Thread: DuQuoin weather
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9/2/13, 11:34 AM   #51
Re: DuQuoin weather
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Originally Posted by ronmil View Post
Been to every Silver Crown race at DuQuoin since 1965, and I must say the last twenty laps were some of the craziest I've seen. What a finish! Feel so bad for Robert Ballou, who ran out of fuel after leading the first eighty laps. Running the high groove obviously took more fuel. You don't need thirty cars to have a good race. Remember, in USAC' s glory days of Foyt, Branson, Rutherford, etc., they only started eighteen cars.
Yep and they also had at least one Consi race and 40+ cars entered. There were 15 total cars yesterday, 13 took time and 5 or 6 running at the finish. Not exactly a very fair comparison to the "glory days" is it?