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TAYLORFAN44
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If you are close to the area, and would like to see some of the FASTEST cars in the midwest, head over to Macon tonight! 100 laps of pure WFO racing. Now, this is not a normal 100 lap race on a good size 3/8 or 1/4 mile...no...this is a short 1/5 mile where anything can happen. If ya end up going, be on the look out for Dick Taylor. he has masterd this race several times. His son Matt has wlaked away with it at least 2 times. Been to long since I was in the area 
You will see Moyer, Babb, Shirley, Wallace, O'Neal, Taylor(x2) Another Taylor...Guy. He has been back in a latemodel after several years out. VanDeermersch and tons tons more! This event has drawn more cars then most any others over the years. Not so much as for the money, but for the glory! Macon has always been one of them tracks where everyone wants to win since opening its gates. While I was helping the Taylors, this is one track that I always wanted to win at. Finally, during the H&R 100 (Herald & Review) I finally got one. Best feeling ever on a dirt track! So if your near by, feel like a good drive, hard WFO racing, beatin' bangin' door slamming sparks flyin' hot tempered drivers doing 100 laps inside of a chilli bowl......MAKE THE TRIP!!!
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ADD FROM HERALD & REVIEW-RESULTS
UMP Summernationals Set to Invade Macon Speedway
(Macon, IL) Race fans will be treated to a special UMP Late Model event at the Macon Speedway this Thursday night with the running of the Herald & Review 100. This event will mark stop 19 in the 27 date Summernationals Late Model tour. The Summernationals tour pays over three-quarters of a million dollars in prize money with Thursday night’s winner taking home $6000 for their win. The UMP Summernationals tour has quickly become one of the most anticipated dirt Late Model tours in the nation that attracts talented drivers like Dennis Erb, Randy Korte, Rodney Melvin, Darren Miller and Don O’Neal. Last year’s winner of the Macon Speedway Summernationals was Wes Steidenger of Fairbury, IL. In addition to the exciting late model action, the Barbeck UMP Modifieds will hit the track fighting for their $600 race win.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Next up at Macon Speedway will be Hickory River-Cromwell Group ½ price fan appreciation night where tickets to Macon Speedway will be $5 for adults and kids 12 & under are free. Coming up at Macon Speedway on July 12 will be Skeff Distributing night with a special race for the Street Stocks. Then on Friday July 18 don’t miss the POWRi midgets/Dana Godfrey Memorial as the midgets come back to invade Macon Speedway. Saturday, July 19 we will host the Christmas in July/Christmas for Kids Toy drive and another Midwest Big Ten Series race. Don’t miss your chance to see Tony Stewart at Macon Speedway on July 30, 2008 for our Caterpillar Night of NASCAR Stars III. Our Night of NASCAR Stars I has been rescheduled to August 19, we have plenty of good seats still available by calling our office at 217-764-3000.
Tickets for the Herald & Review Summernationals can be purchased at the gate for $20 for Adults, $5 kids 6-12, kids 5 and under are free. Pit gates open at 4pm; Grandstands open at 5pm with the racing action starting at 7pm.
Macon Speedway is located 9 miles south of Decatur, IL on US 51 then .6 miles west on Andrews Street, then south on Wiles. For more information, call 217-764-3000(track), 217-764-3220(information hotline), or contact us via email at [email protected]. Also visit www.maconracing.com or www.trackenterprises.com .
6-28-08 RECAP
MACON – After a week of fair weather, Macon Speedway was primed for an electric night of racing Saturday night. The track hosted its annual Firecracker 40’s for Chevrolet Late Models and BARBECK Communications Modifieds. Feature racers were running were bigger prizes, ($1,200 to win Late Models; $600 to win Modifieds) and nobody was letting up. St. Louis Cardinals’ mascot Fred Bird was on hand posing for pictures and giving away some Macon Speedway swag. Macon Speedway also shut off all the track lights for the fireworks show during the intermission.
The Late Model Firecracker 40 was one of the most anticipated at Macon Speedway. Four Macon Speedway veterans, Kyle Logue, Cory Daugherty, Butch Smith and Jayme Zidar, gave the fans one of the best heat races of the season, running two wide and bumper-to-bumper. Now, all four were starting up front in the feature.
Cory Daugherty broke through for his first career Macon Speedway feature win in the Chevrolet Late Models. Daugherty picked up a cool $1,200 for the Late Model Firecracker 40. Daugherty's car outclassed the competition on the high line. Some pesky lapped traffic gave Kyle Logue to make a challenge at the lead, but Daugherty stood strong and led 39 out of the 40 laps. "The car was perfect up top. And I would just drop the hammer on the straightaways and it would just go. I'm excited. I'm ready for fifty more laps." Daugherty said. Chris Dick took advantage of the late wreck between Daugherty and Logue to move to second place and Dennis Vandermeersch finished third.
Dave Crawley took home a $600 prize for winning the Firecracker 40 for the BARBECK Communications Modifieds. Crawley held on to the lead throughout most of the race. He inherited the lead after Curt Rhodes had to exit the race early. Rhodes took the lead away from Scott Jones on lap one but had to pull off the track in turn two. Modified "Best Fan In The Stands Award" went to driver-Steve Ewing and fan-Dakota Ewing.
