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2011 Winternationals at the Hendry County Motorsports Park in Clewiston, Florida. NON-WING SPRINTS Thursday Feb. 10th-12th.
Thursday Feb. 10th- Open Practice 7-9pm. Friday - Gates open at 4pm, Hot laps@ 6:30pm Racing @7pm. Saturday gates open 3pm- Racing 7pm. Come see the Midwest's Best vs. the florida regulars. Also racing will be 600 cc mini-sprints and pure-stocks

$2,000 to win for the sprint cars each night. come out and enjoy a extra weekend of open wheel racing before the sprint cars move to ocala for the usac races.:22:

for hotel reservation

Roland Martin Resort- 868-983-3151 and ask for races rate

info on races call 812-871-7728.

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is this terry eaglin's deal again?

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yes

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thanks robert. everybody will get paid.:6:

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About a month ago Papa Outlaw posted that the promoter at North Florida speedway was thinking about running the non wing cars the same weekend as Clewiston. Anybody (Papa Outlaw) know if they are planning on doing so. I have met the guy that runs Clewiston, wouldn't want to see him take a bath. If North Fl speedway races that weekend I don't think anybody will make the trip that far south when they can race 60 miles north of Ocala. Not blaming N Florida just trying to help out the guy at Clewiston.

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Hmmm 45 minutes from my daughter-in-laws house in Port St Lucie. Interesting.

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Is this Clewiston track where they ran several years ago in Feb. It was a big 1/4 or a small 1/3 and had a motocross track on the same property and was located not far from Lake Okeechobee. Jack Hewitt was still driving at that time and was there. They ran without the wings one night and with them on the next. I went for the non-wing night and unfortunately there were more people in the pits than there were in the stands.

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I just don't see that many guys coming a week early for 2 nights of racing. If they really wanted this to work they should have scheduled it Tuesday, Feb. 15 and Wednesday, Feb. 16 then guys could go straight to Ocala. JMO

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Originally Posted by Coach:
About a month ago Papa Outlaw posted that the promoter at North Florida speedway was thinking about running the non wing cars the same weekend as Clewiston. Anybody (Papa Outlaw) know if they are planning on doing so. I have met the guy that runs Clewiston, wouldn't want to see him take a bath. If North Fl speedway races that weekend I don't think anybody will make the trip that far south when they can race 60 miles north of Ocala. Not blaming N Florida just trying to help out the guy at Clewiston.

No NFS IS NOT going to run them and break them up...they would have if HCS did not have the event...good call Liz and Phil....

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lot of interest for this show shaping to be a good

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They had 26 cars there last year and was a good show

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If you are considering this race, I went last year and had a good time. It is a pretty neat little place. The promoter was a nice guy and the track had a nice shape. Not tons of seating, but you could see well from anywhere. I stood all night and didn't miss anything.

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Nice post count Funkster...:18:

Well it looks like I will miss Florida in Feb. I wanted to catch some late model racing again this year before the non wingers came to town. But it would be to many days off. Then I thought, well, maybe Clewiston will schedule a couple races that butt up against Ocala. BUT NOOOOOOOOOOO :14:, what was I thinking. So I'll save my money for another race, another day :7:.

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I am kinda in the same boat Pine. I can't make Clewiston, I just do not have the time to leave that early. You would have liked the promoter, hung out for a few in the parking lot with me,coach, areo, and a few others while we were having a few beers. He thought the sprint cars were cool. Plan is to go to Ocala.

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Originally Posted by BrentTFunk:
I am kinda in the same boat Pine. I can't make Clewiston, I just do not have the time to leave that early. You would have liked the promoter, hung out for a few in the parking lot with me,coach, areo, and a few others while we were having a few beers. He thought the sprint cars were cool. Plan is to go to Ocala.

Yea I was thinking MAYBE, just MAYBE, that two tracks + USAC, could SOMEHOW, SOMEWAY work out a schedule that would be fan/driver/owner friendly. Again, what the HE!! was I thinking. I should of figured it would be IMPOSSIBLE...OH WELL.....With the money I save by not going to Florida, my friends in Indiana will benefit :19:, because I will grace you guys with my presence a few extra times this summer :2:

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If you are going, I was just able to get a reservation at the Motor Inn in Clewiston. This is a 10-15 minute or so drive from the track. I stayed there last year and was pleasantly surprised by the room. Not much on the outside, but a very nice room with good Wifi, refrigerator, microwave, very comfortable bed, etc. Phone # is 863-983-4115.

Even though it rained out the first night last year and there were only 16 sprints, I had a good time. Hope more sprints go down this year. Excellent track food. Where else can you get fried gator tail bits (and no, they don't taste like chicken, they taste like gator). Their track food is provided by several local businesses and all of it looked good.

If you go, a piece of advice based on what I saw last year. Do not throw rocks at the cute, small gators in the drainage ditch which is by the side of the track. While you can see the babies, you can't see their mommies, and mommy is a lot larger and doesn't like for people to bother her little ones. Not only does that anger them, but I was told it is mating season in February. You probably don't want a cranky, horny momma gator after you.

