The highlight of our spectating season was The Ted Horn Memorial 100. Hands down the best USAC Silver Crown race I have ever seen, and we've seen quite a few. Aaron Pierce (among a few others) put on a show for the ages before getting a little too close to the wall.

Belleville Nationals was a great show as well. Belleville is always special given that we get to hang out for 3 days with some great people in addition to some great racin'.

1.) Little 500. Only a 2 year veteran of this race and regularly wonder why we haven't gone in the past.

2.) Indy 500. The last 3 or 4 500's have been more than memorable and 2015 was no exception.

3.) Sumar Classic. Silver Crown cars THAT are 'bout as good as it gets.

4.) Indiana Sprint Week. Due to career obligations and weather we only got to THAT this year during ISW but as always it was worth the 3 hour drive.

5.) Belleville Midget Nationals & Silver Crown. Belleville is scary fast and special even if the drivers pedaled big wheels around the place.

6.) Tony Bettenhausen Memorial 100. A good race, not quite as good as Du Quoin but a good one, nonetheless.

7.) Allen Crowe Memorial 100. The ARCA stock cars seldom disappoint at Springfield and 2015 was another good race.

8.) Bill Waite Memorial. La Salle Illinois is a great track and this race packs 'em in. Racing was very good, as usual. What made this evening special was we got to hang out with our good friend Mrs. Bob (Dee) Tattersall and Jack & Jody Hewitt (who had their 2 seater there giving rides) all in the same pit stall. There were some stories bein' told, that is for sure.

9.) Gold Crown Midget Nationals. Made the drive from Rend Lake over to Granite City, IL and got to see some great racin' and got to hang out with our friend from Kansas, Bob Nikkel and for the first time got to meet his daughter, who may be the newest race fan Bob has succeeded in indoctrinating.

10.) Ted Horn Memorial 100. As mentioned before, this was the best Silver Crown race we've ever seen and the popular winner is a new star of the series. What makes Du Quoin special is camping the whole week before Labor Day Weekend and relaxing on Rend Lake every day.

11.) Southern Illinois 100. ARCA at Du Quoin is generally a good show but the track came apart in turn 1 and kinda' put a damper on the last 30 of the 100 miles. I think they'll remedy that problem by running the fender cars at night from now on at Du Quoin.

12.) Jason Leffler Memorial. Wow, what can you say about that show for 2015 that hasn't been said. It was a great day with the weather 'bout as good as it can be in late October. Once again got to hang out with our Kansas Connection Bob & Bob. Oh, and for those that weren't fortunate to have been there, it was a GREAT race!

13.) Junior Knepper 55. We're looking forward to December 19th and being in the Southern Illinois Center for this one again this year. Also looking forward to hanging with out of town friends again and seeing how USAC does running this show for the 1st time.



Quantity is lacking a bit to suite us but the quality was remarkably high this year. Rainouts contributed to the lack of quantity and hopefully next year that trend will reverse itself.