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TWO CHALLENGES IN ONE WEEKEND
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Haubstadt, IN - May 30, 2008. In June the first of three
double- up racing weekends scheduled for this season will arrive. MSCS drivers
will have the opportunity to compete twice in the same weekend. June 6th the non
wing sprint car series will visit the Morgan County Speedway in Jacksonville,
Illinois. That show is on Friday. The next evening the MSCS racers will be back
in action at Tri-State Speedway in Haubstadt, IN, which rates as the closest
thing to home dirt for the series regulars. Both races will climax with special
30 lap feature events. Both tracks are banked quarter mile facilities. The event scheduled for Morgan County Speedway is the
Budweiser 2nd Annual Western Illinois Classic. The POWRi Midgets and Micros will
also be on the racing card with the sprints to create a first class open wheel
shootout! Racing usually gets underway about 6:45 at the fairgrounds. It is the
only appearance scheduled for the MSCS sprints at Jacksonville this season. Thomas Meseraull currently leads the MSCS series in points.
He is a former midget driver who came to the Midwest from California last season
and is already finding success in the sprint car ranks. Promoters Billy and Kim West will have the welcome mat out
at the Morgan County Speedway. Illinois drivers are very familiar with the
facility which is the home of Shaheen’s Back to the Past Sprint Car Event each
fall. Two weeks of extra preparation at the track in advance of the Western
Illinois Classic are underway to help insure a great race. Jon Stanbrough won in
last year’s inaugural June outing for MSCS at Morgan County. That race
attracted 36 sprints from a 6 state area. The average MSCS car count per event
this season now stands at 37. On Saturday night June 7th Tri-State Speedway will present
the King of Indiana Sprint Series. This series was originated in 2001 to give
Indiana sprint car track promoters an opportunity to present a special show
which was sure to attract the best drivers competing in the state and thereby
crown the true King of Indiana sprint car drivers. The first title holder was
Dickie Gaines and since then Jon Stanbrough has won the crown three times which
includes back to back championships in 2006 and 2007. He also took the feature
at Gas City on May 16th to start out this season with equal success. That same Saturday night at Haubstadt many MSCS sprint car
drivers will be in the field competing for the $2,500 to win. Drivers competing
with a MSCS license or one-time permits will receive co-sanction MSCS points as
well as KISS points. The two groups competed together last season at Haubstadt
with the resulting feature ranking as one of the best ever witnessed at the
track. The checkered fell over Daron Clayton, Jon Stanbrough, and Brady Short in
that order after a terrific battle with the lead changing lap after lap It will be interesting to see how many teams catch both shows. KISS competitors and Hoosier sprint fans can add another night of racing at Kokomo Speedway Sunday, June 9th. However, the next scheduled race for the MSCS series will not happen until June 27th when the group visits Paducah International Raceway in Kentucky. |
