GATES OPEN at 9 a.m. PRACTICE STARTS at 10 a.m. QUALIFYING at 11:15 a.m. RACING at 1:30 p.m. The unpredictable USAC Silver Crown Championship Series returns to the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield Sunday for the "Tony Bettenhausen 100," a race rained out on August 16. Kody Swanson, Tracy Hines and defending series champion [...]
MACON, Ill. – It’s an open wheel weekend for dirt track racing fans with some of the nation’s best dirt trackers heading to Central Illinois for major events in POWRi midgets and USAC Silver Crown cars. POWRi fans are already buzzing about the program at legendary Macon Speedway Saturday, Sept. 6, when the series holds [...]
MACON, Ill. -- POWRi is scheduled to visit legendary Macon Speedway for the final time of the season on Saturday. After efforts to run double features were thwarted by rain on two separate occasions, both the midgets and micros will run their April 26th make-up feature events in addition to a full regular show on Saturday night. For [...]
MACON, Ill. – Fans who purchase tickets to the Dana Godfrey Memorial at Macon Speedway Saturday night highlighted by double features with the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget Series may also buy tickets for half price to the USAC Tony Bettenhausen 100 for Silver Crown cars at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield Sunday. Tickets [...]
MACON, Ill. – A.J. Fike of Galesburg, Ill., goes for a rare three-peat when the USAC Tony Bettenhausen 100 for Silver Crown cars roars into action on Sunday, Sept. 7, in a complete show on the Springfield Mile at the Illinois State Fairgrounds. The Bettenhausen 100 will include practice, time trials and the 100-lap race [...]
MACON, Ill. – The POWRI Lucas Oil National Midget Series saved the best for last. In the final appearance of the season for the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget Series and Speedway Motors Outlaw Micros, both divisions will run double features Saturday at Macon Speedway. Originally built as a midget track in 1946, the legendary [...]
DuQUOIN, Ill. -- Grant Enfinger claims he's not a dirt track racer, but he could have fooled everyone today. Enfinger, in the No. 90 Motor Honey-Casite-Allegiant Travel Chevrolet, led 63 of 100 laps en route to Victory Lane in the 61st running of the Southern Illinois 100 presented by Federated Car Care at the DuQuoin [...]
Du QUOIN, Ill. -- Ken Schrader jumped to the lead on the seventh lap and held off a hard-charging Joe Walsh for the victory in the Bill Oldani Memorial for UMP Modifieds at the DuQuoin State Fairgrounds Monday. Schrader, who started outside front row, took the lead after Walsh spun in turn three. The polesitter, [...]
USAC SILVER CROWN CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES RACE RESULTS: August 31, 2014 - DuQuoin, Illinois - DuQuoin State Fairgrounds - "Ted Horn 100" QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Bobby East, 10, Stewart/Curb-Agajanian-30.571; 2. Kody Swanson, 63, DePalma-30.729; 3. Jerry Coons Jr., 98, RPM/Gormly-31.199; 4. Dave Darland, 19, Longworth-31.273; 5. Shane Cockrum, 66, Hardy-31.474; 6. Zach Daum, 5, Daum-31.766; [...]
DuQUOIN, Ill. -- The cars have hit the track for practice prior to the ARCA Southern Illinois 100 at the DuQuoin State Fairgrounds. With the rain dissipating in Southern Illinois, the program is on schedule, and the track looks fabulous for a great day of racing. The breeze in the grandstands makes it even more [...]