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WEDNESDAY, JULY 12

USAC Indiana Sprint Week - Don Smith Classic

Divisions:
USAC Racing AMSOIL INC. National Sprint Cars
Scott's Custom Colors & Auto Body UMP Modifieds

Times:
Pits - 3:00
Grandstands - 4:00
Hot Laps - 6:30
Qualifying - 7:00
Racing - 7:30

Prices:
Grandstands - $25
Infield - $15
Kids 11 & Under FREE
(Tickets Available At Gate On Raceday)

Pit Prices:
$35 For Non-Members
$30 For USAC/UMP Members

Hotels:
Drury Inn Terre Haute
Pear Tree Inn Terre Haute
(Ask For Action Track Discount Rate)

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 12
USAC Indiana Sprint Week - Don Smith Classic

Divisions:
USAC Racing AMSOIL INC. National Sprint Cars
Scott's Custom Colors & Auto Body DIRTcar Racing Modifieds

Times:
Pits - 3:00
Grandstands - 4:00
Hot Laps - 6:30
Qualifying - 7:00
Racing - 7:30

Prices:
Grandstands - $25
Infield - $15
Kids 11 & Under FREE
(Tickets Available At Gate On Raceday)

Pit Prices:
$35 For Non-Members
$30 For USAC/UMP Members

Hotels:
Drury Inn Terre Haute
Pear Tree Inn Terre Haute
(Ask For Action Track Discount Rate)

About Terre Haute Action Track:
For more information, follow the Action Track online at www.terrehauteactiontrack.net and on Facebook (www.facebook.com/terrehauteactiontrack). Updates are also available by calling the Track Enterprises office at 217-764-3200.
The Terre Haute Action Track is located at the Wabash County Fairgrounds, in Terre Haute, IN. The physical address is 3901 South US Hwy 41, Terre Haute, IN 47807.

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WIN FREE TICKETS HERE!!! We are just two days away (Wednesday, July 12) from Indiana Sprint Week heading into the Terre Haute Action Track for the Don Smith Classic. Joining the Sprints will be the Scott's Custom Colors UMP Modifieds. Here is your chance to win a four pack of tickets with our Facebook Contest!!

All you have to do is LIKE and COMMENT on the Facebook post at https://www.facebook.com/terrehautea...type=3&theater (look for the photo below) to be eligible. Don't forget to SHARE as well, to help spread the word about our great event. One random winner will be chosen on Tuesday night. Good luck and thanks for playing!

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The Scott's Custom Colors & Auto Body UMP Modifieds will be back on track this coming Wednesday, July 12 as part of Indiana Sprint Week. Typically, just a sprints only show, Modifieds have been added to give the competitors a chance to race in front of a packed house and to give fans an extra division of racing, while the sprints are getting ready pitside.

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PRE-RACE WITH DONALD DAVIDSON THIS WEDNESDAY

This coming Wednesday, July 12, as part of the Indiana Sprint Week appearance at the Terre Haute Action Track, Indianapolis Motor Speedway historian, Donald Davidson will host a pre-race show in the main grandstands from 4:30-5:30 for those who arrive early.

Donald has vast knowledge in not only IMS but also places like the Terre Haute Action Track. He will amaze you with story-after-story, in anticipation of the evening's racing events.

It all starts at 4:30, in the covered grandstands of the Terre Haute Action Track. Hotlaps will follow at 6:30 with racing at 7:30. The USAC Racing AMSOIL National Sprint Cars and the Scott's Custom Colors & Auto Body UMP Modifieds will also be in action. Full event info at www.terrehauteactiontrack.net

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30TH INDIANA SPRINT WEEK TO VISIT TERRE HAUTE ACTION TRACK WEDNESDAY

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Indiana Sprint Week. Those words alone invoke powerful emotions of passion that reaches from each of USAC’s Sprint Car superheroes all the way to the common race fan. It makes no difference who you are. When Sprint Week looms, it consumes every waking hour. This Wednesday, July 12, fans in Terre Haute, Indiana will be packing the stands at The Action Track, watching all of the stars of the 2017 edition pace the fast 1/2-mile.

Seven races in nine nights of action with events at Gas City, Kokomo, and Lawrenceburg, leading up to the Terre Haute race. Following Terre Haute, the tour travels to Lincoln Park, Bloomington, and Tri-State.

