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The race that always gets me excited and pumped up each year, but especially this year, is the Indianapolis 500.
The Four Crown Nationals is a pretty close second, and the Ted Horn Memorial at DuQuoin has been a staple on my racing plate since 1965.
Last years Jason Leffler Memorial was the best race of the year. POWRi midgets at Belle-Clair are always a winner.
I don't attend any stand alone dirt late model races, but I believe I did see them run at Haubstadt in conjunction with a sprint car program, and they were OK.
I saw all the Silver Crown races that were run on dirt last year and they put on some great races, even on the miles where there is a potential for them to get strung out into a single file parade. That didn't happen at any of them last season.
I have attended probably a hundred events at Salem, but this year was the first time I had ever seen the ARCA series run there. There were obviously a lot of people there primarily because Chase Briscoe was competing. It definitely wasn't the most exciting event ever, but there was some drama at the end when Chase lost the right rear axle due to loose lug nuts. That was the only fendered car race I have attended recently, other than the Brickyard 400 each year, which I do because I am a creature of habit. Rarely any drama there either, unless a late race caution bunches up the field and you may have two or three laps of intensity.