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September 14th, 1994
The Bloomington Speedway will finish its season Sunday afternoon with a big-paying non-winged sprint car feature. It will pay $7,500 to win.
The program will be run different than most - drivers will draw for starting positions in heat races. But there may also be a qualifying ``race'' - every driver who wants to qualify will put $100 into the pot, and the fastest earns all the money in the pot.
Hot laps begin at 2 p.m. and racing at 3. Also on the program will be street stocks, modifieds and dwarfs.
Randy Kinser has already wrapped up the track championship in the sprints, but the street stock championship is going down to the final day between Scott Patman and Denny Campbell. Patman leads Campbell by five points.
Among the entries for Sunday's race are Kinser, the track champ at Haubstadt as well as Bloomington; Sheldon Kinser, Jr., the track champ at Paragon; Dave Darland, winner of 13 features this year; Brad Marvel, the track champ at Putnamville; Tray House, near the top of the USAC standings, and the top three in the All-Star Circuit of Champions standings - Frankie Kerr, Kevin Huntley and Joey Saldana.
Other entries include Bob Kinser, Kevin Briscoe, Cary Faas, Jon Stanbrough, Page Jones, Jack Hewitt, Tony Elliott, Eric Gordon, Billy Puterbaugh, Danny Smith, Gary Fisher, Greg Staab and Joe Miller. Tony Stewart will run a V-6 sprinter.
A surprise entry comes from Mitchell's Hall of Fame driver Dick Gaines, who hasn't driven in 14 years because of eye trouble sustained in a crash.
``There's no doubt that I can drive this,'' Gaines said. ``An old feller can get with it on a slick track, which I expect it's going to be. I know how to drive sprint cars.
``My eyes are my only problem, especially at night. Sunday afternoon I wil be OK, especially if the sun's out.''
Gaines will drive one of the cars Briscoe uses for his Risky Brisky sprint car school. He also wants to wear the old-fashioned goggles instead of the full-face helmets now used, but he's having difficulty finding them.
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