K Swanson Windom Cottle Cockrum Jones Buckwalter Grant Coons Jr Shuman Leary top 10. Green back out lap 73

Swanson saying adios. Opening it up. Flat RR on Grant. He stops lap 75 4th yellow.

K Swanson Windom Cottle Jones Buckwalter Cockrum Coons Jr Shuman Leary Hood current top 10. Going green lap 79. Infield bound.

87 in Levi Jones to 2nd and coming late

A great late race duel brewing. 9 to go K Swanson Jones Cottle Windom Buckwalter top 5. 8 to go

Tony Bettenhausen 100 @USACNation top 6: K Swanson Jones Cottle Buckwalter Coons Jr Leary

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Thank you for the updates!!

Thanks for all the updates!

Full 54th Annual Tony Bettenhausen 100 results

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I thought it was a real good race. The first half was especially good. Swanson definitely the fastest car. He could keep it straighter and take care of the tires too. I was happy to see a full field, and good cars. Nice day!

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First off, many thanks to all contributors with updates. Truly, well appreciated.

I really appreciated getting to expand the victory lane photo and see that he had at least another 10 corners of hard drive on all 3 rubber visible exhibits.

Again, many thanks to all. If it ain't dirt,it aint gonna work.

Any chance they could just pay Kody half the win money to keep it parked and then let everyone else race for the win?;);)

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Thanks for GREAT updates

First time I had been to Springfield since the mid eighties; it was a very good race, and it was run in front of a sizable crowd. Wasn't very impressed with the procedure for getting cars and fans
through the gates. Way too many steps involved, causing backups at the gates. I like both Illinois state fairs, but prefer the atmosphere at DuQuoin.

I saw the grandstands from the infield half way in and sizeAble is not the word I would have chosen. The car count was much healthier than the crowd. There is just not enough promotion of the race especially inside of the fairgrounds.


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Crowd will take time to build back imo. The years of small car counts hurt for sure. Yesterday was the first I had gone to in several years. A product like they put on yesterday will go a long way to bringing crowds back.