King of the Midwest @ Burg
 

This coming Saturday May 3rd, King of the Midwest Sprints, $2000 to win!! Who will be crowned and wear the Kings robe!
Racing to Feature: Lawrenceburg Chevrolet Sprints-"King of the Midwest" Race, Budweiser UMP Modifieds, & the Impact Sports Pure Stocks
Healthcare Services Workers Night: Any individual who works at a health care facility (doctors office, hospital, specialist, etc.) who presents their employee I.D. badge along with a valid drivers license will receive FREE general admission)
Racing to Feature:
Lawrenceburg Chevrolet Sprints-"King of the Midwest" Race, Budweiser UMP Modifieds, & the Impact Sports Pure Stocks
Times:
Pit Gate: 4:00pm
Front Gate: 5:00pm
Hot Laps: 6:00pm
Racing: 7:00pm
Admission $15 adults, kids 7-12 $7 and 6 and under free
Pit pass all ages $30
www.lawrenceburgspeedway.com
Last year CJ Leary was crowned King of the Midwest Sprints!

For this weekends King of the Midwest Sprint car race at Lawrenceburg Speedway we will be doing group qualifying for the sprints.

Also, sprint car teams, you still have a month to use up your inventory of tires until the new tire rule takes effect.
Effective June 2nd, 2014:
The only tire allowed in competition will be the Hoosier 105/16-15 Med.

For races prior to June 2nd, teams will be allowed to use their current inventory of Hoosier 104/17-15DT or Hoosier 105/15-15 HT2 along with Hoosier 105/16-15Med.

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Gonna be a good chance for a lot of cars to run for a bit more money and a crown. Big Dogs out west and North.

Could there be a first time Burg Winner?
Can't wait!

:)

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Dave, what will the heat race invert be? Will there still be a redraw or just invert top 6 qualifiers for the Main? I assume everyone will spread out and get at least 3 full laps?
Looking forward to group qualifying! I've wanted that for a long time!

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King of the Midwest Sprint Format
May 3, 2014 - Lawrenceburg Speedway

All drivers must pull a pill before the draw closes at 5:30 pm to determine their hot lap/qualifying/heat race group.

You will be locked into a specific heat race group by your pill draw number. For example, if there are 24 cars the lowest 8 numbers drawn will be in the first heat, the middle 8 numbers drawn will be in the second heat, and the highest 8 numbers drawn will be in the third heat.

All sprints will hot lap in their heat race group and be given 3 green flag laps. The times will be recorded with your fastest lap counting as your official qualifying time.

Heat race lineups will be straight up by official qualifying times (of that heat race group) with the fastest 4 cars inverted.

Cars will transfer to the feature by heat race finish. The top 2 finishers in each heat race will redraw for their starting position at the front of the feature field. The remaining heat transfers will start straight up by heat finish.

If a B main is needed the lineup will be straight up by heat race finish. Transfers will start at the rear of the feature by B main finish, behind all heat transfers.

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Cool! Thanks Sandy!

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Originally Posted by Dave Rudisell:
Also, sprint car teams, you still have a month to use up your inventory of tires until the new tire rule takes effect.
Effective June 2nd, 2014:
The only tire allowed in competition will be the Hoosier 105/16-15 Med.

For races prior to June 2nd, teams will be allowed to use their current inventory of Hoosier 104/17-15DT or Hoosier 105/15-15 HT2 along with Hoosier 105/16-15Med.

We have GOOD Used DT3's and HT2's For Sale if anyone would like to pick them up at The Burg! PM Me.

Originally Posted by Sandy Lowe:
King of the Midwest Sprint Format
May 3, 2014 - Lawrenceburg Speedway

All drivers must pull a pill before the draw closes at 5:30 pm to determine their hot lap/qualifying/heat race group.

You will be locked into a specific heat race group by your pill draw number. For example, if there are 24 cars the lowest 8 numbers drawn will be in the first heat, the middle 8 numbers drawn will be in the second heat, and the highest 8 numbers drawn will be in the third heat.

