Hoosier Sprint Nationals at Haubstadt
 

On Aug. 15, this Saturday night, the Tri State Speedway will host the Hoosier sprint car Nationals, a 30 lap race for $5,000 to win. I think a lot of the USAC guys will show for that money, along with the tough MSCS regulars. Its a long 10 minute drive but I think I"ll be there :D. That date sounds familiar, but I don"t know why. ;)

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Well, with the Joe James/Pat O'Connor race going on Windom and Grant will be busy chasing Swanson around Salem! Five thousand is a good purse considering how lame the USAC purses are. I can not believe how little money is paid to the racers. It's really sad, as running a top flight car has to be in the 150K neighborhood.

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Originally Posted by Hubie:
Well, with the Joe James/Pat O'Connor race going on Windom and Grant will be busy chasing Swanson around Salem! Five thousand is a good purse considering how lame the USAC purses are. I can not believe how little money is paid to the racers. It's really sad, as running a top flight car has to be in the 150K neighborhood.

I don"t know if its true or not but I was told neither of them were going to run the pavement today. Yeah I wish teams were paid a lot more, maybe when I hit the lottery lol. ;) :D

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Originally Posted by jim goerge:
On Aug. 15, this Saturday night, the Tri State Speedway will host the Hoosier sprint car Nationals, a 30 lap race for $5,000 to win. I think a lot of the USAC guys will show for that money, along with the tough MSCS regulars. Its a long 10 minute drive but I think I"ll be there :D. That date sounds familiar, but I don"t know why. ;)

You think 10 minute drive is long, hell it takes us 12 minutes to get there. :D

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Originally Posted by jim goerge:
I don"t know if its true or not but I was told neither of them were going to run the pavement today. Yeah I wish teams were paid a lot more, maybe when I hit the lottery lol. ;) :D

They're both on USAC's entry list for Salem, today. I have seen that Robert Ballou, Chase Stockon and Kevin Thomas Jr are all headed to TSS tonight. And Kyle Cummins, obviously. And who knows who else? This race never has trouble drawing a strong field. It'd be nice if Jadon Rogers and Garrett Aitken were there, also. With the way they've each wowed the crowd, in earlier races.

Jerry

Well. Heat one was a barnburner

Cummins gets Ballou by .010 at the line on the last lap

KTJ wins heat 2 over Stockon

Thanks for the updates Chris.

Sorry for leaving. I was announcing the Racesavers.

Kyle Cummins wins the MSCS
Bradley Sterrett wins the Racesavers

Do you know the whole feature results for mscs?

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Originally Posted by chase1989:
Do you know the whole feature results for mscs?

Cummins
Stockon
Malone

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I"m just amazed. Its such a pleasure watching Kyle Cummins race, so smooth, don"t get rattled. Course a lot of that also comes from him knowing how well his crew has the car set up. Great job team ROCK STEADY 3R and great driving Kyle!!!! :8:

Originally Posted by chase1989:
Do you know the whole feature results for mscs?

Posted on MSCS double duty post

Originally Posted by Hubie:
Five thousand is a good purse considering how lame the USAC purses are. I can not believe how little money is paid to the racers.

And yet they got nearly 50 entries for most of the Sprint Week races. Why would they pay more?

Originally Posted by illiNOISE:
And yet they got nearly 50 entries for most of the Sprint Week races. Why would they pay more?

Exactly. There were 40 sprints at LPS on Saturday night for a local show that pays like 1,400 to win??

Originally Posted by cmiracingvids:
Exactly. There were 40 sprints at LPS on Saturday night for a local show that pays like 1,400 to win??

What I’ve been told by others is that LPS is 50 miles from Indy and TSS is 150 miles from Indy. That, coupled with the time difference and the fact that TSS has walls and LPS doesn’t is why teams are willing to race for less.

I’m the same way when it comes to racing at Tri State. Distance isn’t really terrible...it’s far for me...but the time zone change is what kills me.

Every track should have walls

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Originally Posted by cmiracingvids:
I’m the same way when it comes to racing at Tri State. Distance isn’t really terrible...it’s far for me...but the time zone change is what kills me.

We wouldn't have the problem if our state legislature put the entire state into the Central time zone where it actually belongs.

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Every track should be on Central time. We are not a eastern state!!

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Originally Posted by openwheelfan1:
What I’ve been told by others is that LPS is 50 miles from Indy and TSS is 150 miles from Indy. That, coupled with the time difference and the fact that TSS has walls and LPS doesn’t is why teams are willing to race for less.

Also figure in that LPS runs more regular shows (non MSCS or USAC) shows than other tracks. We all know a sacution race is harder to make than a regular Saturday night show :D