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Its freaking hot, I'll post updates as I can

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48 cars

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Flip fest ........just stating the facts!
I only live 30 mins from Bellville.
It was like a august track. Not a track you would usually see this time of year with no chance of rain. A lot of good cars tore up.

Dave Dobbs

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[QUOTE=nailer;280865]Flip fest
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Actually it was a pretty good night of racing I thought. I'm sure Morty will agree with me on that.

Had a few flips,yes, but I wouldnt refer to it as a "flip fest"

48 midgets,plenty of passing and slide jobs. What more can you ask for???

I drove 250 miles to go to Little Belleville,rather than drive 60 miles to go to Bloomington for USAC sprints. I've long maintained that Little Belleville is the best outdoor midget track,and I try never to miss a night of midget racing there,no matter what else might be racing elsewhere that I would like to go to.

Last night was a fun night of action packed racing. The added bonus was chatting with Morty. I always like listening to his stories. I even watched the Late Models,just to see how they can race on such a small track!!

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So who won?

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Danny Stratton
Brett Anderson
Nick Knepper

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Originally Posted by racefan20:
So who won?

Oops as above,and 4th was Andrew Felker,5th Brad Loyet who came from the back after a great battle for the lead with Bubba Altig and then getting caught up in a crash in the 2nd turn while running 2nd behind Altig who also got caught up in the same crash.

After thinking about it a bit more,I texted a buddy in Minnesota that last nights race was what I WISHED the Chili Bowl A-main would be every year !

Bottom line is this for watching midgets. If you want to see good/great midget racing then write this down: Belle Clair Speedway, Belleville,Illinois

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Originally Posted by nailer:
I even watched the Late Models,just to see how they can race on such a small track!!

It's worth watching the LMs at Belleville, if only because this is the final season we get to see the living legend that is Donnie Klein. How awesome is it that we get to see such legendary drivers as Steve Knepper, Don Klein, Ed Dixon, and Mike Hamerlee in the house on the same night?

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Originally Posted by nailer:
Flip fest ........just stating the facts!
I only live 30 mins from Bellville.
It was like a august track. Not a track you would usually see this time of year with no chance of rain. A lot of good cars tore up.

Dave Dobbs

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I see you updated your post.

You must have missed the early hotlap session when Kyle Neal went over the wall in turn 3-4. If anything,at that time the track was actually overwatered there,in my opinion,as there was a rut there. The track looked like an August track after they ran the Late models. Thats when it started getting dust! Usually when POWRi is there therethey are not running late models with them. There usually isnt much dust either.

For the record there were 5 midgets that flipped at Peoria the next night,including 2 under caution! Thats about the same as Little Belleville. I dont really consider either night a flip fest.

Its funny how people perceive things. At Peoria the guy parked next to me when asked how the race at Little Belleville was,he replied "It was dusty." No mention at all of the actual racing. I thought it was a pretty good night of racing,with lots of sliders/passing. I could have easily stayed in Indiana and seen good racing somewhere that night,but instead I chose driving 250 miles to Little Belleville instead. I've seen way more good races there than bad races,hence why I dont hesitate to pony up the extra $$$ it coststo travel there instead of just staying local in Indiana.

I guess I was the lucky one out of you,the guy parked next to me at Peoria and myself. I got to see a great night of racing!!

Anyone that knows me , knows I don't say much an I never sugar coat it!

For Belleville the track was not good!

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They must be miracle workers there. For such a bad track,it was a heck of a good race!! I'll take a bad track like that if it produces good racing...........

Guess I didn't have my rose colored glasses on. Didn't see the same race you did .

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The track was super slick

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From my point of view, yeah the track was hard and slick from pretty much top to bottom, much like late summer. But after all, it was 90 degrees Friday and the track still had a top and bit of bottom to it. The first 20 laps between Bubba Altig and Brad Loyet was some of the best stuff I've seen in a long time...anywhere! Sorry some of the folks missed that.

...and yeah it was kinda cool to see Dandy Don Klein run once again. I first saw him racing nearly 35 years ago.:9:

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Originally Posted by mortboyz:
From my point of view, yeah the track was hard and slick from pretty much top to bottom, much like late summer. But after all, it was 90 degrees Friday and the track still had a top and bit of bottom to it. The first 20 laps between Bubba Altig and Brad Loyet was some of the best stuff I've seen in a long time...anywhere! Sorry some of the folks missed that.

...and yeah it was kinda cool to see Dandy Don Klein run once again. I first saw him racing nearly 35 years ago.:9:

Phew thanks Morty. I'm glad I wasnt the only one wearing rose colored glasses. For awhile I was contemplating getting a seeing eye dog for my next trip to Little Belleville,and maybe even taking a class in reading Braille....:D:D:D:D

And thanks for all the Don Klein trivia the other night. I now know that he is so much of a Ford fan that he has 2 sons named Henry and Edsel. A dog named V-8 60 a cat named 351 Cleveland,and his favorite vacation spot is Mustang Oklahoma!! I left Little Belleville a lot smarter than what I came there knowing !!:D:D:D:D:D

Never said Brad didn't put on a show.
Talked to him an told him so.
Of the 30 to 40 times I have been to Belleville. I can only think of one time it was worse. That was the Race for Life a couple years ago. It was a dust bowl then.


Dave Dobbs

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Originally Posted by Andrew S. Quinn:
At Peoria the guy parked next to me when asked how the race at Little Belleville was,he replied "It was dusty."

If that guy thought it was dusty, he should have been in the pits at Peoria! I've never been that dirt-laden after a race, but I had a truly good time, saw some good racing, and got back to Bloomington (Illinois, darn it :14:) at a reasonable time.