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410 A main $4k to win. Hurley passed Hull at the flag for the win. Then Worley, Miller and Buckley.Top 5 very close at the finish. 

Car count should have been better. Thought the MOWA cars would support the show. But.....I don't think the racing could have been any better. The track was racey bottom to top. The A main was absolutely great. Best A main I saw all year. 

Any big names there last night?

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2014 Queens Royal – St Francois County Raceway, Farmington MO 9/27/14

UNOFFICIAL RESULTS

Car count: 25

Fast Qualifier: #28 Jason Keith

Heat One: #97 Tommy Worley Jr, #88 Jeff Wurst, #17 James Scott

Heat Two: #87 Kent Buckley, #72 Kevin Petty, #24 Keith Burch

Heat Three: #35 Jimmy Hurley, #12x Joey Montgomery, #14t Jimmy Bridgeman

Heat Four: #2k Ryan Kempin, #51b Joe B. Miller, #44 A.J. Bruns

Dash: Worley, Miller, #12 Jerrod Hull

B Main: #11k Kasey Burch, #7z Matt Zimmerly.

A Main: Hurley, Hull, Worley

 I’ve been to about 40 shows at Farmington over the last 20 years and last night’s feature ranks as one of the best I’ve ever seen there.  The last eight laps of the feature were unreal with Hurley leading the final corner to the checker.  Pretty much just the Farmington regulars plus Hurley, Hull and Bruns from MOWA.  About what I expected with so many choices this weekend.  With MOWA coming off a show at Quincy last Sunday and a two-night stand coming up next weekend at Granite City, I didn’t expect too many MOWA cars either.   Still a terrific feature.

It is hard to beat a feature with three lead changes in the last lap.  You could have covered the three leaders with a blanket at the white flag.  Great track and a great show.  Miller doing a wheelie all the way down the back straight several times during his heat race was a quick clue to how racy the track was.  Buckley's chasing the leaders in the feature with a $5,000 engine is a great indicator of how well the right tire rule works and why it should be the standard for all sprint car tracks.

Thanks for posting the results! Sounds like I missed a good one. I wish they would make this a 2 day show or have another sprint race in the area on Friday night to help make the drive over a little better. Too bad more of the IL drivers didn't show. I guess Hurley is the cream of the crop from IL. Congrats to him!

I can remember when the group from the Springfield IL area made up the majority of Farmington’s weekly field: Jim Moughan, Terry Babb, Dave Feese, Bobby Hawks, Tony Weyant, The Standridges. All were fixtures down there every single week.  I guess it just shows that they have a strong contingent of sprint cars from the immediate Farmington area now.

I was at the first Queens Royale back in ’98, named as such as the first event was sponsored by the local Dairy Queen.  Back then it was a two-day show, Friday and Saturday.

One thing I had forgotten about was Farmington’s quirky race format.  The top qualifiers from time trails were automatically locked into the dash which determined the feature line up.  (The dash was 10 cars for 10 laps – a little wild).  The fastest qualifiers from time trials, while scheduled to run a heat, didn’t really have to race in one to transfer or anything, so drivers like Jerrod Hull chose to start in the back away from the field and get some extra practice laps in.  I think that format was similar to what Farmington used for their weekly show 20 years ago and it was interesting to see it still being used.

Here’s the official full feature rundown from stlracing.com:

35h Jimmy Hurley
12 Jerrod Hull
97 Tommy Worley Jr.
87 Kent Buckley
51b Joe B. Miller
44 A.J. Bruns
17 James Scott
2k Ryan Kempin
72 Kevin Petty
606 John Epperson
5 Kory Bales
14t Jimmy Bridgeman
88 Jeff Wurst
67 Joey Boyd
7z Matt Zimmerly
11k Kasey Burch DNF
12x Joey Montgomery DNF
28 Jason Keith DNF
24 Keith Burch DNF
35 Tyler Settlemoir DNF