Anyone got a entry list

I heard there were about 10 cars there at about 2 PM

What a waste

11 cars total... Curious as to how many people will be in the stands

11 cars at "The Night Before the 500"! ....This is sad!!! This is the work of the "money leach"...as I have said for the last 4 years....he will suck all the money out and run off to Detroit having destroyed USAC!!

I saw an astute response to a thread about this same topic elsewhere on IOW. I felt it should appear in this thread, too.

Usually when someone starts the old "I remember back when.........." stuff, it is a reference to events of way more than 3 or 4 or 5 years ago.

Shocking that the USAC (pavement) midgets have sunk this far in such a scant few years.

But I do recall the Night Before the 500 midget race being contested on dirt a few times back in those days some of us old farts love to reminisce about.

Brownsburg, IN……..Tracy Hines of New Castle, Ind. scored his second victory in the prestigious 69th Visit Hendricks County “Night Before the 500” Honda USAC Pavement Midget Classic at Lucas Oil Raceway Saturday night. Hines started on the pole and trailed Kyle O’Gara for the first three laps, then led the final 47 laps in his Parker Machinery/Turbines, Inc. Spike/Stanton Toyota. O’Gara took second at the checkered flag ahead of Derek Bischak, Nick Hamilton and Michael Fanelli.

HONDA USAC PAVEMENT MIDGET RACE RESULTS: May 24, 2014 – Brownsburg, Indiana – Lucas Oil Raceway @ Indianapolis – 69th Annual Visit Hendricks County “Night Before the 500”

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Tracy Hines, 24, Parker-21.127; 2. Kody Swanson, 3, RFMS-21.211; 3. Kyle O’Gara, 27, RW/Curb-Agajanian-21.595;4. Austin Prock, 41, Prock-21.818; 5. Derek Bischak, 31, Bischak-22.076; 6. Nick Hamilton, 32, Hamilton-22.242; 7. Bryan Nuckles, 59, Nuckles-22.253; 8. Bret Sanderson, 66, Sanderson-22.442; 9. Michael Fanelli, 38, McGerigle-22.885; 10. KevinStudley, 57, Studley-22.923; 11. Mario Clouser, 17, RW/Curb-Agajanian-NT.

FEATURE: (50 laps) 1. Tracy Hines, 2. Kyle O’Gara, 3. Derek Bischak, 4. Nick Hamilton, 5. Michael Fanelli, 6. Bret Sanderson, 7. Kody Swanson, 8. Austin Prock, 9. Bryan Nuckles, 10. Kevin Studley. NT

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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-3 O’Gara, Laps 4-50 Hines.

NEW HONDA USAC PAVEMENT MIDGET POINTS: 1-Hines-24, 2-O,Gara-61, 3-Bischak-56, 4-Hamilton-52, 5-Fanelli-48, 6-Swanson-47, 7-Sanderson-45, 8-Prock-42, 9-Nuckles-36, 10-Studley-33.

NEXT HONDA USAC PAVEMENT MIDGET RACE: July 24 – Brownsburg, IN – Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis

It was a good sized crowd. Just sad we had to see that race tonight. 10 cars started, only 5 running at the end. Thanks to the drivers and teams who showed up and competed. Obviously, we need to find a way to get more midgets for the pavement USAC shows. It's a tragedy what has happened to this historic race in just a few years. Hope there is another one next year, but I won't be surprised if there isn't. Just sad to see.

Maybe it's time to move it back to dirt.

steiny

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