Bloomington
 

The recorded phone message says they are racing. Anybody besides me going?

Re: Bloomington
 

Apparently not, and I've changed my mind. Save my energy for the drive to Putnamville tomorrow night. Hope they have a good turnout of cars. There are so many tracks running.

Car count, updates please.

Re: Bloomington
 

Looks like 16 sprints hot lapped at Bloomington. How about Casey Shuman? They get rained out at Grain Valley and he gets over here to jump in a sprinter.

#24p Jon Stanbrough

#21k Casey Shuman

#11p Brady Short

#21x. Tony DiMattia

#6s Josh Cunningham

#70 Jordan Kinser

#17 Kendall Ruble

#37 Dave Gross

#24L Lee Underwood

#16 Billy Cribbs

#71b Bub Cummings

#5 Thomas Meseraull

#66w Jeff Bland

#15 Ethan Barrow

#1C Kent Christian

#45 Adam Wilfong

Re: Bloomington
 

Originally Posted by Eatin Dirt:
Car count, updates please.

Timing/scoring is on Race-monitor.com, as usual with Bloomington Speedway.

16 cars...sad.

Seems likely that a lot went over to route 44 to do the BOSS thing. Plus some sprint car shoes are running the big cars tonight too. Pretty solid drivers for those 16 though.

16 cars is good considering
Crown cars are at Toledo.
USAC sprints on the road to KS
BOSS at rt44

Originally Posted by mike mcghee:
16 cars is good considering
Crown cars are at Toledo.
USAC sprints on the road to KS
BOSS at rt44

Ha. Posted at the exact same time. I agree 100% I'd be happy to be watching 16 sprint cars rather than just getting off work.

Who won?

B. Short

16 cars means 2 heats and a feature. On the other hand 32 cars means 4 heats a b main and a feature, almost twice the racing for the same ticket price. From a sprint car only fan's perspective 16 cars is sad and not worth a long drive and the cost of a ticket,it makes no difference why only 16 showed up. I'm curious why BOSS was able to draw twice as many cars than Bloomington at a track that isn't close to a metro area and only pays $1500 to win.

Re: Bloomington
 

Originally Posted by Bill Angel:
16 cars means 2 heats and a feature. On the other hand 32 cars means 4 heats a b main and a feature, almost twice the racing for the same ticket price. From a sprint car only fan's perspective 16 cars is sad and not worth a long drive and the cost of a ticket,it makes no difference why only 16 showed up. I'm curious why BOSS was able to draw twice as many cars than Bloomington at a track that isn't close to a metro area and only pays $1500 to win.

Well one. Bloomington dilluted it's field by having two classes of sprints. A 305-360 could make many features with a good setup NW.
Two. Four corner tire rule.
Three, it's a fri night track and hard for non locals to make

I feel the same way. Long Drives and and no matter how you look at it $50 bucks or much more if traveling to go to the races. even if the track only gets 20-25 of it you still got a tank of gas and four or five hours involved if not more. Under three heats, No Consi is almost not worth it. At the local track I know many of the teams in the other classes as well and that helps make a overall show. But if Im traveling a distance and know only the sprint's it can be disappointing.

Someone else posted they don't know many of them drivers. Well some of them are pretty darn good for the equipment they have. BOSS has PA drivers, MI drivers. Think one from WV. and Several OH and IN. Westfall, DD, Simon, Cottle, Smith, most know them, they've been around awhile. Fischesser and Owen, Midaugh, Gardner and others can put on runs, I expect Dickie Gaines to join tonight.

Come on down to Burg, Weather is perfect.

Re: Bloomington
 

Originally Posted by Charles Nungester:
Well one. Bloomington dilluted it's field by having two classes of sprints. A 305-360 could make many features with a good setup NW.
Two. Four corner tire rule.
Three, it's a fri night track and hard for non locals to make

I feel the same way. Long Drives and and no matter how you look at it $50 bucks or much more if traveling to go to the races. even if the track only gets 20-25 of it you still got a tank of gas and four or five hours involved if not more. Under three heats, No Consi is almost not worth it. At the local track I know many of the teams in the other classes as well and that helps make a overall show. But if Im traveling a distance and know only the sprint's it can be disappointing.

Someone else posted they don't know many of them drivers. Well some of them are pretty darn good for the equipment they have. BOSS has PA drivers, MI drivers. Think one from WV. and Several OH and IN. Westfall, DD, Simon, Cottle, Smith, most know them, they've been around awhile. Fischesser and Owen, Midaugh, Gardner and others can put on runs, I expect Dickie Gaines to join tonight.

Come on down to Burg, Weather is perfect.

Gotta disagree with you Chuck, if you took out the BOSS regulars there would have been less cars than Bloomington, even at that there were more GOOD cars at Bloomington. Second the construction on 37 north of Bloomington is keeping cars and fans from making that trip from the north. One thing I do agree with is that the Racesavers have taken some drivers/cars away from the 410 class which I think was the opposite of what they had hoped would happen.

Boss has a open tire rule, hoosier RR $210.00 or American racer $ 180.00

Re: Bloomington
 

Originally Posted by Bill Angel:
16 cars means 2 heats and a feature. On the other hand 32 cars means 4 heats a b main and a feature, almost twice the racing for the same ticket price. From a sprint car only fan's perspective 16 cars is sad and not worth a long drive and the cost of a ticket,it makes no difference why only 16 showed up. I'm curious why BOSS was able to draw twice as many cars than Bloomington at a track that isn't close to a metro area and only pays $1500 to win.

Agreed. With less than 24 cars, heats don't mean much...everybody qualifies