Season Opener @ Twin Cities This Saturday!
 

It is that time of year again! This Saturday, March 20, 2010 will kick off the season at Twin Cities Raceway Park in beautiful Vernon, IN. Classes on the schedule for the night are 410 Sprints, UMP Pure Stocks and UMP Mini Stocks.

Allow yourself extra time getting to the pits to ensure enough time to get your 1099's and Minor Release Forms for children in the pit area filled out.

Grandstand Admission $12 (Kids 12 & under FREE with paid adult)
Pit Admission $25

Pit Gate Opens @ 3pm
Grandstands Open @ 4pm
Pill Draw Closes @ 5:30pm
Hot Laps @ 6pm
Racing Immediately Following Hot Laps!

For more information visit the official home of Twin Cities Raceway Park at www.twincitiesracing.net and we will see YOU at the races!

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:8:2PM Tues. 100 hours to go!!! :23::32::32:

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Weather looks like it will be nice, High of 64 and a low of 49 and sunny. Wonder if any sprinters will show up tomorrow down there for practice? Looks like the wife and I may be dropping the kiddo off with grandma and heading down since I dont fly out for brazil till sunday night.

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I attended Twin Cities for the first time last year for this race and had a blast.

Jim Fisher
www.fscpictorial.com

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As of 10:00pm Tuesday, the weather report for Saturday shows Cloudy, highs in mid 60s low in upper 40s. Chance of prec. 20%. Looks like a perfect day for racing. Hopefully this stays this way or gets even better!

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is practice still on for wed.

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Yes.....We are still practicing tonite....beautiful day!

gates open @ 5:00 pm
Practice 5:30-9:00 pm
Pit Admission $15.00

Thanks!
Tawnya Fleetwood

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can you please have an announcer this year who knows who is in each car? i had to come home last year from a couple of races and get on the net next day and see who was in some of the cars...scott michaels is very good radio guy but for announcing sprint car races he hasnt got a clue

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There is a new announcer for the 2010 race season and we will do our best to ensure that the fans know who each and every driver on the track is!

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Just looked at the hour by hour forcast on weather.com and it shows the rain moving in at 1am, supposed to just be cloudy all day with a temp of 62 at race time.

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Forecast looks great for today and this evening! Sprints will run first all night. Look forward to having everyone for opening night!

Let's Go Racing!:22:


The Fleetwoods
Twin Cities Raceway Park

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We can't wait. We are so looking forward to seeing sprints cars and all of our racing friends.

Leaving Kokomo heading to track now!! We can't wait either been to long I need some dirt!!
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Per Dirtfan 23 cars in the pits as of 6pm. Puttin heat in motors now.

Pushing off hot laps now
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anybody no if fitzpatrick is there?

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any line ups yet?

East Gaines Cummins Moffet Gross and Westerfeild transfer from first heat
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2nd heat transfer Bland Grant Kramer Sciscoe Hunter and Memmer
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3rd heat: Short Boesflug Riggs Wimmy Spille and Sapp
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No Fitz
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Just a guess but feature should line up like this
East Bland
Short Cummins
Grant Boesflug
Cummins Kramer
Riggs Moffet
Sciscoe Wimmy
Gross Hunter
Spille Westerfeild
Memmer Sapp
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BMain Lineup
Weber Babcock
Fishesher Shu
Turner
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B Finish Shu Babcock Transfer
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Is Cummins in the Bopper mobile? #4

Yes cummins in the 4. Put Gaines outside row 2 and everybody else back one position
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Sciscoe spins out of 4 on first lap
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Then he was black fagged couldn't hear reason
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Westerfield spins on lap 2 East Short Bland Grant Gaines Kramer Boesflug Cummins Riggs Moffet
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Memmer upside down out and ok Grant up to 3rd Riggs off with flat
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2 laps in Riggs gets his spot back since he was back out before red was over.
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Restart lineup east short grant bland gaines kramer cummins boesflug riggs gross moffet hunter shu wimmy sapp westerfield babcock spille
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Spille spins on restart
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Gross spins top 5 Short East Bland Grant Gaines
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15 laps left
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Bland over hard off of 2 out and walking
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Short Grant East Gaines Kramer Cummins Riggs Shu Boesflug Moffatt Hunter Westerfield Babcock Sapp Gross Wimmy Spille restart order
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1 lap to go 4 car spin in 3 and 4 woud of been 5 but Riggs did a few donuts and kept going. Red out now Hunter and gaines stuck together. Moffatt and Westerfield also in wreck. Top 5 Short Grant Kramer East and Shu
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Shu stuck to the back bumper of East on the restart. Wimmy comes to a stop in turn 4 to bring out another caution. East comes to a stop. Short Grant Kramer Shu Cummins top 5
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Finish Short Grant Shu Cummins Gross Sapp Babcock Riggs Hunter
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it was a good race. way to dusty though, it was black after the first heat. It was to bad for Bland I thought he was going to get Short in another lap or two. Glad to see Short win it. Looked like East was a little upset with the flag man.

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I thought crammer took 2nd

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crammer clipped shuman at the line for 3rd. so it was short then grant then crammer then shuman.

