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Whose going to win??
I got BC

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I'll take the 14s.

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BC won his heat from last .

Smoke and bc both schooled everyone on the outside. Loyet looked really good too

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Took longer to run the yellow filled non quals than it did the 10 heats. But the racing is great! Danny Stratton dropped out of non qual while leading. A real bummer. Robbinson transfered in non qual from back row! Good racing indeed. 3 Qaulifying races comin up.

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Loyet and Clauson had a really good battle going in the qualifier, it's gonna be a good feature!

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And Daniel Robbinson transfers yet again! I'm guessin he has passed more cars than anyone.

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They need to get more track workers in the infield. Those firefighters have been doing it all.

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Someone did their homework when they built this place. A track so wide and so fast that they intentionally water it to slow it down. Room for three wide all the way around.

From what I've seen of the Silly bowl track, Id don't compare as far as lap after lap side by side racing. MAGIC MINI MILE RULES!

Now for Future Predictions, There may be no more walk ups, which I'd probably say over half was. But we were down to a couple hundred empty seats and the first two rows I wouldn't recommend as they sit at wall level. Id watched this on PPV a couple years ago and It looked only half full.

Seriously I think about lap 30 of the feature may be the fastest laps turned of the night. Clauson and Smoke swappin sliders till BC got choked up then mixed up with others. Only two upside down tonight that I know of. Most wrecks were single or two cars but there were a couple five car tangles.

Track was wider than Bloomington and they hauled it in 30ft off the berm when it worked in about lap five on of every race.. In fact with 670 racing laps turned in the ten heats, THE TRACK WAS GOOD and RACY all throughout. As someone else said, the two NQ races were the longest. The three twenty lap Qualifyers were great.

Blah blah, blab blab,
IT ROCKED!
I'll be back!:22:

What was the deal with the fight ??

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I think Clauson was less then impressed with loyets driving, and loyet was less then impressed with Clauson bumpin him after the race.

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Never have seen clauson get mad. Just my opinion...clauson could run circles around loyet

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Charles pretty much sumed it up. A very racey place. Really impressed with the track rework. Took 10 or 15 minutes (restrooms, concessions, smokers heading outside) and it was welcomed because of the great show the rework provided. A well run program from doors opening to checkers.

Smoke won after starting 3rd. Felker finished 2nd, started 11th, and Stanbrough finished some 11 or so spots ahead of where he started. Lots of action in those 40 laps!

May need to add some seating in the near future as it was thin come the start of the heats. 51 cars last year, 67 this year. I see a trend here.

BC was spun by Loyette in 1 about half way thru the feature. Karma was in the house 10 laps later when loyette was spun by ?? So after checkers the two had a "discussion" on the front strech with crews involved. Didn't last long, but goes to show the passion these drivers have.

The great action last night left me wishing winter would hurry up and get here, and be gone just as soon. See you at the Rumble!

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Home safe, very tired. Slept like a baby last night, But only for four hours. Ugh. Still made the Maquest 5hr 56 min, Trip in five hours flat.

More later. zzzzzzzzz Go Dallas!

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From the POWRI rule book:

A. Retaliation:
During a yellow or after the event, you will be disqualified, receive no points and no pay – No Second Chance.

Wonder if this was enforced?

Made the 9 hour trip to my first Battle at the Center. I certainly hope it's not my last. Best racing I've seen all year. The track was terrific and the program was very well run. I think this could easily go to a two night event, but they might have to figure out how to get more people in there. I guess that's a good problem to have, though. Kudos to the folks at POWRi.

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You couldn't ask for anything better than last night! Cheaper souvineer prices, good food, good weather, huge crowd, great car count, wrecks, flips, a fight, an awesome track, and awesome racing! Best Midget show I've ever seen. Might have to miss out on a few
Late Model races next year to check out some more Midget shows!

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I could watch midgets on that track six days a week and twice on Sundays year round. Not only that, I'd pay much more to see that show than they charged. EASILY.

I mean I only spent three hundred in getting there, rooms and food, Whats another $20 I got the Pit pass, Talked with several people inducing Matt Westfall who I've chatted with in the past a couple times at Rumbles and other tracks. He had a new DRC midget which he won his heat from sixth. Ran well all night but had a problem in the feature and pulled in. Great guy

As I said in in a earlier post. Someone did their homework. Track was big and wide. Id say half a haubstadt. Same width, half the straight length. Track was deep, cars cut the racing grooves as they raced, By lap 30 of the feature they were thirty ft off the inside berm in the corners and darn near flat footing. Im just saying they could haul the mail if they wanted too and were three wide at times.

Track had a very good permenent fence built as part of it. Four inch poles into the arena floor. Metal fencing and cattle gates into the jersey barriers connected to the metal fencing.

Probably 60 of the 67 cars all were in the building another seven in a outside military arch type pole barn that could probably hold 40 or more if empty with some salamander heaters :)

I don't know how many the stands hold there. Im guessing 2-3 thousand and guessing there were about 3000 there including competitors and crews.

It was all run off pretty timely. All cars were pushed into the track and staged pretty quickly with quad runners and were pushed off by about five push trucks very quickly. Lined up within a couple laps and racing. All cars left the track under power out the back exit of the building going to their hauler or to get refueled outside.

10 hotlap sessions, 10X10lap heats of six or seven cars. Two 12 lap non qualifyers. Three 20 lap qualifiers and a fourty lap feature. Like someone else said, they kept the track good and had several reworks from simply ripping the track a bit to both ripping and watering. Some were ten minute fixes, others were 20-25 or so but it fit and gave people the chance to bathroom-smoke-conssesion-converse and didn't really hinder the show.

All from 5pm till 11:30 checker.
EXCELLENT! As some others have said, Some of the best racing I seen all year. Lots of passing a couple cars like the red 91 who would run their own groove nobody else would try ten ft above the cushion and sometimes passing three our four cars in one lap and losing those spots on the next............

I didn't see who exactly was involved in the hockey game afterward. I did see a couple good haymakers given though.

I try to give both the good and the bad. So heres the bad.
Concessions, GOOD, Had a chicken strip and fry dinner for 650. EXCELLENT. BAD, Later had a 4.50 pretzel with cheese that she deep fried the dough. UH, IF I WANT A 69 cent pretzel donut for 4.50. Thats what I'd ask for :)

Good, A ton of passing all night caused by a good track and passing points.
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The only thing of the format Id consider changing is invert the top six point getters in the feature and make it a 50 lap feature. Not to punish the hard work but for fan benifits only.

Great show, I'll make it again, With the good problem to have of limited seating.maybe two shows pre and post christmas (Early March) I think its a benefit to the show to not have it as part of the Powri schedule.

That is all.

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Sounds like a pretty good night of racing that I got to miss due to work. Wish I could have gone,but I do have to recharge the wallet occasionally as well.

There is a reason I spend quite a few days in the summer in Illinois,driving past races that are a lot closer to where I live,to go watch POWRi midget racing instead. Thats because they have a well run program and the racing is usually very good,no matter where they are racing at. Thats why I lobbied for an Illinois midget week,so I could watch them more than just twice a weekend,even if for just one weekend!

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I think Garret Aitken's tumble into the fence at the end of his Qualifier proved it's worth.