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I know that there are probably a few people on here who attended; how was the car count, attendance, etc.? I checked the results on TSS website, but it didn't list number of entries. I thought about going, but got involved in some yard work and soon got over it.

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Ron,

I didn't go but according to a post on 4m, they had 32 late models and 44 modifieds. The Hell Tour website shows Billy Moyer as the winner. That's all I got.

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Ron,
I was there........Big fields of fast cars with all of the top Mods and LM cars. Big crowd of Late Model folks. Good action for the most part, but boy them LM sure do kick up the dust. Lots of heats with C and B consis in the mods. Wheel to wheel action. Got my one Late Model fix for the year. Should have been there. 4 NASCAP drivers there , Kenny Wallace, Austin Dillon, Tad Crafton, and Tyler Reddick. On the road by 10:30 at the latest. My bud Ted Brown Quality Paint and Body sponsors this race and it was a good one.

Decided to go and it was a good show. No one really had anything the Moyer in the late models thought Pierce might with the late caution but Moyer was to smooth. Cars were parked well outside the pit area with nearly 80 cars. The modified c main was painful to watch with a bunch of cautions in a 10 lap race. The modified feature was the show though with a good 3 car battle for the win. Not sure the name of the guy who won but was from Michigan and his first time at tri state. Nicely and Fair gave him a run for his money with the winner closing the door going into 1 on the last lap.

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I sat in the WRONG area last night, the wind was blowing hard towards the frontstretch, I was COVERED in dust. BUT..the racing was pretty damn good. Moyer was on his own level last night. Thought Randy Korte would have somethign for him on the lowside, but it just never came in. Was fun watching Bobby Pierce and Jason Feger try to tear down the wall as high as they were running. The modified feature was good after Mike Harrison pulled in with problems. Then Jacob Poel, Zach Fair and Tyler Nicely put on a great three car show for the win. Poel won his 19th feature of the year

Chris I never sit on the front side, sun and wind in your face, the reserved seats on the backstretch are the only way to go!

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Moyer was tough starting on the pole and it was fun watching Pierce running the wall but both grooves were fast. Really nice crowd and two of the heats for LM's were outstanding. The race for second on back was a real was with clean, quality driving all over the track. Dillon was impressive on the dirt, for sure. He signed autographs on the backstretch at intermission and said hello to a couple of us that were sitting on the benches when they set up his table. He seemed like a nice guy and I told my buddy that this was how a driver creates and builds his fan base by coming to short tracks signing autographs and taking pictures with fans and just being nice. Indy-car racing could do themselves a world of good if they would send out drivers to do the same but their clothes might get dusty and they can't have that. Their short racing schedule gives them plenty of free weekends to do this.

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My third sentence above should have said it was a real battle and not a real was, whatever that is. Brain fade, I reckon.

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Tom your entitled to one now and then.:14::3:

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were are they running Thursday?

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Florence today, THAT tomorrow, Macon Thursday.

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The track was fast and smooth, and Chris Nunn is right....VERY DUSTY.....almost the worst I have ever seen (excluding THAT during a day race)...but the track crew done a great job keeping the show rolling with over 80 cars there and it was over around 10:30 p.m. CST.

Maybe I am wrong, but I didn't think the racing was very good at all (there were some moments though as mentioned by some other posters on this thread).....my idea of a good race is passing, side by side action, sliders, etc. but these things were a rarity on this night. This is the 2nd time I have been down to TSS this season and have walked away disappointed with the racing both times. I love the facility, the quality of the field was stellar, but something is not quite working....the leaders of almost every race were able to stay in front and everyone else was just chasing them. I know they qualified, and Moyer was on his game all night......but the first late model heat had 8 cars all running the top, and spread out all over the track. I don't think there was one pass in that race after the initial start. This happened a few weeks ago at the MSCS race also. Last week's Dirty 30 program was the USAC sprints from back in May at TSS and MDC won by over 8 seconds and lapped all the way up to like 5th place? I am sure I am in the minority here, but that isn't good racing and I would have probably put that night in the dissappointment category as well. It is cool to see race cars go really fast around a track like TSS, but after you get tired of seeing just that, then you want to see some actual "racing" and not just "chasing".

The place is almost too fast for it's own good...I do understand why they have to re-work the track due to the composition of the racing surface. If they didn't re-work it, we wouldn't have been able to see the cars on the track during the feature. BUT....perhaps something to kill the dust besides just water might be the key to providing better racing in the features. I am not a track preparation guy, but water just makes the first half of the feature like a heat race.

I love TSS, I do not want to bulldoze it down, and I will be back to see more races there........I just want to see better racing for my $25 at a track considered by almost everyone as one of the best tracks in the country.

Am I wrong here? fire away.......:)

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big, the UMP Summernational tour will be at Mighty Macon Speedway in Macon, Illinois for the Herald & Review 100. This is usually the best race of the series and it's the only 100 lapper of the Summernational tour.

I've been going to Mighty Macon for the Herald & Review 100 since in the mid 1980's and traditionally it's the best dirt late model race we attend all season, and that includes over 20 trips to Eldora for the World Hundred and a few Dirt Late Model Dream's thrown in, as well.

It used to be years ago there was no support classes for the H & R 100 but in recent years they ran 3 or 4. Happily, they are back to just the mortifieds as a support class, which is good. If Macon rubbers up there is only one groove and it's a huggy pole train race. That has happened a few times when there were a bunch of support classes, hopefully with just the mortifieds as a support class that won't be the case Thursday night.

Just wish they'd only run 1 class in support of the POWRi midgets and micro's.

Not a big dirt late model kinda' guy but that's about all there is to see for us over here in The Land O' Lincoln and crooked politicians so we'll be there Thursday night for sure.