Any idea on who the focus cars were that were there?

Thanks.

I must say I'm a bit concerned about only 18 full midgets at the race. How many will be left running after 100, 200, 300, or 400 laps? Or am I just totally out in left field on this? IMO, I hate to make a 300 mile round trip to see only a few cars running at the end of the night.

On the plus side, the weather is looking pretty good.

We can only hope that more will show. It is a shame with the great purse offered for an inaugeral event.

Any idea of when we'll know what the car quantity/quality will be? Like Seadog, we have a 300 mile trip PLUS a motel to consider vs. The 'Burg locally. Thanks.

Exactly. The relative lack of information is sort of a not very positive sign, IMO. I may end up at the 'burg too if this doesn't pan out.

I know there are more planning to show tomorrow but i'm not sure on how many more, i don't think many will run this whole thing so we'll see.

Dakoda Armstrong qualified 1st

Here are the cars that I saw and recognized while I was at the speedway earlier. I couldn't stick around since I was on my way back to the office. They hadn't started qualifying until 1:30 PM so they were at least an hour behind schedule. I could hear them running earlier but as of right now it is quite. I will let you know more if and when I hear anything.

4-Alison MacLeod
7-Dakoda Armstrong
24-Tracy Hines
32-Dave Fuhrman
42-James Robertson
63-Rex Norris III

Armstrong, Hines, Gordon, East, McCloud?, Shiff, Murgoitio, Rex Norris, Lugori (spelling?), Jeremy Warren. Those are the names I remember off hand. There were only a couple of focus cars there. Hines is 2nd quick with McCloud and a 42 in row 2 and then after them I believe its East and Murgoitio. Gordon was not all that quick, in fact I'm not sure he was top 10.

How many cars total?

I belive 18 was the count. Rex Norris and I believe one other car did not take time.