All sprints will hot lap in their heat race group and be given 3 green flag laps. The times will be recorded with your fastest lap counting as your official qualifying time.

Heat race lineups will be straight up by official qualifying times (of that heat race group) with the fastest 4 cars inverted.

Cars will transfer to the feature by heat race finish. The top 2 finishers in each heat race will redraw for their starting position at the front of the feature field. The remaining heat transfers will start straight up by heat finish.

If a B main is needed the lineup will be straight up by heat race finish. Transfers will start at the rear of the feature by B main finish, behind all heat transfers.

So, all that is accomplished by group qualifying is the line up for the heat race.
QUALIFY the sprint cars! One lap per car. Driver vs. track. Then invert 4 for the heat races, staggered.Then "reward" a driver by giving his/her time back for the feature (with an invert by quick qualifier pill draw such as 2,4, or 6) or B-main if necessary.
All the fast cars could still be in the same heat race based on the pill draw, otherwise.
Qualifying is what makes sprint car racing unique. JMHO

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if you're gonna time trial, put the fastest in the rear or don't waste time qualifying

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Good decision lawrenceburg. Would like to see this format used every week. Fairest format possible.

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So lets see Johnny, Why would anyone give a effort to qualify well if they knew it penalized them?

While I too prefer single car qualifying if qualifyings done as a fan. Its the same system Kokomo uses to lineup their heats. The cars you race against in the heats are the same cars you qualify against, so you at least got a sense of how close you are to a decent setup vs qualifying a half hour later on a track thats drastically different than the first couple qualifiers.

It's a little bit fairer to the racers vs luck of the draw, Qualify good, Hold or gain position's in your heat and your starting up front. Pill draw, If you don't crack the top two in the heat cause you started eighth or tenth. Your SCREWED because you can never start better than seventh and probably a lot worse, If you finish fourth. you may start 16th.

Secretly I loved the Qualify and than have the Wheel of Missfortune spun by the fast qualifyer. With a wheel with straight up, four, six or all options. They did this at Eldora USAC 50th a couple years ago. it was great!

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well the main thing is, it looks like great weather o:23:nce again, so lets go racin!

The weather looks great! Hope to see you all tomorrow!

It's Raceday! Hope to see you all at the track tonight! Who will be crowned King of the Midwest?

Hope you all have a very safe and enjoyable evening of racing, looks like the weather will be perfect.....we will not be there due to a family event. See you on the 10th.

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On my way, Who will be KING?

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Leaving now

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My pick to be King is KT jr. He is pretty quick at The Burg!

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How many we have

19 cars

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Any updates would be appreciated. Sick at home and couldn't make it to the track. We own the 4P driven by Dickie Gaines.
Thanks

Anything happening yet Charles. Dying to know how Cottle is running.

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Heat winners were Garrett Abrams, Gary Taylor & Kevin Thomas, Jr.

Just finishing up with driver introductions for the feature.

Lineup
Jarrett - Westerfeld
Abrams - Thomas, Jr.
Taylor - Cottle
Goodnight - Simon
Hines - Gaines
Kinser - Moffatt
Webber - Stapp
Abel - Thomas
Owen - Semple
Spille

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Originally Posted by Go Fast:
Anything happening yet Charles. Dying to know how Cottle is running.

Cottle was fastest in qualifying group 2 and finished 2nd in his heat.

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Originally Posted by Go Fast:
Dying to know how Cottle is running.

Must be in the 2e, prepped by Gary Ooley :9:

Thanks Sandy had to do the mini Indy marathon today , so too
wiped out to make it to the racetrack. Steve, Cottle and Tony both got the car ready and did it all themselves

Kevin Thomas Jr. Wins

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Feature

1 - KevinThomas, Jr.
2 - Shane Cottle
3 - Logan Jarrett
4 - Shawn Westerfeld
5 - Gary Taylor
6 - Landon Simon
7 - Dickie Gaines
8 - Joss Moffatt
9 - Garrett Abrams
10-Ted Wise

Excellent racing. Jarrett led the first 15 laps before a yellow he had to hate seeing.
A bit dusty, but the wind blew here all day. Dave gave the boys an excellent track,
under the conditions, as evidenced by the racing we enjoyed tonight. Would have
been nice to have more cars, but the quality of those we had was top rate. :22:

Originally Posted by midgy:
Kevin Thomas Jr. Wins

Thanks Lisa
Heard it was KT then Cottle and Logan Jarrett

19 Cars in a King of Midwest???

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not many cars, but some nice surprises and some excellent racing. got to figure there were 15 of em out west with usac, several up on the lake with boss, more at the putt and Waynesfield, any sprints in s/w ind. tonite? no offence to the loyal mod teams at the burg, but with mods sign ins running so low, maybe its time to pull the plug and start up a midget program, would give a lot of the sprint and midget drivers a chance to double up every week and hopefully draw more of each, something to think about. congrats kt jr. and thank all the sprint teams who came out for putting on an excellent show, the the prep cre:6:w for another racey track

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Originally Posted by johnnythunderhead:
not many cars, but some nice surprises and some excellent racing. got to figure there were 15 of em out west with usac, several up on the lake with boss, more at the putt and Waynesfield, any sprints in s/w ind. tonite? no offence to the loyal mod teams at the burg, but with mods sign ins running so low, maybe its time to pull the plug and start up a midget program, would give a lot of the sprint and midget drivers a chance to double up every week and hopefully draw more of each, something to think about. congrats kt jr. and thank all the sprint teams who came out for putting on an excellent show, the the prep cre:6:w for another racey track

Yep Johnny replace the mods with midgets....maybe it will work as good as it has at Gas City :10:

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Wow, Another killer night at The Burg!

Knowing there was several tracks running, USAC out west and Fremont putting up 5G I didn't know what to expect getting to the track, Getting there about three and pulling past the ball fields I was happy about five were already back there. Then I see the Epperson trailer pull in, And a few others before the pit gate opened.

Grabbing my spot in the stands It seemed the track was a bit heavier than last week It was but it was also packed down good. I chatted with Moffatt and his dad for a good bit early on, Made a couple laps of the pits amazed at some of the quality that had shown up. Good to see KT.jr, Cottle, Dickie Gaines, Gary Taylor, Westerfeld, Goodnight, Landon Simon and his beautiful car. Stapp, Abel, Abrams, Webber. I was very pleased to see Ted Hines Return after his USAC spill. Welcome back Iron Man! and last car i seen unload was Logan Jarrett. Steve Thomas also snuck in as I hadn't seen him till qualifying.

Abrams really surprised me in the heat with his win, Congrats!
KT was the only runaway heat win and the heats were hard racing and competitive.

The track stayed good till after qualifying but the wind dryed it out and it was pretty slick for heats with a cushion to lean on. A little bit of low racing in 3-4 but mostly on the cushion with some ducking under and position swap sliders.

Shot of water before the feature brought the track back better and it actually got faster the longer the feature went on.

Logan Jarrett walked off for the first fifteen or so laps before the only caution of the feature came out for a thrown wheel cover, Not only did it kill the advantage Jarrett had before the yellow (Roughly as straight) but Cottle had ducked under KT for second only to have it taken away by the caution as the lap had not been completed.

After the lap 15 restart it was three under a blanket till about lap 21 when KT secured the lead from Cottle and Jarrett kinda faded to third. Westerfeld ran a fast race race to come home fourth. Landon Simon was nipped and got his fifth position stolen by Gary Taylor on the last corner of the last lap. Feature done at 9pm on the nose. Interesting note is after the restart Jarrett stayed commited to the cushion with westerfeld in tow while KT and Cottle were running low. I didn't expect the bottom to come in like that, but it did and it was faster at the end than at the start (At least it looked that way)

Mods were rough for the first few laps but after they got the fifth restart going the rest of the race went well. Kramer dominated over Nicely and Scotty Kincaid who put on a great battle for second all race.

