Re: Where did you end up in 2009?
 

Originally Posted by Pine:
RT41 South to be exact........Sorry Aero, couldn't resist....:5:

ASQ, save me a seat...


The more I think about it.........:5::5::5::5::5:

I can't stop laughing- i'll never forget that 1 or the look on Mark Kinser's face!! :14: We couldn't knock him off his barstool, but RT 41 sure did the trick!! :5:
Oh yea, my race total was horrendous this year too. First time in I don't know how many years I didn't make it out to Indiana or at least to Eldora. I hope to make it off the porch much more this season.

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I got to 25 races in five states...Indiana, PA, MD, WVA, VA and NJ. Better than the 16 I did the year before! I hope to do about the same or a couple better in 2010.

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My 2009 season included 65 races in 6 different states. Three races in Indiana :31: the rest around home here in the Pa area. Did see Usac, WoO sprint and late models, Ardc midgets, and many modified races. Looking forward to 2010 including a return to trip to Indiana.

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I was just wondering why some of the IOW fan of year heavy hitters have not weighed in on this topic. I was able to hit about a dozen races this year, a far cry from the 70 to 80 races a year I would hit when I still lived in Indiana.

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46 races, 3 states, I did get to the Indy 500 this year and I also saw 4 first time winners
Nick Bilbee @ Danville, Ill
Kenny Niflis @ Bloomington
Danny Holtsclaw @ Bloomington and last but not least
Blake Fitzpatrick @ Putnamville
Not as many as I would have liked I had a rough end of the year but the old lady and I are looking forward to our 1st trip to Florida in Febuary. We only have a week and were going to a race everynight. Looking forward to it.

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Originally Posted by DIRT-TRACK-JUNKIE:
46 races, 3 states, I did get to the Indy 500 this year and I also saw 4 first time winners
Nick Bilbee @ Danville, Ill
Kenny Niflis @ Bloomington
Danny Holtsclaw @ Bloomington and last but not least
Blake Fitzpatrick @ Putnamville
Not as many as I would have liked I had a rough end of the year but the old lady and I are looking forward to our 1st trip to Florida in Febuary. We only have a week and were going to a race everynight. Looking forward to it.

Holtsclaw was far from a 1st time winner. He has 16 Paragon wins and 1 at Put before the Bloomington win. Check it out on Eck's database

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2009 was my worst racing season ever. Not one damn race....Not ONE!!! Instead, I spent my Summer in lovely Bagram, Afghanistan!!!

BUT, I will be at the Chili Bowl for Friday & Saturday!!!!!!

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46 races in 3 states. Had a ball doing it. 3 new tracks. Can't wait for April. Hope all is good Brent.

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Originally Posted by Hawker:
....Not ONE!!! Instead, I spent my Summer in lovely Bagram, Afghanistan!!!

BUT, I will be at the Chili Bowl for Friday & Saturday!!!!!!

And we thank you for your choice of "vacation" spots. :6:

We are quite pleased that you're getting your 2010 year off to a good start.

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24 races in 3 states, Manzy, USA Raceway Park, Canyon & PIR in Az., Oswego, N. Y. and Richmond, Va..

Silver Crown - 4
IRL -1
WOO - 2
USAC Sprints and Midgets
Oswego Supers
ISMA Supers
ASCS Sprints
SWDRA Late Models
Mod Lites

I also payed two visits to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum last year, one in May and one in Sept.. In Sept. I also went to the Unser Museum while going thru New Mexico, great place to stop the museum is well done.

The number of races I have attended on my summer trips east the past two years have been greatly reduced since the birth of my grandson. Given the choice of spending time with Donovan or going racing, Donovan won every time. This April he will become a big brother and grandmas racing on the east coast could be very limited.

Off to Tucson this weekend for some late model racing, while I am an open wheel girl, one of my friends sons has chosen late models and the other son mod lites the past few years so my racing is branching out.

Safe racing to all in 2010,

Patti

Re: Where did you end up in 2009?
 

Originally Posted by Hawker:
2009 was my worst racing season ever. Not one damn race....Not ONE!!! Instead, I spent my Summer in lovely Bagram, Afghanistan!!!

BUT, I will be at the Chili Bowl for Friday & Saturday!!!!!!

Hawker,

Thank you for your tour of duty in protecting all of us here in the USA. It is extremely important that we continue to provide encouragement to our troops all over the world who day in and day out continue to fight for our freedom.:8: Glad that you will have a chance to see some racing at the Chili Bowl this week. Be safe.:6:

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Originally Posted by Hawker:
2009 was my worst racing season ever. Not one damn race....Not ONE!!! Instead, I spent my Summer in lovely Bagram, Afghanistan!!!

BUT, I will be at the Chili Bowl for Friday & Saturday!!!!!!

If you are in Indiana this racing season I'm sure we can find some adult beverages from my drinking racing compatriots to toast your safe return. :9::8:

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76 race events in 2009...OK, AZ, FL, CA, IN, IO,OH,IL...Drove to or was at 4 rainouts...Less races than 2008 but still saw lots of great shows and got to hang with my buds... kinda got burned out at the end of summer/fall and took a couple weekends off...Of those races most were dirt short tracks...

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To clarify, I am not enlisted. I was over there working a contract maintaining ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) aircraft for a "3 letter company"...

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I got in 63, 20 tracks, 8 states.

I have a new little one at home now so I won't get anywhere near those numbers this year. I think I'll still get out 30-40 times though....just not as much traveling.

Re: Where did you end up in 2009?
 

Originally Posted by Coach:
I was just wondering why some of the IOW fan of year heavy hitters have not weighed in on this topic.

The silence is deafening.

