Excellent show tonight! Hagan showed how it's done. Kudos to Shane Cockrum and Daniel Adler. Both deserve hard charger awards. Great 2 nights at Belle Claire.

I was indeed there for both nights,and what a night Sat night was! It was even better than Friday night.

1 Darren Hagen
2 Brad Loyet
3 Mike Hess
4 Steve Knepper

Sometimes 4 wide racing,and also Hagen & Loyet & Hess and S. Knepper racing side by side for many laps with Hagen and Hess running the top,and Loyet and Knepper running the bottom.

I've made it back to Indy just in time to go to work. Got about a 20 minute powernap before I punched in.

[QUOTE=gateway;178556 Belle-Clair Speedway held its first midget race on June 15, 1948. More than 5,000 fans turned out for the first race and more than 1000 fans were turned away. Chuck Marshall of Champaign, IL set fast time at a mark of 12.26 seconds and won the 25 lap feature event.[/QUOTE]

Jim Childers anounced some times from last night's hotlaps, and the drivers were in the 11 second bracket. So, despite the presence of $30,000 engines in today's midgets, they're only a second a lap faster at Belleville than they were three years after WWII? Wow.

And those guys back then were going that fast without cages. I guess Brad Kuhn wasn't kidding when he made the remark when being interviewed a few weeks ago at the Kevin Doty Classic that the old guys who did this without cages had bigger b-lls than the drivers today.

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I still can't believe that 15 drivers finished that 75 lap marathon, much less that 11 did so on the lead lap. And very few laps were counted under the yellow, so it just goes to show how competitive last night's field really was.

And as good as the midget feature was, those who stayed for the micro main event saw a heck of a battle between Paul Nienhiser and Jeremy Camp for the win in the 20 lap night cap. Congrats to Paul on picking up his first career POWRi feature win trophy. (And I'm surprised he can actually pick it up, as it's almost as tall as he is.

http://i864.photobucket.com/albums/a...r_w_trophy.jpg

It was my first time at Belle Clair and I will be back. Powri did a heck of a job, great track prep and "reworks". It was nice to see a decent group of Badger guys show up and run. Waelti did great in the Jones car and Davey Ray would have been a front runner in the A on Saturday as strong as he finally got the car running---but he got collected by a lapper in the B. Great racing, including the mini-sprints.

Friday was excellent and Saturday even better. Two of the better nights I have spent. Darren Hagen was just spectacular. I don't think he spent a lap anywhere except on the cushion, full on the gas. A true rim rider. His speech after the victory was almost worth the price of admission by itself. My hat is off to him both as a driver and a person.

If you haven't been to Belle-Clair Speedway yet, you owe it to yourself to get there for a POWRi show. I don't think you will regret it.