Will there be a standard race format for Illinois Sprint Week, or will each individual track determine the procedure for the evening?

Just my opinion, but I would hope that they would run the sprint cars feature first. I looked at a couple of the tracks websites and they are showing 4 or 5 support classes as well. No offense to the local folks that come to see them race, however when you lose an hour traveling from Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, etc., it makes no sense to go when you won't get home before 2 or 3 AM. The work bell starting at 6 AM doesn't work for 4 nights like that for very many. I really want to see this work and the only way it will is to move the show along due to 4 shows being held on nights before most go to work the next morning.

Tri-City Speedway (Granite City, IL) is running 3 classes Friday, June 11th (For Illinois Sprint Week)

Midgets (USAC/POWRi)
410 Non-Wing Sprints
Micros (POWRi)

Also Wednesday Night June 9th -
Open Practice (We hold a open practice on our regular schedule once a month for all race cars)
Gates Open at 5:00
Practice 6:00 - 9:00

General Admission FREE
Concession Stands will be open

It's a 3 hour open practice (All cars are welcome stock/midgets/sprints etc)

Thanks
Kevin Gundaker
email: tricityspeedway@msn.com

Some strictly enforced time limits on support classes would be helpful, as well. And set the time limit at something effective. We've all seen tracks that claim to have time limits, but they're virtually ignored. And we've all also seen tracks that have time limits, but they're set at such a long amount that they're pretty much useless. A 30 minute time limit for a 12 or 15 lap feature is pretty much exactly the same as not having a limit at all.

Then again, back in April I saw a street stock feature at Lincoln checkered after TWO scored green flag laps on a time limit, so obviously some places still enforce the limits.

Same as last year, each track runs their own show with their own people.

OK, I figured it would be a sort of "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" deal like last year.

Does anyone know what Minisprints are running at VCS?

Yeah, I was also kind of wondering if that meant 600's or the big upright 1200s.

It seems to me promoters find themselves in a hopeless no-win situation when it comes to putting on a mid-week show. Start hotlaps at 6:00 or 6:30 so the headline feature can hit the track by 8:30 or 9:00, and you piss off the half of the crowd that works a 9:00-5:30 type of schedule. But if you try to accomodate those folks by starting at 7:30 and running all the support class heats first, the fans who work more of a 6:30-2:00 dayshift will scream bloody murder because the sprint feature didn't push of until after 10:30. All they can really do is try to keep the show moving whenever it starts.

I realize that not everyone is like me, but it's never bothered me to stay up to midnight for a "special" race. Especially if I saw a great race that was run to the best of the promoter's ability.