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410s (22 Cars)

Welcome Mat
Tim Kaeding in the Roth #83, Wade Nygaard, Bronson Maeschen, Jack Dover

MIA
Gordy Vogelaar, Kerry Madsen

VIP
Same spot over in turn 1, but it seems like the section is multiplying in size. Had to be about 12 of us tonight including a couple Little J's, Ms. J, LDA24 and his wife.

Time Trials (1 lap each)
TK (19^th car out) set the standard with a good lap at 10.677 with an average speed of 126.44 MPH. Scott Winters would also be eligible for the Baete Forseth Challenge if he would go top 5 in his heat since he was 2^nd quick at 10.861. Terry McCarl noticeably went low on his lap and still was 4^th quick and still broke into the teens. The top 18 hitting the heat invert: TK, Winters, Maeschen, McCarl, Johnn Cressman, Gregg Bakker, Jake Peters, Dover, Mark Dobmeier, Clint Garner, John Lambertz, Lynton Jeffrey, Nygaard, Troy Meyer, Chad Meyer, Marlon Jones, Joe Riedel, and Robby Wolfgang

Time Trials Grade: B+; It is slowly becoming a game to see who can sandbag the best in order to start up closer to the front for not only the heat, but also the feature. It's a complete chess match with a few of the drivers who are trying to place theirselves in the lineup.

Heats (Top 6 Inverted from TT, All Cars to the A, Top 4 Hit Feature Invert)
Heat 1 Starting Order: 8 Laps

Heat 1 Finish: 9M 24 9N 40/ 83 16 6 17B

Heat 1 Notes: Jones took the lead as T-Mac quickly moved into the invert spot of 4^th on the start as Peters faded back to 6^th. McCarl was up to 2^nd at the halfway point and TK was all over Garner for 4^th at the same time. Kaeding couldn't execute a pass for the spot as Garner would hold on for 4^th. McCarl was all over Jones on the last lap, and dived out of turn 4 on the bottom to see if he could get past Jones for the heat win, but Jones barely held on for his 2^nd heat win of the year.

Heat 2 Starting Order: 8 Laps

Heat 2 Finish: 53 15 23w 12L/ 56 101 1(DNF)

Heat 2 Notes: Riedel took the initial lead as Dover ducked into 2^nd on the start and would take the lead out of turn 2 on lap 3. Winters was mashing the throttle and quickly moved up to 3^rd and running down the leaders until he got to Riedel and couldn't get around him by using the bottom of the track. T. Meyer spun in turn 3 on the last lap with front-end damage.

Heat 3 Starting Order: 8 Laps

Heat 3 Finish: 4 12 13 1A/ 11x 2H 96(DNF)

Heat 3 Notes: C. Meyer shot out to the lead and never looked back after taking the point. Jeffrey had a great battle with Dobmeier on the opening lap that saw him take 3^rd away from the 2 time defending track champion. Jeffrey would pass Wolfgang for 2^nd out of turn 4 with 3 laps to go and Dobmeier did the same to Wolfgang a lap later in the same spot. Maeschen pulled in with rear-end problems and was done for the night. C. Meyer picked up his 2^nd heat win of the year.

Heat Grades: A-; That first heat race will be as stacked of a heat we will see all year on a Sunday night. That was a fun heat to watch with a couple of former WoO regulars vying for invert positions for the feature. The track was looking good and was providing great action throughout, as the skies continued to darken overhead. Winters accepted to the Backrow Challenge to start 22^nd on the grid for a chance at a $5,500 payday for the win.

B Feature (Top Tag the A, Laps)

B Feature Grade/Notes: No B Feature as all 22 cars would be eligible to start the A

A Feature (25 Laps)
Starting Order: Invert of 10 drawn by Jones

A Feature Finish: Only 6 laps were completed due to rain; feature will be finished next Sunday, June 7th

A Feature Notes: The Butterfield Bad Ass goes to the back to see if he can pull off the miracle by coming 22^nd to 1^st for a big payday. Chad Meyer took the lead as Jeffrey quickly moved into 2^nd as well. McCarl was on the move as well from his 5^th row starting position and was up to 5^th after a handful of laps. A lap 4 caution would come as the lightning continued to get stronger from the western sky for Winters who looped it in turn 1 with Riedel slamming into him with nowhere to go. Winters figured he was done, got out of his car, and then back in after discovering he could continue, causing a delay for him to get strapped back in; both cars would restart as well.

