sprint mania

Jerry Shaw · 10/8/17, 1:28 AM

Whoever is doing updates on the WARSprints Twitter page is doing a very good job of it.

Jerry

illinifan · 10/8/17, 1:31 AM

Yellow two laps later sunshine miller Ballou and DD and simon

Jerry Shaw · 10/8/17, 1:50 AM

I made a 170 mile round trip this afternoon, even though I was looking at a radar that looked terrible, because I thought there might be a chance I would get to see a race. Now, I'm up at 2 am, watching my computer screen, as other people describe a race they're watching, on IOW and Twitter, hanging on the edge of my seat. No, I don't have a racing problem.

By all accounts, it sounds like these folks that went to Fairbury tonight, got more than their money's worth. That track's definitely on my list.

Jerry

Adolph · 10/8/17, 2:42 AM

WAR Facebook says Ballou won.

chathamracefan · 10/8/17, 8:55 AM

Ballou won. Courtney got caught up in heavy lapped traffic and flipped with 4 to go. Darland ended up 2nd. Joe B Miller 3rd and Landon Simon 4th. Both features were really good.

ISF · 10/8/17, 10:14 AM

Sunshine was in the process of a big slider in 1 & 2 and wheeled K.T. Jr. (KTJ was a lap car) and flipped. All this took place while Sunshine was leading in the later stages of the A-main.

This show was a superbly splendid night/early morning of dirt open wheel racing. As I've said many times here we live only 40 minutes from Fairbury and they just began to run open wheel divisions 2 years ago after a very long time of hosting nothing but fendered cars. I believe Fairbury has made some significant inroads into top quality open wheel racing. Given the high quality of the dirt open wheel competition at FALS and the nearly flawless track prep and great show management can USAC be in Fairbury's future?! I certainly hope so!! Double D and The Madman had glowing praise for the whole Fairbury experience in their podium interviews. Thanks to Fairbury for a very good final night of our 2017 outdoor racing season of spectating. Sadly enough, we're all done until Du Quoin in December.

BrentTFunk · 10/8/17, 11:14 AM

What time did it get done? How was the crowd at the end?

mscs20 · 10/8/17, 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by BrentTFunk

What time did it get done? How was the crowd at the end?

War Sprint A main was over shortly before 1 am. Mod feature done by 1:30. 90% were still there!

ISF · 10/8/17, 12:01 PM

Most stayed for the two sprint car A-main's but it pretty much cleared out following the POWRi/WAR A-main. That's when we left.

nathans1012 · 10/8/17, 12:39 PM

So for those that went to Fairbury; what's your overall impression of the racing and the facility?
We raced are Modifieds there most of the season. Just like to hear some Open Wheel folks thoughts.

10/8/17, 12:39 PM	#40 Re: sprint mania
nathans1012 Senior Member Race Count This Year: 7 Race Count Last Year: 34 Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 7,429	So for those that went to Fairbury; what's your overall impression of the racing and the facility? We raced are Modifieds there most of the season. Just like to hear some Open Wheel folks thoughts. __________________ 2024 Season: Race 1 - April 20th Brownstown (Crate LM). Unlike many I don't discriminate on what racing I choose to watch.