When I stopped by to visit Talladega Superspeedway, my drive took past the wildly popular Talladega Short Track, a one-third mile, red clay oval that is located within spitting distance of the big track.Two things made me smile as I passed: the red tire marks where cars had pulled out from the track onto the asphalt road the night before and the thought of Red Farmer.I love Red Farmer and I have for 30 years.Red, now 84, is a racer’s racer. He was part of the Hueytown Gang that included the Allison Family and Neil Bonnett. While those guys all went on to racing success in the big leagues, Red chose to stay in the trenches of grass root racing and run short tracks across the Southeast.