Indiana Sprint Week - A thank you from UK
 

I hope it's OK to post this here within the main forum.

I would just like to say a BIG thank you to everyone involved in the running of the USAC Indiana Sprint week. This was our first (of probably many) Sprint Weeks.

Me (Stephen Cording) and my Partner (Ailsa Haigh) travelled from the UK along with our veteran USAC Sprint Week buddy and photographer Colin Casserley. And we've had an absolute blast.

Every night we were treated with the utmost respect and shown fantastic hospitality. We made many new friends every night. Far too many names to list (remember) them all but I'd like to give a shout out to Bob and his RV buddies, Chuck, Kevin (we first met at Ocala), the Darland sisters, Dallas, Allan Brown, Bill (Twin Cities), Chad Boespflug #98 family & crew, the USAC lady. I really wish I could name you all, but you know who you all are.

Thank you all, you really made our vacation special. And we will see you all again in 2012.

We attended the following shows

8th July - Gas City
9th July - Kokomo
1oth July - Lawrenceburg
11th July - Brownstown (Late Models)
12th July - Twin Cities – It was me on the PA that night !!
13th July - Terre Haute
14th July - Brownstown
15th July - Bloomington
16th July - Tri-State
17th July - Angell Park

I gave out quite a few photograph's with our English cars on them F1 Stockcars.com sadly these did not have the Facebook Group on them. So if you'd like to get in contact with me or keep up to date with what we're doing in the UK sign up to http://www.facebook.com/f1stockcars

Once again thank you one and all, you were all awesome.

Stephen Cording & Ailsa Haigh

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Stephen, Do you know George Rimmer?

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Originally Posted by Vukie:
Stephen, Do you know George Rimmer?

And Adrian Blackwell? I've been to a BRISCA event at Coventry with Adrian. I'm sorry we didn't know you were here to meet.

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Originally Posted by Vukie:
Stephen, Do you know George Rimmer?

No I do not. Sorry. But I believe our buddy Colin Casserley (English Phtotgrapher) does.

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Originally Posted by Dick Monahan:
And Adrian Blackwell? I've been to a BRISCA event at Coventry with Adrian. I'm sorry we didn't know you were here to meet.

I know of Adrian Blackwell he races the Formula Two Class (#767). I only really watch the Formula One class (the ones with V8's) in the UK.

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Originally Posted by Stephen Cording:
No I do not. Sorry. But I believe our buddy Colin Casserley (English Phtotgrapher) does.

I've met Colin and Mark Kelly on a couple of their trips to the states. Great guys! I'm glad everyone had a great time. :32:

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Originally Posted by Vukie:
I've met Colin and Mark Kelly on a couple of their trips to the states. Great guys! I'm glad everyone had a great time. :32:

We are also friends with Mark Kelly :)

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Originally Posted by Stephen Cording:
We are also friends with Mark Kelly :)

If I remember correctly Mark likes punk music. :18: Mark was coming to Angell Park a few years back but with the bombings in London his flight was held up. Ended up missing him at APS that evening.

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Originally Posted by Vukie:
If I remember correctly Mark likes punk music. :18: Mark was coming to Angell Park a few years back but with the bombings in London his flight was held up. Ended up missing him at APS that evening.

That's the guy :6: We (Me, Ailsa & Colin) had a fab time at APS, the Midget Hall of Fame is superb and a credit to all involved.

Those pre-WWII photo's just remind you just awesome those drivers were back in the day.

Never hooked up with any race fans on our visit, but the staff were all super friendly at this tidy track.

We will be back :)

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Originally Posted by Stephen Cording:
16th July - Tri-State

You mean we talked you out of going to Eldora??

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It was nice hanging out with you guys, The wife lived in the UK for 8 years, while she was in the service, so she loved talking to you.

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Originally Posted by Andrew S. Quinn:
You mean we talked you out of going to Eldora??

