Anderson IN (May 25, 2024)- Caleb Armstrong passed his cousin Dakoda Armstrong on the final lap of the Little 500 in a exciting finish to the 76th annual event in front of a packed house Saturday night. Following Caleb across the stripe was Dakoda Armstrong, Kody Swanson, Tyler Roahrig and Billy Wease.
Anderson IN…1 #7 Caleb Armstrong 2 #1 Dakoda Armstrong 3 #77 Kody Swanson 4 #56 Tyler Roahrig 5 #80 Billy Wease 6 #39 Ryan Newman 7 #22 Bobby Santos III 8 #20 Shane Hollingsworth 9 #67 Kyle O’Gara 10 #51 Logan Seavey 11 #18 Shane Butler 12 #78 Collin Grissom 13 #64 Trey Burke 14 #74 Tony Main 15 #27 Chris Jagger 16 #24 Jackson Macenko 17 #6 Bryan Gossel 18 #29 Jake Trainor 19 #8 Travis Welpott 20 #5 CJ Leary 21 #4 Emerson Axsom 22 #14 Davey Hamilton Jr. 23 #92 Anthony Nocella 24 #53 Justin Harper 25 #96 Scott Hampton 26 #41 Donnie Adams Jr. 27 #69 Justin Grant 28 #87 Brady Allum 29 #99 Garrett Saunders 30 #93 Jerry Kobza 31 #32 Jeff Bloom 32 #42 Rob Keesling 33 #44 Scotty Adema 5/26
The Little 500 was to me, hands down, the best race of the weekend. Watching Davey Jr put himself in position to take himself out twice was absolutely worth the price of admission! Way too aggressive for that race. Congrats to Caleb!
No report because we left right after the big 500 for vacation.
Take out the finish, it was an ok race. Several dumb wrecks. More than normal. Same old stupid stuff in the pit area. Its time to follow most other short track series with the pit road stuff. Something like the Late Models do (Winchester 400). Lets make sure tires are tight. One of these days someone is really going to get hurt. Also the track looks so armature. A race of this caliber should have safety crews on 4 wheelers or side by sides. No reason it should take 10 laps to get a car spun around. I'm all about safety but come on!!!! That lap 1 crash.... Holly Cow he hit hard! That guys was lucky to walk away with just a broken arm/wrist.
Field quality was down this year. I understand why so many did not show up. If you really cannot pay more money (i.e. we could see the normal sponsors that were not there) then its time to do other things to make the race cheaper. No reason you should have to hire a nascar pit crew to get f'd over by a push truck guy.
I was the one talking about Anderson speedway being a joke show before the race. Heck they couldn't even park cars! The amount of wasted space was crazy. They did absolutely nothing to prove me wrong. The new announcer really needs to go spend a few days with Denny Adams. He was clueless on the history of the event. I was done after the red flag for rolling water barrels. Its sad to see what this place has turned into. And before you get mad at me for telling the truth this was my 30th race.
