thank you so much for your updates it was just like i was there. again thanks from us who could not go. russ

Points after two events

Weyant 131
Babb 123
Cone 117
Shuman 110
Rockwell 99
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If this place had nonwing sprints on a weekly basis, we would soon be talking about it in the same breath as Kokomo and Tri-State. Wide, high-banked, excellent preparation, large grandstands and huge parking lot, sky boxes all along the top of the grandstands, excellent PA system with an announcer who knows how to announce, clean restrooms, food on both ends of the grandstand, a couple of miles from the north-south interstate and perhaps 4 miles from east-west, and probably other good things I am leaving out. Really hope they have more nonwing sprints here.

I agree with Frank. This place is begging for a big non winged event. USAC, TNT or something. The place is just a gem. And it's big enough for any event you would want to have there. It kind of reminded me of a cleaner looking, more accessible version of North Vernon. To give you an idea of the parking lot size, for those of you old enough to remember, it used to be the lot for an old drive-in theatre. The screen is even still there, at the back of it. The next decent looking sprint or midget show they schedule and I'm definitely back there. It's just that cool of a facility.

As far as the racing went, at first it looked like the bottom was the place to be, as Shuman led the first half from there, but when top runner Terry Babb moved it up a little bit higher than he was already running, he found what he was looking for and took off like a rocket. It was almost like watching one of those Daron Clayton wins, as he began to check out. The real drama was watching Terry crash the cushion lap after lap, playing with fire as he was coming so close to the wall. And it was really neat watching him lifting the left front up or doing a nice little wheel stand, each time he rocketed off of turn two. Nobody had anything for him, even though Shuman, Johnson, Weyant, Hud and others tried.

Again, there's a lot of room to race on this track and a lot of seats to watch it all from. I went there thinking there probably wasn't going to a real high car count, but at least I was going get to see a different kind of track, right in the middle of Late Model country. And luckily the track and the racing both exceeded my expectations. Even with not the highest car count.

Now on to the event I've been looking forward to ever since it was rescheduled. USAC Midgets and Illinois Sprint Week sprints @ Granite City!!

Jerry