MARS at Peoria - Saturday

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Walking in now.

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32 Super Late Models signed in.

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Hotlaps were supposed to start 45 minutes ago...

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Hotlaps underway.

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Hotlaps complete.
Race Monitor didn't work for half of the session, so I don't know who was fastest.

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Qualifying underway.

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Group A fast time:
Ryan Gustin 12.229

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Group B fast time:
Dennis Erb Jr 12.442

Qualifying complete

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Heat 1 on track.
Top 4 transfer.

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Heat 1 green.

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Caution with 4 to go as Billy Drake spins.

25
19r
3s
99
35
98
75

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Back to green with 4 to go.

25
3s 19r
35 99
98 75
48b

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Caution immediately as Cole Swibold runs into Heckenast and spins.

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Back to green.

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Heat 1 transfers:

Shirley
Feger
Gustin
Heckenast

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Heat 2 green.

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Heat 2 transfers:

Bennett
Chasteen
Moos
Unzicker

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Heat 3 green.

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Heat 3 transfers:

Erb Jr
Hess
Hurst
Gardner

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Heat 4 green.

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Heat 4 transfers:

Herzog
Babb
Papich
Bell

Heats complete.

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2 B-Mains tonight.
Top 2 transfer.
I couldn't find the lineups.

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B-Main 1 on track.

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26% remaining on my battery.
Will I make it?
Stick around to find out...

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B-Main 1 green.
Top 2 transfer.

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Caution with 5 to go as Allen Howard Jr spins.

75
35
10
B6
98
4u
48b

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Back to green with 5 to go.

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B-Main 1 transfers:

Drake
Rebholz

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B-Main 2 green.

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B-Main 2 transfers:

Vandenbergh
Murphy

[Highside Hustler25]

Peoria has some of the worst mods around.

[golddirt]

Yes they do!!

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50 lap A-Main on track.

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Rolling...

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Green flag.

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Stack up on the start.
Rich Bell is done with damage.
Complete restart.

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Back to green with 50 to go.

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Shirley leads lap 1.

3s
11
28

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Lap 4

Shirley by a half straightaway over Herzog.

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Lap 7

3s
11
28
T2
25

Heavy traffic soon.

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Lap 10

Shirley just into traffic.
Large lead over Herzog.

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Lap 13

Shirley picking through traffic cleanly.

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Lap 16

Choo choo

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Lap 20

3s
11
28
T2
25
18
19
40
2
58

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Halfway

Shirley by a straightaway.
Herzog, Erb, and Bennett nose to tail at 2,3, and 4.

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20 to go

Freight train.

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17 to go

Unchanged

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14 to go

Unchanged

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10 to go

You guessed it.
Unchanged.

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Caution with 6 to go as Gardner slows with a flat.

3s
11
28
T2
25

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Back to green.
Single file.

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4 to go

3s
11
28
T2
25
18

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Checker

All aboard the Chatham Express.

Shirley
Herzog
Erb Jr
Bennett
Feger

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6-22

Babb
Hess
Gustin
Chasteen
Hurst
Moos
Heckenast
Papich
Unzicker
Burwell -1
Murphy -1
Gardner -1
Vandenbergh DNF
Rebholz DNF
Drake DNF
Radke DNF
Bell DNF

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Good thing the Mods and Crate Mods ran first and burned the track up. Time management still isn't a thing here. Started almost an hour late AGAIN! Good night.

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They just called off the Hornets and Street Stocks due to curfew.

Lol

[intel8]

Thanks Shiny! Curfew? Strip club across the road complain? Lol......

[Highside Hustler25]

Squirrel 💥💥💥

[cgrace]

Squirrel Whoever drew the pole was going to win that race. As good as the first heat was, that's how bad the feature was.

[Highside Hustler25]

Whoever drew the pole was going to win that race. As good as the first heat was, that's how bad the feature was.
True. But Brian is really on top of his game right now. Didn't qualify well, but still overcame and got the job done.

[BloomerWon]

True. But Brian is really on top of his game right now. Didn't qualify well, but still overcame and got the job done.

He's one badass rodent!! 😎

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He's one badass rodent!! 

He is at the moment.

[TheJet-09]

Granted he is up front a lot, he strikes me as one of the best in lapped traffic. Watching that SN race at LaSalle (from the back straight), it was impressive to see him split cars off of turn 2, go three wide, yet stay so controlled. Conversely, I was surprised when I watched the video of Friday's win, and how long he stayed behind the 28m while lapping him. Almost cost him the race...