WAR Sprints at Belle-Clair Friday April 15th
 

Belleville, IL – This Friday, April 15th Belle-Clair Speedway will be hosting the Non-Wing Nationals, featuring BOSS Chassis WAR Non-Wing Sprints, Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micros, Mod Lites/Dwarfs and the Vintage Cars. This will be the first ever appearance of non-wing sprint cars at the high-banked 1/5th mile oval. After being rained out for their season opener at I-35 Speedway, the April 15th show at Belle-Clair will kick off 2016 for the BOSS Chassis WAR Non-Wing Sprints before the series travels to Saint Francois County Raceway on Saturday.

The Speedway Motors POWRi 600cc Outlaw Micro Series will also be in attendance Friday, beginning their 2016 tour, as well. This will be the first of 12 shows the POWRi Micros will run at Belle-Clair Speedway in 2016. The POWRi Micros put on fantastic shows with close-quartered, side-by-side racing. In 2015, Joe B. Miller, Aaron Andruskevitch, and Dereck King all took victories when POWRi came to town. Also racing alongside both classes and making their first appearance at Belle-Clair, the Mod Lites / Dwarfs will be running Friday night.

Spectator gates will open at 5:00pm, hot laps at 6:30pm with racing following hot laps.
General Admission is $15.00 Kids (under 12) FREE with adult. For more Information, go to www.belleclairspeedway.com.

Friday 4/15 Classes
WAR Non-Wing Sprints
Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro Series / BOSS Micros
Mod Lites / Dwarfs
Vintage

Friday 4/15 Times
Pit Gates Open – 3:00pm
Spectator gates open – 5:00pm
General Admission – $15.00, Kids (under 12) FREE with adult
Hot Laps – 6:30pm, racing following hot laps

Re: WAR Sprints at Belle-Clair Friday April 15th
 

Wonder if the Cushion will look anything like this at the end of the night?


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Re: WAR Sprints at Belle-Clair Friday April 15th
 

I wonder if Red70Racer's head will be in your next Pic?

He might be,as he sits near me quite often in the past. Wally Mcduffy introduced us a few years ago,and I hope to see Wally this year at Little Bellville. He was missing last year when I was over.


I'm planning on going over after work on Friday. I love the place for midgets.and have wondered how traditional sprints would be there.

Steve Cording has an even better shot of the cushion after a midget race there. It was about 3 feet tall. I have better shots myself, but they must be in my camera instead of my phone.

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I cannot imagine Jeff not being there for this one. Yes I do expect a really nice cushion to lean on

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The red 70 sprint car will be present and accounted for at Belleville Friday night
I'm a thinking I'll be in the pits instead of my favorite roost coming out of turn 2
We did a test & tune once at Belleclair with our midget and non wing sprint car, Pete in the sprint and Howard Worrell in the midget, the midget destroyed the sprinter as far as quick, but the sprint car was cool as hell going around there
We're excited to get the season started close to home

Re: WAR Sprints at Belle-Clair Friday April 15th
 

Saw Peter the other night and he seemed pretty excited about running the sprint car there. Should be fun. Been looking forward to this one. Joe B looked pretty exciting when he practiced a few weeks ago.

Brian

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Would love to see the sprints at Belle-Clair, but I guess I'll head to the USAC show at Bloomington this time. Hopefully they will run the sprints again this season (in conjunction with the POWRi midgets would be nice)!

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I'm with Rom on this one. I"d love to see non wing sprints there but with the way my health is, the hour and a half to and from Bloomington for USAC sprints sounds a lot better than the three hour one way trip to little Bellville even though if PowrI midgets running I don"t have any kind of problem lol :8:

WAR Sprints @ Belle-Clair
4/15/16
Fastest car in hot laps: Joe B Miller 11.44
19 cars
Heat 1 finish: Chris Parkinson, Joe B Miller, Shane Cockrum
Heat 2 finish: Tucker Klausmeyer, Austin Brown, Terry Babb
Heat 3 finish: Zach Daum, Steve Thomas, Clinton Boyles

A Main Line-up: Klaasmeyer, Boyles, Babb, Miller, Parkinson, Daum, Brown, Cockrum, Thomas, Muths, Lawrence, Potter, Pallazollo, Leer,
Genkinger, Buckley, Budde, Clark, Johnson.

Running mod lite A now, then Micro Bs, Vintage A, then a little track work before Sprint A

Vintage cars are pretty cool. Heats weren't to bad for sprints for the first time here.

17 down. Red-Austin Brown turns over.

Great race so far. Babb leads over Miller, Boyle, Daum and Cockrum.

Sprint A Main Finish (30 laps): Joe B Miller wins! Followed by: Boyles, Daum, Cockrum, Klaasmeyer.

Sprints put on a GREAT show!

Great sliders for the lead last night between Miller and Terry Babb, till Babb got caught up in another cars spin.

For never having non wing sprints at Little Belleville before, I thought the racing was pretty decent. WAR is back there in July.
POWRi midgets there in 2 weeks, so you know where I'll be that night with my camera in hand.

I even made it to Tri City just in time for the MOWA sprint feature......

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How was the crowd at Belleville last night? I'd really like to see the WAR series do well in the metro area. Flipped a coin myself and went to Granite.

Babb and Miller both rode the wall to squeeze past the car that spun out. Babb just sneaked through but stalled and couldn't re-fire. He and Miller had been trading sliders every corner up until that point. Hated to see it end. I could've watched that show for a few more laps.

WAR Sprints will be back at Belle-Cair on July 8th. I wouldn't miss it!

The crowd appeared to be friendly enough.i didn't see any rioting from my vantage point.:D

Crowd was larger at Granite City. Racing was better at Little Bellville.

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And yes there was a cushion there Friday night. Taken just after the sprint A-main as I was heading out the gate to to to Granite City.......

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Looks good!