.J. called me up to his desk and said, 'Here's a blank piece of paper. Sign your name.' And I signed my name and he looked at it and looked over at Frank and said, 'Do you like this boy?' and he said, 'Yes, I do'. And he said to me, 'Do you want this job?' and I said, 'Yes sir. I do' and he said, 'He'll be fine.' I don't know what he saw in my signature. I guess I could write cursive. And he died too quick for me to get to know him, to even get to ask, 'What were you doing?' I spent six years at Rockingham. I started in marketing and became V.P. of Marketing. I was able to be there with people who saw Benny Parsons win the championship. I saw when they had to throw the money from the gate receipts in the trunk of a patrol car, go down to the bank and have the bank open up and put the money away because there wasn't any electronic transfer. You can't even imagine that today. It was great.
Who are some others who influenced you in your career?
I remember wanting to be (wrestling announcer) Gordon Solie as early as when I was six years old. So was Jim Ross. Those people probably shaped me more than motorsports announcers because I listened to them at a much younger age. I'd dreamed of being (motorsports annoucing legend) Chris Economaki and (TNN motorsports announcer) Steve Evans. Ken Squier reinforced with me to announce to the new people who were there. To give a little bit of education but make them feel like their entertainment dollars were well spent. But just because you have a microphone doesn't make you any different from them. The advice I always give to my interns, is the '5 up and 5 down rule'— people who are five years older and five years younger than you. Do your best to create the strongest relationship you can with them. In your 20, 30, 40 years of career, they'll be there with you. I learned this, felt it, and lived it. l can look across at Scott Hunter, Jim Hunter's son, and he and I came up together. And Eddie Hickman — Herman Hickman's son. I was an intern under Eddie Gossage and Ed Clark. I was actually under Doug Rice (at PRN) but they were in the P.R. department so I crossed their paths.
Do you have a certain way you approach a driver for an interview?
Mark Allen, who directs me at the Coke 600 and the Bank of America 500, was a long-time pit reporter and one of my mentors. He taught me there are two words to know as a pit reporter — 'What happened?' I'm not a lawyer. I'm not the judge. I'm not the jury. I'm the guy who comes up to ask 'What happened?...How did you do that?...The car seemed a lot better than everyone else's — what made it so fast?' That's what I'm delivering to the fans. I'm taking that moment that just happened and asking the driver for an instant comment.
What are some other things that make a broadcast successful?
You can't be in front of the camera without somebody holding the camera, making the sound, making the edits and understanding what those techniques are like to be able to create good sound. Like how can someone get a directional mic to enhance what you're saying. If it doesn't go through the sound mixer, your words have fallen on deaf electronics. The cameraman is holding a box that is 25 lbs or so on his shoulder. Are you standing in the right position to make it effective for him to put that box on his shoulder? Learn what a background is like. Learn what the competitors are going through. When you see someone who has just gone through a challenging event on the racetrack, know their back story. Try to meet these people ahead of time. Pre-conversations to an event are the best way to tell the most effective story. You get there when they're unloading and you see how they had to bring the puppy and the dog and take the box of diapers and help the wife and all those regular things. You're able to see the father, the husband, the team manager, and see that metamorphosis and change into race driver. You need to be there long enough to be a good observer.
Have you ever been caught off-guard while announcing?
Another person, Bill Hennecy, who used to direct me, said, 'Always be ready for the curve.' You just adapt to those situations. I was doing an event recently where it was very heated. There were a lot of close things happening on the racetrack, a lot of competitors. I told my cameraman that I wasn't going to put these competitors into a situation that could risk their career by them saying something momentarily that's out of place. I had two competitors get to that point and I immediately turned away from them and told the camera, 'They're obviously in the wrong frame of mind to continue this interview. We'll have to get back with you hopefully at some point or maybe it'll be after the race until we can learn anything more. ' One of the competitors was literally yelling behind me while I was trying to get off the air, but I still wasn't going to turn and react to him. He wasn't ready to give you a true quality answer. He was gonna give you a TMZ answer. I pulled away and said, 'I'm not putting him in this situation, that's not why I'm here.' And I believe in that.
And "PRN at the Track" continues to grow?
