KOKOMO Monday Mayhem with High Limit
 

Looks like they are expecting at least 28 cars tonight. Normally get an extra car or 2. Who all is headed to Indiana's badest bullring?

I would expect another 7-10 cars to show on top of the 28 pre-registered. I have seen social media posts that Bryce Lucias and Darin Naida are also coming

I’ll be there, should be a quick efficient show as that is one thing High Limit is good at.

Huge crowd

Good crowd,good race,very efficiently ran event,checkers shortly after nine.
Felt so bad for Justin Peck,led the whole race,Rico nipped him at the end.

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once again "fans" flock to the grimm post about race tracks that closed and are gone. Kokomo Speedway is never going to close because the owners work their tails off to provide real race fans with the best dirt track racing the planet has ever seen ! ! ! ! ! Thank you O'conner family :32:

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HUGE crowd for this being NON WING Country! :5: I couldn't resist. With the high rain threat, I was extremely surprised by the crowd. This was supposed to be a bunch of 1 time a year race fans. I am glad the fans were treated to some excellent racing to. I get the wing hate, but they sure are fun to watch on the small tracks.

Peck proving that team still has it.
Courtney proving they are still slightly off. If he was ever going to stay infront of the 49, Kokomo is the place he would have done it.
Rico, never give up.
Why is Brady Bacon not in a top National Tour seat? Solid night.

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Amen on the HUGE crowd! SRO! Even Jim O'Connor was looking for a seat at feature time. He had to stand off turn 4. I think attendance would have even been larger had rain not scared off some fans. Parking was scarce on the north side of the track, with many cars and trucks parked along the highway past the former waste plant. Is Kokomo adding in new stands to the end of the new grandstands? They need more seats for these special shows.

Clearly High Limit race nights are a complete entertaining show. Qualifying, driver songs, spin the wheel for dash positions, interviews, and an emotional Driven to Save Lives letter to the audience. Fireworks before and after the feature! Tony LaPorta does a great job interviewing. Speaking of fireworks, watching the feature was like watching a video game! Drivers dicing in and out of lapped traffic for positions. Yeah, not much passing in the heat races, but the feature made up for everything. I think Peck dropped to the bottom to prevent a slide job, and Rico was hammer down on the top side! WOW.....what a photo finish. I was in my car heading home at 9:10pm. Kudos to the many fans that were heading to the pit area to meet the drivers and teams.

Here is the High Limit You Tube video of the feature. Watch the finish!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=valjqcNIKNM

Bacon was in one last year but fired himself

Great night at Kokomo! Everyone involved should take a bow. Especially the crew at Kokomo for their impressive improvement to the front stretch. Well done

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It's great that the O'Connor's had what appeared to be a profitable night of racing.

That said, bring that same show over here to the land of the dirt late models and see how it goes. It's a safe assumption that the Kokomo regular crowd was heavily represented. It might be that the High Limit wingers were similar enough to what races regularly at KS to impart interest.

Fairbury hosted the WoO Sprint Cars two years in a row a few years ago. They promptly dropped them from the schedule after the second show sighting losing money as the reason. This was before High Limit existed so the WoO's was the king of the mountain of wingers at that time. It was also Kyle Larson's first two appearances at Fairbury and a lot was made of that in the days leading up to those events hoping to increase interest. As many of you already know Larson returned and won the vaunted Prairie Dirt Classic.

The WoO's Sprint Car show was a totally different crowd from the usual late model/modified/street stock people and you could get a seat 'bout anywhere you wanted. As was the case at Fairbury, tribalism to a specific genre' plays a significant role regarding the success or failure of the event's in question.

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I attended both of those WoO shows & remember being very surprised at the lack of crowd. Of course Fairbury normal crowd is a stock car crowd but I thought the draw of outlaws there would really bring in the fans. It didn't help that both of them were Tuesday nights as I recall.

Illinois and eastern Iowa are not great sprint car areas. Several attempts have been made and I think only Tri-City has ever been able to draw.

As for Kokomo, the WoO races they’ve had there have had huge crowds so not surprised HL with Larson was a big draw.

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Wow is right! Thanks for posting, I missed it live :22:

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Jacksonville Il gets very good crowds. When the outlaws come, its SRO
Besides Jacksonville and Granite City, I can't think of other tracks that have had HL or WoO shows?
Of course Pevely is just across the river and they get great crowds

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You are not wrong. For something like this to work, you would have to set it up similar to Indiana Sprint week. 4 or 5 races in 6 days to get people to travel in and be part of it. Bring in the camper brigade. You throw in 50 to 75 campers the locals think something big has come in. You are right though, without that it would flop.