LPS MAVERICK WINGED SPRINTS & Bombers 10/6
 

Friday, October 6th, is the debut of the MAVERICK WINGED SPRINT CAR SERIES sponsored by Honest Abe Roofing!
Winged 410 sprints and open bombers (Putnamville Bombers, Paragon Bombers, and UMP Street Stocks are legal)
Pit Gate opens 430pm
Main Gate opens 5pm
Hot Laps 630pm
Racing 730pm
Pit Admission $40/10 and under free
General Admission $25/10 and under free

Any confirmed drivers that will be there?? I would think it’d be a nice tune up for Tuesday’s High Limit event.

I can confirm that Brownsburg Indiana's Shane “The Bullet” O’Banion will be there in his 33$ car!

Come on down to his pit to meet Shane, grab a new $15 Shane “The Bullet” O’Banion T Shirt, and get his autograph!

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I saw LPS put out a press release saying Brady Bacon and Kevin Thomas Jr would be there. I am sure all the top All Star guys (Wise, Sunshine, Windom) will be at Port Royal for the Tusky on Thursday and Woo for the weekend. Jacksonville has a MOWA show scheduled. Imagine might get a few Knoxville guys, couple IRA, and a few from Ohio. My estimate would be around 25 cars at Putnamville on Friday.

Ballou

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Danny Smith said he’ll be there Friday night.

Harley Burns and Ivan Glotzbach had a little winged exhibition to promote the show Saturday at LPS so I would assume they’ll be there Friday as well.

Saw this morning on Twitter (X) that Trey Jacobs is considering making the trip from Ohio.

Indiana winged teams I would expect (but not confirmed): Cobin Gurley, Van Gurley Jr, Reece Saldana, Bryce Norris, and Paul May.

It’ll be interesting to see who else shows. Six grand to win plus as mentioned in an earlier post, good tune-up for next Tuesday’s High Limit show.

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Leary, Courtney and Justin Peck were at the Bridgeport high limit.

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Check out these stories:
Brady Bacon and Kevin Thomas Jr.
https://www.lincolnparkspeedway.com/...article/141122

Danny Smith, Robert Ballou, and Logan Seavey
https://www.lincolnparkspeedway.com/...article/141208

Anyone heard what the format will be for the Maverick series?

So far the weather looks great.
Lynn

I would recommend they run the same format as USAC

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Originally Posted by flagboy55:
I would recommend they run the same format as USAC

Why not passing points, I mean you might have one car in 40 pass somebody in the heats without cautions. Odds are better than the power ball.

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I don't want passing points. There is a reason why groups like the ASCS no longer use them. I see more passing in USAC shows. It makes the fast guys have to pass to start up front. I wish these guys good luck. I appreciate all that Mr Newton is doing for the sport.

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Originally Posted by BrentTFunk:
I don't want passing points. There is a reason why groups like the ASCS no longer use them. I see more passing in USAC shows. It makes the fast guys have to pass to start up front. I wish these guys good luck. I appreciate all that Mr Newton is doing for the sport.

I agree, most winged shows I see the winner of the heats comes from the pole or the front two rows, generally. Only time I see someone come from the back using passing points is if a really fast guy gets a really bad draw.

I've always liked USAC's format for the sprints, I thought it was one of the most challenging just to make the main. My only issue with the USAC format is you get your time back by making the main. I know they invert the first six but I'd like to see mains lined up by heat race finish instead, and then the B main at the back.

Originally Posted by BrentTFunk:
I don't want passing points. There is a reason why groups like the ASCS no longer use them. I see more passing in USAC shows. It makes the fast guys have to pass to start up front. I wish these guys good luck. I appreciate all that Mr Newton is doing for the sport.

I figure Mr Newton or whoever ponies up the funding for this series. I’ll accept what format they want. And appreciate someone that is involved in racing. As tracks are closing and sponsors leaving and getting harder to come by, I applaud you Kevin Newton.

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Originally Posted by B99:
I agree, most winged shows I see the winner of the heats comes from the pole or the front two rows, generally. Only time I see someone come from the back using passing points is if a really fast guy gets a really bad draw.

I've always liked USAC's format for the sprints, I thought it was one of the most challenging just to make the main. My only issue with the USAC format is you get your time back by making the main. I know they invert the first six but I'd like to see mains lined up by heat race finish instead, and then the B main at the back.

So your gonna ask the quick qualifier to start 6th in his heat and then let whoever wins the heat start up front in the feature? Sounds like a format for interesting sandbagging in qualifying to me. Look at the Hustler this year, you have one of the best qualify 15th in the field and his reward is to start on the pole of his heat and because of that he started on the pole of the feature. He qualified poorly and then never had to pass a car to win the thing.
Now I'm not suggesting that Bacon sandbagged and Lord knows that he is good enough to have come through the crowd if he needed, but if you are going to reward midpack qualifiers in that format then the race will be on to time in 20th place every night. Just like the King's Royal.

No format is going to be perfect but I like what USAC does, it promotes the driver to go hard everytime he is on the track. JMO.

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Back in the day you drew a number for your heats and if you drew a big number you had to race hard to make the feature. Then along came USAC with qualifying with nothing but a stopwatch for getting the times. Then later on they had a light system. The newfangled thing is a (transponder) now they can get your time within one thousandth of a second. I sort of liked the number draw for watching the races. Now the big thing is qualifying several cars doing hot laps which does speed up the show. But then this don't always work as a slow car sometime gets in the way of a fast car.

Trophy for the first Maverick Winged Sprint Series Race!

