[767]

Looks like they are expecting at least 28 cars tonight. Normally get an extra car or 2. Who all is headed to Indiana's badest bullring?

[staggerman]

I would expect another 7-10 cars to show on top of the 28 pre-registered. I have seen social media posts that Bryce Lucias and Darin Naida are also coming

I’ll be there, should be a quick efficient show as that is one thing High Limit is good at.

[miledirt]

Huge crowd

[Dirtfan]

Good crowd,good race,very efficiently ran event,checkers shortly after nine.
Felt so bad for Justin Peck,led the whole race,Rico nipped him at the end.

[Rich Mersereau]

once again "fans" flock to the grimm post about race tracks that closed and are gone. Kokomo Speedway is never going to close because the owners work their tails off to provide real race fans with the best dirt track racing the planet has ever seen ! ! ! ! ! Thank you O'conner family

[767]

HUGE crowd for this being NON WING Country! I couldn't resist. With the high rain threat, I was extremely surprised by the crowd. This was supposed to be a bunch of 1 time a year race fans. I am glad the fans were treated to some excellent racing to. I get the wing hate, but they sure are fun to watch on the small tracks.

Peck proving that team still has it.
Courtney proving they are still slightly off. If he was ever going to stay infront of the 49, Kokomo is the place he would have done it.
Rico, never give up.
Why is Brady Bacon not in a top National Tour seat? Solid night.

[Grocery Guy]

Amen on the HUGE crowd! SRO! Even Jim O'Connor was looking for a seat at feature time. He had to stand off turn 4. I think attendance would have even been larger had rain not scared off some fans. Parking was scarce on the north side of the track, with many cars and trucks parked along the highway past the former waste plant. Is Kokomo adding in new stands to the end of the new grandstands? They need more seats for these special shows.

Clearly High Limit race nights are a complete entertaining show. Qualifying, driver songs, spin the wheel for dash positions, interviews, and an emotional Driven to Save Lives letter to the audience. Fireworks before and after the feature! Tony LaPorta does a great job interviewing. Speaking of fireworks, watching the feature was like watching a video game! Drivers dicing in and out of lapped traffic for positions. Yeah, not much passing in the heat races, but the feature made up for everything. I think Peck dropped to the bottom to prevent a slide job, and Rico was hammer down on the top side! WOW.....what a photo finish. I was in my car heading home at 9:10pm. Kudos to the many fans that were heading to the pit area to meet the drivers and teams.

Here is the High Limit You Tube video of the feature. Watch the finish!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=valjqcNIKNM

[okie]

Bacon was in one last year but fired himself

[flagboy55]

Great night at Kokomo! Everyone involved should take a bow. Especially the crew at Kokomo for their impressive improvement to the front stretch. Well done

[ISF]

Originally Posted by 767 HUGE crowd for this being NON WING Country! I couldn't resist. With the high rain threat, I was extremely surprised by the crowd. This was supposed to be a bunch of 1 time a year race fans.

It's great that the O'Connor's had what appeared to be a profitable night of racing.

That said, bring that same show over here to the land of the dirt late models and see how it goes. It's a safe assumption that the Kokomo regular crowd was heavily represented. It might be that the High Limit wingers were similar enough to what races regularly at KS to impart interest.

Fairbury hosted the WoO Sprint Cars two years in a row a few years ago. They promptly dropped them from the schedule after the second show sighting losing money as the reason. This was before High Limit existed so the WoO's was the king of the mountain of wingers at that time. It was also Kyle Larson's first two appearances at Fairbury and a lot was made of that in the days leading up to those events hoping to increase interest. As many of you already know Larson returned and won the vaunted Prairie Dirt Classic.

The WoO's Sprint Car show was a totally different crowd from the usual late model/modified/street stock people and you could get a seat 'bout anywhere you wanted. As was the case at Fairbury, tribalism to a specific genre' plays a significant role regarding the success or failure of the event's in question.