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Has fairbury canceled yet? Website hasn't posted anything yet.

It is still on as of now. I was going to go but backed out of a 2 hour drive with the weather like it is.

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Not cancelled yet. My brother is at track and has been told a decision will be made after 5. They are making a strong effort to hold the race

I've got a friend there, said it stopped raining, and there are lots of cars in the pits.

How many non wingers?

Engine heat 7pm hot laps 7:30 racing at 8pm. Joey Saldana, is in the house. Don't know what the car count is, just been told, lots of cars.

Does anyone know if they have a curfew at the track?

I heard no curfew from track

Thanks. Decided not to go, deer hunting in the morning. Probably should have went.

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Pits are darn near full of cars. Seen a pic where Sunshine was already there and unloaded.

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Originally Posted by sprintcarjim:
Does anyone know if they have a curfew at the track?

FALS doesn't have a curfew. The whole town supports the race track and the fairgrounds. On Saturday nights darn near the whole town is there unless their working. The track has an atmosphere almost like Eldora does. If USAC ever got a race there it would be crazy good. Ballou would love this place. It's not like Eldora where it's black slick and hard to pass. FALS will guarantee a gnarly coushion. Track stays wet all night with maybe a lite dusting of water before a-mains.

What I really wanna know is if KT Jr made it?! He left haubstadt at 6 and its a 3 hour and 55 minute drive without a hauler lol. 👀

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Originally Posted by nathans1012:
FALS doesn't have a curfew. The whole town supports the race track and the fairgrounds. On Saturday nights darn near the whole town is there unless their working. The track has an atmosphere almost like Eldora does. If USAC ever got a race there it would be crazy good. Ballou would love this place. It's not like Eldora where it's black slick and hard to pass. FALS will guarantee a gnarly coushion. Track stays wet all night with maybe a lite dusting of water before a-mains.

Ballou is at Fairbury................

He is not here yet that I have seen.

Josh Hodges did arrive per the War Facebook page.

Holy ****!! So they tagging the tail of the b I guess or have they not stared heat races yet?

Just started hot laps.

Yes he booked it after Haubstadt got rained out and went to Fairbury

Didn’t see Hodges or KTJ out for hotlaps. Ballou, DD and Sunshine are here. Unbelievable race track! Saldana, Macedo, Philo, Balog and Loyet are notables in the wings. Rained hard here but track crew worked through it and it’s one bad momma tonight

I left because I work early tomorrow, but I’m gonna hate myself for doing so.

KTJR & Hodges DNS their heat races.

They have both arrived and will tag the tail of the b.

I was going to say. I thought the same thing when haubstadt rained out. But I looked up fairbury and it was 3 hours and 55 minutes. Take that with all the stop lights on 41 and getting out of the parking lot I figured it was wiser saving money and staying home tonight

Well KTJ and Hodges made it. Started 14th and 15th and finished 1 and 3. Should be a pretty good show!

Ktj won b from 14th. Hodges got 3rd from 15th. Winged a getting ready to start. Saldana and schuerenburg front row.

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Originally Posted by illinifan:
Well KTJ and Hodges made it. Started 14th and 15th and finished 1 and 3. Should be a pretty good show!

Originally Posted by chathamracefan:
Ktj won b from 14th. Hodges got 3rd from 15th. Winged a getting ready to start. Saldana and schuerenburg front row.

Thanks for the updates.

Jerry

Carson Macedo goes from 3rd to 1st on last lap to win winged over Saldana and hunter s

What an incredible race! FALS track is a top notch facility and an incredible racing surface! Great race. Saldana lead the first 34 laps, Macedo got him comin out of two on last lap, Hunter Schurenburg ran third. Hunter was in 2nd the whole race and even took the lead twice but returned to second on two yellow flags.

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WAR just posted the A Main lineup on their Twitter page.

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https://twitter.com/WARSprints

Yellow with 21 to go joe B Miller 2-Sunshine 3-Ballou 4-DD 5-Landon Simon. Kevin Thomas Jr was moving up but tagged wissmiller 3 laps prior had to tag tale again.
Hodges 13 and KTJ 14th.

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Whoever is doing updates on the WARSprints Twitter page is doing a very good job of it.:8:

Jerry

Yellow two laps later sunshine miller Ballou and DD and simon

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I made a 170 mile round trip this afternoon, even though I was looking at a radar that looked terrible, because I thought there might be a chance I would get to see a race. Now, I'm up at 2 am, watching my computer screen, as other people describe a race they're watching, on IOW and Twitter, hanging on the edge of my seat. No, I don't have a racing problem.:5:

By all accounts, it sounds like these folks that went to Fairbury tonight, got more than their money's worth. That track's definitely on my list.

Jerry

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WAR Facebook says Ballou won.

Ballou won. Courtney got caught up in heavy lapped traffic and flipped with 4 to go. Darland ended up 2nd. Joe B Miller 3rd and Landon Simon 4th. Both features were really good.

Sunshine was in the process of a big slider in 1 & 2 and wheeled K.T. Jr. (KTJ was a lap car) and flipped. All this took place while Sunshine was leading in the later stages of the A-main.

This show was a superbly splendid night/early morning of dirt open wheel racing. As I've said many times here we live only 40 minutes from Fairbury and they just began to run open wheel divisions 2 years ago after a very long time of hosting nothing but fendered cars. I believe Fairbury has made some significant inroads into top quality open wheel racing. Given the high quality of the dirt open wheel competition at FALS and the nearly flawless track prep and great show management can USAC be in Fairbury's future?! I certainly hope so!! Double D and The Madman had glowing praise for the whole Fairbury experience in their podium interviews. Thanks to Fairbury for a very good final night of our 2017 outdoor racing season of spectating. Sadly enough, we're all done until Du Quoin in December.

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What time did it get done? How was the crowd at the end?

Originally Posted by BrentTFunk:
What time did it get done? How was the crowd at the end?

War Sprint A main was over shortly before 1 am. Mod feature done by 1:30. 90% were still there!

Most stayed for the two sprint car A-main's but it pretty much cleared out following the POWRi/WAR A-main. That's when we left.

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