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Re: USAC and Sargent Will Reschedule DuQuoin Silver Crown

The odds of drawing even a break even crowd without the fair would be slim to none.

Re: USAC and Sargent Will Reschedule DuQuoin Silver Crown

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Originally Posted by Dick Monahan (Post 133408)

How 'bout Sat 10/10, the afternoon of the final at Granite City?

I like this date alot :6:

Re: USAC and Sargent Will Reschedule DuQuoin Silver Crown

Ran into Sargent at the ARCA race today...not looking good boys

Looking like the first time since the 60's that there has been no race at Du Quoin in a given year

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Originally Posted by miledirt (Post 133580)

Ran into Sargent at the ARCA race today...not looking good boys

Looking like the first time since the 60's that there has been no race at Du Quoin in a given year

Well I will give the proper salute to Sargent for this: :11; Thanks :21:hole You did it to the Hoosier Hundred and now you are doing it to the Ted Horn 100.

Unscrupulous promoters appearantly are still alive and kickin.

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Originally Posted by sceckert (Post 133338)

Wasn't that pretty much the last great Silver Crown race? The one that Tobias won? And if I recall the story, it was fairly well-attended, despite the Salukis playing a home game that same night...

The recounting is here, courtesy of OpenWheelTimes.com
http://www.openwheeltimes.com/index....html&Itemid=56

Yes, that was the one that Richie Tobias started shotgun in the semi, won it, started shotgun in the 100 miler and won it.

Re: USAC and Sargent Will Reschedule DuQuoin Silver Crown

After crashing the car three weeks before at Springfield.

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Originally Posted by RacingNut (Post 133631)

After crashing the car three weeks before at Springfield.

That wasn't the same car, of course. He destroyed his car in the first-turn crash at Springfield, which was a very, very scary one. The car he ran at Du Quoin was originally intended to be his Mopar Million SPRINT CAR, but faced with the results of Springfield, he prepared that car for Du Quoin and ended up winning the race in one of the best races I've ever seen, and without a doubt the best Silver Crown race I've ever seen...

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Originally Posted by dirtywhiteboy (Post 133592)

Best comment I have read on here all weekend

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Originally Posted by sceckert (Post 133338)

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Originally Posted by Kirk Spridgeon (Post 133635)

Again...I'd suggest visiting the link that Kev wrote regarding that race. It is informative, and brings some resonance to this event which all witnesses I've spoken with consider as a throwback Silver Crown race of the kind that simply doesn't take place any longer.

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Originally Posted by ronmil (Post 133594)

Yes, that was the one that Richie Tobias started shotgun in the semi, won it, started shotgun in the 100 miler and won it.

I think in Richie's case you should call it "slingshot" instead of "shotgun" :3::17: