10th Josh Burton Memorial Friday May 26th
 

Coming up Friday, May 26th, the Josh Burton Memorial with Fireworks! Please help us make this the biggest Josh Burton Memorial Race ever! Darlene worried and fought to be able to see this race, but fate had other plans. So here is some details for that night.
Fireworks - These were always a special request of Darlene's. So we will be doing fireworks at dark.
Sprint Cars!!! If you have one come race with us! We will be having two features! This is definitely a new twist for this race. The first feature will pay 10k to win and 500 to start. The second feature will pay 500 to win and 300 to start.
Modifieds will be 1k to win!
Super Stocks will be 1k to win!
Parents bring those kids out! There will be face painting, caricatures, snow cones, etc.
There will be free give aways!
Please help us honor the racer that we lost 10 years ago and the mother who was the driving force behind this race!
Pit Gate will open 4pm
Pit Admission $35/10 & under free $15
**Main Gate will open 4pm (Gate time has changed from 5pm to 4pm for this race)
General Admission $25/10 & under free

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There is an additional of $5,000.00 in lap money!

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Let’s make that hillside Roar, when the announcer says “ let ‘em hear ya “!!!!

Second Feature is now the Quick Time Electrical Feature..... $500 to win and $404 to start!

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Darlene chose this year's design. Be sure to pick up a shirt at the Burton Trailer on the hill!

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Schedule notes for Friday's Josh Burton Memorial
Opening Ceremonies 6pm with Hot Laps/Qualifying to Follow
**Sprint Amain feature will happen before Fireworks and the second sprint feature if needed will follow the fireworks**

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Sprint Amain feature will happen before Fireworks

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Thank you to all our Josh Burton Memorial Sponsors!

*****• Little Whippersnappers Daycare & Pre School Inc (Stephanie and Cade Laughman)**********


• B&B Cars Inc.
• Shipley Drywall in memory of Josh Shipley • Amy Gardner Roofing & Bobby Gardner • Mark and Chester Richardson • Stacey Richardson Trucking • Neil’s Tree Service • Quick Time Electric, LLC • Todd’s Septic Service • Macs Outdoor Service • Fox Construction • Durabuilt • Frank and Judy Sherfield • Freeman Land Improvement • Auto Body Specialist of Bloomington • Bloomington SouthernCare Hospice Team • Hinkle's Hamburgers • Hoosier Bar & Grill • Bloomington Speedway Mulch & More • Gary and Shirley Arnett in memory of Darlene Burton • Brian Depalma • Tami and Richard Shultz • The hopkins Family in memory of Fast Freddy • Scott and Terri Nowling • Andy and Kelly Sipes • Vanhorn Tint and Accessories • Steve’s Roofing and Sheet Metal • Complete Masonry Supplies • Big Creek • Bobbi Eagan - $104 to the Sprint Hard Charger Award in support of Jordan Kinser . Sydney Landes Racing- Sprint hard charger bonus • The Shine Shop - $104 to the sprint winner with orange painted tires • Auto Credit - $200 to best highlight moment • $204 to 9th place Sprint finish in Memory of Erwin Cooper • Carol Jensen - $50 to 12th place Sprint finish in memory of Lawrence Jensen • Jay Arthur- $100 to the fourth fastest Sprint qualifier out of the groups • Christopher Pedersen - $100 to last place in both Sprint features • Four Seasons Gun Shop, INC. - Henry Golden Boy Rifle Trophy • Groomer Asphalt Paving - $100 to the modified Hard charger • Groomer Concrete Construction - $100 to the Street Stock Hard Charger

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Race Day!!!!

Originally Posted by Bloomington Speedway:
Race Day!!!!

Thanks to everyone who had a part in making this happen,better be done
by 11,big brother/sisters will be watching/waiting for the phone to ring.

When Mike and Judy ran the show, employees from the race track would come to the neighborhood just to the North (aka Snootyville) and hand out free tickets to a race. Personally I thought it was a show of goodwill and community partnership. I know there are plenty of others outside this neighborhood who complain, but I thought it was a show of good faith. Might have even prevented some complaints.

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Originally Posted by wildman92:
When Mike and Judy ran the show, employees from the race track would come to the neighborhood just to the North (aka Snootyville) and hand out free tickets to a race. Personally I thought it was a show of goodwill and community partnership. I know there are plenty of others outside this neighborhood who complain, but I thought it was a show of good faith. Might have even prevented some complaints.

I still miss Chuck Welsh. A prince of a man.

Quite possibly the worst race I’ve ever seen. One groove on the bottom. Hardly a pass in the feature and no one got lapped. Train city - boring as can be. What a shame for such a big race too.

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Never seen a track so locked down that not even 1 car got lapped. Great crowd, great atmosphere and great seeing some folks I haven’t seen in awhile. Just a shame that such a meaningful race was ruined. Can’t win them all I guess. Unbelievable, can’t make this up.

