I live a half an hour from Waynesfield and 40 minutes from Eldora but since we live in fear in Ohio I have been making more trips west this year. Last night I went to Lawrenceburg, making a return trip from last weeks rain out.
The sprint races were great with a couple of the heats being racy and watching Anton Hernandez come from fairly deep in the pack in the feature was very enjoyable. He made a few very aggressive slidejobs that might be on the edge for a local show but if he is going to make it on the national level that's how those guys get it done.

Now, I am the kind of guy that goes to a track for the sprints and then like to stay for the rest of the classes if it is within reason and I must say that almost every time I go to L-Burg the modified class is a clown show. This night was no different as it took multiple restarts and then the transponder system went down and so they struggled with getting cars in line. By the time they were done, they had cars that caused cautions starting in front of cars that had not and then started having issues with cars overheating as they were trying to get in order. Once they did get started they couldn't get any rhythm as they would only go a few laps before another caution.It appears to me that they have a pull off lane in the backstretch that isn't off of the track so even when cars did get off of the track they still had to throw a caution to push them farther off of the track.Even when the event did finish after 40 minutes(no joke), I cannot tell you who won because the announcer just kept gushing about the 400 time champion Matt Hamilton and what a great job he had done to finish 3rd.Maybe I was just annoyed and over sensitive by that time.

I did stay for the hornets who put on a pretty good show but they had a scary accident in one of the heats when they had a car stalled on the backstretch for a half a lap and instead of him trying to get off of the track or the flagman throwing the caution they let the leaders barrel into him. Luckily no one was hurt but they destroyed two cars for not much of a reason.

Finally the stocks came out, they had a guy spin out in turn one on one of the first laps and after the caution came out the guy in second got into the leader and the leader spins in turn four. After they put the leader on the tail for the restart giving the lead to the one that got into him I had had enough and went to the car.

Hopefully The Burg has their transponder issue figured out by Sprintweek because this is two weeks in a row that it has had an issue.

All of that being said, Lawrenceburg is still a great place to go see a sprint or midget race and I cannot wait to get back, but I will not be staying for the support classes.

I live 15 minutes away and I stopped going to their regular shows due to having 4 classes, 3 of which I have no care in the world about. I suppose they make more money on the back gate with 4 classes than they do on the front gate with only 3 classes. Who can blame them if that's the case. There's so many squirrels out there it makes you want to beat your head against the wall!

It makes me envious of a track like Williams Grove which has, really, no support classes. If I lived near a track like that I'd never miss an event.

If you're one of those stock car participants at The 'Burg, please don't take this post as a slam on you- I realize everyone has to start somewhere and others have to race within their means. However, I have no interest in watching you race. Please keep bringing your families along to keep padding the attendence numbers!

I left after about the tenth caution in the Mod Feature. They either put on spectacular racing or stink it up. Always worse when the track is slick.

The hornet heat the caution was out when that happened. I checked. Even with all that, The sprint feature was done by 10pm. I go to waynesfield often. I've seen long shows too there.

Heck in Mo or Ks yu may have to watch 3 or 4 different classes of modifieds at a weekly show. 5 to 9 classes is the norm for a weekly show around here.
And many times one or more classes will only have enough cars for 1 heat and then run a feature.

As I said, I usually go for the sprints and try to stay for the rest of the night. I enjoy all kinds of racing and classes, and I have seen tracks where the mods put on excellent shows night in and night out. I too have been to Waynesfield when it ran longer than it needed along with other tracks so I don't want to make it seem like I am singling Lawrenceburg out on that. I am saying that more often than not the modified features at the Burg are too hard to sit through and watch if you have a decent drive ahead of you, I was especially frustrated last Saturday.

Was at Trailways in PA on Friday. 270 Micros had to have their race flagged with just 9 of 20 laps completed. They have a 8 caution flag or 40 minute rule on races there. Been going there for years and this was the first time I ever saw them race like this. Maybe it was the 90+ temps?

Usually a struggle to stay around and watch any support class at all tracks.