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Worst for me was sitting in the grandstands watching the MXSCS at Anderson during Little 500 week and learning Jesse Hockett passed away.

Best for me was seeing a good friend run the Little 500, racing a sprint car myself, and Sara Elrod winning race after race in the 600cc micros.

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K.I.S.S. and Sprint Week. Go 53!!! Woot! :8: :31:

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Easy one,last night at Granite City.:22: Bloomington wings:19::26:

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Best- Gold Crown & any race Blake or Jon have been racing in.
Worst- Too many rain-outs at Macon.

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By far, the best was the show that Brady Short put on while on his way to victory at Brownstown during ISW!

Great job Brady!

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Best-Stanbrough from 3rd to 1st at Bloomington on a restart with 1 lap to go.
Worst-Passing of Jesse Hockett

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Best was the Gold Crown Midget 50 lap finale. Second best was the T Mez feature win at Kokomo Labor Day weekend.

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Worst was hearing of the death of Jesse Hockett, I'd just met this fellow a few weeks B4 at Gas City. Saying good bye to my friend Dudley Balmer who moved to Florida. :(
The best was spending the weekend & sharing a race at Kokomo w/ daughter Kathryn. :6::2:

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My best was watching BFitz comeing from last to 2nd Labor Day weekend at Haubstadt and the worst hearing we had lost the Rocket RIP Jesse:22:

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Worst was losing Jesse Hockett, some many bests to choose from.
Swanson and Stanbrough at DuQuoin,Terre Haute, Darland and Stanbrough to name a couple.

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Best Tri-City Gold Crown
Worst Any Rain Out

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Worst-
Like many others on this thread,the loss of Jesse Hockett. I still have trouble accepting it.It will be hard this winter not seeing him in the orange Massey #2.
Best-
My trip to Indiana this past May! Going to Da Burg for the KISS show and meeting everyone in Section A!! The next night Kokomo.
The following week,Anderson for the Little 500,next day IMS for the Indy 500.

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Best for me was the chance to come out and see the complete sprint week.
The worst is the passing of Jesse. Rip Jesse.

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Best - 5 tracks in 4 days Memorial Day weekend with my wife & son.
Worst - Springfield SC rainout. It's a long drive from Minnesota!

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Worst off track. Jesse's passing
Worst at track, Eldora dust out

Best, Darlands last corner pass of Damion at burg opener
TMEZ last to first run at Kokomo
Bradys win at Sprint week.
Jons win at Puttnamville
Any race that had no injuries

best visiting 2 new tracks waynesfield and kilkare. worst losing the rocket.
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Best overall race: Gold Crown finale:9:

honroable mentions:
Brady's sprint week win at Brownstown
Fitz's sprint week win at Haubstadt
Fitz charging from the tail to second at the Haubstadt Hustler,
Clauson charging from the tail to win the Powri featch at Tri-City in August
Chil Bowl Sat. A main
The 53 returning to prominance
A great WoO feature at Pevely in April where Joey Saldana came from 13th to win with an injured hand

Worsts: Bloomington Sprint Week feature (I'm not going back for the third year in a row for that one)
Clayton flipping at the start of the Haubstadt Hustler:19:
Hud Cone's flip during Sprint Week at Haubstadt

Losing The Rockett RIP Jesse

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The best came very early in the season. This is when I got to see midgets line up with 11 rows of 3 at the Tri-State Speedway for the Haubstadt Hut 100. BC and Kuhn were wild that night. :9:

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The best was 4 great nights of racing at LPS, Bloomington, Paragon and Kokomo during midget week.

The worst being laid up with kidney stones and missing my second trip out to Indy in July.

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Best, the three races I got to this year. Two P'viille watching Blake tear up the track to win it all the 4th of Sept. and Gaines on the 25th. Then the last USAC Sprint car show at TH was awesome with a spectacular track.

Worst, Jesse, I had the pleasure of talking to him a few times at THAT.

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Best seeing one of the best little 500's i have ever seen!!! Worst was setting at Anderson during the power outage and hearing about Jesse. That guy had just started to really stand out in my mind.

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Best thing is that had the pleasure of having Dave Darland join the 39 team and have a bunch of success.And the worst thing was losing our good friend and fellow racer Jessee Hockett

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I agree with an earlier post...

Best - Gold Crown midget finale

Worst - Loss of the Rocket & Eldora dust race

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Taking into consideration that the death of Jesse Hockett was the worst news possible, for me they happened the same night.
Worst: track prep at THAT and the mind numbing delay.(can't remember what race it was, think it was the Hulman Classic:14:)
Best: the race that followed 3 wide bottom to top and fast.

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Many great moments of 2010 have been mentioned in the earlier posts, but not many pavement ones. It was cool to see both of the Swanson brothers (Cody and Tanner) sweep the USAC midget races at ORP! :8: And of course as everyone one else has mentioned, R.I.P. "The Rocket". :13:

I concur that losing Jesse Hockett, the person, let alone the racer has been the lasting negative memory of this season. I received word of it during the power outage at Anderson and wrestled with how to break such news to those in attendance, given the grace period of no electricity. In the end it was addressed and later a moment of silence was taken. But there was a pall over the entire evening.

The best memory had to be in Wisconsin around the bonfire with newly minted Must See Racing series champ Troy Decaire. The Champ had excused himself to answer the call of nature when someone around the circle gave a dead-on coyote call. However it was the return call a moment later that sent the Champ racing back to his spot around the fire!

(Ok, so it was Tim Cox with the second call, but the deed was done...)
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The best was being able to make it up from Florida for sprint speed week. The worst was loss of Jesse Hockett. May he rest in peace.

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Best: Gold Crown Nationals!!!!
Hagen winning ALL 3 heats!!
And Chillin with Mr. Clauson and Old Lady Funk!!!:8:
Also being picked on about Chris Windom!!! :10:
Worst: NOTHING :2:

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Worst: Getting that text saying Jesse was gone...

Best: Sitting on the four wheeler at the entrance to 3 at Duquoin watching those guys pitch the car in during practice and qualifying.... And trying to help all the guys on pit road during the red flag.

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Best...............Hut Hundred @ Haubstadt

Worst............Track Prep @ THAT when they dumped 5 Billion gallons of water on it.

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Worst - Losing Jesse Hockett

Best - Gold Crown Nationals, with the Saturday night show being absolutely the best.

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Best Indiana Sprint Week, races were Great.

Worst Watching John Deere Tractors

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Best: the USAC Sprint race at Putnamville on Sept. 12th and also the Silver Crown race at Berlin Raceway.

Worst: Witnessing Shane Hmiel's crash at Terre Haute. :(

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Originally Posted by Sawdust101:
Best Indiana Sprint Week, races were Great.

Worst Watching John Deere Tractors

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Originally Posted by sawdust101:
best indiana sprint week, races were great.

Worst watching john deere tractors

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Originally Posted by Sawdust101:

Worst Watching John Deere Tractors

Sorry! That's Life.:2::2:

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Best: Witnessing blakes first USAC Win and seeing him come from the tail to front during 2 races at haubstadt..:22:

Worse: Passing of Jesse and witnessing shanes wreck last night..

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Knoxville USAC sprint heat races were really good. Terre Haute
USAC Sprints 9-11 were very good. To lose Jesse Hockett was the
worst. I was sure looking forward to seeing him run the "Hulman
Classic" He was preparing his car for this great race.
Best Regards,
John