Terre Haute Action Track Thursday August 1, 2024 Sprint Week
 

Racing Thursday August 1, 2024
USAC Indiana Sprint Week
Pit Gate opens 3pm
Pit Admission $45/ 10 & under $15
Main Gate 430pm
General Admission $32
Kids 10 & under free
Infield $26
Hot Laps 630pm
Racing 730pm

Rain Date Sunday?

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If tomorrow rains out Circle City might grab that rain date first.

The beast is bearing down on us. Unfortunately the rest of the week looks bad.

Haubstadt looks good!

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I would be onboard with that for Sunday reschedule.
THAT = Terre Haute Attracts Thunderstorms

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Sitting in Terre Haute right now and its pouring, Luckily I am doing Hotel rooms day by day, I dont plan on extending this stay at this time. I am trying to determine the likelihood Bloomington gets it in tomorrow, if I don't think it will I may just cancel the rest of this trip and head elsewhere, no use wasting money on hotel rooms.

On that note I have heard of Edinburgh as having great Pork Tenderloin Sandwiches, is there better out there I may need to stop in and try while I am out here?

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Edinburgh is on my radar as well.
Mansfield Village Bar and Grilll has my favorite so far.

Oasis Diner, Plainfield on 40.

Mecca Tavern in Mecca south of Rockville

Locally, one place I highly recommend is Delish Cafe. They are on US 40, between Terre Haute and Brazil. You won’t be disappointed. Not only tenderloins, everything they make is good. Charlie’s Hideaway on Crawford St is great, too if you need a little closer.

Jerry

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Thanks for all the replys, think I am going to try Mecca, looks like a neat place. Gives me chance to wait out until that 1 PM line of shower to see what happens. Who know's it could all magically break up or go south like what happened to Circle City yesterday.

If it cancels I am going home, I only give Bloomington about a 30% chance of getting it in and that is not my favorite track out here (I love Lincoln Park, you guys have a gem there). Would love to stay out to see Tri-State, only got to see the rain out last year but it does not make financial sense to hang out just for that and the boat up on Erie has a few things that need tended too.

If Terre Haute rains out and runs Sunday, Haubstadt Terre Haute will be well worth it!

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I am going to mention McLean Stevenson of M.A.S.H. was from Mecca Indiana!

I went to High School in Rockville Indiana. There was a great junk yard in Mecca, Mecca Auto Salvage. Kids today do not realize the amount of Muscle Cars that were in junk yards back then. I had a '70 Roadrunner and it was nothing to see six pack cars, Hemi cars in boneyards. Now granted most all of the Hemi cars were missing the engines and many of the six pack cars were victims of engine fires. The caught fire, alot.

I personally bought a '69 Trans Am Firebird from Mecca Auto Salvage around 1977 and this was a rare first year car. Sold it to some wealthy guy from Chicago. Bet he still has it!

After studying the radar all morning I’ve decided to risk the 4 hour drive and head out. The Action Track is too good to miss.

Mecca is cash only!

Sorry...I didn't realize that

Race Day! Come on out!

Let’s do single car qualifying please!!!!!

Looks stormy down here in Evansville
Radar appears it’s to the south of Terre Haute

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I decided to stay home because I don’t want to drive through storms

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I’m waiting on Amantea to send the 2 clowns who I’m riding up there with. :D

Westside of Indy under deluge. Headed to the Haute.

Track is going to be insane tonight! If you live within an hour you still have time to get here for hot laps! Get here now. I haven’t seen it this wet in years.

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they got 37 cars at Terre Haute wow wish I didn't live 2500 miles away
Going to be a good race.

Thank you FLOracing.

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Bravo to track crew :9: Seeing some pictures of the track before the race, they never would have gotten this done in years past. Great race and night. Thank you to all that helped get this done!

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If you were watching on Flo tonight, the one thing you didn't really get to appreciate is the degree to which Robert Ballou owned that crowd. It's not only what he did, but also where he did it. Ripping the fence at the Terre Haute Action Track is one of the most amazing things to watch. It always has been.

It was a pitched battle up front for the win, between Brady, Chase and Kyle. In the end, Brady was the man. But, the Madman was the show!