Since the show started 3½ months ago we've been to 16 different tracks and probably 20 events —this doesn't include Charlotte Motor Speedway or Z-max or the Dirt Track. All of us come from that first track and we never leave that first track. I still have my first worker shirt from Miami-Hollywood Speedway. When I go out to Millbridge Speedway, you've got crew chiefs and crew members getting into the sport. I've been to Lancaster, Cherokee, Hickory, Concord, Cleveland County, to name a few. I like three types of racing best—top fuel dragsters are something I grew up as a kid marveling at, midgets on dirt, and dirt late models. And now I'm able to be there on any given week when the top late model racers, be it the Ultimate Supers or the NDRA or the Carolina Clash or whatever, are there. The SECA, crate association which runs at Harris and a few other places is economically smart for the racers and good for the fans. I see Trent Ivey becoming a champion in that some day.
How did the show "PRN at the Track" come about?
(CMS general manager) Marcus Smith really wanted to reconnect with the core race fans in all motorsports and the idea was brought through the Speedway TV folks that I typically worked with on the big screen and did the Sports South broadcasts with. We had a form of this show when I ran the racetrack in St. Louis and it ran on an ESPN station out there. It had a nice run and we won a media award. So it was easy to slightly juxtapose to make it fit with what they were looking at here.
Who are some of the talented drivers in the Summer Shoot-out Series at Charlotte this year?
We're seeing really the crystallization of the talent we saw out of Daniel Hemrick. He's won four in a row and his skills are so obvious. He's competing with Tyler Green. Kaz Grala and Ryan Shattuck are a couple young men who will be taking the place when Hemrick and Green decide to move on. Carson Ferguson has gone from a Bandolero to a Legend. The first couple of events, because he was new to the class, he had to start further in the back. Now it doesn't matter where he starts, he's figured out how to win. And I think Ryan Mackintosh is continuing what he did last year.
Sometimes you announce at other tracks, like East Lincoln Speedway. How was your last event there?
I filled in there the first weekend in June. We sold them out of slushies and corn dogs and had their highest 50-50 that night. So to me, those are trophies. That's what I like doing when I go to a track — helping them make the fans have a better time and helping create some revenue from my position.
You've also been to Carolina Speedway, which has a couple big races coming up, including the Shrine 100 and the King of the Carolinas.
I have the Shrine race on my calendar (Aug. 13, 2013). I can't imagine being anywhere else than what Clint has going with the King of the Carolinas. The thing I like about Clint Elkins is that he's not a promoter who sits there and waits for things to happen. He thinks about the energy and excitement he can bring to his facility and then goes out there and puts that thing on his back and makes it work. That will put you more often than not in the good, but every now and then you'll be in the bad. You've got high risk, high reward. But I think he's good for the sport and I'm looking forward to years and years of good things happening under his administration out there at Carolina.
You recently contributed some comments on sportswriter Tom Higgins' book "Racing Into the Past." Any advice you learned from him that you would give to today's reporters.
I was just glad to be able to share the memory of a man who is larger than life to me every time he walks into a media center. Here was a man who was so kind and had the full force and breath of the sports most powerful at the time. Writing in the Charlotte Observer in the '80's and early '90's wielded more power than even television. The influencers of the sport — the Bruton Smiths, the Bill France Juniors — they got the Charlotte Observer and they opened it up to see what Higgins had said. I think that the thing that I learned from watching reporters like Higgins was a broad vision of that 'we're all in this together.' And what we report to sensationalize and make our name isn't necessarily what the long-term vision is. You can report plenty of great, insightful, knowledgeable, exclusive things without always going to the lowest common denominator of negatives. We have a beautiful sport, whether it's on dirt or on pavement, and we don't have to be a tabloid to inspire, excite, thrill, and really tell the inside scoop. You can find many ways to create a craft. Good skills are always the first thing you should bring in your toolbox.
Do you have a goal for the show in the next year?
To bring the excitement of dirt track, short track, and Legends racing to fans, whether they're the hard cores, the medium cores or the new breed of fans. To do whatever I can do to make PRN at the Track be a regular part of the sports culture in the Southeast would be my first goal. I just love announcing. I love the energy. I'm there as the voice of the action. The stars are the people whom I'm telling the people in the stands about.
Anything else you'd like to share about your experiences over the years?
