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How many cars can we expect at Eagle and McCool Junction May 2nd and 3rd?

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As many as show up! Thats how many will be there!! :)

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It will be early in the season so USAC should be at their strongest ( many still have a shot at the top points positions), they should bring 12-14 cars, so if you have 20 local cars it will make for a nice field!

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FYI: Ossuks is a former USAC employee that has tarnished his reputation on here. Don't put your trust in anything he says.

Jim Fisher

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Now why would you want to make things personal? That was an honest response to a question! At no time have I ever made any personal comments about you? If I gave 2 cents what you think I would make a derogatory comment...but...since I do not,:22:I will move on.

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early in the year I would guess 18 to 20. Considering the Outlaws had 16 at Perris I would say that isn't too bad. They had over 20 in Florida, and there was only one FL car

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If some of the WAR boys from Missouri and Heartland guys from Rock Rapids, IA show up, I think we could see a decent field. Can't wait---it's been a long winter up here in Minnesota. See you in Nebraska.

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I will be taking my Grandson for his 16th birthday. He has never been to a non wing race. Needless to say we are both looking forward to this. :6:

Your grandson will love it I took my two boys to watch a cra race at eagle when they were still doing the eastern swing after seeing non wing spirit cars they didn't want to watch wings again

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The way the weather is, I'd toss a snow shovel in the car just in case.

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Getting closer. :) Just thought I would throw this out there, if anybody making the trip needs some help we would be happy to lend a hand to any team that is short crew members.

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Just a few days away now and looking forward to the USAC guys heading West, weather looks good for both nights at Eagle and McCool Junction. Really hoping for more than 20 cars but not matter what we'll still get the best of the traditional sprint car world!

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Leaving at 4:00 AM Friday morning from the Denver Colorado area for the two races (Eagle & McCool). Three of us fans will pick up or buddy who lives in Lincoln and head to the track. Can't wait!!! Several years ago the SCRA non wingers put on a good show at Eagle . This should be just as good if not better. Great track. Jim Bredenberg

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I am hoping for a good car count, but I would not count on many WAR guys making the trip. They will be racing at Lucas Oil Speedway on Saturday night with the ASCS Warrior region and the POWRi midgets. The POWRi midgets will be at Valley Speedway (Kansas City) on Friday night as well.

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My sister and I are leaving Vegas Wednesday morning hope to make both shows and Speedy Bills museum on Saturday!

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If you go to the museum on Saturday,you will be like the Maytag repairman. Tours are M-F at 2PM sharp

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Do any of you locals know what the whereabouts are this Fri for Ballou, the Modern Day Cowboy, Coons, and Cottle? I would think that Ballou & Clayton might head west (especially Clayton, given the cash in his pocket from last Sat, and that it's another gas it up bullring) -- but not sure about Coons and Cottle.

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Not the repairman! Group tour going with Counts of the Cobblestone car club from Rapid City SD
Maytag is way over rated Andrew!:D:5:

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Last I heard Ballou won't be making the trip.

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As far as car count, I wouldn't expect much. They are also running winged 360's on the card so I'm sure that's
what all the locals will run. You might see Don Droud jr. and 2 or 3 others but that's about it. Hopefully USAC will bring a strong contingent so it won't matter!

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Didnt know you were going with a group. Just didnt want to see a fan show up and wonder why the museum wasnt open....

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USAC has 13 of their cars at Eagle... I sometimes tell FISH stories but 13 appears to be the only # between 12-14? 13 USAC + 6 local for a total of 19.

19 cars total

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Chris Nunn reports there are 33 cars at Bloomington, and I think all you mention are there.

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Tracy Hines sets Fast Time over Cockrum Stockon Darland Mellenberndt Clauson Grant Schuerenberg Stanbrough Andretti Windom Bacon Leary Kadous Rost Brewer Schriever Stevenson. Moore no time.

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MDC wasn't at Bloomington.

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C.J. Leary wins Heat 1 over Grant Darland Hines Andretti Brewer.


