I'm glad I made the right decision and went to the Sheldon Kinser Memorial and not this show congrats to T-Mez a wins a win

The normal Montpelier crew took care of their regular cars (the UMP Mods) using their weekly announcer, flagman, infield crew, pit crew, etc... It was the only class that were ready to roll as soon as the previous heat finished. The Montpelier crew has drastically changed the track and quality of the show over the past two years. It's to bad they allowed ASCT to rent the track from them for this debacle. Hopefully, most fans can seperate the two. The ASCT ran their portion of the show themselves (ASCT flagman, announcer, pit crew, etc...) and it showed.

Thanks to all the drivers and fans who ventured to the track last night. It had been since 2003 when Montpelier last had sprint cars on the track (and the winner of the majority of those races? Paul Hazen with Jon Stanbrough aboard)

Sounds like there was more action in the parking lot.

Sorry, but I have to ask. What has been improved by a show like this? I know you can't control weather, but I just don't see any improvements to the sport yet. I do feel feel for Mr. Gurley as I am sure this adventure has probably not been cheap for him.

I was there, and lets get one thing straight. IF hot laps would have started on time we wouldnt be arguing about anything. The races would have been over with some time to spare. Please dont blame Gurley for over watering the track and then not getting it run in until practice time was to start.

This is not a slam on Montpelier, as they tried to have a tacky track for the sprints and midgets. They just got a little carried away with it and that happens. It just so happened on a night with bad weather in the area. I hope Montpelier has more sprint and midget shows in the near future.

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True on the watering the track BUT he had control of cutting the purse, not having any organization of the program at all, the lines-ups, getting the cars lined-up, cutting the A Main laps twice, officials having no clue, and an announcer thats boast how everyones out to get them and let them try because we are so great and blah blah blah......It wouldnt be so bad if they didnt have the we against the world attitude and then shoot themself in the foot over and over again and blame everyone else.......

agreed

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This dang rain sucks, was hoping to come over to the field tonight and watch you guys.....

OK... Here we go again with a bunch of people that apparently have agendas that they want to air on IOW. I was at Montpelier last night with two midget entries. When I arrived mid afternoon the Monpelier officials (not ASCT/AMCT people) were working the track. The ASCT people arrived around 5:30 PM and had nothing to do with the track prep period. So let's get that out of the way first. The Monpelier officials over watered the track. Plain and simple. That happens. Therefore the program was delayed until the track was presentable. Again, this had nothing to do with ASCT.

Based on the last time I was at Montpelier, the present promoter has done a nice job with improvements: It looked like they had newer grandstands, buildings look dressed up, decent entrance way for the fans and most of all, the track surface seemed to be much improved. My cars didn't look like they had been in a civil war with rocks so that's a big plus as opposed to another well known track not too far away to the west (not Gas City). Once the track was run in, it was very smooth, another plus and a big improvement since I was there last.

To the person on IOW that commented about a sticker tire on my car: Maybe you've been living a remote cave somewhere, IDK, but race cars need tires occasionally, like just about everytime we race... DUH. It's really none of your business, but just to keep this person happy, the tire we ran at a previous AMCT race had some excessive wear, so we had to buy a new tire. Furthermore, the cost of the American Racer RR was LESS than the famous purple tires that dominant the racing scene. So again, we SAVED MONEY at this race meet. Do you have a problem with that? Maybe you'd like us to run on the rims for future races, IDK, but to come on and make a public comment on this message board about something that you know nothing about smacks of an agenda.

As far as the program/racing that took place: I arrived in the stands just before the first midget race and listened to the announcer and I didn't hear anything out of the ordinary. In fact, I thought he was doing a pretty good job. If he made comments that had something to do with saving money for racers, HURRAY!! Thank you. Isn't that refreshing to hear. Now I didn't watch all the races of the evening, but I did watch two of the three midget heats and as far as I'm concerned there was nothing usual that I observed. They were run off in rapid order just like most other races I've seen.

Once the racing got started, there certainly wasn't much down time. In fact we had to scramble to get ready for the feature. Unfortunately, the rains came big time and that ended the program.

Now, I did not hear about the midget purse being cut nor did I hear about $200 going to every midget team for the aborted program. If I have $200 coming for each of my cars, again, I say HURRAY! Thank you. That's a lot better than traveling to two other well know midget org races, not making the show, and leaving with $50. AND it's a lot better than the $30 payout, yes, you are reading that correctly, at the Tri-City Speedway/Kevin Gundaker midget promotion that offered $15,000 to win. ***.

In conclusion, I would like to say this and I've said it before on this site. Here we have a group that is trying to promote/revive midget racing in this area. Which is better.... no midget racing except against the ziillion dollar midget teams that are out of control or a series that is thinking out of the box. 21+ midget cars showed up at Montpelier. That's a milestone considering that midget racing (except for midget week) has been dead in Indiana for 10 years.

First Don, once again you show why people dont get along with you. Was you the only 10 car there? NO, it was the 10 sprint car!!!! Glad to know more than 1 person bought a tire though since we heard all night how that group dont do that....You must of been on the pit end and couldnt hear the PA then.......Of course I forgot, you our the expert of ALL racing and music and we peons dont know jack, you know best. Sorry your royal king, may i be forgiven for not saying the 10 sprint car? You can support this group all you want too, I know as a fan, my $30 and gas money will go to watch another group. Of course maybe this new group dont need fans either since they dont need anything else but Don.