I am a Jerry Coons fan but he seems to act like it has become a job to him when he wins show a little more emotion for winning a race or has it become that it no big thing to you for winning races any more.

[fish]

Originally Posted by ronmil Susan, I just got a call from a friend at the track who said Dave finished fifth or sixth. Dave's car appeared to not be set up properly for the craters in the track. He was in the #7 Peterbilt car.

Dave didn't look like he had the right set up. Guess I missed the "craters" in the track though.

[Mud Packer]

Originally Posted by ronmil Susan, I just got a call from a friend at the track who said Dave finished fifth or sixth. Dave's car appeared to not be set up properly for the craters in the track. He was in the #7 Peterbilt car.

Ron,

I don't know who your friend is but I certainly didn't see any craters in the track. The surface was good tonight and with all the issues that Gas City has had the last couple of years it was a good track prep tonight. They didn't have to do any maintenance to the track and the show had only a couple of accidents. JMO but Dave's car looked to have a definite push and he had trouble in turns two and four. All in all a good night of racing at GC.

[speed9]

:2:Great job by Brad Kuhn started 8th and finished second at Gas city tonight.

[fish]

Photos from the midgets at Gas City are up.



Jim Fisher
www.fscpictorial.com

[openwheelKT]

I have to commend everybody involved on one of the best run shows I've been to in a while. Being on the road for home around 9:30 is the way a weekday show should be run. I really liked the group qualifying. There is plenty of room to run midgets with group qualifying. Getting four laps on the clock ensures that you are going to at least get two good ones.

[SteveD]

Again, Hats off to the Fox Brothers Racing and Jon Stanbrough for fielding such a comptitive sprinter week after week !! The saga of the #53 Sprinter continues. Thanks for your dedication to the sport of open wheel racing. Steve & Christie Bloomington

[mtcray]

Congrats Jerry!!! Keep up the great work! Happy B-Day Amy!

Mike Cray

[767]

Decent show. This is deffinatly a sprint car track. The only thing I do not understand.... its Midget week, and there Darland, Cottle, and Stanbrough are all there running sprinters and nobody throws them into a midget???? Say what you want, that Sprint feature was far better than the midgets. good luck doding the rain tonight.

[Jerry Shaw]

Originally Posted by 767 Decent show. This is deffinatly a sprint car track. The only thing I do not understand.... its Midget week, and there Darland, Cottle, and Stanbrough are all there running sprinters and nobody throws them into a midget???? Say what you want, that Sprint feature was far better than the midgets. good luck doding the rain tonight.

I would agree with this statement. Although I have left a couple of the tracks along the Midget Week path thinking that they were even better midget tracks, than they were for the sprints that run there weekly, I've never thought that about Gas City. The sprints definitely still reign supreme there. Don't get me wrong, the midget action was still really good, just that the real fireworks didn't begin till you saw Cole Whitt, Dave Darland, Shane Cottle and Jon Stanbrough lined up in the front of the sprint feature. You just knew that this thing was going to become a battle royale, right from the get go. And it did. You had Dave's car bouncing all over the place as he tried to hold off Cole and then Jon. Then there was the extended drama that built, as Jon reeled Cole in and the finale unfolded. Anybody that's watched these two guys race each other before knew that when Jon caught Cole, that the younger driver wasn't just going lay down and accept second place as his destiny for the day. And he didn't. It was an excellent battle. In fact, had Matt Goodnight not ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time, Cole looked to have Jon set up for a nice dive to the checker.

As far as the midgets go, JCJ was definitely the man on this day. He was never seriously challenged, once he grabbed the lead. Steve Buckwalter was fun to watch, but was never the same after the early race scramble that resulted in him spinning. The duel between Kuhn and Hagen was the best of the race and went on for a great deal of the race. Besides Buckwalter, Swindell gets the other bad luck award, with his last lap spin, sending him from 4th to 14th. And BC gets the "If Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade" award by somehow ending up 4th, with a car that was ill handling qualifications through feature.

That ended up being a great program and it was definitely worth taking a chance and going most of the way across the state, with a 70% chance of rain.

Jerry