Not your fault but you have a bit of bad info. Ed Helfrich built the track next to his farm and opened it in 1957. The family has always owned the track but it was leased out for a short time in the early 1980's to Joe Koewler, an Evansville man who owned East Park Cinema and the West Side Drive-In Theatre in Evansville. After Tommy retired from driving the late models he got totally involved in the track and along with the lovely Loris worked hard at making improvements at the track and promoting it while Ed continued to prepare the surface and he taught Tom a whole bunch on that end. I don't have anymore solid stuff to offer but others might such as the professor Ron Miller. There coud've easily been a 200 lap race in '65. The track had two 100 lap LM features one night and that was a night of survival. They used to always open the season with Twin 50's featuring sprints and late models and also did Twin 50's on the holiday weekends. The weekly programs all through the 1970's were fantastic with premier drivers in both divisions competing. On a side note I talked to some people from Mississippi up for Sprintweek at Terre Haute and they were relatives of Jerry Inmon, a very tough driver who had some great battles with Tom at Haubstadt. Also, some of this info may be incorrect but I did write a good story.