[Pavement Dave]

Mike Larrison after his Slinger win Sat. night. DAVID SINK PHOTO


Great American Motorsport Exposition rep, Gary Schlafer, with (L to R) 3rd place Jeff Bloom, 2nd place Kyle Flint, and winner Mike Larrison. DAVID SINK PHOTO
Must See Racing Xtreme Sprint Series - Slinger Speedway - 8/21/10

Mike Larrison in the #6 Tru Fuel 50 sponsored winged sprint won the inaugural
Must See Racing Slinger 60 at the high banks of Slinger Speedway.

Larrison charged through the field to take his first MSRXSS victory. "I could put the
Tru Fuel 50 car wherever I needed to all night - the car was perfect," said a jubilant Larrison.

Young gun, Kyle Flint of Litchfield MI finished second followed by Jeff Bloom, Troy DeCaire
and Hank Lower.

Veteran Jeff Bloom brought the fans to their feet during qualifying with a blazing
qualifying lap of 9.908 seconds setting a new Slinger and world 1/4 mile track record.

The Slinger 60 will be televised to over 90 million households. Visit
www.mustseeracing for details.

The world's fastest short track cars of the Must See Racing Xtreme Sprint Series
will compete next and Dells Raceway Park in Dells, WI on Saturday, September 11th.

Qualifying

1. #26 Jeff Bloom 9.908
2. #07L Ryan Litt 9.942
3. #81 Troy DeCaire 9.998
4. #6 Mike Larrison 10.023
5. #7 Tim Cox 10.030
6. #88 Jimmy McCune 10.068
7. #40 Jason Cox 10.073
8. #10s Jason Blonde 10.144
9. #07w Jacob Wilson 10.166
10. #20k Kyle Flint 10.296
11. #37 Hank Lower 10.340
12. #23 Scott O'Connor 10.445
13. #6a David Gough 10.481
14. #46 Jim Swain 10.827
15. #10k Ron Koehler 10.957
16. #43p Tom Paterson 11.133
17. #26s Al Schlafer 11.251
18. #10d Jim Dolph 11.934

Heat Race #1

#1 Kyle Flint
#2 David Gough
#3 Mike Larrison
#4 Jeff Bloom
#5 Jason Cox
#6 Tom Paterson

Heat Race #2

#1 Hank Lower
#2 Tim Cox
#3 Ryan Litt
#4 Jim Swain
#5 Jason Blonde
#6 Al Schlafer

Hear Race #3

#1 Troy DeCaire
#2 Scott O'Connor
#3 Ron Koehler
#4 Jimmy McCune
#5 Jim Dolph
#6 Jacob Wilson

B Main

#1 Jason Cox
#2 Jason Blonde
#3 Tom Paterson
#4 Al Schlafer
#5 Jim Dolph

Feature

#1 Mike Larrison
#2 Kyle Flint
#3 Jeff Bloom
#4 Troy DeCaire
#5 Hank Lower
#6 Tim Cox
#7 David Gough
#8 Scott O'Connor
#9 Jimmy McCune
#10 Tom Paterson
#11 Jim Swain
#12 Jason Cox
#13 Ryan Litt
#14 Jason Blonde
#15 Ron Koehler
#16 Jim Dolph
#17 Al Schlafer

[Joe Whisler]

World 1/4 mile record? I'm not sure what this applies to. Bloomington's track record is 9.388. Is it a pavement world record? Either way, it's pretty fast.
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[dirtball]

Great sprint car racing . However it sure took a long time to move the show along!!!!!!!!

[short track scott]

[QUOTE=dirtball;190969]Great sprint car racing . However it sure took a long time to move the show along!!!!!!!![/QUOTE/]

I'm REALLY sorry about the delays throughout the night. We faced a series of setbacks (starting with the hour delay before sprint car hot laps - necessary but unfortunate) to the small support divisions on hand. The sprint car guys needed more time to turn the cars around than they were getting. Slinger is traditionally a Sunday night track featuring five or six divisions, and Saturday we only had the 13 car Slinger Bees and the Amercian Mini Cup cars, also about 12 cars.

In the end we had a first time winner in Mike Larrison. Kyle Flint, who finished second, would also have been a first time winner. Jeff Bloom set fast time and started tenth to finish third.

While I'm at it, I might as well admit the announcer was not their regular announcer. He works Dodge County on Saturdays so the sprint car guy had to cover the entire show. Not a huge deal but on zero notice or prep it is a little challenge to produce it all on the fly. Names like Van Wazer, Udelle, Schley, Hoth, Lobiecki and Prunty when you've never seen them before can be dicey.

It's a tricky proposition to bring in a sprint car show for the first time. The promoter has to balance (guess) the right number of divisions on the card. Then he weighs it against the expected attendance on a nontraditional night, competing against the local fair, NASCAR at Bristol, IRA at Wilmot, and other speedways. Don't forget the weather!!!

Now that the event is over, I'd like to see another division added to put a few minutes of stretch into the program instead of down time on the track. Down time is down time regardless. It can be filled with interviews or nickel pitch or watermelon eating contests but it just isn't racing.

Of course more sprint cars would have been great too but the 20 cars were the right number for a full field. The one local car, Al Schlafer, has raced on pavement occasionally in the past. Wisconsin is on the outer edge of our travel range. We appreciate every car that came to Wisconsin. We appreciate those who didn't but understand they have their reasons for not making that trip. The drivers like the speedway. The people at Slinger are great fans and good people. We look forward to going back next year.

[S_Meekhof]

Originally Posted by Joe Whisler World 1/4 mile record? I'm not sure what this applies to. Bloomington's track record is 9.388. Is it a pavement world record? Either way, it's pretty fast. Posted via Mobile Device

9.908 is less than 9.388

[Joe Whisler]

Originally Posted by S_Meekhof 9.908 is less than 9.388

Only in the bizarro world.
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[Mud Packer]

Originally Posted by s_meekhof 9.908 is less than 9.388

[Seadog]

On a 1/4 mile, 9.908 sec is 90.8356883 MPH. (Bloom @ Slinger Saturday)

On a 1/2 mile, 14.211 sec is 126.662444585 MPH (Hines @ Winchester Sunday)

Not that anybody cares.

[short track scott]

Hines was a second better than he was at Salem on the 14th! He was fastest there at 15.474 and 129.1041 mph.
Troy Decaire was 14.324 at 139.486 mph at Salem, but that was in the wing cars

Originally Posted by S_Meekhof 9.908 is less than 9.388

Is that southern Indiana, Jethro Bodiene math???