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Driver and Car Owner Quotes on the Belleville Midget Nationals and High Banks race track:
To me, Winning Belleville is like watching Dale Earnhardt winning the Daytona 500. Belleville is so much fun to go to. The atmosphere is second to none. I just can't put it into words what it meant to win that race. - Jerry Coons,Jr
"Every one tells you all these stories that scare you ... that they got these numbers on the turns because you don't know where you are. And it's true. You don't know where you are. Comin' into (turn) three you need to look at what's going on coming out of four or else you'll be in trouble." - Ricky Gray
"She's like the Daytona for Midgets. She's pretty awesome. They said it has a little bit of a straightaway down the front but I haven't found it yet. You gotta to know who you are racing with because one little bobble can cost you some time of a car or anything else." - Brad Noffsinger
"It's not like anything I had been to before. It's kind of an egg-shaped 'D' the way I look at it. I'd heard how high-banked and fast it was and they weren't lying. It's kind of a harder track to pass on because it is so fast. I think even the slower guys are pretty quick here. You've gotta really be sharp to do any passing. Everybody just said they run it up against the fence so I figured we could handle that part of it." - Jack Hewitt
"There's probably only a hundred feet of straight straightaway down the front but the backstraight is pretty much just a big sweeping curve. If you don't have respect for this race track, it's gonna bite you." - Greg Vernetti
"There's no resting at Belleville," says Indy 500 Veteran and defending Nationals Champion, Johnny Parsons,Jr . "It's a driver's track. It's not like a mile or a flat half-mile track where you can rest on the straightaways. At Belleville, you're always running right up by the guardrail and you have to drive the car.. You can't let up. There isn't a straightaway where you can rest." - Johnny Parsons,Jr
"I mean everybody who was anybody was at Belleville, and they had their best cars ready to go there. It was a great race for me to win. I was on a tear there, running wide open and jumping the cushion and never lifting. I never stopped racing like that until the checkered flag flew." - Jeff Gordon
"To Win Belleville means everything to me," People speak of the Midget Nationals with Great respect and when you say you won, then you can say it with special sense of pride." - Car Owner Larry Howard
The first time I went to Belleville, I took 2 midgets out there. I'm standing in the infield and those cars started whipping around that place so fast that it made the hair stand up on the back of my neck! It gave me the chills; I've never had a racetrack do that. - Car Owner Mike Sala
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