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Originally Posted by ronmil
If memory serves me correctly, the first-ever Silver Crown run under the lights at DuQuoin was run after the fair because of a rainout. It was either in 2001 or 2002. I remember Tyler Walker blew the track record to smithereens. I believe it was fairly well attended.
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I believe the race you refer to was in Sept. of 2003. Rich Tobias Jr. won it and by all accounts it was a very, very good race. At that time we were still going over to Eldora for the World 100 every year and the rain date for the Horn Memorial was the same weekend. We made the bad choice to go to the World 100 instead of back to Du Quoin for the rain date make up. The World 100 was a yawner, as it tends to be as often as not and we heard nothing but raves regarding how entertaining the Horn Memorial was. I regret that decision to this day. Those who we talked to that were at Du Quoin said the crowd was pretty good. It was Rich Tobias Jr.'s only Silver Crown victory.
Despite the fact that the last 3 or 4 Bettenhausen Memorial's have been superb racing and exemplary car counts we haven't seen a noticeable uptick in crowd size at Springfield. I'm baffled as to the reason for that being the case.
But, if Sarge gets the go-ahead to run the traditional races at the mile's it would be great and fitting if the support was equal to the efforts that it will take for him to get this done!