Chris Windom wins Heat 2 over Schuerenberg Cockrum Kadous Mellenberndt. Schriever DNF

Jon Stanbrough wins Heat 3 over Bacon Clauson Stockon Rost Stevenson.

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Doing some quick track maintenance to try to get the cushion to move higher. Winged Sprint Car B Main is up next, then features

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This is the devil's agreement USAC has made with the idea they can count on local Indiana cars to support a so-called national series, when these guys can travel less than 100 miles and find a good place to compete, why go to Nebraska. More money, more prestige, more marketing, and appropriate amounts of media coverage to entice sponsorship and people in the stands. You have to stand out; no wings, no side covers, see the drivers, set yourself apart from a winged group that looks like modifieds on parade.

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Awful lot of badmouthing for 13 teams who spent the 5 grand just to get their cars there, hotels, pit passes. Learys rig blew up and he still made it somehow.

Its always iffy going into territory your not established. I didn't see any complaining when full fields and consis were run for two races in FL.

I agree however. The prestige of USAC is to run the best and get a big check and trophy at the end of the year. YOU HAVE TO MAKE THE END OF THE YEAR FIRST and if it bankrupts you to do so. Even though there are teams that can afford to run the series. Its awful tough to tow a thousand miles and run when there's 2000 and 5000 to win races within 200 miles of Indy. and 1400 in their back yards.

IDK, USAC should seek out some more corporate sponsors and at least boost purses for long haul shows. Seems like they get to a point they can't get past and it grows and shrinks accordingly.

I still remember when it was much worse and only 7 teams pretty much followed it and they even ran winged shows to draw some cars. (Lord don't let that happen again :) )

Start a eight- ten race USAC Midwest, In three years you'll have 30car fields with the National teams comin out.

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USAC Racing

Feature Lineup: Clauson Mellenberndt Darland Stockon Cockrum Hines Grant Schuerenberg Stanbrough Andretti Windom Bacon Leary Kadous Rost Brewer Schriever Stevenson Moore.

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22 to go - Stevenson spins - Grant leads above the cushion over Clauson Darland Hines Stanbrough Bacon Windom Cockrum Schuerenberg Leary...

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17 to go - Grant leads Darland Bacon Clauson Hines Stanbrough Windom Leary Cockrum Schuerenberg Stockon Andretti Mellenberndt Rost Kadous...

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Brewer gets turned over in turn-one on lap 14. He climbs out unhurt

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DARLAND leads with 11 laps to go at Eagle over Grant, Bacon & Hines

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Dave Darland wins tonight at Eagle over Grant Bacon Hines Clauson Stanbrough Schuerenberg Windom Cockrum Stockon Andretti Mellenbernd

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Way to go DD and the Phillip's Record's one race closer! :) Woohoo!

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Way to go team Phillips! Steve, Carla, Dave, Shawn and whoever else is out there. Good luck tomorrow night.

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Per Usacracing.com



Eagle, Nebraska…….For the 49th time in his illustrious career, Dave Darland drove his way to AMSOIL National Sprint Car victory lane in Friday’s “Rumble in the Bullring” at Eagle Raceway. The Lincoln, Indiana veteran became the first repeat winner of the season.

Bret Mellenberndt got the jump from outside the front-row, but polesitter Bryan Clauson snuck under him to lead the opening lap. The show early on, however, was Justin Grant, who started seventh but immediately jumped up above the cushion and made his way to the front. After rocketing off turn-two on lap five, he rode the cushion to the lead at the line.

After a short red flag for Cody Brewer, a lap-14 restart gave Darland the opportunity he needed to attack Grant. After getting a good run down the fronstretch, Darland dove down underneath Grant into turn-one and came away with the lead.

Grant did not give up, as he ran Darland back down with just a few laps remaining but bobbled on the turn-three cushion, allowing Darland to gain some breathing room and cruise to the win in the Phillips Motorsports – Racer’s Advantage Store #71P DRC/Foxco.

“Justin was really sailing around the top, but it was pretty choppy especially into one. I was just waiting to take advantage of that if I could. We finally got that restart and I had such a good run, I was able to slide him into there. It worked out that we got that opportunity and could get by him and to the lead when we did,” Darland said.