And none of this would have happened if it had not been for a Herculean effort by Joe Spiker and his crew. This race probably shouldn't have happened. Here in Terre Haute we got smacked by Mother Nature this morning. The storm drains couldn't keep up with rain pouring at the rate it was falling. But this group of people have a history of not giving up, even in cases where no one would blame them if they did.

Jerry

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Awsome job by everyone. Could not really tell what type of crowd showed up. I hope it was decent. I agree any other time this event would have been or should have been canceled. I really hope the sprint week following saved the promotor. Racing was pretty good. Wish I could have made it, but the 2.5 hour drive was not in the cards. Big props to the drivers. 37 cars was amazing.

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Feature looked really good

Certainly glad we gambled on the two hour drive. A Terror Hote like none other tonight. Cowboy up with wheelies throughout the straightaways. Musta been 20 flips that Shudda but didn’t happen. Only the strong go up and run that wall line in no-man’s zip code tonight. Blu was boss, although not the winner, he was the boss. Good to see Stockon up front challenging for a win too. They need that. Good competitive race , kudos to track crew to give everyone a raceable surface and the drivers for keeping cars out of each other in tight high speed rough constraints. Very good crowd. I’ll eat cereal , no Bacon for breakfast today. Thumbs up!

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That to me was the Dream THAT Track. Heavy as hell and drivers had to figure it out and ride the stallion. No freaking dust at all and ten different ways to run it. Im not sure a water truck could ever get it that tacky on a 90* day.

I know the tracks a little different. a little more banking all the way out. But when I started going there it either didn't get half track to a cush and Levi Jones ran in the fluff to win or it got so slick that only wall runners and inner gaurdrail runners. with Stanbrough running the middle.

Awesome show. Like Jerry Said. On Flo we only seen Robert maybe a couple laps of his run.

This sports gone to a place where you see perfect or slick tracks all the time and start to believe a sprinter cant handle running in the fluff................TILL THEY PROVE YOU WRONG.

Way to go everyone! LOVE THAT.
Woohoo! Bacon for everyone for breakfast!

#1. Hats off to the promoter and crew on this one!
#2. Ballou showed why he’s the “madman”
#3. Not a spec of dust. Incredible track.
#4. There should have been twice as many people there. I drove 4 hours and there’s people saying they didn’t want to drive 1 or 2. Pathetic fans.
#5. The USAC announcer on Flo should not be the PA announcer at the track. He is the worst I’ve ever heard. And the camera work on Flo for USAC is the worst coverage you’ll see on Flo. They zoom in way too much and miss most of what’s going on. Glad I went to this in person so I could see the race and the greatest/ bravest drive from last to 5th I’ve ever seen in all my years of attending races.
#6. Those straightaways were scary fast! You probably couldn’t tell on Flo the way the film it but I’m glad there wasn’t any catastrophes. Many close calls though. I walked the track after and the whole thing was like a sponge!
#7. Do not ever skip the Action track because it’s 2 hours away. Or yes, you are a complete idiot.

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Easy on the pathetic fans....some of us stay way because of the cheating that goes on and that goes unpunished...

I’m not a pathetic fan. It takes considerable effort for me to attend a race. I have to get someone to stay with my wife and we had severe storms down here. Not worth the risk of driving through that. I had enough of tornadoes coming back from Indy on May 26.
I’ve not missed many races at Terre Haute since 1967.
I get tired of the fans who say cars get too strung out on a half mile or mile track. I still go to DuQuoin every year and have since 1965.
I’m going to try Bloomington tonight. Apparently it’s still on.

So many of you have touched on it, but I have to reiterate, big kudos to Spiker and crew as well as USAC. I’m sure some drivers and teams were whining about the the track. But guess what, Mother Nature gave us what many of us long to see, a juiced up Action Track. The show was excellent.

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I saw Sargent get it raceable like that a couple times in the past.

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Robert's feat was right up there with MDC's miracle at Haubstadt.

Blu’s run was spectacular last eve, but I’m not sure it would be right with Clayton’s classic TSS performance. JMO

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Easy on those who can't make it. You got no idea what people's situations are.

For some who stay away due to forecast. Oh gee What did you do before the net? I took many two and three hour drives that didn't get in for one reason or another. (BUT MOST DID) and I have awesome memories from em.

Get to the tracks if you can, It's the only way they survive. Flo's not paying squat.