And thank you for doing so !! Eldora will still be there for when a class worth watching is on there (I wouldn't get out of bed for winged sprints).

As my good lady say's "Real Sprint's don't need Wings to Fly"

It was just my vacation tease, saying we were off to Eldora. At the last min swap to Tri-State and I'm a Hero :5::5:

By the way wasn't Tri-State awesome - If we did miss that, I don't think Ailsa would forgive me and my original post would read - Me and my ex-partner.......................

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Originally Posted by BrentTFunk:
It was nice hanging out with you guys, The wife lived in the UK for 8 years, while she was in the service, so she loved talking to you.

It was great meeting up again, we met your wife at East Bay, Fl. in 2009 if your the same people I think you are :3:

Only that time she had beef-jerky :8::8:

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Hey Steve in was great meeting you two , Really enjoyed the short time we spent together , Thank you for the pictures and year book . See you next year for midget week and sprint week .

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Originally Posted by mowerman:
Hey Steve in was great meeting you two , Really enjoyed the short time we spent together , Thank you for the pictures and year book . See you next year for midget week and sprint week .

I can't wait to see you again and say 'cor blimey it's effing hot!'

Next year we're book motel's closer to the track so I can say YES when offered a cold, cold beer.

:32:

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Originally Posted by Stephen Cording:
Next year we're book motel's closer to the track so I can say YES when offered a cold, cold beer.

:32:

Better ask first if it has your name on it. Bob has been very good this year about putting my name on a can of Bud :2::2::2::2::2::2:

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I met you at Brownstown, I believe. They tend to run together. :2:

I'd like to have heard that conversation between you and Andrew. Talk about a pair of....accents. :6:

Great that you folks came to Indiana. Hurry back.

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Hey!! It was great meeting you too! Glad you made it home safely!!
See you next year! Deb and Susan (The Darland sisters) :)

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So good to see both of you again this year! I'm so glad you enjoyed your time and look forward to seeing you again. One of these days I'm going to get Brent to come see your beautiful country. The only race I ever went to there was a drag race at Santa Pod. lol Take care our friends!

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It just occurred to me that I'm going to be in England in October (a little footy with my grandson). Maybe I could stay a little longer a catch a couple of BRISCA shows. So, I checked the schedule. It looks possible. Anyone want to join me?

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Originally Posted by Dick Monahan:
It just occurred to me that I'm going to be in England in October (a little footy with my grandson). Maybe I could stay a little longer a catch a couple of BRISCA shows. So, I checked the schedule. It looks possible. Anyone want to join me?

http://f1stockcars.com/fixture-list/

The link above will take you to the full schedule. If you miss Coventry 1st (shale / dirt track) you can still pick up a few other Shale / Dirt shows - Sheffield 9th, Belle Vue (Manchester) 16th, Kings Lynn (Norfolk) 29th.

If your OK with pavement you could also attend Birmingham 22nd & Northampton (Brafield) 23rd.

More information on where the tracks are and how to get to them can be found -> http://f1stockcars.com/stadium-info/

If your able to attend any shows drop me a PM and we will hook up :6:

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stephen and crew, it was great meeting all of you and we look forward to seeing you again next year. Thank you so much for stopping by our pits, we had a great time talking with you. The old man in the Boespflug pit #98.

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I would just like to echo Stephen's comments, we had a great time and really enjoyed our time in Indiana. Was a bit warm though!

I would like to add thanks to the photographers I talked to, as Stephen said there are too many to name individually but it was good to talk to John Mahoney and Steve Lafond amongst others. I would also like to thank Mike O'Leary for his help too. And a big thank you to all promoters, officials and staff at all the tracks we visited, The USAC staff, Their help was very much appreciated and I was made to feel most welcome by everyone.

Jet lag has kicked in, so my memory is not up to speed at the moment, so sorry to anyone who I have forgotten to thank!

I have posted a few of the photographs I took on my website, www.stoxphotos.com Please take a look.

Thanks

Colin Casserley