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TJ’s Notes & Quotes from Eldora All Stars

The biggest pre race news was the involvement of Joe Darmofal buying a controlling interest in the All Star Circuit of Champions. Joe has sponsored teams in the past, and was formerly the head of the Motorsports Alloys division of TW Metals. Joe has been a staunch All Star supporter and will do a great job leading the group into the future. To avoid speculation, a press release from the All Stars will be forthcoming and we will have an interview with Darmofal this weekend.

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Gearing Up For a Triple Variety Weekend!

The 2002 season kicked off with a rather auspicious start with openers at Attica Raceway Park and Eldora Speedway getting cancelled due to inclement weather earlier in the week. Both Janet Holbrook and Earl Baltes did a great job forgetting the word out early about the cancellation.

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Ohio “4 four all” Shows Potential

This week the United States Auto Club officially announced plans for an Ohio swing to feature the National Sprint Car and Midget series at four prominent dirt tracks. Ohio was the founding ground of the “Speedweek” format where winged racers crisscross the Buckeye state. Now USAC has taken this concept into a four-day weekend that makes way too much sense in a sport that does not make sense very often.

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Mike Linder Dominates SOD Season Championship at Hartford

Mike Linder from Fremont OH took his first career SOD checkers by lapping all but second place during the Sprints On Dirt Season Championship at Hartford Speedway Park. “We have come close a couple times,” stated Linder, “but the breaks finally went our way tonight.”

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Winged Sprint Car Racing’s Grand Slam: Is it possible?

Last week at Eldora as Mark Kinser passed cars high and low after Karl Kinser tweaked his car during a red flag, some of the sports talk consuming the rest of the country suddenly hit me, can Mark Kinser win what I consider the ‘Grand Slam’ of sprint car racing? After Mark’s Lernerville victory this question can be asked more frequently.

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Wilson Wins Speedweek Show at Limaland

Greg Wilson outdueled Kelly Kinser Friday night in the All Star sprint 30-lap Ohio Speedweek feature at Limaland Motorsports Park. His fourth win of the season paid Wilson $6,000 and came in front of another sellout crowd in Bob Hampshire’s No. 63.

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TJ’s Notes & Quotes From Friday Night at Eldora

The heat races were incredible all night at the first night of the Eldora doubleheader. In particular the third sprint car heat race that featured a spirited dual with J.J. Yeley, Bill Rose, Tony Jones, and Tyler Walker. This quartet of drivers raced three, and for a couple of laps four wide all around the Eldora ½-mile oval.

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TJ’s Notes & Quotes From Kokomo

Boston Reid thrilled the crowd in his hometown of Kokomo, Indiana Sunday night by winning the GLOSS sprint car feature at the Kokomo Speedway. Boston, who graduated June 8th from High School, was still on cloud nine Monday about the big win.

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TJ’s Take on the Little 500

During my 23 years of race chasing and the past 6 seasons of doing TJ Slideways.com (has it really been that long?) I have been to some of the biggest open wheel events in the world. Some are still going strong such at the Kings Royal, the Amoco Knoxville Nationals, Ohio Speedweek, and the 4-Crown Nationals.

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Weekend Leftovers and Hangovers from Eldora and Gas City

The Gumout Series got a bit of bad news and a bit of good news on Saturday night at Eldora Speedway concerning who would be chasing the 2001 title. Saturday the Guy Forbrook team with Jeff Shepard secured funding to stay on the road with the Pennzoil World of Outlaws. No word on who the sponsor will be.

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