I could watch midgets on that track six days a week and twice on Sundays year round. Not only that, I'd pay much more to see that show than they charged. EASILY.
I mean I only spent three hundred in getting there, rooms and food, Whats another $20 I got the Pit pass, Talked with several people inducing Matt Westfall who I've chatted with in the past a couple times at Rumbles and other tracks. He had a new DRC midget which he won his heat from sixth. Ran well all night but had a problem in the feature and pulled in. Great guy
As I said in in a earlier post. Someone did their homework. Track was big and wide. Id say half a haubstadt. Same width, half the straight length. Track was deep, cars cut the racing grooves as they raced, By lap 30 of the feature they were thirty ft off the inside berm in the corners and darn near flat footing. Im just saying they could haul the mail if they wanted too and were three wide at times.
Track had a very good permenent fence built as part of it. Four inch poles into the arena floor. Metal fencing and cattle gates into the jersey barriers connected to the metal fencing.
Probably 60 of the 67 cars all were in the building another seven in a outside military arch type pole barn that could probably hold 40 or more if empty with some salamander heaters
I don't know how many the stands hold there. Im guessing 2-3 thousand and guessing there were about 3000 there including competitors and crews.
It was all run off pretty timely. All cars were pushed into the track and staged pretty quickly with quad runners and were pushed off by about five push trucks very quickly. Lined up within a couple laps and racing. All cars left the track under power out the back exit of the building going to their hauler or to get refueled outside.
10 hotlap sessions, 10X10lap heats of six or seven cars. Two 12 lap non qualifyers. Three 20 lap qualifiers and a fourty lap feature. Like someone else said, they kept the track good and had several reworks from simply ripping the track a bit to both ripping and watering. Some were ten minute fixes, others were 20-25 or so but it fit and gave people the chance to bathroom-smoke-conssesion-converse and didn't really hinder the show.
All from 5pm till 11:30 checker.
EXCELLENT! As some others have said, Some of the best racing I seen all year. Lots of passing a couple cars like the red 91 who would run their own groove nobody else would try ten ft above the cushion and sometimes passing three our four cars in one lap and losing those spots on the next............
I didn't see who exactly was involved in the hockey game afterward. I did see a couple good haymakers given though.
I try to give both the good and the bad. So heres the bad.
Concessions, GOOD, Had a chicken strip and fry dinner for 650. EXCELLENT. BAD, Later had a 4.50 pretzel with cheese that she deep fried the dough. UH, IF I WANT A 69 cent pretzel donut for 4.50. Thats what I'd ask for
Good, A ton of passing all night caused by a good track and passing points.
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The only thing of the format Id consider changing is invert the top six point getters in the feature and make it a 50 lap feature. Not to punish the hard work but for fan benifits only.
Great show, I'll make it again, With the good problem to have of limited seating.maybe two shows pre and post christmas (Early March) I think its a benefit to the show to not have it as part of the Powri schedule.
That is all.
