The added 5 classes worth of features really killed the night tonight. Not only did they take forever to run they used up the track a lot more thus requiring a lot more track prep than normal. Not sure who was really calling the shots on this one but had several fans around me from decent distances saying they weren’t coming back.

Really sad that this has happened....What a damn shame!

Just don't understand the business plan some promoters use with how they run shows like this

Backgate $$$$$

bingo!!!!

Been probably seven years since I went. It was PowrI show when I went.
THE ADDED CLASSES Should have been features only period at most and even then just outlaw Wing and Non. You got enough top class cars to run twelve races, You don't need support classes. let alone four or five. I understand having them. (Future of the Sport) But that should be Fridays show As it was, it was caution filled time eaters.

Like I said, It's been years and I loved the place. They never let the track get dried out or slicked off. They'd take ten/ fifteen minutes about five times during the night. Lightly water and drag it. Not three or four half hour or longer major reworks. I barely had time to get outside, have a smoke and get back before next race.

I didn't go. But I also turned it off and went to bed.

Always been the plan to do this race again. But it's a two day trip for me. I will if it's better than that. We had fifty seven midgets at the event I went too there. Thirty seven is still great.

One thing to remember is this is the rescheduled Leffler race which always has 5+ classes. Normally the indoor DQ shows have maybe 2 classes. Would’ve been crappy to reschedule only the midgets and tell the rest sorry about your luck. Still, we weren’t mad when the race was over and we just had to a walk a few steps to a nice warm bed.

Everything about Du Quoin was deplorable. Five open wheel classes with outside temps at 35 degrees, sheesh. Superb track prep taking up my valuable time. Walking out of there at the ungodly hour of 1130 pm. The only reason Im going back next year and the year after etc etc is to see if they can screw it up any worse than they did this year

Oh the things we do to see those little cars.

What made this event so distasteful was not the "UnGodly hour" that it concluded. It was the fact that hot laps began at 3 PM. Do the math. As spectators we were forced to endure over 8 hours to see the complete show and approximately 7 hours to see the headline division push off for their A-main. I have no factual data as to the percentage of people who paid their hard earned cash to see the USAC National Midgets but I suspect it was heavily in favor of them.

We had 3 in our group. One gentleman of our group drove 8 1/2 hours one way primarily to see the midgets. The other two, my wife & I, traveled 4 1/2 hours one way and we coughed up the price of lodging. All three of us would gladly spend what it cost to attend again down the line sometime, lodging and all, IF there are no more than 3 total divisions to be run on Saturday night. We will NEVER attend another that consists of any more that 2 additional support classes. NEVER!

We're not alone. We were surrounded by folks who feel much the same.

We'll stay home and watch the replay the following day and circumvent the sore ass and remain in possession of $300.00+ of our hard earned cash and get a good nights sleep.

The least they could have done if they were bent on doing a marathon was run the midget A-main first as opposed to holding so many hostage to a 8 1/2 hour test of will and endurance.