The restart saw C. Meyer ahead of Jeffrey, Garner, Nygaard, and McCarl and rain drops began drop during the yellow. A couple more laps were completed until a lap 7 red was shown for Dover who tried his best Spiderman imitation by trying to take down the turn 1 fence. He was fine, and the car rolled out back as the rain continued to pick up. The wind also switched during the red, to let the thousands in attendance know that the weather wasn't effing around anymore. Another small delay to try to repair the fence happened and drivers were given the opportunity to let track officials know if the track conditions were too much. Rain continued to come down harder and the race would be postponed until next Sunday. I don't have the complete running order, hopefully will come morning, but the top 4 looks like this with 19 to go: C. Meyer, Jeffrey, Garner, McCarl.

A Feature Grade: NA; this was going to be a complete barn burner had Mother Nature not interfered. Chad looked really fast up on the cushion, and Lynton was all over him by running the bottom, and of course McCarl was the fastest guy on the track and coming in a hurry. Lets hope the track is somewhat respectable when they run this next week!

360s (16 Cars)
Eric Lutz rocketed from his pole position and set a blistering pace for everyone else behind him. Jody Rosenboom quickly worked up to 2^nd from his 6^th starting spot by lap 2 and was trying to run down Lutz. A red on lap 5 for Knoxville regular, Josh Padelford would come and Lutz barely missed his carnage after coming up on the wreckage; Padelford was okay. Lutz led Rosenboom, Kevin Flowers, and Wolfgang to the green until a red on the next lap for Cody Hansen who hopped the thick turn 1 cushion and flipped her there, right after Rosenboom did the same thing, but saved his car from flipping.

The restart after that saw Lutz check out once again from Rosenboom and everybody else as he would claim his 1^st career win at the track. Rosenboom would hold off a charging Wolfgang for 2^nd as Cressman would complete a slider in the last corner to come home 4^th ahead of Flowers.

360 Finish: 5 27 1A 15 42 1 12 17v 2D 17B/ 24 77 54 34 11 76

FOAW: Chad Meyer looked great out front all night and Eric Lutz was just downright filthy to the rest of the 360 field. Its going to be Chad's race to lose next week, especially if the feature is completed early in the night on a heavy track.

Crowd Pleasing Moment #1: Seeing 22 410's sign in for the night, and some very stout cars at that. Hopefully TK continues to show up with Forbrook turning the wrenches as well as guys like Nygaard and Maeschen even though he's having bad luck up here. Great car count and a great amount of talent throughout that field!

Crowd Pleasing Moment #2: Things started off great for the night, even though a little late, with the guy from the SD Lottery singing the National Anthem for the first time this year. You better believe he had it done again in under a minute, as usual! He is a VIP favorite! Let's get him up there every week, dammit!

WTF: TK bicycling the #83 early in the A feature and literally being on one wheel! That wheel was his right front and by some crazy frigging way he was able to save the car from going over! One of the craziest things I've ever seen in person; great save TK!

"Home of the Professionals" Moment of the Night: About the only thing that could be scratched at was the National Anthem being over at 7:12. Those 12 minutes could have really been used to complete the 410 A, but Huset's did a great job of hurrying the program along to try to get the whole show in.

Mulligan Moment: After it had looked like we would get rained out early in the evening, the sun decided to peak back out from the west, making it look like we would get the complete show in and done at a great time.

Head Scratcher: Let's hurry the entire program along in the future like tonight, and last Monday, in order to send the patrons home at a decent time. You may be surprised by the attendance (and how much bigger it would get) if you continue to do this so the final checkers are flown at 9:30 or before!

Thumbs Up: To the "Pink My Ride" drivers would dawned pink on their race cars in order to raise money and awareness for the Children's Miracle Network. After hearing the news, it sounded like the Johnson brothers raised about 25K Saturday night at I-90. Thanks to everyone who participated and/or donated to the great cause.

Thumbs Down: Rain sucks, period.

Prime Mover: N/A

Trophy Queen Grade: N/A; No trophy presentations

Closing Stat of the Night: N/A until next week.

Final Thought: Rain sucks, but next Sunday should be fun with essentially 2 410 shows for the price of one. Preliminary reports coming in from MN show that the mighty Wertz is in for one last show at Huset's before moving, with BT24 probably never crossing the MN/SD border ever again... Next report: Sunday, June 7th

BIG J

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

Very entertaining report, as usual. I will probably catch hell for saying this, but I would like to see a Big Right Rear track measurement on a "3/8" mile that averages 126+ in time trials.