It’s a journey that can turn hair gray, yet create legends out of mere mortals. It can divert a season’s path to one of joyous jubilation or to a fate of frustration. Yet, ultimately, it can make the person who’s seen everything, feel like a kid again. It makes no difference who you are. The moment has drawn near. For the 30th year, Indiana Sprint Week has arrived.

Entering its third decade, Indiana Sprint Week presented by Camping World has become a timeless tradition. One that’s seen countless breakthrough performances such as last year when Kyle Cummins, Brent Beauchamp, Carson Short and Tyler Courtney all raced to their first USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car victories.

Courtney’s particularly stands out due to his stick-to-it-iveness following a lap one spin in the 2016 Sprint Week opener at Gas City. After restarting from the tail, few could’ve foreseen the comeback for the ages that Sunshine demonstrated throughout the next 30 laps, passing at least one car per lap before ultimately driving by Bryan Clauson on the bottom for the victory with eight laps to go.

Courtney was in position to win the title with two races remaining until a massive Bloomington crack-up dashed his hopes and dreams of the ultimate Sprint Week glory. Meanwhile, Brady Bacon was racking up a string of consistent finishes on a nightly basis that netted him his first Indiana Sprint Week title, the ninth to do so without a single win in the history of the mini-series. This year, however, he’s at the wheel of the Dooling/Hayward Motorsports No. 63, which Clauson raced to his 41st and final victory at Lawrenceburg’s Sprint Week round a year ago.

Bacon’s championship ride from last year is occupied by Hanford, California’s Chad Boespflug. Despite a run of big-time wins last season, an Indiana Sprint Week triumph was not among them, although his first career USAC win back in 2013 came at a Sprint Week staple – Lincoln Park Speedway in Putnamville, Indiana. The Hoffman No. 69 has seen its share of success in Indiana Sprint Week with 12 wins and two titles between Dave Darland in 1998 and Bacon in 2016.

A pair of ISW champions are eager to end their respective droughts. Astonishingly, Chris Windom of Canton, Illinois hasn’t won an ISW race since Terre Haute’s “Don Smith Classic” that same summer six years back. Rocklin, California’s Robert Ballou was the 2015 titlist, but did so absent a victory. But, it was a single week in 2014 after multiple wins at Putnamville and Haubstadt that turned Ballou’s career around. He arrived at Putnamville for Sprint Week three years ago with five wins in an eight-year span. In the two-and-a-half years since, he’s tallied 22 USAC National wins and a National title.

Point leader Justin Grant is the only driver to win USAC Sprint races in four different states this season, but his last Indiana Sprint Week win came in 2012 at Lawrenceburg. Alabama’s Kevin Thomas, Jr., a recent Williams Grove winner, is one of just three drivers to win three Sprint Week features in a row and is the last to do so back in 2013.

The two winningest ISW drivers of all-time – three-time champ Dave Darland and twice a champion Jon Stanbrough – have been neck-to-neck in terms of total series victories for quite some time. The two have been mainstays atop the results for many a year with Darland’s first win “Sprint Week” win coming in 1990 and Stanbrough’s in 1996! The connection between the two holds true to today with each of their most recent Sprint Week wins coming one night apart from each other in 2014. Stanbrough took his 16th on opening night at Gas City while Darland snagged Kokomo the following night for the 18th time.

Hoosier Hotshots Brady Short and Chase Stockon aim to once again protect their home turf as they did last year at Putnamville and Terre Haute, respectively.

USAC Champions Brody Roa and Ryan Bernal intend to carry the flame for the west coast, continuing a tradition of Californians who’ve made the 30-plus hour Midwest migration for a couple weeks during the summer to take on the best of USAC’s National contingent. Cory Kruseman, Cary Faas and Damion Gardner are among the few who’ve conquered the west, then thrived in Indiana Sprint Week as race winners. Reigning West Coast Sprint champ Roa made his initial foray to “Sprint Week” back in 2014 while Bernal, the 2013 and 14 Western Classic Sprint champion, makes his first trip back since 2013.

For some, Indiana Sprint Week can be a pocket full of sunshine and a racer’s delight. For others, it can prove to be a walk on hot coals scattered atop a bed of nails. Racers go to challenge themselves against the best of the best, night after night to prove themselves on this racing carousel. Where each lands at the end of the week is up to preparation and, perhaps, a bit of good fortune. The stakes are immense and the action intense. Sleep is secondary from the moment the engines fire at Gas City ‘til the final flag drops at Haubstadt. And, you know what? We wouldn’t have it any other way. This is Indiana Sprint Week!

