You folks out here are just too nice! (and I say that in a good way -I love living out here!!) Before making my comments I will preface them with the fact that I love Haubstadt and agree that Tom Helfrich puts more work into his track surface than 95% of the others. Saying all that my opinion is that management should give their top division the best surface possible to run their feature on and Saturday night they did not. At Williams Grove the 410 sprints always run their feature first and if another division had come out on the track before them like Saturday it would have been loud and ugly. It was the dustiest I have ever seen Haubstadt but the racing itself did not suffer from the dust. It was still a good race with lots of action. I enjoy the UMP modifieds a lot at different tracks and the feature that night was really great. The racing was close & tight and very entertaining. My feelings about Levi Kissinger's comments in victory lane was that he should have just apologized to Mark Lamonte and just said he didn't mean to do it (which I agree he probably didn't) and left it at that but then saying Lamonte was already spinning before he hit him was trying to place the blame on the wrong person. The booing back East would have been deafening. Being that 75% of the fans, drivers, owners and crew members live in the Eastern Time Zone that should be taken into serious consideration when determining the order of events. We drove three hours to be there as others did and enjoyed the racing very much but arriving home after 2 AM can be very tiring and make you drag the next day.

Bruce Eckel