Longtime Macon racer Al Crawley has his street stock running. With a feature win tonight, his second of the year, Crawley has been near the front in every race since his return to the track. Crawley just barely beat out the #95 of Steve Ewing on the final turn to win.
The Sportsman feature was dominated by Mike Pickering’s #9. When Pickering’s high line is running well, there’s very little chance anyone will catch him. Jeff Graham held off a good run Rick Roedel for second place.
Mike Pundt broke the Joe Reed feature winning streak in the hornets. This marked Pundt’s first pro hornet win of the season. Bruce Dulgar was back in his usual form. Dulgar had been struggling after a rough wreck a few weeks ago, but finished second tonight in front of the very fast car of Joe Reed.
Jeff Gill picked up his second amateur hornet win.
Chevrolet Late Model
1. Cory Daugherty; 2. Chris Dick; 3. Dennis Vandermeersch; 4. Jayme Zidar; 5. Mike Hammerle; 6. Roger Brickler; 7. Kyle Logue; 8. Guy Taylor; 9. Butch Smith; 10. Nick Macklin
BARBECK Communications Modifieds
1. Dave Crawley; 2. Jim Leka; 3. Marty Hiser; 4. Brad Crosby; 5. Aaron Burcham; 6. Ed Roley; 7. Danny Smith; 8. Steve Ewing; 9. Jeremy Nichols; 10. Dave Eckel
Hogan Grain/KUBOTA Sportsman
1. Mike Pickering; 2. Jeff Graham; 3. Rick Roedel; 4. Shawn Vaughn; 5. Tom Graham; 6. Scott Landers; 7. Tim Bedinger; 8. Jim Bedinger; 9. Steven Hill; 10. Timmy Dick
Street Stocks
1. Al Crawley; 2. Troy Dodson; 3. Steve Ewing; 4. Larry Russell Jr.; 5. Mike Pickering; 6. Terry Reed; 7. Josh Miller; 8. Blake Shelley; 9. Jim Cardoni; 10. Roy Magee
Hornets (pro)
1. Mike Pundt; 2. Bruce Dulgar; 3. Joe Reed; 4. James Hankins; 5. Todd Rush; 6. Steven Dulgar; 7. Larry Hawk; 8. Fred Reed; 9. Richard Reckmo; 10. John Bright Jr.
Macon Speedway is located 9 miles south of Decatur, IL on US 51 then .6 miles west on Andrews Street, then south on Wiles. For more information, call 217-764-3000(track), 217-764-3220(information hotline), or contact us via email at [email protected]. Also visit www.maconracing.com or www.trackenterprises.com
You will see Moyer, Babb, Shirley, Wallace, O'Neal, Taylor(x2) Another Taylor...Guy. He has been back in a latemodel after several years out. VanDeermersch and tons tons more! This event has drawn more cars then most any others over the years. Not so much as for the money, but for the glory! Macon has always been one of them tracks where everyone wants to win since opening its gates. While I was helping the Taylors, this is one track that I always wanted to win at. Finally, during the H&R 100 (Herald & Review) I finally got one. Best feeling ever on a dirt track! So if your near by, feel like a good drive, hard WFO racing, beatin' bangin' door slamming sparks flyin' hot tempered drivers doing 100 laps inside of a chilli bowl......MAKE THE TRIP!!!----------------
ADD FROM HERALD & REVIEW-RESULTS
UMP Summernationals Set to Invade Macon Speedway
(Macon, IL) Race fans will be treated to a special UMP Late Model event at the Macon Speedway this Thursday night with the running of the Herald & Review 100. This event will mark stop 19 in the 27 date Summernationals Late Model tour. The Summernationals tour pays over three-quarters of a million dollars in prize money with Thursday night’s winner taking home $6000 for their win. The UMP Summernationals tour has quickly become one of the most anticipated dirt Late Model tours in the nation that attracts talented drivers like Dennis Erb, Randy Korte, Rodney Melvin, Darren Miller and Don O’Neal. Last year’s winner of the Macon Speedway Summernationals was Wes Steidenger of Fairbury, IL. In addition to the exciting late model action, the Barbeck UMP Modifieds will hit the track fighting for their $600 race win.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Next up at Macon Speedway will be Hickory River-Cromwell Group ½ price fan appreciation night where tickets to Macon Speedway will be $5 for adults and kids 12 & under are free. Coming up at Macon Speedway on July 12 will be Skeff Distributing night with a special race for the Street Stocks. Then on Friday July 18 don’t miss the POWRi midgets/Dana Godfrey Memorial as the midgets come back to invade Macon Speedway. Saturday, July 19 we will host the Christmas in July/Christmas for Kids Toy drive and another Midwest Big Ten Series race. Don’t miss your chance to see Tony Stewart at Macon Speedway on July 30, 2008 for our Caterpillar Night of NASCAR Stars III. Our Night of NASCAR Stars I has been rescheduled to August 19, we have plenty of good seats still available by calling our office at 217-764-3000.