Grant repelled late challenges of Brady Bacon to retain the second spot in the Mark Hery Racing – Dick’s Paint & Body #40 DRC/Claxton.

“I really like this track, but not the result. (Car owner) Mark (Hery) and I talked and thought it looked like Kokomo on the nights we would go up above the cushion. We freed it up a lot and tried to do something spectacular. It was working for a while. I should have slid myself on that restart, especially with Dave behind me, but I hadn’t even gone anywhere but the top through that end. Dave is good and snuck under us. I got my rhythm back late and we were a little better, but there wasn’t much of anywhere to go,” Grant said.

Bacon was another one on the move in the feature, climbing from tenth to a podium finish in the Hoffman Auto Racing – Mean Green #69 Triple X/Stanton Mopar.

“It’s good to be good at the end of the night, but we have a few little tweaks to make to be sure we’re not buried so deep after qualifying. Tonight was a great recovery. The car was great both high and low. Once we got to Justin, I almost got him on the bottom a couple times and tried to slip up on him a little and he was able to use his momentum to get back past us,” Bacon said.

Fast qualifier Tracy Hines finished fourth in The Carolina Nut Company – Hansen’s Welding #4 DRC/Stanton Chevy and Clauson held on for fifth and continues to lead the series standings in the Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian Racing – Chevy Perofrmance #20 Beast/Kistler.

AMSOIL USAC SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: May 2, 2014 – Eagle, Nebraska – Eagle Raceway

QUALIFYING: 1. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-13.642; 2. Shane Cockrum, 66, Amati-13.756; 3. Chase Stockon, 32/TBI-13.769; 4. Dave Darland, 71P, Phillips-13.774; 5. Bret Mellenberndt, 97, Mellenberndt-13.906; 6. Bryan Clauson, 20, Stewart/Curb-Agajanian-13.938; 7. Justin Grant, 40, Hery-13.963; 8. Hunter Schuerenberg, 20N, Schuerenberg/Nolen-14.000; 9. Jon Stanbrough, 37, Dutcher-14.003; 10. Jarett Andretti, 18, Andretti-14.023; 11. Chris Windom, 11, Walker-14.089; 12. Brady Bacon, 69, Dynamics-14.138; 13. C.J. Leary, 30, Leary-14.362; 14. Dylan Kadous, 11x, RHR-14.714; 15. Tony Rost, 99, Rost-14.717; 16. Cody Brewer, 96, Brewer-15.158; 17. Alex Schriever, 0, Davis-15.166; 18. Brandon Stevenson, 0x, Stevenson-15.183; 19. Nathan Moore, 48, Moore-NT.

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Leary, 2. Grant, 3. Darland, 4. Hines, 5. Andretti, 6. Brewer. 1:48.77

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Windom, 2. Schuerenberg, 3. Cockrum, 4. Kadous, 5. Mellenberndt, 6. Schriever. NT

THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Stanbrough, 2. Bacon, 3. Clauson, 4. Stockon, 5. Rost, 6. Stevenson. 1:50.37

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Dave Darland, 2. Justin Grant, 3. Brady Bacon, 4. Tracy Hines, 5. Bryan Clauson, 6. Jon Stanbrough, 7. Hunter Schuerenberg, 8. Chris Windom, 9. Shane Cockrum, 10. Chase Stockon, 11. Jarett Andretti, 12. Bret Mellenberndt, 13. Tony Rost, 14. C.J. Leary, 15. Cody Brewer, 16. Dylan Kadous, 17. Brandon Stevenson, 18. Alex Schriever, 19. Nathan Moore. NT
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**Brewer flipped on lap 14 of the Feature.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-4 Clauson, Laps 5-13 Grant, Laps 14-30 Darland.

NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-Clauson-398; 2-Bacon-390; 3-Grant-376; 4-Darland-372; 5-Stockon-367; 6-Hines-361; 7-Stanbrough-342; 8-Schuerenberg-300; 9-Windom-264; 10-Leary-229.

NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: May 3 – McCool Junction, Nebraska – Junction Motor Speedway