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imo i think east was upset because he was hit from behind before he even got past the cone on the restart and he lost control of his car enough for the yellow to come out and it didnt intill he got to the back stretch. it was either east or the black 51 ran out of gas with 2 to go. and by the way i wish shuman would of started closer to the front because it would of been heck of a race between him and short. Shuman had the bottom figured out which almost anybody else couldnt do on every lap

East ran outta fuel. Shuman had no where to go. Pushed him to get him out of the way. Didn't know there would be a need for a fuel stop for 25 laps. Stupid. Scoring was laughable at best. Sleeveless guys waving flags to move cars = joke. Buy a chalk board.
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Eagle you got that one right.... Not bashing here just some advice....chalk board...dry erase board or at the very least when the cars sit for 7 or 8 minutes while under red have someone go to each car and let the drivers know who they follow....Even though the track was a little dusty I thought the racing was pretty good...I enjoyed myself and wish the Fleetwoods the best of luck this year...

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why do they need chalkboard? it says on there wbesite that raceceivers are mandatory for all classes this year did sprint guys not use them lastnight? i hope they get water truck fixed before race in 2 weeks because that was way to dusty..

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Website says that Raceivers will be mandatory starting May 8th at Twin Cities. They sure would have come in handy last night.

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Track was not that bad at all. REALLY! Heck you could see cars all the way around the track. Bad dust is a speed week at Kamp. My ***** was cars leaving the track under caution changing a flat and then not restarting on the tail. And you all know who you are stop the BS. Did your mommy have to tell you how to do everything. Or does she still. Jeff
And a big hooroa for J T Stapp for a nice finish with a steel block in a big gun race. I do believe he had the only steel block car there. Maybe; correct me if I'm wrong.:15:

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I don't know the point in a 5 car "B" main :14: Let them all run :16 TCRP should have been glad they showed up.. And for the dust...YOUR AT A DIRT TRACK :8: :22:

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questioned the tire changing under red and was told this is the rules at Twin Cities and i needed to check the web site ! The guy said you don't even have to have a flat , you can change tires under red any time as long as your back out before the green !AND you get your spot back !! SO , when Boespflug had flat left rear under last red we change the damn tire...

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It was hard for the guy getting the cars in line on the track while he was holding a walkie talkie in one hand and the flag in the other. As said before, get a chalk board. At least an additional 15 -18 laps during the feature trying to get the correct lineup. Not complaining at all, just an observation. Sitting in the sun, hearing race cars and smelling racing fuel after a long winter was AWESOME. I think we just have to give them a little time to get things straight and I will definitely drive down from Kokomo again. See you at Eldora.

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Jackslash has video of the race @ his website. Good job Sean Buckley! :8: :8:

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That's the dumbest stock car track rule I have ever heard! I think that was total BS for Riggs and Boesflug to get there spot back after having to return to the "pit area" for a tire change! You should not be rewarded with your spot back if you have to return to the pit area to change a tire.

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i agree but if they say thats the rule then , when in rome you do as the romans do. They also have a rule that says if you take the green and cars crash before the first lap is in the book then the cars can restart back in their original spot. so if you don't get a good start you can pull up and stop then get your spot back on the restart ! I beleive there were a few scoring problems too , some cars that finished in top ten only got there because of a gift from scoring. Hope they get their act together before the big show on the 3rd.

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I agree man... Also, I meant in absolutely nothing bad about Chad or Casey so I hope I did not offend anyone by specifically pointing them two out. I just thought that where was some stupid stuff (scoring calls) happen last night.

I guess what I don't get is that if they let two cars come to the pits change tires, they could have just have easily opened the red to allow other teams to make changes as well. Even something as simple as changing a left rear tire can be an advantage for some cars/drivers sometimes, especially if your get you spot back on the track.

Maybe I'm over thinking it though...

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Something positive :8: Shumans run from 19th to 4th :31: Heres to a hell of a run :32:

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First of all, I would like to thank all the Drivers, Pit crew and Fans for attending last night at Twin Cities.

As for the red flag issues, our track rules state that if a car goes pit side under red, that car may return to the track and receive his/her spot back if they return under red. That is why Riggs received his spot back. As for Boesflug, he went pit side under red but returned under yellow. That is why he did not receive his spot back.

And after further thought I do understand the advantages and disadvantages of this rule. Therefore before the "NO WAY OUT 40" there will be some rule changes that will be geared towards the Sprint cars. RACECIEVERS will be MANDATORY for the "NO WAY OUT 40" on April 3rd.

And to Bobby East..... I apologize for the lengthy cautions that may have caused him to run out of fuel.

Hopefully the changes we will make will help for a better show on
April 3rd with the "NO WAY OUT 40". We appreciate our fans and drivers and want to do our best to make improvements for everyone!

Mason Fleetwood
Twin Cities Raceway Park

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Thanks from a fans viewpoint that you came on here, explained how the rules worked and showed a willingness to adjust those rules for a completely different class of cars than what you normally run. At least you are trying..

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all in all thank you twin cities for giving us a great night of racing!Congrats to brady short for winning the first sprint A-main (Indiana)
of the year. Track was alil dusty but probably about the best I had seen it in awhile.was there some scoring problems maybe but at least we got to see some quality sprint car racing thank you to all the teams who came out and put a good show on! btw...imo shu didnt have nothing for the 36 he checked out in a new zip code.. bland was the only one who had somthing for him!:8: thanks tcrp