I've been blessed with more than I ever could have imagined. I have a Daytona 500 winning ring with Dale Earnhardt's name on it. I've been to China to open up an F1 track. In my BMX days, I announced in Honolulu on one night and flew all the way to Orlando and announced there the next day. I'm a bartender's son. My dad died in 1983. My mom died of cancer in 1988. I used to go to a BMX track in 1984 and make $20 on a Friday night. I'd put $10 in to my Volkswagen and I could eat Burger King the rest the rest of the week on the other $10. I went to college on a Pell grant. My friends will tell you that my life has been very different than anyone ever saw 'Leonard Batycki' having it. The people that have allowed me to do this, mentored and shepherd me on, I could never pay back in a million lifetimes.


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I'm surprised the 25 count reagent box doesn't fit properly in the case. Hanna phos checker By guy on 3/18/2014 guy would recommend this product to a friend Beats trying to compare to a color chart which you can not see a difference in. Digital readout is great once again great phos test but not enough reagents By jeff on 2/28/2014 jeff would recommend this product to a friend easy to use. simple to read. but nowhere does it mention the lack of reagents on the info page. forget that for $50 they could toss in more tests. even if they toss in thirty tests and charge you $60, id be okay with it cus the test is worth it. but i placed a $400 order and could have got the additional reagents with free shipping if it just mentioned that it was needed. but now i had to pay for addition shipping. just feels kind of busch league for such a great product bought from such a great company. Outstanding By Ourisland42 on 2/20/2014 Ourisland42 would recommend this product to a friend Unbelievable! 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Easy to Use By Matt on 2/17/2014 Matt would recommend this product to a friend The Hanna Phosphate checker is very easy to use and does all the work for you. Works for most, but be cautious if you are an SPS junkie and/or looking to run an ultra low nutrient setup, as this checker has a margin of error of up to +/- .04The actual piece of equipment is great, however the reagent is a different story. The packets aren't really user friendly and only six packets come with your order. Very Simple to Use By Tim on 2/15/2014 Tim would recommend this product to a friend I can't really say much else. This just works. I should have purchased additional reagents. decent By shane on 2/13/2014 shane would recommend this product to a friend does the job, may have fluctuations in readings. Only comes with three reagent packs. 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Traffic around schools can get hectic during drop-off and pick-up hours. Belmont Police Chief Charlie Franklin knows that all too well. Buses began unloading behind Belmont Middle School last year, an attempt to heighten safety after a crossing guard was struck by a car. Now he's teaming up with Gaston County Schools to offer a solution for congestion at nearby Page Primary School on Ewing Drive off Keener Boulevard.
The problem: One way in, one way out: Page Primary has little room on campus for waiting or parking, causing congestion on surrounding streets, Dianne Ellis wrote on The Gazette's Facebook.
"Traffic is also backed up leaving the school, as Keener Boulevard is a racetrack. Speed is largely uncontrolled on Keener Boulevard," she said.
There is one way into and one way out of the school. It's situated along a dead-end street. As students are dropped off and picked up, a Belmont Police officer directs traffic at the Parkdale Drive entrance off Keener. The officer stops oncoming cars to alleviate the congestion as traffic backs up on Keener. But until the officer steps in, drivers making left turns dodge two lanes of oncoming traffic to cross the boulevard. A Belmont man, who asked to be identified only as Jamie, takes his 5-year-old twin daughters to Page Primary every morning. He then has to make sure his 8-year-old daughter gets to Belmont Central Elementary School on time. He said the traffic at Page makes it difficult to get in and out of the school parking lot.
"I'm not happy about it. It's bad," he said.
The remedy: Cars arrive at Page Primary from two roads — Parkdale and Ewing drives. That will probably change. Chief Franklin hopes to test a new traffic pattern on the streets around the school. It would make Parkdale Drive the only entrance to the school during drop-off and pick-up hours, forcing cars to enter where an officer is stationed. That would allow cars to line up on nearby Vine Street, versus virtually blocking Ewing Drive like traffic does now.
"That's probably the best solution that we have right now. We want to try that and see what works," he said.
Page Primary Principal Lynn Bennett said in a statement she acknowledges the traffic issue and is working with Belmont police to find options for expediting traffic when it's heaviest.
"When hundreds of motorists travel a two-lane road to a dead-end street to the school, one would expect delays, coupled with the fact that we are working with many first-time parents and students who are not yet adjusted to the school routine," she said.
