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CRAFTON: All About Racing At Kentucky

BLUEGRASS BOUND: Returning from the longest break of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season, Matt Crafton heads to the "Bluegrass State" to take on the D-shaped oval of Kentucky Speedway. Crafton has a decade of experience and success at 1.5-mile track, earning three top-five and seven top-10 finishes in 10 previous starts. Crafton has been running at the finish of each of his past 10 starts, and has completed 98.9% of the scheduled laps in those events. With an average finish of 9.5, it's likely that Crafton will bring home another top-10 finish in the Thursday night race.

BUILT LIKE FORT KNOX: Crafton and his ThorSport Racing teammates Johnny Sauter and Dakoda Armstrong are making a special stop during their trip to Kentucky. The three drivers are scheduled to visit Fort Knox for a hands-on day of training and meeting with military members at the U.S. Army post.

CHASSIS HISTORY: The No. 88 team will utilize chassis No. 041 this weekend at Kentucky Speedway. This is a brand-new chassis which will make its first laps when it hits the track in Kentucky.

THOUGHTS FROM THE DRIVER: Matt Crafton

How do you feel going into the race in Kentucky? "I love going to Kentucky, It's one of the places I'm always looking forward to. The fans there are just awesome, and the Truck Series has always drawn a good crowd here. Everyone always wants to talk about the 'cookie cutter' mile and a half racetracks, but Kentucky is so, so different. Some of these mile and a half tracks you can hold it wide open so long and whoever has the most horsepower and the best body is going to go fastest that day. But a place like Kentucky, where there's so much character and a lot less banking, we really have to drive the truck a lot more. You have to lift through the corners and the bumps make it a real challenge, so you need the entire package when it comes to good handling."

You're bringing a brand new chassis to Kentucky Speedway. Do you prefer to bring a new truck versus a chassis you've raced in the past? "New trucks have always been good to us in the past. Each and every time ThorSport brings something new to the racetrack, they show just how much they improve. It's nice to bring something to the track that you know you're familiar with, but when we bring something to the track that's new, 9 times out of 10 it's better than anything we've raced in the past.

Local Schools Network - Festival of Education report: Toby Young ...

Festival of Education report: Toby Young unleashes a blizzard of statistics but loses the moral argument

“So you’re on our side, are you, Francis?” Toby Young said to me in the sunlit garden of the headmaster’s lodge at Wellington College, which is hosting The Sunday Times Education Festival. It was the first time I’d met him face-to-face, although he and I have been corresponding through blogs and emails for some time. Toby has been following the debate on the site about my decision to support my local secondary school for Academy status and seemed to indicate that this meant I was pro-Free Schools now. I’m not sure this necessarily follows. FYI: I am not about to set up a Free School in opposition to my local school! I’m trying to support it as best I can to improve and deal with the difficult situation it’s in (see previous posts on this).

I said that I did hope to find common ground with Toby and the Free Schoolers, but that ultimately, I believed that co-operation between schools was the best way forward. Needless to say, I was a somewhat lone voice at that point in the Headmaster’s garden because I was surrounded by some fairly “right-wing” characters: Joel Klein who set up New York charter schools, Rachel Wolf of the New Schools Network, the ex-High Master of St Pauls and a host of businessmen (yes, largely men) wanting to offer their services to schools. The only remotely left-wing people were me (well, some would dispute that I am!) and Adrian Elliott, ex-headteacher, inspector and author. Hardly, Che Guevara and Fidel Castro. Later on, the inimitable Francis Beckett turned up and told me that we were the “token lefties”; and I felt he had a point. A cynic might say we’d been given little “bit parts” to spice up what really amounted to a constant stream of eulogies about the private sector.

At my event, Independent or Maintained: What is the Future of Schools? , Toby Young did his normal cut and paste job with various statistics, telling us what a terrible job state school teachers are doing and how marvelous private schools are. Rachel Wolf was a little more varied; she tried to say that free schools were serving poor students (in response to my citation of the Channel 4 Fact Check’s finding that only 2 of the free schools actually serve deprived students) and that schools needed to be closed down if they failed.

Adrian Elliott was very good at defending the record of Local Authority schools, pointing out that 90% of parents according to Ofsted are happy with them, and that, by and large, they are doing a good job.  He made the crucial point: who actually helps out Free Schools if there’s a fire or a major crisis? He recollected always have a great deal of help from his LA when he was headteacher if there was a crisis. I gave a talk about the perils of social segregation and the high costs of Free Schools.