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#1. Poweri National Midgets, "The Battle at the Center", Du Quoin State Fairgrounds. One of the best dam midget races I've seen in years.
#2. USAC National Sprints, the THAT edition of "Indiana Sprint Week", Terre Haute, IN. Great race from green to checkers.
#3. USAC Silver Crown, "The Hoosier Hundred" Indiana State Fairgrounds. A pretty good show from green to checkers.
#4. The Indianapolis 500. No need to expand on this race.
#5. USAC Silver Crown, "The Ted Horn Memorial". The Magic Mile on the Du Quoin State Fairgrounds. The first 25 miles of this race were as intense and exciting as you will ever see from these cars on a mile dirt track. Clauson and Larson went after each other as hard as it's possible to do so. The first 1/4 of this race more than made up for Kyle stinkin' up the remainder.
Honorable mention must go to 2 or 3 shows at Ventura Raceway we were lucky enough to have watched on Ventura's free internet feed. We have never been to the track so I can't take credit for witnessing them in person but a couple or three of those races we watched on the internet were fantastic. Too bad the God awful announcing somewhat spoils the excitement on the track. Maybe they'll wise up out there and replace him with someone good.
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Silver Crown Championship Dirt Cars properly driven on a one mile dirt track are classic poetry in motion. Using that analogy, Jack Hewitt is one of the greatest poets of all time.
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Last edited by ISF; 12/30/11 at 11:15 PM.
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