The problem: Stopping in the road: Traffic at Belmont Middle School is tricky. Parents drive along Central Avenue to let their children out. Some pull aside into parallel parking spaces for "curbside delivery." Chief Franklin said other drivers stop in a lane of traffic. That's one of his main concerns. Cars trying to drive past without stopping at the school get caught up in the stop-and-go traffic.
The remedy: Some parents skirt the traffic by dropping kids off at Stowe Park on Main Street, letting them walk a block to the front doors. Other students walk to school from the opposite side of the street, getting there with a little help from crossing guards. Franklin said police have talked to parents about the dangerous practice of letting kids out in the middle of the street. After last year's accident, when a car hit one of the guards, bus drivers now use Myrtle Street to load and unload. They no longer stop in front of the school on Central Avenue to drop off students.
The problem: Traffic jams on public roads: Piedmont Community Charter School, which has two locations in Gastonia, also prompts parent concerns. On a recent Wednesday, traffic backed up in several places at the campus on South New Hope Road. Cars attempting left turns across two lanes formed a long line in the turning lane, waiting for oncoming traffic to slow long enough to let parents make it into the school. Jennifer Kenna wrote on The Gazette's Facebook that she thinks the traffic pattern is bad, especially when drivers block the intersections and crosswalks. Scott Burnett of Belmont said it's his understanding the traffic situation has improved. He takes his son to the school in the mornings.
The remedy: Lines painted on the parking lot guide drivers into a line that snakes through the parking lot and keeps cars out of South New Hope Road. Burnett said that's new this year.
"Apparently it was pretty chaotic here in the morning without the lines. The lines seem to help them," he said. "For the most part, people follow it. Some people cut in."
High school students are dropped off on one side of the building and middle schoolers on the other. Parents follow color-coded lines depending on each child's grade, said Operations Director Audene Scarlett. The school does not have buses, so about 650 students show up in cars every day. About a third of high school students drive themselves to school, Scarlett said. She said the painted lines have helped traffic flow. They were intended to help get traffic off the already busy strip of South New Hope in front of Piedmont Charter. She's talked with Gastonia engineers about the traffic backing up in the South New Hope turning lane. They haven't arrived at a solution yet, and she said the school is still working to improve the situation.
Expert advice: J.M. Teague Traffic Engineering, headquartered in Waynesville, helps schools address traffic problems. Owner Mark Teague has never offered professional advice to a client in Gaston County, but he has worked in the heavy traffic hub of Charlotte. Companies hire him to study traffic patterns and offer solutions. He said some of the best systems he's seen at schools have a long, winding line through the parking lot or a separate driveway. He also suggests schools with traffic problems try staggered arrival and dismissal times. That might help with the issue of everyone arriving at the same time. Having a crossing guard outside alleviates an immediate problem, and he's seen them used effectively. But a long-term solution needs to come from a design change, Teague says, that deals with how traffic comes and goes from the school.
How long does it take to drop off a child at school?: The Gazette surveyed parents and drivers in Gaston County on their picks for the worst school traffic. The winners (or losers, depending on how you look at it): Page Primary, Belmont Middle School and Piedmont Community Charter. Here's a look at how long it took to get through the morning lines on a couple of recent weekdays.
School: Page Primary in Belmont: Arrival time: 7:31 a.m.; Time spent waiting in line: 7 minutes; Distance: 3/10 of a mile
Arrival time: 7:41 a.m.; Time spent waiting in line: 3 minutes; Distance: 3/10 of a mile
School: Belmont Middle: Arrival time: 7:30 a.m.; Time spent waiting in line: 1 minute; Distance: 1/10 of a mile in front of the school
Arrival time: 7:45 a.m.; Time spent waiting in line: 5 minutes; Distance: 1/10 of a mile in front of the school
School: Piedmont Community Charter secondary campus; Arrival time: 7:27 a.m.; Time spent waiting in line: 6 minutes; Distance: 3/10 of a mile
Arrival time: 7:42 a.m.; Time spent waiting in line: 3 minutes; Distance: 3/10 of a mile
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Dubai may be interested in this disc. They have a lot of our cash.
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text: So there probably won't be able to play any this week like I was planning because I may have broken my finger. I smashed it really bad tonight at bowling practice and it looks pretty bad. But I doubt it is broken though. Just when I finally get time to play too