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Past the
Pit Gate
by Danny Rosencrans
October 27 - (Donnellson, Ia)
A racing season I had hoped would end with a " bang " instead ended with a
crash!
October
18 - (East Moline, Il)
Once again, Mother Nature decided to interfere with my racing plans this
weekend. A planned trip to the second annual UMP Dirt Car Roundup at I-55
Raceway in Pevely, Mo.
October 3 -
(Knoxville, Iowa)
This past weekends plans took us to Knoxville, Iowa for the final night of
the Lucas Oil Late Model Nationals three day show.
September 28 - (West Liberty, Iowa)
The final Saturday night in September, I joined my racing buddies for the
trek north to the Muscatine, Iowa fairgrounds speedway for the final night
of the 11th edition of the Liberty 100 in West Liberty, Iowa.
September 21 - (West Burlington, Iowa)
While the 2009 season has ended at Quincy Raceways, there is still plenty of
dirt track racing to be found, and while there were several venues last
weekend, I chose a long time favorite, 34 Raceway in West Burlington, Iowa.
September 15 -
The Quincy Raceways 2009 season came to an end Sunday night with 75 cars in
the pits for the final program.
September 8 -
" Postseason" racing started with a big splash Sunday night at Quincy
Raceways. Operating under the "something for everyone" formula, promoter
Tony Rhinberger packaged IMCA Deery Brothers late models with 410 All Star
winged sprints.
September 1 -
Yogi Berra should have been in attendance on season championship night at
Quincy Raceways.
August 25 -
The weatherman gave us a good night for racing on Sunday at Quincy Raceways,
and an amazingly large crowd for a school night came out to enjoy five
classes of racing.
August 17 -
Rain was the big winner on Sunday night at Quincy Raceways. Although there
was not a lot of rain during the day on Sunday, rain on Saturday night and
the threat of more was enough to make officials pull the plug on the show.
August 11 -
The highest paying modified race in Quincy Raceways history did not
disappoint on Sunday at the speedway.
August 3 -
Last Sunday night was the last night of regular racing this season at Quincy
Raceways. But it was far from the final night of racing.
July 26 -
Weekly racing returned to Quincy Raceways Sunday night, with all four
classes competing in points races.
July 21 -
Last Sunday night was the second visit for sprint cars in 2009 at Quincy
Raceways.
July 13 -
Sunday night racing at Quincy Raceways put the UMP Modifieds on center
stage, with the Advance Trading sponsored River City Rumble for the top 12
in season points.
July 7 -
Quincy Raceways hosted two nights of racing this past weekend, and both
turned out to be real crowd pleasers.
June 30 -
Racing at Quincy Raceways for the month of June wrapped up with the first
ever Topless late model event at the Broadway Bullring.
June 23 -
After a week of - what else - rain, and a week out of town, I returned to QR
Sunday night for the weekly showdown at the Bullring.
June 2 -
Sunday night was a regular night of racing at Quincy
Raceways, but the action was anything but ordinary. A total car count of
71 was led by the UMP Modifieds showing 20 entrants.
May 25 -
Quincy Raceways actually managed to avoid the raindrops this past
weekend, although they seemed to be in the minority of race tracks doing
so.
May 19 -
Whoever has been doing the rain dance at Quincy Raceways this season was on
hand to tease again this week. Somewhere between a clear Sunday morning and
the 20 mile trip to the speedway, "no chance of rain" turned in to a pesky
drizzle.
May 13, 2009 -
Quincy Raceways owners may wish for more race cars or more fans, but they
sure are not wishing for more rain!
May 5, 2009 -
Quincy Raceways was finally able to get back to back Sunday night racing
in this past weekend on a night that started out warm and ended with
jacket weather.
April 28, 2009 -
The long racing weekend began early last week with the
rescheduled IMCA Deery Brothers Summer Series event kicking things off
on Thursday night along with IMCA stock cars and hobby stocks.
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