Tickets for the Herald & Review Summernationals can be purchased at the gate for $20 for Adults, $5 kids 6-12, kids 5 and under are free. Pit gates open at 4pm; Grandstands open at 5pm with the racing action starting at 7pm.
Macon Speedway is located 9 miles south of Decatur, IL on US 51 then .6 miles west on Andrews Street, then south on Wiles. For more information, call 217-764-3000(track), 217-764-3220(information hotline), or contact us via email at [email protected]. Also visit www.maconracing.com or www.trackenterprises.com .
6-28-08 RECAP
MACON – After a week of fair weather, Macon Speedway was primed for an electric night of racing Saturday night. The track hosted its annual Firecracker 40’s for Chevrolet Late Models and BARBECK Communications Modifieds. Feature racers were running were bigger prizes, ($1,200 to win Late Models; $600 to win Modifieds) and nobody was letting up. St. Louis Cardinals’ mascot Fred Bird was on hand posing for pictures and giving away some Macon Speedway swag. Macon Speedway also shut off all the track lights for the fireworks show during the intermission.
The Late Model Firecracker 40 was one of the most anticipated at Macon Speedway. Four Macon Speedway veterans, Kyle Logue, Cory Daugherty, Butch Smith and Jayme Zidar, gave the fans one of the best heat races of the season, running two wide and bumper-to-bumper. Now, all four were starting up front in the feature.
Cory Daugherty broke through for his first career Macon Speedway feature win in the Chevrolet Late Models. Daugherty picked up a cool $1,200 for the Late Model Firecracker 40. Daugherty's car outclassed the competition on the high line. Some pesky lapped traffic gave Kyle Logue to make a challenge at the lead, but Daugherty stood strong and led 39 out of the 40 laps. "The car was perfect up top. And I would just drop the hammer on the straightaways and it would just go. I'm excited. I'm ready for fifty more laps." Daugherty said. Chris Dick took advantage of the late wreck between Daugherty and Logue to move to second place and Dennis Vandermeersch finished third.
Dave Crawley took home a $600 prize for winning the Firecracker 40 for the BARBECK Communications Modifieds. Crawley held on to the lead throughout most of the race. He inherited the lead after Curt Rhodes had to exit the race early. Rhodes took the lead away from Scott Jones on lap one but had to pull off the track in turn two. Modified "Best Fan In The Stands Award" went to driver-Steve Ewing and fan-Dakota Ewing.
Longtime Macon racer Al Crawley has his street stock running. With a feature win tonight, his second of the year, Crawley has been near the front in every race since his return to the track. Crawley just barely beat out the #95 of Steve Ewing on the final turn to win.
The Sportsman feature was dominated by Mike Pickering’s #9. When Pickering’s high line is running well, there’s very little chance anyone will catch him. Jeff Graham held off a good run Rick Roedel for second place.
Mike Pundt broke the Joe Reed feature winning streak in the hornets. This marked Pundt’s first pro hornet win of the season. Bruce Dulgar was back in his usual form. Dulgar had been struggling after a rough wreck a few weeks ago, but finished second tonight in front of the very fast car of Joe Reed.
Jeff Gill picked up his second amateur hornet win.
Chevrolet Late Model
1. Cory Daugherty; 2. Chris Dick; 3. Dennis Vandermeersch; 4. Jayme Zidar; 5. Mike Hammerle; 6. Roger Brickler; 7. Kyle Logue; 8. Guy Taylor; 9. Butch Smith; 10. Nick Macklin
BARBECK Communications Modifieds
1. Dave Crawley; 2. Jim Leka; 3. Marty Hiser; 4. Brad Crosby; 5. Aaron Burcham; 6. Ed Roley; 7. Danny Smith; 8. Steve Ewing; 9. Jeremy Nichols; 10. Dave Eckel
Hogan Grain/KUBOTA Sportsman
1. Mike Pickering; 2. Jeff Graham; 3. Rick Roedel; 4. Shawn Vaughn; 5. Tom Graham; 6. Scott Landers; 7. Tim Bedinger; 8. Jim Bedinger; 9. Steven Hill; 10. Timmy Dick
Street Stocks
1. Al Crawley; 2. Troy Dodson; 3. Steve Ewing; 4. Larry Russell Jr.; 5. Mike Pickering; 6. Terry Reed; 7. Josh Miller; 8. Blake Shelley; 9. Jim Cardoni; 10. Roy Magee
Hornets (pro)
1. Mike Pundt; 2. Bruce Dulgar; 3. Joe Reed; 4. James Hankins; 5. Todd Rush; 6. Steven Dulgar; 7. Larry Hawk; 8. Fred Reed; 9. Richard Reckmo; 10. John Bright Jr.
Macon Speedway is located 9 miles south of Decatur, IL on US 51 then .6 miles west on Andrews Street, then south on Wiles. For more information, call 217-764-3000(track), 217-764-3220(information hotline), or contact us via email at [email protected]. Also visit www.maconracing.com or www.trackenterprises.com