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Originally Posted by brenttfunk:
the silence is deafening.

:5::5:

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49 races in three states. We had so much fun as a family of 3 going to so many races and hanging out with really great people. I hope 2010 is even better.

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ok, not as good as some, but not bad for my 4th year of being a race fan.
62 races in 7 states. All races were sprints or midgets.
(Disclaimer) Aero and Mowerman, these are races that I actually made the feature! lol

Re: Where did you end up in 2009?
 

Originally Posted by racingwwindom:
ok, not as good as some, but not bad for my 4th year of being a race fan.
62 races in 7 states. All races were sprints or midgets.
(Disclaimer) Aero and Mowerman, these are races that I actually made the feature! lol

So you attended 80 races:5::5::32:

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Soooooooooo does that make me RACE FAN OF THE YEAR???????? Aero u are the bestest!!!!!

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See u in Florida Aero!

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I just got my calender out of the motorhome.

Between, not working for 7 months, USAC doing Live Webcast's and the very very bad racing at Williamsgrove on Friday nights, this was probably my worst year ever.

Race count: 54
States: 3
Different Winners: About 28
Different Tracks: 9
USAC shows: 9
MSCS Shows: 1
Races in Indiana: 10
Rain Outs: 7

January:

Chili Bowl
1/13...Kuhn, Stenhouse, Buckwalter
Race of Champions.....S.Swindell
1/14...S.Swindell, JJ Yeley, Stanbrough
1/15...Hines, Darland, Allgeire
1/16...Coons Jr, Levi, Loyett
1/17...S.Swindell, Hines, Kuhn

February:

2/28...Ice Breaker Lincoln Speedway: Montieth

March:

3/7...Lincoln Speedway...Rahmer,Darrah,Layton
3/16...Lincoln Speedway..Montieth, Busby, Leppo
3/20..Williamsgrove...Todd Shaffer, Stevie Smith, Sean Micheal
3/21...Brownstown In. Lucas Oil Late Model's, Ice Breaker 50..
Earl Pearson, Dale McDowell, Jimmy Owens
3/27...Grove....T, Shaffer, Darrah, Layton, S.Smith
3/28...Lincoln...RainOut

April:

4/3....Grove...RainOut
4/4...Lincoln....Rahmer, Darrah, Geesey
4/10..Grove...RainOut
4/11...Lincoln..Doug Dodson, Dewease
4/17...USAC..Gas City...Darland, Levi, Hockett
4/18...USAC..L-Burg.....Josh Wise
4/24...Grove...Dewease, Leppo, S.Smith
4/25...Watch USAC/CRA Live from the PAS;)......David Carday

May:

5/1...Grove...Rain/sun Out
5/2...Lincoln All Stars....Rahmer, Esh
5/8...Grove All Stars...Todd Shaffer
5/14..Grove World of Outlaws....RainOut
5/15...Grove World of Outlaws...Hodnett, Darrah, Stevie Smith
5/16..Lincoln...RainOut
KEYSTONE CUP:
5/20..Grandview..Pittman, Stevie Smith
5/21...Golfed in the Billy Kimmel Memorial Golf Tourney
5/22...Grove...Dewease
5/23...Lawrenceburg In. KISS Series..Faas, Hendrick
5/24...Kokomo Regular Show....Whitt, Stanbrough
5/29...Grove...Hodnett
5/30....Watched the Stanley Cup...

June:

USAC Eastern Swing:
6/1...:32: at Grandview....
6/2..Grandview...Hockett, Windom, Clauson
6/3..Grove....RainOut...Even God hates the Grove...
6/4...Big Diamond....Whitt, Darland
6/10...Lincoln Late Model Speedweek...Got to the feature and RAINOUT
6/13...Lincoln 410's & ARDC Midgets...410's..Montieth....ARDC..Heistand
6/19..Grove...Krietz, Esh
6/20..Lincoln...Dietrich, Darren Eash
6/26..Grove...Ott, Montieth
6/27..Lincoln..Montieth, Hodnett

July:

7/2..Grove Speedweek...Montieth, Hodnett
7/3..Grove Mitch Smith Memorial..Pittman
7/4...Lincoln...358's....WhoCares
Indiana Sprintweek:
7/9...:32: at Lawrenceburg
7/10..L-Burg...Darland, Clauson
7/11...Gas City...Levi
7/12...Kokomo...Boat
7/17...Grove..RainOut...
7/18.,..Lincoln URC/410's....410's..Jimmy Seigel
BOYCOTT OF LOCAL RACING BEGINS

August:

8/12..Lincoln Make-Up Late Model Feature.....Rick Eckert
8/13...Grandview World of Outlaw Late Model's...Tim Fuller, Steve Francis
8/14..Grove...Esh.....All the big boys at Knoxville Nationals

From the Middle of July, I think I was at the Grove twice, lincoln three times and Susky once.....

October:

10/2...Lawrenceburg USAC
10/3...Lawrenceburg MSCS

See ya's in Florida...:32:

Re: Where did you end up in 2009?
 

Originally Posted by BrentTFunk:
The silence is deafening.

I'll have to disagree with you on this, I think the message is LOUD and CLEAR.

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Originally Posted by Coach:
I'll have to disagree with you on this, I think the message is LOUD and CLEAR.

Coach, you have to remember that Brent doesn't hear as well as he used to. :32:

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Originally Posted by Danny Burton:
Coach, you have to remember that Brent doesn't hear as well as he used to. :32:

Thanks Danny? Thanks to everyone who posted. It was interesting to see where everyone ended up.

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52 dates- Four new tracks Las Vegas, Manzy, Perris & VCS in seven states.