Just How My Life Turned Upside Down 
Billy “BillyBob” Goodman Tells His Story
For nearly two decades, race fans at Cordele Motor Speedway knew the voice coming across the PA system. Today, longtime track announcer Billy “BillyBob” Goodman is facing a much different challenge. Deep Dixie Racing asked our longtime friend to tell his story in his own words.
I’ve known Billy Goodman for a long time.
Most race fans around South Georgia know him as BillyBob. That's how I came to know him, too — through stock car racing.
Billy was working for Marvin Ragan when he got the opportunity in 2006 to live out something he'd dreamed about since he was a kid: becoming a racetrack announcer. For the next 18 years, BillyBob was the voice of Cordele Motor Speedway.
And when I say “the voice,” I mean it. If you spent much time at Cordele during those years, you heard Billy.
Our friendship wasn't limited to racing, though. Billy knew I followed high school football about as closely as I followed race cars, and through the years he'd send me scores, information and updates about what was happening on Friday nights.
He also introduced me to something else that I probably ought to either thank him for or blame him for:
