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I can't make it to Haubstadt..

Any and all updates greatly appreciated!

POWRI heats attached

How many sprint cars made the trip to Haubstadt tonight?

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What ??? :11:

15 POWRi cars at Tri-State in Indiana :7:

32 USAC cars at Belleville, Kansas :6:

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Originally Posted by openwheelfan1 (Post 421085)

How many sprint cars made the trip to Haubstadt tonight?

Haven't seen a count yet but low teens

Thanks for updates guys..keep them coming

17 sprints. Heats attached. Hot lapping now

Mr.Funk is right.The more they pay the less cars show up.

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22 lps. 15 plymouth 25 waynesfield 29 Burg, 17 Tri State. Don't know on Paragon but lots of cars out tonight. with several USACers out of town as well.

Heat 1 finish. Ballou. Stockon. Stanbrough. Jackson. Briscoe. Boespflug. Karraker. Malone. Williams.

Heat 2 finish. C Short. Lyerla. B short. Schmidt.

POWRI Heat 1 finish attached. Wow what a race. Great battles throughout. 4 wide. Slide jobs. Could watch these midgets all night long.

POWRI Heat 2 finish attached.

POWRI feature lineup attached. Going to be an awesome 30 lap feature.

MSCS feature lineup

Jackson. Stockon
B Short. Lyerla
Ballou. C short.
Briscoe. Stanbrough.
Schmidt. 27
Boespflug. Wallace.
Mattox. Shelton.
Karraker. Brackett
Williams. Malone.

Green!!!

10 laps down. Stockon. Brady. Jackson. Ballou. Carson.

Halfway. Stockon. Brady. Ballou. Jackson. C short.

Ballou a half lap behind the leaders.

Stockon and short slicing through lap traffic

Jackson pulls in with 10 to go. Stockon. Brady. Ballou. C short.

C short pulls in 5 to go.

Finish. Short with a last lap last turn slider over Stockon!!!! Ballou finished 3rd. Wow. Heartbreaker for Chase. What. A. Race.

What a finish!!!!! Wicked slider going into 3 to take the win!!

POWRI feature. Red lap 9 for Klaasmeyer. He is out and ok. Wicked slide jobs going on. Hagen leading. Klaasmeyer is done for the night.

Wow. Crazy race. 3 red flags. Everyone ok. Hagen and Aiken were 1,2 and got tangled up. Aiken done. Hagen refires to the tail. Crazy stuff. Gage Walker new leader.

2 lap shootout. Running order. Walker. Neuman. Critter. Hagen. Brown

Gage Walker wins!! Malone got 2nd at the line and Neuman comes home 3rd. What a crazy race. Both the sprint and midget features were "full moon" races. Crazy stuff everywhere. For sure got my $20 worth tonight.

A good example of not needing 40 cars to show up at a race to make it great. Both the sprints and midget races started less than 20 and were great races.

POWRI feature finish attached.

Glad to see Gage get the win, such a great kid, great family that we knew from his quarter midget days

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The number of tracks running tonight may have hurt car count numbers, but not quality here for 5K to win MSCS.. Anytime you can run 40 Green to Checkered Flag laps with the field that was here tonight says something about these drivers. Hats off for the outstanding show! Tonight was an example of where running second was the place to be on the last lap. Congrats to Brady Short. Feel bad for Stockon. Carson Short and the Madman were having an all out war in the early stages. Nice job Madman on a 3rd on an off night for your team..............POWRI Midgets are an exciting addition to this MSCS show. Fast and furious slide job city with these cars as 1st & 3rd place finishers noted that the cushion was "Narly"..............Kids!.........First time POWRI winner too................ Critter Malone with a good midget finish after doing the double. Mods Exciting show as usual. Track superb all night again thanks to Tommy Helfrich and his staff. Enjoyable evening where my $20 was well spent.

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Ballou said in his interview post race that TSS had the fewest number of cars tonight but had the best race. Midgets were flat wild. Looking forward to Sept. 26 when POWRI returns. Track was tremendous...........again.

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Originally Posted by wildman92 (Post 421115)

POWRI Heat 1 finish attached. Wow what a race. Great battles throughout. 4 wide. Slide jobs. Could watch these midgets all night long.

Jen I could watch them too!!!!! Man great races in all 3 classes :8: Track was racey all night I also got my $20 worth:6: I like those PowerI midgets enough I'm heading to Bellville tomorrow :8:

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What a great night of racing entertainment! The C. Short - Ballou battle early was on the edge and the finish by Brady wasn't a surprise. Sure missed Kyle being there, but I know he was there helping Chet Williams. Seeing Chet start 9th in his heat, I will assume Kyle was the one to draw. LOL

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Noticed threads about other tracks tonight seems Haubstadt was only one free of dust all night long!!!!! Big THANKS to Tom and crew :8:

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The night started out a little bit tame. The sprint heats weren't great, by Haubstadt standards. Some passing, but not a bunch. Then the first Powri Midget heat rolled onto the track and just kicked the night right in the ass! Slicing and dicing, sliders, contact, cars bouncing off the walls and just utter chaos. Darren Hagen was the fastest car on the track and he finished third! That heat was just a preview of what we were all in store for, once it was feature time.

In the Sprint A-Main, Chase Stockon jumped out to the early lead and after Brady Short pried second away from James Lyerla, you had in place, the components of what would be the battle for the winner of the 2015 Hoosier Sprint Nationals. While this was unfolding, you had an excellent scrap for position that would eventually determine the other podium position. Carson Short and Robert Ballou would be such a hard fought battle and a fun one to watch, too. As each would just throw everything but the kitchen sink at one another. Robert would eventually settle this one with a perfectly thrown slider, in traffic, coming out of turn four. But he would have to fend off challenges from Carson for most of the rest of the race.

Chase Stockon was driving a beautiful race. So many times, Brady would catch him and apply serious pressure, but when they would come to groups of lapped cars, Chase would handle those situations slightly better than Brady and open up a nice lead, again. It just looked like this was his night and he was destined to be the winner. With about 7 to go, it looked to be sealed, as they encountered a group of back markers and Chase just put an aggressive slider on the whole group, all at once and would skate away, as Brady had to work a little more to clear the group. At that point, as the laps wound down, the lead appeared to be insurmountable. But, when they came out of 4 and Mo gave them the five to go, it looked like Brady had chipped away some at Stockon's lead and it was obvious, by the way Short was crashing the cushion, that he was coming after the leader. When they got the 2 to go, he was definitely closer and when the white flag flew, he had definitely moved to within striking distance. When they both came out of turn two on the last lap, Brady got very good bite and as they came down the backstretch, it was plain to see by the way Brady was not lifting going into turn three, that he had something in mind for Chase. He dove under him, cleared him and just made it stick. It was a beautiful move and a shocking one, too. Because for 39 and 1/2 laps, you knew who the winner was going to be and it in one fail swoop, that all changed. Brady Short was once again, victorious at Haubstadt. And it was of those moments at the race track, that after the checker had flown, everybody was kind of standing there in stunned silence, looking at one another, with the look on their face that said " What the hell just happened?" And in the post race interviews, Chase was in shock and why wouldn't he be. He had just been hit with a shot that he probably didn't even see coming and Brady was fired up, as he should have been. And Chase doesn't have anything to be ashamed of, because he was the man for almost the entire race and had his victory snatched away from him by a driver that just wasn't going to lose, tonight. And with a move that could well end up being the year's best, when everything is said and done.

And hats off to Tommy, Blake and that track crew. They gave the competitors a track that was so tacky that such a daring move could be executed, to secure the victory, so late in a 40 lap feature. And the track held up even after that, as the Powri midgets went out and ran a wild feature! There was a slidejob melee' in the middle part of the race between Gage Walker, Jake Neuman and Austin Brown that was so entertaining to watch! The two front runners were taken out on a pass for the lead late and you had a first time winner, in Gage Walker. I bet the young lady that writes his press releases can't wait to write this one. And the other impression I had tonight is how much difference a year makes for James Lyerla. Last year, he was in the way, in some of these features, for the most part. Now, this in this feature, he has elevated to the role of "tough out" for some of the best sprint drivers in the country. He was up on the wheel, tonight.

Jerry

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Originally Posted by Charles Nungester (Post 421108)

22 lps. 15 plymouth 25 waynesfield 29 Burg, 17 Tri State. Don't know on Paragon but lots of cars out tonight. with several USACers out of town as well.

We had 32 Sprints at Paragon tonight. Even a few regulars from LPS. That's a lot of cars spread out. Kokomo might have a decent count tomorrow.

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Originally Posted by Jerry Shaw (Post 421162)

The night started out a little bit tame. The sprint heats weren't great, by Haubstadt standards. Some passing, but not a bunch. Then the first Powri Midget heat rolled onto the track and just kicked the night right in the ass! Slicing and dicing, sliders, contact, cars bouncing off the walls and just utter chaos. Darren Hagen was the fastest car on the track and he finished third! That heat was just a preview of what we were all in store for, once it was feature time.

In the Sprint A-Main, Chase Stockon jumped out to the early lead and after Brady Short pried second away from James Lyerla, you had in place, the components of what would be the battle for the winner of the 2015 Hoosier Sprint Nationals. While this was unfolding, you had an excellent scrap for position that would eventually determine the other podium position. Carson Short and Robert Ballou would be such a hard fought battle and a fun one to watch, too. As each would just throw everything but the kitchen sink at one another. Robert would eventually settle this one with a perfectly thrown slider, in traffic, coming out of turn four. But he would have to fend off challenges from Carson for most of the rest of the race.

Chase Stockon was driving a beautiful race. So many times, Brady would catch him and apply serious pressure, but when they would come to groups of lapped cars, Chase would handle those situations slightly better than Brady and open up a nice lead, again. It just looked like this was his night and he was destined to be the winner. With about 7 to go, it looked to be sealed, as they encountered a group of back markers and Chase just put an aggressive slider on the whole group, all at once and would skate away, as Brady had to work a little more to clear the group. At that point, as the laps wound down, the lead appeared to be insurmountable. But, when they came out of 4 and Mo gave them the five to go, it looked like Brady had chipped away some at Stockon's lead and it was obvious, by the way Short was crashing the cushion, that he was coming after the leader. When they got the 2 to go, he was definitely closer and when the white flag flew, he had definitely moved to within striking distance. When they both came out of turn two on the last lap, Brady got very good bite and as they came down the backstretch, it was plain to see by the way Brady was not lifting going into turn three, that he had something in mind for Chase. He dove under him, cleared him and just made it stick. It was a beautiful move and a shocking one, too. Because for 39 and 1/2 laps, you knew who the winner was going to be and it in one fail swoop, that all changed. Brady Short was once again, victorious at Haubstadt. And it was of those moments at the race track, that after the checker had flown, everybody was kind of standing there in stunned silence, looking at one another, with the look on their face that said " What the hell just happened?" And in the post race interviews, Chase was in shock and why wouldn't he be. He had just been hit with a shot that he probably didn't even see coming and Brady was fired up, as he should have been. And Chase doen't have anything to be ashamed of, he was the man for almost the entire race and had his victory snatched away from him by a driver that just wasn't going to lose, tonight. And with a move that could well end up being the year's best, when everything is said and done.

And hats off to Tommy, Blake and that track crew. They gave the competitors a track that was so tacky that such a daring move could be executed, to secure the victory, so late in a 40 lap feature. And the track held up even after that, as the Powri midgets went out and ran a wild feature! There was a slidejob melee' in the middle part of the race between Gage Walker, Jake Neuman and Austin Brown that was so entertaining to watch! The two front runners were taken out on a pass for the lead late and you had a first time winner, in Gage Walker. I bet the young lady that writes his press releases can't wait to write this one. And the other impression I had tonight is how much difference a year makes for James Lyerla. Last year, he was in the way, in some of these features, for the most part. Now, this in this feature, he has elevated to the role of "tough out" for some of the best sprint drivers in the country. He was up on the wheel, tonight.

Jerry

Thanks Jerry and Wildman92 for all the great updates throughout the night. Really appreciate it

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Originally Posted by Flatrightrear (Post 421149)

If a person was only at one track, how does he know which track had the best race without seeing the others? I am glad it was a good race, and it proves you don't have to have 50 cars to have a good race, but let it rest.

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Originally Posted by BrentTFunk (Post 421189)

We definitely saw a great race, last night. But, I guess for some people, seeing a great race isn't enough. They feel like they need to also tear other people's races down. Ones they didn't even see. I've never understood that.

Jerry

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I know some nights when we go to a race, the track isn't always the best. Weather, preparation, any number of factors may be the cause. But remember we are where we all want to be - one of the best places to be in the world at a dirt track watching sprint cars and sometimes midgets. At the end it doesn't get any better than that.