Hope to see lots of IOW members at Hendry County in February.

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Pine
Sorry to here your not going. Maybe you will change your mind later or hit the lotto.
Funkster looking forward to seeing you and the better half down there.
I hope you all have a Merry Christmas

Mark

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Originally Posted by dirtnonwingfan:
If you are going, I was just able to get a reservation at the Motor Inn in Clewiston. This is a 10-15 minute or so drive from the track. I stayed there last year and was pleasantly surprised by the room. Not much on the outside, but a very nice room with good Wifi, refrigerator, microwave, very comfortable bed, etc. Phone # is 863-983-4115.

Even though it rained out the first night last year and there were only 16 sprints, I had a good time. Hope more sprints go down this year. Excellent track food. Where else can you get fried gator tail bits (and no, they don't taste like chicken, they taste like gator). Their track food is provided by several local businesses and all of it looked good.

If you go, a piece of advice based on what I saw last year. Do not throw rocks at the cute, small gators in the drainage ditch which is by the side of the track. While you can see the babies, you can't see their mommies, and mommy is a lot larger and doesn't like for people to bother her little ones. Not only does that anger them, but I was told it is mating season in February. You probably don't want a cranky, horny momma gator after you.

Hope to see lots of IOW members at Hendry County in February.

remember thier eyes are red at night,the farther the red eyes are apart the bigger the gator:2:

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Alligators are just like snakes...There are only 4 kinds that you have to be afraid of...Big ones, Little ones, Live ones, and Dead ones!!

Tim Wolffrum aka Cowboy

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Originally Posted by Pine:
Yea I was thinking MAYBE, just MAYBE, that two tracks + USAC, could SOMEHOW, SOMEWAY work out a schedule that would be fan/driver/owner friendly. Again, what the HE!! was I thinking. I should of figured it would be IMPOSSIBLE...OH WELL.....With the money I save by not going to Florida, my friends in Indiana will benefit :19:, because I will grace you guys with my presence a few extra times this summer :2:

Yeah, the police in Lburg will have to deal with you more. I bet they have your photo in each police car!!! LOL

Later, JERSEY

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Originally Posted by jerseysprintnut:
Yeah, the police in Lburg will have to deal with you more. I bet they have your photo in each police car!!! LOL

Later, JERSEY

And I saw a picture of a guy at work that looks like Pine.:2:

I hope they do this again in 2012. If I can afford it.....I'm there.

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Originally Posted by Danny Burton:
And I saw a picture of a guy at work that looks like Pine.:2:

I hope they do this again in 2012. If I can afford it.....I'm there.

I hope they do it in 2012 also, I just hope they make the schedule fan friendly next year for those that have a 3000 mile round trip..:31:

Danny, that must be one HANDSOME dude..:2:

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL...:32:...even the :21: jersey fans..;)

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everything is ready to go the wednesday night racers party is will be at the tiki bar at the roland martin resort. also some of the drivers saying they will be there, damion gardner, brett burdette, hunter scheurenberg, kent christian, just to name a few so come on out and enjoy some dirt racing run in the sun at hendry county speedway.:22:

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Originally Posted by Pine:
I hope they do it in 2012 also, I just hope they make the schedule fan friendly next year for those that have a 3000 mile round trip

Pine I think it was fan friendly,until East Bay bailed out.

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Originally Posted by goodoleboy24:
everything is ready to go the wednesday night racers party is will be at the tiki bar at the roland martin resort. also some of the drivers saying they will be there, damion gardner, brett burdette, hunter scheurenberg, kent christian, just to name a few so come on out and enjoy some dirt racing run in the sun at hendry county speedway.:22:

Will they allow a 17 year old in? Coleman and Team CGR would love to attend. Sounds fun...

pg

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I never thought of that Brent..I guess that would have been a pretty awesome week.

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Originally Posted by TeamCGR:
Will they allow a 17 year old in? Coleman and Team CGR would love to attend. Sounds fun...

pg

yes they will allow 17 year olds in no problem. hope to see you guys there

corey eaglin

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fuel will be available at the track, fuel guy wanted me to pass that along

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Went last year, neat little track. Promoter very friendly pretty neat atmosphere.

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Originally Posted by Pine:
Yea I was thinking MAYBE, just MAYBE, that two tracks + USAC, could SOMEHOW, SOMEWAY work out a schedule that would be fan/driver/owner friendly. Again, what the HE!! was I thinking. I should of figured it would be IMPOSSIBLE...OH WELL.....With the money I save by not going to Florida, my friends in Indiana will benefit :19:, because I will grace you guys with my presence a few extra times this summer :2:

we tried to get usac to come down and do this but they was uninterested, also the reason for the races on the weekend is because there would be no local fans there because the promoter tried weekday races and hardly any fans showed up, sorry about the inconvience but we did contact usac about running them and they said no.

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the racers party has been moved to thursday night after practice

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I hope they have a good turn out. Good luck K.C