Congrats to both Neitzel and Gurley. I remember seeing Scotty win there in an IRA race about 12-13 years ago, or so.

With Gurley winning, maybe next time they run non-wing sprints we might get a few more Indiana/USAC guys showing up? His yellow 12 car sure had the horses last night.

The storm was a bad one, too. When it hit, it hit. I hope everyone made it out of the place okay. The big asphalt ramps down to the parking lot were getting slick.

On a sidebar, I found a poster from Hartford Speedway from back in 1996. It was one that was put in store windows showing the schedule. With respect to the IRA Sprints, they ran Hartford SIX times that year!

Here was the list of sprint dates from 1996. Note that the Open Sprints were all winged sprints events:

5/3 Open Sprints
5/10 WoO
5/17 IRA
5/24 SOD
5/31 Open Sprints
6/7 Open Sprints
6/14 IRA
6/21 Open Sprints
6/28 All Stars
7/3 Open Sprints
7/5 Open Midgets
7/6 Open Midgets
7/12 SOD
7/19 IRA
7/26 SOD
8/2 Open Sprints
8/9 SOD
8/16 Open Sprints
8/23 Open Sprints
8/30 IRA
8/31 IRA
9/6 All Stars
9/14 IRA
10/11 WoO
10/12 WoO

It is quite an eye opener going back 19 years and comparing things.