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Originally Posted by Clark19
Just wondering if that was your best motor and was legal after USAC checked it why you didn't put it back together and run it the next night?
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This is a quote from Jerry Shaw's fabulous recount of that evening;
Midgets started off the program with bang. Three of those heats were the best three heats I'd seen all year. Three and four wide, banzai moves with little to no room to thread the needles that they were threading, like it was nothing! I love midgets on this track! When those heats were over I had a scratchy throat from yelling and a scrape on my left elbow from leaning far enough to contact the open wooden bleacher spot beside me. The track did kind of go away as the evening progressed and that did have an effect on the racing, some. It was still a really good race, though. East led for most of the early going, but was converged upon by Clauson and Hagen (at Granite City, that's what you call your worst nightmare) and when East dropped down to protect against Hagen, Clauson got around him on the outside and just slowly checked out. A Kyle Larson blown tire with two laps left provided Hagen with a last shot.
As they restarted, you heard the familiar sick sound that only a midget motor that is laying down can make coming from BC's car, opportunity knocked, Hagen answered the door and drove home unchallenged for the win.
It's amazing that BC was able to hold off Zach Daum, who was on a late race rampage and the always high-flying Brad Sweet, to hold on to the second spot.
I heard the same thing as Jerry, that engine was sick, so legal or not I'm thinking it needed pulled and sent to the engine Dr. anyway and the assembly would have been irrelivant.
Steve