[WinglessLovers]

Great night of racing at Jacksonville Speedway tonight with four open wheel divisions and plenty of racing action. Very good crowd and good car counts for all four divisions: POWRI midgets (37), POWRI 600's (39), WAR East Sprints (20) & D2 midgets (18). Midget heat winners were Zach Daum, Rico Abreu, Logan Seavey, Ryan Robinson and Tucker Klaasmeyer. B mains to Jake Neuman and Tanner Carrick. WAR sprint heat winners were Logan Faucon, Landon Simon and Mario Clouser.

Landon Simon was headed for I-80 with USAC when his trailer broke down and it took all day to repair it so he headed to Jacksonville instead. Simon walked off with $2000 to help pay for the trailer repair as he led every lap of the sprint car feature. Terry Babb and Andy Baugh trailed him to the finish. Looked like Joe B. Miller had top three finish in sprints but had a boxing match with the four turn wall over the last two laps and the wall finally won with Miller sliding across the line on the entrance road to the pits. The 30 lap midget feature was a slide job and crossover display throughout the field especially up front. Michael Pickens took lead from Tucker Klaasmeyer on lap 4 and held lead until around halfway mark when Tanner Thorson and Spencer Bayston went three wide several laps before Thorson took control. Thorson went on to score his second straight POWRi midget win and his 15th career POWRi victory. Bayston was second even passing Thorson on the white flag lap but Thorson passed him back. Pickens was third, Rico Abreu was fourth with Zach Daum rounding out the top five.

The 20 lap POWRi 600's went non-stop and the racing through lap traffic was amazing. Joe B. Miller caught young Craig Ronk late in lap traffic and went on to win his 29th POWRi 600 victory. Nick Howard took third. Andy Malpocker topped the 20 lap D2 midget feature which only had one caution. Entire show was over by 11:10 and was the best of the series so far by far as all the features were exciting and well run but remember Macon is tomorrow night so that could all change.

Bruce Eckel

[wildman92]

The racing at Jacksonville was outstanding. Holy cow. The midget feature was awesome. Slider after slider after slider. When the race was over, we said THIS is why we come to Illinois to watch POWRI. 🏁

[kdobson]

Thank you for coming. Nice crowd. Sorry half our parking was blocked off due to the local BBQ cookoff today. Heard we had some double parking causing delays in people getting out. We hadn't thought of that issue but will next time.

Thanks for your patience in working the track repeatedly. On a hot sunny day we have to fight it until the sun goes down. Our thought is that you didn't pay to see a race...you paid to see a good race and I think Tommy stayed after it till you got one. Thanks again.

[chathamracefan]

It was a great night of racing. Sat by 2 people from England that come to the US every year to watch races. They went to the Little 500 last week and all the Powri shows. Fun conversation with them.

[red70racer]

Ken
It was worth the track work
No rubber down track
Still stayed wide enough for 2 groove racing
Kudos to you and crew
The midget feature was one of the best I've seen ( and I've seen a bunch)
I like what you do
Jeff Palazzolo