From "Murphy"
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-NOSA Points race brought down a dozen or so ND 410’s for the weekend. They also raced 20 miles west at Hartford the night before
-32 410’s, 21 IMCA sprints, 13 Late Model Street Stock, O other classes
-#23 Brandon Bosma won his IMCA heat. Is that his 1st at Husets?
-2d Dusty Ballenger finished 2nd behind Bosma using pure aggression.
-Greg Bakker in the DeWalle #16 410
-Shaun played a bunch of that “hippie music”. It was well into the 410 heats before I heard anything I recognized- The Immigrant song by Led Zeppelin. Later there were others, like Welcome to the Jolene, etc. I’m getting old.
-Billy Prouty won his 1st LMSS feature
-They have a hard charger award. Not sure who got it in the other classes, but Mike Moore got $100 for the IMCA sprints by picking up 8 positions
- The 50/50 pot was about $715(?), and I forgot to donate for the cause.
-Justin Henderson in the 410 feature was leavin’ on a jet plane! He ran up to 2nd in about a lap and was lapping cars by about the 4the lap. The guy was even fast scooting around like a water bug on the plowed field at the top of 3 & 4.
-I sat up high above the #1 turn. The sound system seems to work better there than at the other end.
-The pit microphone seems to be working now.
-I talked to a man wearing a vintage, red Husets wind breaker, the kind with the double checkered flags on it. He guessed it to be from about 1974.
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-The National Anthem, yes it’s a hard song to sing. It’s not a race. It’s good to be enthusiastic, but I know there’s specific music that was written for it.
-Josh Sterrett flipped in his IMCA sprint heat
-Cody Hansen bopped the wall in his 410 heat and pitched the #4 upside down
-Elliot Amdahl smoked the turn 3 wall in his 410 heat, then collided with Jack Dover. Both then flipped
-The road grader time trials ran way too long. At about 7 minutes per lap, that adds up.
-#12 in the 410 B-main launched a tire into the parking lot coming out of turn 4.
-JJ Ziebell spun in turn 2 from the front row of the LMSS feature on the first lap. It collected some cars, including 71Z Zach Olivier whose car was too damaged to continue.
-#23 Bosma spun out of 3rd place in the IMCA sprint feature. #6 Bailey Ballenger had nowhere to go and bopped into him. Both were done for the night
-On the first lap of the 410 A-main, front row starter #4 Matt Juhl spun in turn 2 in front of the field. I don’t understand why, but #35Skyler Pochaska who started next to him them flipped against the inside berm a couple hundred feet further down the track.
-#8 Jack Croaker and #22 Riley Goodno got together on lap 6 and flipped down the back chute. They were running about 5th & 6th (?) at the time.
-#47 Brant O’Banion and #11M Brenden Mullen then got together, with Mullen flipping
-11:00, I went home. 410 feature was about half over, but the alarm clock rings too early to be getting home too late. I see from results that Justin Henderson won. I don’t know if the track ate any more cars.
-Track prep seems to need some work.
This N That
-I had to call my son and get another lesson about how to paste from Word to Hoseheads. Geeze, Dad. Don't you remeber anything?...Actually, no.
-Why doesn’t the scoreboard match up to what’s on the track when the cars line up before a race?
-Is there no one named Mack racing in NOSA anymore?
-Restarts: sometimes a cone, sometimes not. At one point, the cone guy was getting ready to do his thing, but someone told him not to. It’s just as well, as it was a complete restart, and the cone would not have been welcomed.
-Why isn’t there a concrete barrier between the front chute and the people standing behind the barrier in turn #1? Last week, an IMCA sprinter made a sharp left turn into the front stretch inside wall at speed. If a car did that 50 yards down the track, it would be heading straight into those people and into a light pole.
-I think I’ve mentioned this before, but why not have some buckets of dry dirt stashed somewhere that can be dumped on fluids on the track? I don’t think throwing shovels of mud do much to absorb fluids.
-How 'bout the roving microphone guy in the pits doing some quick interviews during down time? For example, instead of watching the grader do laps, he could have gotten the oldest racrt there, Chuck McGilvrey, who's about 67(?) and Bailey Ballinger, who's about 16 and compared notes.
-Which drivers have T-shirts for sale?
It was a good night of racing. It would have been better with less crashes and an earlier finish time, but that’s the breaks.
What did you think of the races last night?