Joining the USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Cars will be the Scott's Custom Colors UMP Modifieds. Pits will open Wednesday at 3:00 and grandstands at 4:00 with a special prerace show taking place in front of the stands with Donald Davidson, Indianapolis Motor Speedway historian. The track will be hot with the start of practice at 6:30, qualifying at 7:00, and racing at 7:30. Grandstand admission is $25, infield admission $15, and kids 11 and under are free.

Five of the seven races will be streamed LIVE via PPV on http://www.SpeedShiftTV.com/: Gas City, Kokomo, Lawrenceburg, Terre Haute and Bloomington. You may catch all the races available on-demand a day following the event at http://www.Loudpedal.TV/.

About Terre Haute Action Track:

For more information, follow the Action Track online at www.terrehauteactiontrack.net and on Facebook (www.facebook.com/terrehauteactiontrack). Updates are also available by calling the Track Enterprises office at 217-764-3200.

The Terre Haute Action Track is located at the Wabash County Fairgrounds, in Terre Haute, IN. The physical address is 3901 South US Hwy 41, Terre Haute, IN 47807.

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From the Vigo County Fair Website regarding parking:

Parking

Parking fees are as follows:
Vigo County Fair Parking Fees
Free parking until 4:00 p.m.
$5.00 per car after 4:00 p.m.
$5.00 per person walk up after 4:00p.m.
Weekly parking passes are available for a fee.
Other events hosted at the Fairgrounds may charge a parking fee.

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Will any of the parking area with hook ups for campers be available or are they all in use for the fair? Thanks for any replies from those who may know.

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Will the cooler policy for the Smith Classic be the same as when the fair is not going on?

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Originally Posted by bigq11 Will any of the parking area with hook ups for campers be available or are they all in use for the fair? Thanks for any replies from those who may know.

From the Fair Website

Camping fees for the Wabash Valley Fairgrounds are as follows:
Camping is allowed under the Outdoor Pavilion for limited events – $25 per night
Campsites with electricity – $20 per night
Campsites without electricity – $10 per night
General Information:
Reservations are not accepted. All spaces are rented on a first come first serve basis.
Cash or Visa/Mastercard payments accepted.
Electrical service will be started when camping fee is paid in full.
If no attendant is available at time of arrival payment will be collected the next day for camping fees.
Campsites are numbered in designated camping areas. Outdoor Pavilion camping will be assigned upon arrival. Tent camping allowed in designated tent area. Persons sleeping overnight in or on a vehicle of any kind will be charged as a camper.
Stock & racing trailers will be asked to park south of the south road in the grass area or other designated areas unless equipped for camping.
Shower and bathroom facilities located across from the Grandstand and between the Cattle and Swine Barns.
The Wabash Valley Fairgrounds is located near many restaurants, Honey Creek Mall and many other area attractions.
Rules:
No open flame fires.
No glass bottles
Pets must be on a leash.
No waste water dumping allowed.
Camping is allowed only in designated areas.
All fees must be paid prior to hook up.
Check out time is 11am following night of stay otherwise an additional day’s camping fee will be charged.
All trash should be placed in trash barrels provided on grounds.
Children must be supervised by an adult.
WVFA is not responsible for lost or stolen items.
Camping is at your own risk. WVFA is not responsible for accidents.
No fireworks, guns or weapons allowed.
No washing of clothes, dishes or pets in restrooms.
No one under 18 is allowed to camp without a parent or legal guardian.
The Campground is not responsible for accidents or injuries to campers, guests, or their property or the loss of valuables of any kind. The guest assumes all risks and danger incidental to the activity of camping in an outdoors environment and agrees that the Wabash Valley Fair Association and its owners, management, agents and employees are not liable for injuries or property damages resulting from such causes.
We reserve the right to interpret and enforce all the rules for the benefit and safety to all.
We reserve the right to evict anyone violating the above rules, destroying property or creating a disturbance without a refund.
SCHEID DIESEL EXTRAVAGANZA CAMPING RULES: (only apply to this event)

Campers can ONLY be dropped off during business hours. Any campers dropped after hours will be towed at owners expense.
Camping fees will be $20/night and must be paid in full when the camper is brought
Campers will only be issued the camp site with purchase of event weekend bracelet
CASH ONLY for this event
All general camping rules will apply
ALL TENT CAMPING WILL BE IN DISIGNATED AREA ONLY
Camping Host: WVFA 812-201-3058
Enjoy Your Stay!

http://www.vigofair.com/camping/