Originally Posted by Flatrightrear:
If USAC had kept the Du Quoin race on Monday like it was for years and years people wouldn't be complaining about what Mr. Helfrich should or shouldn't do. Forget who's running what or when. I just pray Mother Nature let's us see anything on Sunday. Tom
Tom,
I believe they originally changed the date to Sunday night so that some of the NASCAR drivers (Tony Stewart, Ken Schrader) would be available for the ARCA race. Back in the day when the USAC stocks ran on Sunday afternoon, I would hurry back to Haubstadt, then drive back to DuQuoin on Labor Day for the Champ cars. I did this for many years. I stopped going to the stock car race shortly after USAC dropped the division. I did go to the ARCA sanctioned race at least once when it was a 200 lapper. That was simply more than I could take, and apparently it was the same for most others as they soon went back to 100 miles.