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The Silver Crown race a Springfield had multiple lead changes....top 3-5 running together much of the race.....racing through-out the pack...... ELBOWS UP, HAMMER DOWN racing with qualifying type speeds in the 31 to 32 Sec. range for 100 MILES.

There were VIDEO BOARDS with nearly HD quality video expertly shot by Dean Mills and crew, BOB JENKINS doing PA on a CONCERT QUALITY PA SYSTEM, and an autograph session under the stands before the race.

The car count may have been down, but the quality of racing wasn't. If you are a fan or a team owner that wasn't there.....you missed out.

BOB SARGENT AND USAC PUT ON A GREAT RACE AND A GREAT SHOW.

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Thanks, Scott ! :6:

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Wow a positive post about a race with only 20 cars. Thank you leaders edge. I am sure everybody that went watched a good race.

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I will agree... Jenkins and Childers did a very professional and great job behind the mic of a solid PA system. And, those 20 cars did put on a good show. The top 5,6 went at it for a 100 miles!

Come on owners, get those dusty Silver Crown cars out of your garages and get them down to DuQuoin in a few weeks!

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First time I got a pit pass and stood right against the first turn rail during practice. Hoooleeee Cow! What a rush!

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I've seen races with 50 cars that weren't half as good as this. I've gotten used to short fields and when the race is this good it more than makes up for it. Another plus is that it gets over early enough that you can go to another one afterwards anywhere within 4 hours! I like that inside rail idea, gonna try that next year!

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Great show. It was nice to see AJ win again, there's no place like home. As for Shane Cockrum, buy your crew a steak dinner, those boys earned it. Their never give up attitude was great to see.
As for the 100 miles, that was the best one I've seen in quite a while. Thanks for the show to the drivers, it's appreciated.

First trip to Springfield and we had a blast. One of the better SC races we have seen in a while. Congrats to Fike on the win and to Cockrum and his crew. What a tremendous effort after putting the car into the wall during practice. We enjoyed watching every lap. Will definitely plan to return next year


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I took Sandy down to the end of the front straight at DuQuoin a couple of years ago. There's a spot there in the infield where the wall makes a zig-zag. I positioned her there in the corner, stood behind her and as the field came down to take the Green, I loving wrapped my arms around her, preventing her from bolting as the still massed field pitched their cars sideway, bumpers pointed right towards us. Two things I learned that day, 1) Adrenaline make people REALLY strong and 2) She didn't learn THOSE words in Catholic School!
Now that's where you'll find her for the start of every Crown race, down at the end of the front straight as close to the inside guard rail as possible.

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It was really a great day. We certainly enjoyed ourselves and will be back next year. Fike may have won the race but Cockrum and his crew sure had a winning effort getting their buggy back together and finishing 5th.

Can't wait for Duquoin in 2 weeks!

I enjoyed it. It really is worth the price of the pitpass to watch aj fike run hot laps and pitch that car into turn one.

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I thought it was a good race. The main people who have complaints are once once again the people who sit home on their computer, as always.

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It really was a great race for the number of cars. Car count was THE ONLY negative. Fike really had to work for his second Tony Bettenhausen 100 title in a row.

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That was such a blast... great race, great competition... and best of all, we get to do again in two weeks..

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We just got home from Springfield early Monday afternoon and I will heartily chime in with everyone giving the Bettenhausen Memorial a thumbs up. It was a great show and was especially fun watching an Illinois boy get his second of back to back win's in a race that was completely in doubt up until the last 5 or 6 miles.

I do, however, think maybe A. J. got screwed out of winning the double when ARCA black flagged him for what they deemed as jumping the start while taking the green for the GWC restart. Haven't seen a race winner get booed at Springfield like Sunday's winner of the ARCA race did since AJ Foyt following a USAC stock car race back in 1979. That race had a few obvious sanctioning body shenanigans going on, too.

What a great 5 days at Springfield we had. Weather was great, Lake Springfield was at full pool, unlike last year during the drought, and some of the best racing you'll ever see, especially when you factor in the POWERi midgets at Lincoln Friday night and Macon Saturday night along with the racing on The Mile.

