First race was motorcycles at the Peoria Civic Center at a couple years old...

First race would have been at Spoon River Speedway for a weekly show...

First sprint car race would have been the Tom Knowles...I think Beechler won...

First non-wing race was really the Crown cars and the midgets at Springfield in 89/90...I'm really having to think about the first actual non-wing sprint race but starting out as a Late Model guy in central Illinois, we weren't exposed to that cup of tea until I got my driver's license...