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Add two more drivers confirmed for tonight: T-Mez (driving Don Whitney’s No. 00) and Missouri's Ayrton Gennetten

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Race Day

Chris Windom on the way

Windom not here in PA I’m guessing maybe he’ll race this

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Danny Smith Goes Home

https://www.speedsport.com/sprints-m...=ap_ufl2weqe3y

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Just walked through the gate here at LPS and looked over the pit area. Unless some of the bomber teams have big enclosed haulers, I count over 40 winged sprint cars here right now.

45+ Entries.

I am eating crow, 49 cars here. I am impressed.

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Seems like a good sign for the Maverick Winged Sprints. Just the first race but a turnout like that is impressive.

Great debut, hopefully the show is run well and the racing is good.

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All the hype, no results ?

Cale Thomas Wins the Maverick Winged Sprint Car Series A-Main at Lincoln Park Speedway
2nd Bill Balog
3rd Brenham Crouch
4th Zane DeVault
5th Skylar Gee
6th Thomas Meseraull
7th Darin Nadia
8th Chris Windom
9th Logan Seavey

Originally Posted by mc/rider:
All the hype, no results ?

Pretty easy to see all the results last night on MyRacePass, right on your phone. No hype needed.

Neither Maverick Series or LPS posted anything so far. Seems like they should of attempted to post!

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Originally Posted by Grocery Guy:
Pretty easy to see all the results last night on MyRacePass, right on your phone. No hype needed.

Got it, :32:thanks. Just saying lots of promo before the race and nothing after

Late night last night…everyone probably sleeping in today.

All in all some good racing,stellar car count,glad it was only two classes,had it had been the usual 5 classes it would've been 2:00am.
Saw several peeps leave after 1st B,several more after that.Both promotional entities I'm sure were happy with the night.🏁
Off to the Burg.

How was the fan count?

Originally Posted by Dirtfan:
All in all some good racing,stellar car count,glad it was only two classes,had it had been the usual 5 classes it would've been 2:00am.
Saw several peeps leave after 1st B,several more after that.Both promotional entities I'm sure were happy with the night.🏁
Off to the Burg.

You make great points on racing, car counts and two classes. But how can any promotional group or track be happy with people leaving before the feature was over? Especially the inaugural race. If I was a track owner I'd be upset and trying to do better, especially on a cold, windy night. I was HOME from Brownstown Speedway before the feature was concluded at Lincoln Park. Same type program....two divisions.

I’d estimate the crowd at 4-500. I knew running this show on Friday might be tough, but understood the logic not wanting to run against Lawrenceburg’s USAC show Saturday. Temps dropped and the wind picked up late afternoon. That didn’t help either.

Some of the good storylines from last night…

Danny Smith making his first Putnamville start since 2001. He just missed making the A in his heat race, finishing fourth. Started pole of the second B and got the last transfer spot by finishing second by inches over 19 year old Trey McGranahan. Danny started 22nd. Finished 11th. I believe Danny and Logan Seavey passed the most cars during the feature.

I haven’t seen Marion, Illinois’ Carson Short run much the last couple years. He made the dash and looked to be the one of the fastest cars in the field in the feature. I didn’t see what how it happened but he flipped on the front stretch with 8 laps to go. I did see him wheelie off the curb in turn four a number of times prior to that.

No one was more shocked than me seeing 49 cars signed at race time. I’ll be honest, in the days leading up to the event, I had a hard time picturing 20 cars (and I thought most would be local 305’s).

Drivers from Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Ohio, Texas, Florida, Michigan, Arizona, Alaska, and Canada made this one of the most “geographically diverse” field of drivers I’ve seen at Putnamville in years outside of Sprint Week.

Surprises included Chis Windom, Bill Balog, Scotty Theil (in the Seeling 97 out of Ohio), Cole Duncan (in the Dutcher 17), Skylar Gee, Trey Jacobs, Travis Philo, Ayrton Gennetten, Jason Blonde. I could on…

An Indiana driver, Cale Thomas, won the $6,000 A-main. I read where it his first win ever in his home state and his largest payday in his career.

Great job by the USAC regulars, especially Seavey and Brady Bacon. Both were the night’s quick qualifiers in their respective time trial groups. Seavey looked especially fast in one of the Newton 16’s. All I could think was, “That kid’s driving it like he stole it”.

It was fun watching T-Mez move to the front. I thought he might make things interesting at the end. He wound up sixth.

And hats off to the weekly Indiana non-wing drivers making a rare winged start. And some, like Brandon Mattox, were racing with a wing for the very first time.

It will be interesting what next year will bring with this series. Yes the show ran late. The main took the checkers at 11:52 pm. They do need to figure out a way to move up engine heat and speed up hot laps and qualifying. That was the portion of the show that seemed to drag for me.

Originally Posted by Grocery Guy:
You make great points on racing, car counts and two classes. But how can any promotional group or track be happy with people leaving before the feature was over? Especially the inaugural race. If I was a track owner I'd be upset and trying to do better, especially on a cold, windy night. I was HOME from Brownstown Speedway before the feature was concluded at Lincoln Park. Same type program....two divisions.

They already had their money…. But I understand what you’re saying. What time were the heats over & what time were people leaving? Tracks should strive to run an efficient show. I wasn’t there but wanted to be but I’ve got to imagine they were surprised by the car count which could’ve played a part in a longer show…..?
Having said that I’ve left early many times. My limit is usually around 11 unless the feature is going to run very soon.
I’ll also say if yours is the only negative comment about the event on this board my guess is it was a pretty good show

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The people that left early never left because of a bad show. They left because of the cold. Some people just never dressed for the cold as all of the hot weather we have had lately who would have thought it was going to get so cold. What I did see was some good racing as I also left early because of the cold, and I dressed for the cold and knew it was going to get cold.