My WTF moments would be the same as for Monday's race with rain coming, We had to wait 4+ minutes for the announcers to do their rendition of the line up for the 410's A feature before they pushed off the first car.

Anyone heard if it will be $14 to get in next week due to the 2nd 410 feature?...

Knowing the McScrewbins it will be $24

Yes, it was a complete clusterf*ck getting out of the valley last night, too. Lucky for me and my passengers, we didn't get to move an inch in 25 minutes thanks to the 3 people who decided to box us in completely. Shockingly enough, 2 out of the 3, including the main culprit, had plates from IOWA... shocker, I know.

Big thumbs down to security running for the hills once the rain started to fall. Its only a matter of time before there's a major accident at the top of the hill with oncoming traffic traveling at 55 MPH.

BIG J

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

we were there last year...had the WHEEL in the car...but had an after party at he 212in our sights instead.

unfortunately, the after effects of that party remained on the agenda for a few days...and we laugh everytime we revisit the subject!

Lincoln 1845 ft/.35 mile T1=118MPH 
Eldora 2287 ft/.43mile T3=135MPH
Port 2716 ft/.51 mile T3=TBD
Grove 2792 ft/.53 mile T3=135MPH
Selinsgrove 2847 ft/.54 mile T1=136MPH
"I didn't move to PA from El Paso in search of better 
weather." Van May

Looking back on that night.. I was damn curious to find out the actual size of the track, but sometimes the group makes a majority, yet, very wise decision to send the party to the after-party location (212). Man oh man, what a night that turned out to be!

I just got a headache thinking about the following morning, and you guys were on the road for Osky the next day!

BIG J

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

from a sponsor, now THAT was funny!!!! $24!!!! LMFAO!!!!

I was pretty sure you were at Huset's last year. I am just incredulous of a track record of 10.3 at a place billed as being larger than Lincoln and Grandview.

dont kid yourself...the Eldora myth proved once and for all that the ADVERTISEMENTS are simply ADVERTISEMENTS!

Huset's is definitely FASTER than Lincoln or Grandview IMO...higher banking and wider surface in the turns...but it looked about the size of Susky to me.

if you really wanted to MEASURE a true half mile (not advertised) at Eldora, you would be wheeling off the grass around the outside of the catch fence.

Lincoln 1845 ft/.35 mile T1=118MPH 
Eldora 2287 ft/.43mile T3=135MPH
Port 2716 ft/.51 mile T3=TBD
Grove 2792 ft/.53 mile T3=135MPH
Selinsgrove 2847 ft/.54 mile T1=136MPH
"I didn't move to PA from El Paso in search of better 
weather." Van May

Oh, I know that advertisments are merely advertisements. Out of the 150 tracks I have been to, I always thought the three phoniest track sizes just from the naked eye and lap times were Eldora, Flemington and Golden Isles (Ga.) Since top running Late Models are routinely passed off as doing "160+" at Golden Isles, I imagine a winged Sprint would approach "200 mph." LOL

Don't know if you have ever been to Middletown, but there was a post on the Dirt Track Digest board a few weeks ago in which one of the Orange County photographers did exactly what you have done with a surveyor's wheel. OCFS has been billed as a 5/8 forever and ever. Anyway, a few feet off the inner wall actually measured at .49 of a mile and a few feet from the outer wall measured at .56 of a mile. I always knew Middletown was not a 5/8, but I was kinda surpirsed that the actual racing groove (and there is only one at OCFS) is barely over a half-mile.

hhahaha...another MYTH is BUSTED!

Lincoln 1845 ft/.35 mile T1=118MPH 
Eldora 2287 ft/.43mile T3=135MPH
Port 2716 ft/.51 mile T3=TBD
Grove 2792 ft/.53 mile T3=135MPH
Selinsgrove 2847 ft/.54 mile T1=136MPH
"I didn't move to PA from El Paso in search of better 
weather." Van May

You should make a full tour of all South Dakota tracks. With the exceptions of Rapid City and Park Jefferson ALL tracks are advertised as 3/8. Huron and Watertown are both 3/8, but the straightaways at Huron are almost as long as the whole track at Watertown.

Speaking of Black Hils Speedway, does anybody know how the racing surface is over there? In the past I heard it was pretty bad. Has this changed? Can anybody help?