That was a awesome night. Wish the track had widened before the midget heats but after it did. WOW. Wasn't two grooves, One on the bottom and one on the curb, But three, Chad boat found the middle marbles to his liking and grabbed second in the last couple laps.
Sprints, I said Tmez would find a way. Bacon took off to almost a half lap lead, Don't know if he had motor problems or a leaking line somewhere but it was smoking midway. Tmez worked his way up from nineth and passed bacon in the late laps.
Congrats to Windom on his awesome run and win.
Thanks to Stat Man Richie for the brief chat and words of encouragement.
Thanks to Chad C for the kinds words at opening, They weren't just meant for me, but a lot of people going thru a rough patch in life.
Since I can't be total Burg Fan Boy, Mother Nature could have changed the wind direction as my grey turned brown. But at the same time. IT RAINED EVERYWHERE BUT BURG!
I believe we ended up with 19 sprint
Place Racer Number Name Laps Difference Last Time Fastest Time Slowest Time Miscellaneous Transponder#
1 00 Thomas Meseraull 25 00.000 16.657 15.948 17.736 SP 16725
2 4 Brady Bacon 25 -01.634 16.446 15.694 18.019 SP (410) 16420
3 5J Joss Moffatt 25 -10.642 17.129 16.427 17.741 SP 16382
4 33M Matt Westfall 25 -11.444 16.820 16.517 18.284 SP (own) 68234
5 89 Shawn Westerfeld 25 -12.703 17.622 16.615 18.135 SP 16410
6 44X Dickie Gaines 25 -15.775 17.989 16.803 17.989 SP 16740
7 44 Michael Fischesser 25 -15.988 17.631 16.882 17.985 SP 16404
8 9G Cody Gardner 24 -1 Laps 17.528 16.798 17.914 SP 16414
9 76 JJ Hughes 24 -1 Laps 17.321 16.878 18.161 SP 16429
10 9N Luke Hall 24 -1 Laps 17.300 16.618 19.287 SP 16421
11 4J Justin Owen 24 -1 Laps 17.463 16.757 18.206 SP 16422
12 9X Cooper Clouse 24 -1 Laps 17.862 17.239 18.223 SP 16850
13 42 Gary Rooke 24 -1 Laps 18.598 17.159 18.598 SP 16417
14 43W Callie Wolsiffer 24 -1 Laps 18.193 17.466 18.472 SP 16413
15 7 Tony McVey 24 -1 Laps 18.153 17.214 19.124 SP (7M) 16385
16 20 Tyler Kendall 23 -2 Laps 18.599 17.449 19.194 SP 16419
17 34 Parker Fredrickson 23 -2 Laps 18.423 17.661 18.754 SP 16392
18 34C Sterling Cling 12 -13 Laps 19.129 17.367 19.129 SP 16425
19 43M Scott Mead 0 -25 Laps --- 00.000 00.000 SP 16412
I was watchng the scoring tower as much as the cars in hot laps for the midgets 24 or 25 of the 27 were within like 4 tenths and when they qualified it was mostly like that. almost the whole field within half a second. You almost never get that with sprint cars, Sometimes there's a 2-3 second difference but it's often a full second.
I know some like the Kokomo style swap between three positions in each turn. But to watch these cars at speed, dogging each other, High and low groove 40ft apart and some monster three story sliders is pure art.
While the midgets have given up on THAT, Perris and other large tracks, I hope this never happens with Burg, Eldora and the other few bigger tracks that are left. That PA group used to run em a ton. Sad to see it not racing.
Watched the show on Flo Racing in my easy chair in Florida. Great show from the Burg. Track was in fine condition. Looking forward to getting up there for the Dickie Gaines show in August. Sad to see that Kokomo got rained out. All racing in Florida rained out last night, what there is of it. Hope to see you in August Charlie.
I don't go to Lawrenceburg that often as we live on the west side of Indiana but I told my other two traveling companions that I thought that was the best surface I ever saw at Lawrenceburg!!! It was virtually dustless and smooth the entire evening. There were three grooves and plenty of passing. The midget feature only trailed Lincoln Park as the best midget race of IMW. Kudos to the Lawrenceburg track crew on a job well done. Thank God for cloud cover!!! Loved T-Mez's quote on Twitter that he brought his best right rear tire to kick Thomas' ass and where is he??? Great night of racing.
