Joliet SN

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Back to green. 24 to go. Heckenast is done.

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Caution back out immediately as the orange cone is kicked up on the frontstretch.

[Zonks32x]

Cjp0354

I hear what you're saying, and I agree to a point. Yes, get the track right but...start the program close to on time. A near two hour delay when a track had ALL day/week to get the race surface ready is bad practice. It's not like this race was just scheduled two days ago & nobody knew they were racing tonight.

We talk on this board all the time about attracting and keeping new fans. A night like this, starting late and a bunch of down time, doesn't help sell new fans on dirt racing. Especially if those first timers brought kids. They likely won't be back when they leave at 10pm and only saw 30 minutes of racing.

When I buy a ticket to a baseball game and that ticket says 7:00pm, I know with 100% certainty that the first pitch will be at 7:00. I'm not sitting in my seat at 8pm waiting for the game to start b/c six guys are mowing the grass on the field.

When I buy a ticket to a football game, I know the game is going to kick-off at noon. The game doesn't start late b/c the grounds crew is still lining the field.

I buy a ticket to a dirt race and the ticket/track website says racing starts at 6:30. I know that start time doesn't mean a hill of beans. I'm gonna get there at 6:30pm and still see some kind of trucks, tractors, or other form of old rusted-out pieces of $@!# still packing the track.

No new fans would ever show up if the ticket or track website said, "Races start at 6:30 "ish"...rarely on time, but before 8pm."

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Back to green. 23 to go.

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Red flag as there was a huge jam up on the restart. Rusty Schlenk flips multiple times and lands on his roof. Driver is ok.

[Bigdirtfan]

Rusty on lid again now its all worth it for me. Haha hes alright so i can laugh.

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Billy Moyer has significant damage to the left side. Stubber and Gardner involved. Wait until you see the video of that one...

[racecar1127]

Dirt on dirt said delay of race start was due to excessive heat. Wanted to wait until sun was lower. I am not there so unsure on the call, just going off of what I read.

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Back to green. 23 to go..

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Caution lap 8. Culp takes out Shirley. 18 25s 1m 14 56

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Unzicker in the hot pit. Shirley returns.

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Back to green. 22 to go.

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Caution at lap 10 as Culp slows. Babb slips and loses the lead, but scoring reverted back a lap. Babb gets the lead back. I don't get that one...

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Babb gets the lead back for some reason. 21 to go. 18 25s 1m

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Caution at lap 13 as Shirley slows. Babb appears to be getting a gift from UMP... 18 m14 1m 33 56 25s 21 2h 89 94

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Back to green qith 17 to go.

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Halfway: 18 m14 1m 33 25s

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10 to go. 18 m14 1m 33 56. Unzicker and Gundaker out.

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5 to go. 18 m14 1m 56 33

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Finish: Babb wins his third straight SN race. 18 m14 1m 56 33 21 3s 25s 25f 2h