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We here at PDP Racing are ready for the weekend! Gateway tomorrow and Springfield Saturday. While there are many teams running both races, we are doing it a bit different. One car, two different surfaces. While we haven't been running very good on pavement, we keep getting better. This will be our second dirt race and first race on a mile. I can't wait!

Tom

[TQ29m]

Good luck TOM!

[Joe Schaub]

I'm very concerned about the race on Saturday. The forecast looks more than likely to be a huge factor just to get into the pits, much less the track surface. I hope and pray I'm wrong, but forecast models are all pretty much in agreement for a wet Friday night (after 11pm) thru Sunday mid morning.

[flagboy55]

Keep your fingers crossed Joe. We thought there was no way we were racing Thursday at the BC39. Low and behold, everything worked out fine. Selfishly a small delay of about a half hour would be preferable. I work till 2 😉

[Dale]

Any chance of running both races Sunday?

[BrentTFunk]

Hoping we get light rain. It creates a wetter than usual track with a nice cushion.

[BrentTFunk]

Originally Posted by Dale Ant chance of running both races Sunday?

I think it would be tough to do, since tickets have been sold to both events. Plus the fair has a concert Sunday night. Have to have time to clear out the area.

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IT IS BETTENHAUSEN 100 USAC SILVER CROWN RACE DAY AT THE ILLINOIS STATE FAIR!

Auto Racing is the traditional day time entertainment of the last weekend of the Illinois State Fair, starting with the 89th scheduled appearance of the open wheel championship machines now known as the USAC Silver Crown Cars of the USAC (United States Auto Club). The annual Bettenhausen 100 presented by Mite Xstream takes place on Saturday, August 20 on the World’s Fastest One Mile Dirt track in Springfield, Illinois.

The 2022 Bettenhausen 100, the 62nd scheduled and 59th actual running (due to rain), is the 9th round of the 2022 USAC Silver Crown National Championship, and follows a run the night before on the pavement of World Wide Technology Raceway just 90 minutes away. In an unusual twist the Bettenhausen is just one of two Silver Crown contests on a traditional dirt mile and the only day time event on the schedule.

Indiana’s CJ Leary is the point leader after 5 events with a scant 6-point margin over Logan Seavey and 12 over 6-time and defending USAC champ Kody Swanson. Leary won on the pavement at Madison, Wisconsin while Seavey won on the dirt at Port Royal, Pennsylvania. Swanson’s lone 2022 win was a special event at Indianapolis Raceway Park, and Swanson is the only driver of the three with a Silver Crown victory on one of the dirt miles, three coming at Springfield. Swanson is the defending Bettenhausen 100 champion, leading the last 16 miles of the rain shortened 2021 event.

Indiana’s CJ Leary is the point leader after 5 events with a scant 6-point margin over Logan Seavey and 12 over 6-time and defending USAC champ Kody Swanson. Leary won on the pavement at Madison, Wisconsin while Seavey won on the dirt at Port Royal, Pennsylvania. Swanson’s lone 2022 win was a special event at Indianapolis Raceway Park, and Swanson is the only driver of the three with a Silver Crown victory on one of the dirt miles, three coming at Springfield. Swanson is the defending Bettenhausen 100 champion, leading the last 16 miles of the rain-shortened 2021 event.

The event is all part of a huge weekend of racing that begins Friday night, August 19 at Lincoln Speedway featuring MOWA Sprint Cars, Saturday afternoon, August 20 with USAC Silver Crown and Sportsman at the Illinois State Fairgrounds, Saturday night at Macon Speedway with POWRi National Midgets, and Sunday afternoon, August 21 with ARCA Menards Series and Sportsman at the Illinois State Fair.

Full Details Below:

Saturday, August 20
Illinois State Fair
USAC Silver Crown Series
60th Annual Bettenhausen 100 Presented by Hunt Brothers Pizza
+ 29th Annual Illinois Sportsman Nationals DIRTcar Sportsman Prelims
SATURDAY, AUGUST 20 SPRINGFIELD

TIMES:
7:00 AM Pits & Registration
9:00 AM Ticket Office & Grandstands
10:00-11:10 AM Silver Crown Practice
11:30 AM Silver Crown Qualifying
12:00 PM Sportsman Hotlaps
12:30 PM Silver Crown B-Main
1:00 PM Sportsman Heats
1:30 PM Pre-Race Ceremonies
2:00 PM USAC Silver Crown 60th Annual Bettenhausen 100 Presented by Hunt Brothers Pizza

(*Don’t forget our two other local shows the same weekend, Lincoln Speedway Friday, August 19 and Macon Speedway Saturday night, August 20.)

SPRINGFIELD TICKET INFO:
Tickets will be available on raceday or by calling the State Fair office at 217-782-1979. Info and tickets can also be obtained by calling the Track Enterprises office at 217-764-3200.

RESERVED SEATING
Advance Tickets (Presale)
$25 Adults Per Day
$10 Children 11 & Under Per Day
Day Of Tickets (At Gate)
$30 Adults Per Day
$10 Children 11 & Under Per Day

INFIELD TICKETS
$20 Adults
$5 Children 11 & Under

PIT PASSES
$40 Adults Each Day
$20 Children 11 & Under Each Day
$50 Two-Day Pit Pass

INFIELD PARKING
$5 For Those Parking On Infield With No Infield Or Pit Passes

HOST HOTELS
Carpenter Street Hotel
888-779-9100 or www.carpenterstreethotel.com

LIVE STREAM: FloRacing (www.floracing.com)

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We are in a holding pattern at the Illinois State Fair. We had some heavy rain move through this morning and we are watching future cast radar, forecasts, and track conditions to monitor the situation. Pits and infield will not be opening at 7 am. We will update the situation when anything changes.