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Dispite the rumors and post on various face books the UMSS Billy Andersen Memorial IS NOT rescheduled this year. Ron gave "No Reason" as the reason Cedar Lake officals said to me this morning {Sun. April 25}.

See you all Friday at Kopella

Joe

BUMMER!!!! Thanks for clearing that up Joe,,, Looks like I'll be able to see the Outlaws in Jackson next Saturday after all!!

See you all Friday,

Brian

Stan M and I are also planning on heading to Jackson, as we were waiting to see if CLS rescheduled the Billy Anderson Memorial for next Saturday (which they did not). My understanding is that it may possibly run in conjunction with the Jerry Richert Memorial in September. The Richert Memorial is for the 410 IRA sprint cars, so the UMSS 360 portion of the show may be the Billy Anderson Memorial. Nothing official on that just yet. The drawback to that is we lose one show due to the rain out and only end up with one race at CLS.

I ventured down to Arlington last night for their season opener. There were 13 IMCA sprint cars on hand with Brad Barickman representing the UMSS. Barickman and Chris Graf won the heats. Graf dominated the 15 lap feature over Barcikman and Billy Johnson. Those three cars clearly pulled away from the rest of the pack. If I recall correctly, Jesse Smith and A J Stevens completed the top five with Jennifer Erikson, Bruce Allen, Tony Kaus and Richard Smith Jr the other cars still running at the end. Two flips. Shannon Erikson hit a big infield track tire in turn two in his heat race and flipped. He was done for the night. A young teenage kid, a Wilmes I think, went off turn four in the feature, hit a protective barrier, and flipped over. No body got hurt. 68 year old grandpa Dwain Wilmes' car appeared to have some mechanical issues at the start of his heat, and he too was done for the night.

I had not been to Arlington since an NCRA show there many years ago. It still is as fast as I remember it being on the 4/10 mile black-dirt track. The UMSS cars should do well there when we run a combined show on May 29.

NCRA 1999, that was the night GRP, Vinster and Stan hooked up. Things have been a little crazier for all of us ever since.

Stan Meissner

Yes indeed Stan. June 2, 1999 NCRA sprint car show. Same night that this Vinster character and his dad, Lester, managed to meet up with us. A significant race night for all involved.

I thought I would go back and look at the results of the race that night. 26 NCRA sprints on hand along with 23 hobby stocks. Never hurts to keep race results for a post 11 years later. lol

NCRA heat wins went to: Jason Wendt, Aaron Berryhill, Terry McCarl, and Jason Sides.

B Main win went to the late Steve King out of Jetmore, KS.

A Main (25 laps): Aaron Berryhill, Shane Carson, Jason Sides, Wade Nygaard, John Sernett, Gary Wright, Shane Stewart, Jake Peters, Terry McCarl, Jimmy Lambert, Steve King, J R Topper, Rich Bubak, Micah Schliemann, Matt Wasmund, Randy Anderson, Gregg Bakker, Kenny Hansen, Tony Norem, Jason Wendt.

(2) reds and (4) yellows in the feature race. Tony Norem and Gregg Bakker flipped. I remember Bakker's frontstretch crash was a violent one. Only 12 of the 20 starters finished.

Other cars on hand: Earnest Jennings, Mike Sargent, Tim Sernett, Brett Geldner, Gary Dewall, Chuck Schumacher.

I remember the 11x flip on the frontstretch. That one was a gilhooly or whatever you call it but I don't know how to spell that word, I can barely say it. LOL

You have used several pit photos from that race in the trivia contest. It seems like one pops up in the contest every year.

Stan Meissner