The only downside was way, way too many support divisions at Macon. Uhg!

We too are looking very much forward to doing it all again at Du Quoin in a couple of weeks!!

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Haven't been to Springfield in many years, but I've done every DuQuoin since 1965. Hope we have some decent weather this year. Isaac messed up Labor Day weekend last year.

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Originally Posted by ISF:
We just got home from Springfield early Monday afternoon and I will heartily chime in with everyone giving the Bettenhausen Memorial a thumbs up. It was a great show and was especially fun watching an Illinois boy get his second of back to back win's in a race that was completely in doubt up until the last 5 or 6 miles.

I do, however, think maybe A. J. got screwed out of winning the double when ARCA black flagged him for what they deemed as jumping the start while taking the green for the GWC restart. Haven't seen a race winner get booed at Springfield like Sunday's winner of the ARCA race did since AJ Foyt following a USAC stock car race back in 1979. That race had a few obvious sanctioning body shenanigans going on, too.

What a great 5 days at Springfield we had. Weather was great, Lake Springfield was at full pool, unlike last year during the drought, and some of the best racing you'll ever see, especially when you factor in the POWERi midgets at Lincoln Friday night and Macon Saturday night along with the racing on The Mile.

The only downside was way, way too many support divisions at Macon. Uhg!

We too are looking very much forward to doing it all again at Du Quoin in a couple of weeks!!

That was a ton of booing. You had Kovski fans convinced he won and Fike fans convinced he won and it was the third car to cross the finish line that ended up the winner. I'm waiting to see it on tv this coming Friday because I didn't see Fike take off on the restart. I was watching Kovski go from 3rd to 1st.

Also just curious, but were they telling people they couldn't go into the pits after the race on Saturday? We had pit passes Sunday and I saw them telling people that they weren't allowing anybody in without passes even after the race because of the concert.

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They said Saturday, if you left the pits you couldn't get back in if you left. That was after the races.Concert Saturday too.

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I remember getting thrown out of the pits at Springfield after a Crown race because the Beer Party was too loud for Heart to do their sound check!

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Arctic, actually Childers was encouraging folks to visit the pit area following the Bettenhausen Memorial.

We went through the main straightaway pedestrian tunnel to the pits both Saturday & Sunday and we didn't have pit passes either day.

In regards to Fike jumping the start, we talked to AJ after the race and he said ARCA told him that he jumped the start on Gallaher (#23) not on Poole which is what the black flag was for.

I don't understand, since the race had gone past the advertised distance anyway, why ARCA didn't just throw the yellow and do another restart. At the point of the GWC it was basically a two lap dash regardless of how many laps run under yellow.

Gallaher, Poole and especially their car owners are ARCA regulars and we've seen it many times at Springfield & Du Quoin that ARCA is not necessarily friendly to the guys that run only run the dirt. The regulars and the big money developmental teams seem to be much beloved by ARCA.

The Kovski crew members were really givin' it to the ARCA officials following the race and the Illinois State Police was making their presence extremely obvious.

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I remember getting thrown out of the pits at Springfield after a Crown race because the Beer Party was too loud for Heart to do their sound check!

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I was part of that Steiny, wasn't it the Bangles?

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Originally Posted by sprntr:
I remember getting thrown out of the pits at Springfield after a Crown race because the Beer Party was too loud for Heart to do their sound check!

steiny
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:8: Yep, remember that.

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Originally Posted by SpfldMile:
I was part of that Steiny, wasn't it the Bangles?

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Yeah it was the Bangles.

That party was tame by my standards Steiny! I won't be surprised if those music production A holes close up the pits entirely some day. I heard the mcquinn owner was pissed about not getting back in because he didn't have his wrist band but I think that might have been earlier. We had no problems getting in and staying awhile!

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Oh, that would explain it! They weren't nearly as screechly as Heart.

State Trooper: "Is there a problem here?"
"Yeah, we're outta Beer!" :7: