Morgan County Speedway still on?
 

Since Everything has been called except for Gas City...which it doesnt look good...was thinking of going to Jacksonville, IL tonight...will have to leave work here at 2:30 in Indiana...but wont make it to Jacksonville till 7:30...just in time for heat races I hope.

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Doesn't look good again.

http://www.weather.com/outlook/drivi...urLink_driving

Tyler

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But there is no rain behind the last wave...so as long as nothing fires up...it should be good I would think....it looks better than Indiana!:D

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:confused:I spoke to Bill West this morning around 10:30 a.m. and they had not cancelled yet. Did not get much rain this morning but everything was still pretty soft from last weeks rain. He said he would decide by around 1p.m. so everyone would have enough time. Sun is out right now and radar looks good as long as we get no more storms popping up.

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:greenflag: Just spoke with Bill West and Jacksonville is on for tonight. Still a chance of pop up storms until around 3 or so but looks better than it has. All of the other local tracks have cancelled so could be a good car count tonight. Hope there is 20 or so sprints. :thumb

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how many sprints will be there?

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Just called the speedway at 3:30 Central Daylight Time and they said they "absolutely" are on for tonight.

Frank Daigh

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Jacksonville results from my hastily scribbled notes (sorry I don't know how to make it look professional like some of you). 16 sprints - #7X Joey Moughan (looked like K. Wissmiller's old car), 9 Jay Landoff, 10S Jeremy Standridge, 22 Bret Triplett, 23 Mitch Wissmiller, 29 Eddie Lynch, 47 Brett Samonds, 51 Mike Hess, 53 Matt Harms, 71 Chad Branson, 83 Chris Urish, 88 Terry Babb, 90 (no name on car, sounded like Patrick Budde when the 1st heat was sort of announced and someone else at feature time), 95 Tommy Rockwell, 98 J. C. Bland and 99 Kory Weyent. Drew for heat position and started feature accourding to heat finish.

Heat #1 - 1) Babb from 2d, 2) Hess from 3rd, 3) Weyent from pole, 4) Branson from 5th, 5) Lynch from 4th 6) Harms from 6th, 7) 90,
8) Landoff flipped

Heat #2 - 1) Tripplett from pole, 2) Urish from 3rd, 3) Moughan from 7th, 4) Standridge from 6th 5) Bland from 4th; 6-8 left early and were Samonds, Rockwell and Wissmiller with problems.

Feature (partial and completely unofficial) - 1) Moughan from 6th, 2) Weyent from 5th, 3) Rockwell from 14th, 4) Babb from pole (tried hard to make the the top work but couldn't), 5) Standridge from 8th, 6) Branson from 7th, 7) Urish from 3rd, 8) 90, Landoff flipped again and Hess, Bland, Samonds, Harms and Wissmiller all exited early.

Sorry if I mispelled someone's name or made other errors. Since the track is less than an hour from my home, I hope to see more nonwings come over to beautiful central Illinois. I love Indiana tracks and drivers, but sometimes close is good. We did have at least one fan from Indy over tonight.

Frank Daigh

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Way to go Joey!!!!:applaud:

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Originally Posted by dirtnonwingfan:
4) Babb from pole (tried hard to make the the top work but couldn't)

That's because there wasn't a top available to make work. I'll give them credit, for an opening night, the track was smooth.:) But when the track is a dust bowl in hot laps, and the water truck never makes an appearance all evening, you know the feature is going to be brutal.

I know it was quite windy last night, and I know they were fighting the rain earlier in the day, so I understand they probably didn't dump much water on the track the night before. I also know they're under a curfew, so I don't expect a wholesale re-working of the track. But, how long would it take to have the water truck go out and make a quick pass or two around the top side of the track at intermission? Granted, any water they could've put down would likely have burnt off within the first several laps. But doing nothing gives the impression that, fair or not, they don't care.:headbang

I don't mind a slick track, Lord knows a lot of times the racing is better when the track is slick. But last night went beyond slick, it was a dust bowl.

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Same Thing They Had Last Year For The Mscs Show.gotta Do Better If They Want To Be A Sprint Car Track.

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Thanks Frank. Love it when someone takes the initiative to do this.

Jim

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Two quick points about last nights track. It was NOT smooth. Very rough. Not a huge problem and to be expected with the weather. As for how slick it was, not nearly as slick as it usually is. In the feature part of the problem in 3 and 4 was people dropping down though a mud puddle on the bottom and splashing water on the track. Made for a very tough time trying to get through. There was actually quite a bit of grip in 1 and 2 even at the end of the feature. I was pulling wheel stands out of two the last 10 laps. Over all could have been better but overall could have been worse. Tough getting around the top because it was so hard and ledgie(?).
I am just glad to have somewhere to race sprinters every week and hopefully we get more and more cars. I say good job Morgan County for getting us in last night when every one else cancelled.:applaud:

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Originally Posted by RACEADDICT:
I am just glad to have somewhere to race sprinters every week and hopefully we get more and more cars. I say good job Morgan County for getting us in last night when every one else cancelled.:applaud:

I'd agree with that sentiment. I enjoy finally having a weekly non-wing sprint track less than 100 miles from home. (Not to even mention that they also run Late Models weekly, essentially giving them two headliner classes.:thumb

Now hopefully they can get a handle on the track as the season goes on.

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The driver of the #9 was Jay Landolt, not Landoff, in his first non-wing drive. Sorry for the error and thanks for the correct information.

Frank Daigh

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You are correct on the driver of the 9 car.....that was Jay Landolt from Wood River,IL in his non-wang debut. We were in the ticket line for the heat race aerobatics, but the A-Main tumble sure appeared to be aided by significant contact from a red car....:thumbsdown:

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more often than not, tossing water an an aready slick track just makes it even slicker. Lots of times though a dry slick track will have a top side to work with. Sounds like it wasn't the case at Jacksonville last night.

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Would anyone happen to have full feature results?
Thanks in advance for anyone who can help out...

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The 7x that Joey drove is the GRP Chassis car that Mitch Wissmiller, not Kyle drove last year that belongs to Jim Mahan.:)

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Originally Posted by Kirk Spridgeon:
Would anyone happen to have full feature results?
Thanks in advance for anyone who can help out...

1 (6) 7xJoey Moughan
2 (5) 99 Korey Weyant
3 (14) 95Tommy Rockwell
4 (1) 88Terry Babb
5 (8) 10sJeremy Standridge
6 (7) 71Chad Branson
7 (4) 83Chris Urish
8 (9) 29Eddie Lynch
9 (13) 90Patrick Budde
10 (2) 22Brett Tripplett
11 (10) 98JC Bland
12 (15) 9Jay Landolt
13 (3) 51Mike Hess
14 (11) 53hMatt Harmes
15 (12) 47Brett Sammonds
16 (16) 23Mitch Wissmiller

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Thank you to Bullrings and Tyler Shoemaker, who PMed me the results. I really appreciate the help!

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Originally Posted by RACEADDICT:
Two quick points about last nights track. It was NOT smooth. Very rough. Not a huge problem and to be expected with the weather. As for how slick it was, not nearly as slick as it usually is. In the feature part of the problem in 3 and 4 was people dropping down though a mud puddle on the bottom and splashing water on the track. Made for a very tough time trying to get through. There was actually quite a bit of grip in 1 and 2 even at the end of the feature. I was pulling wheel stands out of two the last 10 laps. Over all could have been better but overall could have been worse. Tough getting around the top because it was so hard and ledgie(?).
I am just glad to have somewhere to race sprinters every week and hopefully we get more and more cars. I say good job Morgan County for getting us in last night when every one else cancelled.:applaud:

You are right on the money.....The top of the surface dried out in the sun and wind.Underneath was still goo from the rain earlier in the day.We did contemplate on taking the blade and scraping the track smooth,but we wanted to make sure opening night was over within the curfew.All in all it was a good first night.I was happy to see the folks come out(on a less than desirable day)and support the speedway.I would like to say lets put last weeks fiasco behind us,,,but they are calling for 1-2 inches more rain for tonight:headbang