Thread: Spoon river?
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dirtnonwingfan (Offline)
  #4 11/16/08 6:42 PM
Duke, I love the track. However, Lloyd is right. The place has been a dust bowl almost every time I went. Also, I don't know if they have lights in the parking lot yet, and it has (or had the last time I was there) a lot of little ruts/streams beds running through it. I believe it was a couple of years ago they ended way after midnight. We went the next race so show support. Someone had to go to the hospital and we had a long wait for another ambulance, but it finally came. Then, during a yellow, the red was thrown. Turns out that there are apparently only two ambulances for the whole county (rural area) and the one at the track had to leave for an emergency. Long wait until we got another one. We stayed and saw Cameron Dodson win his first sprint car race, but it was late. Within the last year or so they also canceled what was supposed to be the last leg of a 3 race weekend in central Illinois a day or so before the race. The fact that any fans come speaks to how good the fans around hear really are.

It is very wide and very high banked. 4 sprint cars wide or 5 midgets wide is not a problem. If properly prepared and managed, I think it would be great. There is no track in the country I would rather see become a well-run sprint car track. It could be great!

Frank Daigh