There are a lot of tracks running sprint car shows against each other on Saturday nights. It makes good sense to move the Danville sprint car show to either Friday or Sunday as not to run both of his tracks against each other on Saturday. There are as many as six tracks or sanctioning bodies already running against each other on many Saturday nights. The question is, which night would be best to move the sprint car program to, Friday or Sunday?

A couple of years ago Bill Nelson ran a once a month sprint car show on Friday night at Danville and drew between 45 and 55 sprints at each show. He ran against Bloomington and Gas City and did quite well. You now have Morgan Co. Speedway in Jacksonville, IL running sprints a couple of times a month... but not a regular weekly sprint program. Friday does create some problems for racers who might not get off work in time to pull to a Friday night show.

Sunday nights seem to be the most promising for car counts. The only other track running a regular sprint car program is Kokomo. There are plenty of Illinois sprinters and sprinters that do not go to Kokomo to make a good weekly car count. It would make sense to start a Sunday program two hours earlier to allow for the time difference between Indiana and Illinois and to allow teams and fans who work on Monday to get out at a reasonable hour.

It would be a shame to eliminate the sprint cars at Danville. There has been plenty of support from the sprinters and fans. The racing has been very good. I don't blame Joe Spiker for not running two sprint shows against each other at LPS and Danville on the same night. My vote would be Sunday evening at Danville with hot laps at 5pm (local time) and racing at 6pm with a goal to be done by 10:00pm.

Joe