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Rob, I really liked the Midget show at Gas City that night too. It's just often over-shadowed by the "classic" Darland performance in the sprint car race. Friday of Ovals and Kokomo Sprintweek were spectacular, too.
Some others I thought I'd mention:
MSCS @ Haubstadt - Memorial Day - Stanbrough wins and Schuerenberg from the C to third
The Knoxville Midget Nats - Sweet passes Coons late for his first big USAC win
Bloomington Sprintweek - Clauson/Cottle battle. Then Coons to the lead, holds on over Levi in a photo finish and Darland third from 22nd
Terre Haute's Silver Crown race. This one was all Darland - the guy was against the concrete for like 80 laps.
On Brickyard weekend, a bunch of us drove right by the Brickyard on the way to Kokomo. A few contenders were taken out on the first lap. But Hunter went to the back and put on the best individual performance I saw all year. 25 laps, no cautions - lapped up to like sixth and pulled nearly half a lap on Whitt after passing him with <5 laps to go.
Oskaloosa: Darland & Swindell in a dogfight, but Dave just kept fighting off. Really showed everybody just how tough Dave is when he really wants one.
Both divisions during the Lawrenceburg Midget Week event. Darland snookered Bland again in sprint cars. Sweet wins a high-speed slide-job race in the midgets. Great Bacon/Whitt battle ends in a dramatic crash.
2 TNT races - Greenwood & Creek County. CC is about a fifth-mile and got rained on before hot laps....which gave us a super-tacky little bullring that made for a great race. Bacon gets Ballou late for the win.
Sun Prairie midgets - Levi rolls by Hines and Darland on the cushion for the win on a late restart.
Night 2 of the Granite City weekend. Sweet is locked into Saturday but runs anyway, but in a different car from night one. He splits Jerry and Dave for the lead in a great move. Excellent race.
I also have to say that Turkey Night was a great race, and part of that was seeing a guy win who wanted it so bad.
But the best race I saw all year was the midget race during the Four Crown at Eldora - Yeley and Darland trade slidejobs for 15 laps, but Little Ricky Stenhouse never leaves the wall and blasts by both of them in one big move. Then Kuhn breaks right in front of Ricky, so he goes to the tail and is coming back through the field before flipping violently down the backstretch. Yeley holds off Darland in a true heavyweight battle....
Sorry to make it so long, but this year had a lot of incredible races.
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