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We've been camping at the Du Quoin State Fair and going to the Ted Horn Memorial on The Magic Mile since 1994 except for the rainouts that didn't get rescheduled. But the one rainout that did get rescheduled we didn't go back for since at that time we were still going to the World 100 and had to make a choice since the Du Quoin rainout was run the same weekend as the World.
Still kick myself for going to the World that time since that race was a real yawner (over half of the World 100's we went to were also yawners) and we again had the pleasure of enduring the 15,000 belligerent drunken idiots. Also, I could have easily sold my World tickets for face price.
That year Rich Tobias won his only Silver Crown race and that race was described as one of "the best Silver Crown races ever run". I will forever mourn my decision not to go back to Du Quoin that year.
This year's Horn Memorial had some major shortcomings in regards to participants but Robert Ballou was breathtaking and it was as crazy a race as I've ever seen.
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Silver Crown Championship Dirt Cars properly driven on a one mile dirt track are classic poetry in motion. Using that analogy, Jack Hewitt is one of the greatest poets of all time.
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