Joey Kramer has often given the kids who drew his pill number his trophy. He did so again tonight and it looked like the kid was about three or four. and when he got back on stage, He held that trophy high and the crowd cheered. He was on cloud nine. A fan for life and it sure was a nice gesture from Joey! :)

Street stocks had a strong showing and great racing with Will McRobers dogged the whole race by Hensley and Brandon Gibson who stole second a couple times near the end but finished third. Beeler came from eight to fourth.

Racing done at ten, Home by 11

I thought it turned out to be a excellent night, Excellent turnout, decent crowd and weather was fantastic once the wind died down. Ten more mods and it would have been the Perfect show. The wrecker was only used once and that was to separate two mods. Local favorite Spille blew his sprinter in the heat race. Richie Lex Hotlapped and loaded up. Not sure.

KTjr. Is KING of the Midwest! It's good to be King! :8:

Thanks to the staff, teams and safety crews and the man above for the weather. :)

See you next week!

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haven't heard how its working at gas city, far as I know they've only had one show thus far. anytime you're starting a startup series at any track it takes time, so hopefully the midgets'll continue to build at g c and will build over the next year or so throughout ind and oh. they sure seem to be doing well in ill.:11; I know I sure do like em, I'm a fanatical fan of sprint car racing, but midgets are damn near as fast and a whole lot more agile

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Congrats to KT,nice hussle by Jarrett

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Theres not a darn thing wrong with the mods and the count is going to vary. Gotta figure, Brownstown (Big Points Purse) Twin Cities 1000 to win tonight, Florence, Eldora, Waynesfield and Puttnamvile and probably a couple others running them tonight. Even if theres a couple hundred the class is getting pulled in ten directions. One of our guys is in the Reserves so Adam Hamilton was serving our country and not at the track, Richie Lex broke in hot laps.

You still won't want to miss the Downey Memorial, Best race I seen all year last year running side by side for the lead for over half the race. :)

Chuck, Saying I don't think at this time a weekly midget show is viable at any track unless somebody were to form a 15 race series sanction like Namars or Cora used too and build a solid following, No offense but Powri has pretty much cornered the market and they often don't pull 25

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maybe the answer is to work with other tracks and have midgets one week, mods another and so on/ yup, sure do love them midgets, but guess its no big deal as long as we get incredible sprint car races week after week (knock on wood)

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I don't know what the answer is Johnny Im sure they're working on it. Working with another track like Moler or Whitewater might work.

I still say even a every other week Midget series wouldn't work. Once Midgets dried up in Ohio and thinned in Indiana, We had two races every year for awhile. Namars was one (The group based at 16th street) Would go out and race a race at several other tracks. And USAC was the other and is now part of Midget Week.

Used to be lots of Midgets, When I was a kid it was a Sprint/Midget and Beetle Booster track with LM's every other week or what is pretty much now Bombers as Stock Cars were pretty stock back in the 70s. Change some springs, shocks carb and tear the glass and plastic out of em and race.

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I have very little to add as Charles gave another thorough report. :6:

One thing I read on Facebook. The Simon's had a scary moment while on their way home:

"Dodged a bullet (almost literally) on the way home from Lawrenceburg Speedway tonight. As we were passing a semi truck, a ratchet strap flew off that semi and the metal hook smashed through the back window of the dually, covering us all with shards of glass. Amy and I, being in the back seat, even have glass in our shoes and our ass cracks! True story. Thankful we are all ok, including Landon and Sarah. Sounded like a bomb went off. Max is ok, too!"

Glad all are okay. It could have been much worse. The truck driver never bothered to stop.