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Originally Posted by Danny Burton:
I still miss Chuck Welsh. A prince of a man.

Amen to that

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Those heats teased us to such heights that I thought this would be a feature that would be talked about for some time. Unfortunately lots of divisions and lots of cars burning lots of rubber. I was trying to decide between irp and Bloomington…. I was like asphalt is just the bottom….I’m gonna go watch some sliders. Wow was I wrong. And one more gripe… that food line was just out of control wasn’t it?

Finish?

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Although I've seen a ton of great races put on by this track operator, this was by no means one of them. Those guys are right. Not only was this one bad, it was historically bad. Maybe the worst race I've seen since I went to Banker's Life Fieldhouse (I think that's what they were still calling it, then), when someone thought it would be a good idea to run a midget race in a space that was designed to play basketball games on. At one point, when the die had been cast on how this race would turn out, I turned my attention to watching the audience, from my vantage point, standing behind the rail at the top of the stands. In unison, they were almost completely motionless. Except for a few children, who were playing with their glow-in-the-dark stick thingies.

I had a good night at the track, though. All the ceremonies for Josh and Darlene were great. It's always a treat to hear Josh's buddy to the National Anthem in his very cool and unique way. The crowd was enormous. And I got to see and talk to a lot of people I like. And come feature time, if anything, it was a good people watching experience. Just not a Race of the Year candidate, by any means.:)

Jerry

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Wrong list whoops

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Originally Posted by oppweld:
Finish?

Short
Cummins
Davis, Jr.
Ensign
Fox
Mattox
Pursley
Cottle
Meseraull
Moles
Kinser
Darland
Burns
Bradley
Maddox
Simpson
Ambrose
Scott
Cummings
Stockon
Swanson

Someone please tell me why I continue to go to tracks that run 4 classes of cars on one of their biggest nights of the year when I know darn well that the track will not be touched all night long.

I try my best to support shows like this but it is getting difficult.

Never seen a 30 lap race on a bullring ,in my 40 years of attending races, where the leaders did not catch the back of the field in a follow the leader race. Unbelievable.

Originally Posted by Birdsboro:
Those heats teased us to such heights that I thought this would be a feature that would be talked about for some time. Unfortunately lots of divisions and lots of cars burning lots of rubber. I was trying to decide between irp and Bloomington…. I was like asphalt is just the bottom….I’m gonna go watch some sliders. Wow was I wrong. And one more gripe… that food line was just out of control wasn’t it?

The heats were really good. Unfortunately when the track started to go away, it went quick. Big win for Brady Short and that team. Congrats! Fireworks were good. Glad the one mini sprint driver is ok after an almost head on hit into the wall in turn 4. The line to get in from the lower parking lot was way too long and I would have gotten popcorn or something but the food line was back up the hill to the bathrooms literally ALL NIGHT LONG. Oh well. Still an enjoyable night at the racetrack. 04ever!

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So who was the hard charger?

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Originally Posted by Chief Wahoo:
So who was the hard charger?

I was
Getting out of the parking lot:)

Originally Posted by Chief Wahoo:
So who was the hard charger?

Fortunately it wasn't the MCSD 🚓🚓🚩🚩

This was my first trip to Bloomington Speedway. I was very excited, the facility is beautiful the track looked outstanding. I became concerned shortly after hot laps began when I started seeing dust kicked up. There were too many classes for a marquee race! I / we were very disappointed after driving 3 hours one way. And yes the food service was woefully inadequate! I'm going to give the facility one more chance, either for midget week, or Sprint week. I just hope they don't run for four classes at those events!

Originally Posted by Chief Wahoo:
So who was the hard charger?

Looks like Cottle passed 5….so I guess him? We passed more cars on the short drive home to Snootyville!

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Originally Posted by Moose2112:
This was my first trip to Bloomington Speedway. I was very excited, the facility is beautiful the track looked outstanding. I became concerned shortly after hot laps began when I started seeing dust kicked up. There were too many classes for a marquee race! I / we were very disappointed after driving 3 hours one way. And yes the food service was woefully inadequate! I'm going to give the facility one more chance, either for midget week, or Sprint week. I just hope they don't run for four classes at those events!

Moose, looks like right now on the card for midget week is;
USAC National Midgets
410 Sprints - Non-Winged
MMSA lightning sprints

July 28th for ISW;
USAC Sprints
IMCA RaceSaver Sprints

Give it another chance. Don’t think anyone has seen it that bad before. Now the concession stand will be up the hill to the bathrooms all night. Best bet is to bring some snacks, stop at a Subway, or pick up a pizza and bring it in. Good to see you again and that crazy sidekick of yours as always :6:

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I was at the track about 10 years ago when the same thing happened. Great heats but follow the leader huggy pole with no passing like a freight train. It was really weird.

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Ive seen several bad races over the years and as long as I keep showin Ill probably see several more. Go Blu- mington