Anyone that can do updates from tonight's two-for-one Sprint Car show at Hartford? It would be most appreciated.

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Wes Stafford

I'm not there but from what have heard there are 12 winged sprints and maybe 12 nw. Will post any updates I see. Looks like 2 IRA guys and some solid 410 locals for winged.

Winged heat winners Neitzel and Daggett

Winged feature line up
Lamberson, Mann?
Daggett, Neitzel,
Ruhl, Schultz

MTS Feature winner Chris Gurley

Ruhl and Mann wrecked battling for the lead.

Neitzel leads Lamberson and Daggett.

Neitzel wins. Lightening in the area. Pouring down rain after the finish. Updates came from Neitzels Twitter.

Chris Gurley won the MTS 410 Non-Wing Sprint Feature . About 16 or so Non-Wing Sprints there tonight.

Congrats to both Neitzel and Gurley. I remember seeing Scotty win there in an IRA race about 12-13 years ago, or so.

With Gurley winning, maybe next time they run non-wing sprints we might get a few more Indiana/USAC guys showing up? His yellow 12 car sure had the horses last night.

The storm was a bad one, too. When it hit, it hit. I hope everyone made it out of the place okay. The big asphalt ramps down to the parking lot were getting slick.

On a sidebar, I found a poster from Hartford Speedway from back in 1996. It was one that was put in store windows showing the schedule. With respect to the IRA Sprints, they ran Hartford SIX times that year!

Here was the list of sprint dates from 1996. Note that the Open Sprints were all winged sprints events:

5/3 Open Sprints
5/10 WoO
5/17 IRA
5/24 SOD
5/31 Open Sprints
6/7 Open Sprints
6/14 IRA
6/21 Open Sprints
6/28 All Stars
7/3 Open Sprints
7/5 Open Midgets
7/6 Open Midgets
7/12 SOD
7/19 IRA
7/26 SOD
8/2 Open Sprints
8/9 SOD
8/16 Open Sprints
8/23 Open Sprints
8/30 IRA
8/31 IRA
9/6 All Stars
9/14 IRA
10/11 WoO
10/12 WoO

It is quite an eye opener going back 19 years and comparing things.

I'm very thankful for all the car and fan response for this being a show that was put together at the last minute. We did everything possible to shove the show along as fast as we could as the rain was inbound. All the drivers were wonderful to work with, but we have a bit to work on as a racetrack yet for us to get up to a Kokomo level of performance. #Goals

I do believe we will be hosting a few IRA races next year

Sprint Results from Hartford August 14th:

MTS Sprint Cars
20 Lap Feature
1. #12 Chris Gurley
2. #19 Joe Bares
3. #48 Mike Burkin
4. #0 Steve Irwin
5. #2 Mike Galajda
6. #89 Chris Pobanz
7. #35 Mark Strpko
8. #79 Dick Mahoney
9. #100 Tom Patterson
10. #10s Jay Steinbach
11. #48m Mike Moore
12. #00 Joe Irwin
13. #5k Dave Ockerman
14. #18 Mark Irwin
15. #44 Tom Davies
16. #24 Eric Smith
17. #19x Brett Mann

Open Winged Sprints

20 Lap Feature (Rain forced race to be checkered after 13 completed laps)
1. #2w Scotty Neitzel
2. #2m Dustin Daggett
3. #5j Jeremy Schultz
4. #71H Brad Lamberson
5. #1A Mark Aldrich
6. #58 Tony Bures
7. #19m Brett Mann
8. #16x Ryan Ruhl
9. #24 Eric Smith
10. #89 Chris Pobanz
11. #35 Mark Strpko
12. #19j Linden Jones

That would really be nice if both parties could pull that off. The IRA used to run Hartford, I-96, and Butler pretty much every year. But over the past half dozen, or so, they have cut back to staying in Wisconsin with a trip once in a while to LaSalle. I cannot blame them. The economy kills things like traveling. It always amazed me the number of cars they would bring over in past years to run Hartford on a Friday Night. Not only taking off early from their day jobs, but navigating the Chicago area traffic. The latter alone would keep me home every time.