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The biggest show ever for this South east MO gem of a track! 5K to win on friday and 10,088 to win on saturday! Any chatter about drivers making this show? Nice payback through the field. I would think it would attract some drivers not running for points anywhere! Hopefully this show is supported by racers and fans, nice payback for an unsanctioned event!! Not to mention honoring Mr. Terry Babb on saturday night.

Unfortunately probably the 15 local jokals + maybe Ryan Timms he has raced there a few times. Big mistake to move this race from October when Knoxville and Allstars are done. Don't see it being much more than a regular Saturday night show. Maybe a few Memphis area 360s a good 360 can win there it's not a horsepower track pretty slow

Timms and Blake Hahn

I'm up for the date change.  The October date was drawing big outside teams anyway.  Farmington is a nice lil facility, ran by great people with tremendous fan support.  Don't know why they won't schedule Powri or All-Star series, even MOWA.  Wishing them all the best.  My guess is 30-35 cars

I would agree, 30-35 cars. I think it will be a quality show! Glad to see the promoter try a different date, the October date used to be good but now the racing everywhere seems to linger on thru October anymore! I can't help but think some name drivers would try and cherrypick this race, I think its there for the taking!

Pretty unfair to down play the weakly tallent there. True they are not high budget teams that travel or that even care to do so. But like all tracks those guys that run there weekly are hard to beat on their own turf. They have a weekly 410 show, typically very racey and $10 to get in the gate. The only other option if you are a 410 fan is to drive 6-7 hrs one way to Knoxville every weekend. I don't think this 2 day race is intended to pull All Star or WOO caliber cars. It is however a great opportunity for mid level, lower budget teams to run for a strong purse. There are a lot of good quality low budget teams in Mo/Illinois that don't run the big sanctioned shows. This will be a good show. MOWA has a race Friday. I'd expect Saturday to draw a hand full more cars.  Not often that you can see a $10k race for a $20 gate admission. Seems like a great deal for the drivers and fans. 

that's a good and probably accurate way of looking at the Queen's.  That this race is not intented to pull in big outside teams, but to give our local guys a chance to race for really good money and the prestige of winning this annual race.  In this day, if you don't sanction the race, you just aren't going to get them.  Derek Hagar is with USCS in Alabama tonight.  MOWA guys will be at Granite.  Obviously All-Star & WoO at their races.  I am interested in the possiblity of Ricky Stenhouse

saw where Timms won it

Did they keep the show moving pretty well?  I expect to see some of last night's MOWA guys there tonight

Looks like they had a nice field of cars. Straight up heats is not fan friendly and neither is locking in 4 cars from the prelim feature to the Saturday dash. Weak. 

Track was great. Heavy and narrow in heats but perfect for A main. Traffic all race was crazy. Timms, Miller, Nienhiser, Bellm, and Hahn were all very fast. But Timms was fearless in traffic. Hopefully Miller gets his back together. Nasty hit in the wall. 

Nothing "weak" about locking in and rewarding the drivers that support both nights of a show. This is common "Nationals" type format. 

looking at the Saturday night results there was a lot of DNF's and DQ's?

looks like the field was mostly locals, as I only knew 3 or 4 of the names, 

has the WoO or All Stars ever raced at that track? 

The AllStars have raced here a few times in the past.

There were 33 cars. Well over half where guys from Midwest that don't run there. Strong field first 5 rows. Much better race then the results show. Most of the DNFs were tire wear toward the end. 50 lap race. Joe B Miller got around Paul Nienhiser on the the cushion around lap 2 or 3 and was gone. Heavy traffic. Good race behind him. Nienhiser and Timms were running 2 and 3 but changed a rear tire under a late red flag and went to the back. 

Locking in 4 cars from a prelim is an antiquated format that nobody has used forever. The fans get screwed and they are much more important that any one of those 4 drivers. 

No. Natiomal Sprint Car League 

I was at an ASCoC show at Farmington in 2004.  The show was held April 3rd that year.  Chad Kemenah was the A-Main winner over Dale Bleny, Terry McCarl, Ricky Logan and Jerrod Hull.  Heats for the 45 cars on hand that night were won by Jeremy Campbell, Alex Shanks, Terry Babb and Jesse Gianetto.  Jon Agan won the C-Main.  Paul May won the B-Main.

There was a second show scheduled that year, on June 12th, but it was rained out/cancelled.  I could be wrong, but I don't think that race was rescheduled.

I think it's cool there were 2 random non-sanctioned sprint car races (Farmington and Lincoln) that paid $10k to win this weekend. It shows purses are catching up to where LMs have been for a while. 

There was an All Star race as well in July of 2003. Tim Montgomery won that show. I was there for both shows 

There was, sorry bud.

There was, sorry bud.