[MOWA]

One of the biggest stretches on our schedule is here starting tomorrow as it is time for Sprint Week for the Neal Tire MOWA Sprint Car Series presented by Casey's General Store. We hope to see packed grandstands each night! More information at https://www.midwestopenwheel.com, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/midwestopenwheel, and on Twitter @mowasprints

[MOWA]

Night 1 of MOWA Illinois Sprint Week is here! We kick off the first of 4 nights of racing for the Neal Tire and Auto Service MOWA Sprint Car Series presented by Casey's General Store tonight at Peoria Speedway. Here is the information for tonight's show at Peoria Speedway, as posted on their Facebook page:

MOWA 410 Sprint Cars night 1 of the Illinois Sprint Week. Also running will be
Central Illinois Mini Sprints, Modifieds, and Hornets.

Front gate.

Adults 20.00
Kids. 10.00

Pits.

Adults 35.00
Kids. 20.00

Pits open at 4:00
Front Gate at 5:00
Hot Laps at 6:00
Racing at 7:00

[DiehardRaceFan]

From Quincy's Facebook

Official word is "We can do this!" WE WILL BE RACING TONIGHT. We do need some cooperation...

1. The pits WILL NOT open until 4:00. We can't allow anyone back there to give it maximum time to dry. To our traveling teams, sorry for the inconvenience, but please find a parking lot up the hill near the interstate to work on your cars today. We can not have your race rigs eating up our main parking area either.

2. Please stay off the grass parking lot until at least 2:00 today, or be prepared for us to ask you to move. In order to get all of the cars in the parking lot on dry ground we will have staff directing our parking. If the first couple of cars are parked screwed up, it messes things up for the the entire parking arrangement.

3. Realize that we got 1.25 inches of rain 12 hours before we have to start using the grounds to park cars and rigs and plan accordingly. If we thought we were going to have a big mess we would have canceled... but some patience is appreciated.

[DiehardRaceFan]

Workforce 40 – Thursday July 28th – Fan and Team Info
This Thursday July 28th the World of Outlaws Craftsman Late Models are joined again by the Neal Tire MOWA Sprints for the 2nd Annual Workforce 40 at Quincy Raceways.

Grandstand and Pit Area will open at 4:00. Reserved seats will have been marked by 4:00 by tape on the seat. Do not sit in an area marked with tape or you will be asked to move. There is plenty of seating available to anyone that wants to attend. Race night seating is open seating except in marked reserved seats. Top row concrete area West of Flagstand is handicapped priority seating.

Hot laps at 6:15, Qualifying 6:45, Racing at 7:00. Adult admission is $30, Seniors $25, Ages 11-16 $15, Kids 10 and under $5. Pit passes are $35.

Motorhomes please park on far West end of our grass parking lot facing West.

We will need all of our available parking so please follow instructions of our parking attendants. Areas surrounding our parking area will be roped as No Parking. Please respect the no parking areas of our neighbors. No parking areas are shown in the photo below as shaded orange.

Race teams will pit in our normal pit area. We will park you diagonally, and by doing so will have plenty of room for all of our teams in our main pit area. We will be using our normal “overflow” pit area for grandstand fan parking.

The GPS Address of Quincy Raceways is 8000 E. Broadway, Quincy Il. If your GPS device doesn’t recognize that address, please use Scotties Fun Spot as a location. If none of the above works, you can enter the Quincy Regional Airport. We are about a mile West of the Airport on the same road.

Questions or special requests.. call or text (text preferred) Ken Dobson at 217-371-3653

[MOWA]

Tonight Neal Tire and Auto Service MOWA Sprint Car Series Presented by Casey's General Store hit Jacksonville Speedway for their annual Sprint Week visit. This year’s event features the addition of the WAR Sprint Car Series wingless sprint cars to make it a wing/non-wing double header. Also in action are 305 Sprints, Street Stocks, Hornets and Micros Sprints.

Pits open at 3:30, Grandstands 5:00, Hot Laps 6:20, Racing at 7:00.

Adult admission for this event is $20, Ages 11-18 $7, and Kids 10 and under Free. Pit passes are the normal $30.

[miledirt]

Wish Farmington Mo would have got in on this

[bigvee]

I really considered going to this race. I really like the MOWA series and Jacksonville Speedway but 6 classes of cars is a bit much for me and still make the drive back to Evansville.

[kdobson]

I really considered going to this race. I really like the MOWA series and Jacksonville Speedway but 6 classes of cars is a bit much for me and still make the drive back to Evansville.

We understand how 6 classes would look like a rough night for an open wheel fan. But as we stated in an earlier post, our local classes haven't been able to race here for a month and we need to give them a chance to race and indicated we would do our best to make this convenient for the traveling open wheel fan. Even though we ate up some time with yellows and reds, the 3 sprint car classes were over before 10pm. We then ran our stock car, micro and hornet features after many of our traveling open wheel fans had left and were finished at 10:45 and the families, fans and friends of those cars stayed around to watch... generally minutes from home.

If you were here to see the sprints you would have sat through 2 stock car heats, one micro and one hornet heat in prior to the completion of all sprint car racing on the card. So from 7 until 10 you would have seen a total of 4 heat races that didn't interest you.

We hope that next time you choose to join us. We don't pack our specials full of local racing except in rare circumstances like tonight.. and even then we try to make the program easy for the fan of the premiere classes on the card to stomach.

[miledirt]

Originally Posted by bigvee I really considered going to this race. I really like the MOWA series and Jacksonville Speedway but 6 classes of cars is a bit much for me and still make the drive back to Evansville.

great job on the way you ran that show last Kenny !

[ISF]

Originally Posted by kdobson We understand how 6 classes would look like a rough night for an open wheel fan. But as we stated in an earlier post, our local classes haven't been able to race here for a month and we need to give them a chance to race and indicated we would do our best to make this convenient for the traveling open wheel fan. Even though we ate up some time with yellows and reds, the 3 sprint car classes were over before 10pm. We then ran our stock car, micro and hornet features after many of our traveling open wheel fans had left and were finished at 10:45 and the families, fans and friends of those cars stayed around to watch... generally minutes from home. If you were here to see the sprints you would have sat through 2 stock car heats, one micro and one hornet heat in prior to the completion of all sprint car racing on the card. So from 7 until 10 you would have seen a total of 4 heat races that didn't interest you. We hope that next time you choose to join us. We don't pack our specials full of local racing except in rare circumstances like tonight.. and even then we try to make the program easy for the fan of the premiere classes on the card to stomach.

From purely a spectator standpoint and one that isn't particularly enamored with support classes we sincerely appreciate both your heads up and your clear and concise explanation of the reason's why the show was structured as it was.

I understand very little in reference to dirt track racing promotion but common sense dictates that running the headline division first will diminish concession revenue to some degree. Keeping that in mind we can safely say that you probably forfeited a bit of profit by running the sprints first. For that we commend your honesty and willingness to keep a segment of the paying customers in the grandstands happy in lieu of a portion of profit you'd have realized if the feature lineup had been run in the opposite manner.

We do not, and will not forget this fan friendly gesture and it will have a favorable effect on future decisions as to whether to attend a particular race, or not.

Thank you.