American Racing News Vol 1, Issue 2 Issue 8 | Page 4

By Dennis Keeley | [email protected] Welcome to our Grandstand Edition Before we turn the corner into a new year, I wanted to take this opportunity to wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. A little over twenty years ago I launched my first publication. It was my first venture into publishing, and I had no clue on what I was doing. I did the layout all by myself and proudly brought my artwork to the printer. I finally got my newspapers back the night before I planned to debut it at the local race track. Much to my horror, the print was huge. It was over twice the size of a normal newspaper. How embarrassing. I had spent over $5,000 on the printing so there was no way I could fix this blunder. I took a car full of newspapers to the track and figured what the hell, it was all I had and I couldn’t turn back now. After the first break in the racing action, a man approached my table and said, “ I love the large print. The grandstands are kinda dark but, I can read your paper with no problem.” Another man standing close enough to hear us agreed and asked, If the large print was normal, or if it was a special grandstand edition? Fast forward 20 years, I discovered that roughly a third of you are reading this on your phones. Now that is a pretty tiny screen to try to read a magazine on so, I decided to bring back the Grandstand Edition.