Past Track Champions of Godfrey Speedway

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67&7&7fan

Love the DIRT!
Does anybody have any idea how to find out who the Past Track Champions of each class of each year over the entire time Godfrey Speedway has been in operation?


I am not trying to be a smart a--, but seriously would like to find out!:confused:
I would like to possibly make up some type of scrap/record book.
 
Unfortunatley most tracks and racing organizations don't keep good records. The SCCA tending to be the exception.

One could dig through the Alton Telegraph and probably get the past 32 years worth of champions........as the Telegraph has been pretty good about covering the results at the track. Back when Landon and Spalding owned the track Steve Porter in the Sports Department was covering racing and he's still at the newspaper.
 
Here's what I could quickly put together........this list is by year.

I have most of the champs since 1983.

Please help fill in the blanks.

(I was unable to figure out how to get the list to show up in columns.........in an effort to make this more readable I bolded the middle column (class name) to help more easily separate the columns of information.)

1950 to 1982 ???????????

1983 Hobby Stock Steve Mowrey
1983 Sportsman Jake Seets
1983 Modified John Seets, Sr.

1984 Hobby Stock Ed Kunz
1984 Street Stock Jack Seets (I'm sure my source meant Jake)
1984 Modified Randy Durbin

1985 Hobby Stock Ed Kunz
1985 Street Stock Terry Cox
1985 Modified Lou Thery

1986???


1987 Hobby Stock Bill Patton
1987 Sportsman John Seets, Sr.
1987 Modified Bo Smith

1988 Detroit Bomber Bill Vinyard
1988 Street Stock Dwight Wade
1988 Sportsman John Seets, Sr.

1989 Detroit Bomber Brad Smith
1989 Street Stock John Stanton
1989 Sprints Tony Weyant
1989 Limited L. Models Jake Seets

1990????


1991 Super Hobby Stock Weis Weinman
1991 IMCA Type Mods Steve Meyer, Sr.
1991 UMP Late Model Rick Bayer
1991 Sprint Ron Standridge (tie)
1991 Sprint Mike Thurman (tie)

1992 Pro-Stock Rick Rhoades
1992 IMCA Modifieds Jake Seets
1992 UMP Late Model Dick Taylor

1993 Late Models Ed Dixon
1993 UMP Modifieds Jake Seets
1993 Street Stock Jeff LeBaube

1994 UMP Late Model Mark Voigt
1994 UMP Modifieds Larry Hughes
1994 Street Stock Phil Argus

1995 Late Models Mark Voigt
1995 Modified Larry Hughes
1995 Street Stock Kenny Helmick
1995 Rear Engine Mods Skip Miller

1996 UMP Late Model Joe Ross, Jr.
1996 UMP Modifieds John Seets
1996 Street Stock Mel Kinnaird

1997 UMP Late Model Joe Ross, Jr.
1997 UMP Modifieds Darrell Hoffman
1997 Sportsmen Mark Leuck
1997 Street Stock Chad Day

1998 UMP Late Model Brian Wolfmeier
1998 UMP Modifieds Ray Walsh
?
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1999 UMP Late Model Dick Taylor
1999 UMP Modifieds Tim Hancock
1999 Street Stock Josh Carroll
1999 Cruisers Vernette Baker & Audie Murphy
2000 UMP Late Model Mike Hammerle
2000 UMP Modifieds Tim Hancock
2000 Street Stock Wade Glover
2000 Cruisers Rick Murphy & Steve Barch

2001 UMP Late Model Rodney Melvin
2001 UMP Modifieds John Seets
2001 Street Stock Rick Conoyer
2001 Cruisers Keith Jackson & Darren Wilson

2002 UMP Modifieds John Seets, Sr.
2002 Street Stock Chad Day
2002 Charger Matt Widner

2003????

2004 UMP Sportsman Marty Kopp
2004 UMP Late Model Mark Faust
2004 UMP Modifieds Brian Dively
2004 B Modifieds B. J. Seets
2004 Street Stocks Andy Beavers

2005 UMP Late Model Bryan Collins
2005 Sportsman Jason Bohnenstiehl
2005 Hornets Rob Shaw
2005 UMP Modifieds Steve Myers
2005 Street Stocks Matt Mortland
 
Jack........

I've been around racing over 30 years now.

Here's a few things I've learned in 25+ years of media and PR work promoting and working with EVERY form of racing St. Louis offers.

Most people don't understand the benefit/payoff of publicity/PR.

Track promoters/sanctiong bodies have a HUGE list of things they have to do to make a track/event function. Track prep, food, rules, insurance, local ordinances/politics, safety, employees, security, promotions, restrooms, sponsors, spectators.......well you get the idea. Recording the history of the track and storing the results is not likely to be on their top 100 items to do. They just don't have the time. It is one tough job.

Most have no idea what is involved in getting something in the newspaper or on the radio or TV. (One local racing reporter was surprised to learn that for a 5-minute on-air TV piece with local TV he spent 100+ hours coordinating the details.)

Local racers are amazing.......they hold a full-time job, raise a family, and find time to pay for and race their favorite form of the sport. Today, their racing effort is expected to be almost as professional as a Schrader or Edwards who have a large, paid, full-time staff to help them.

The fact is it takes a lot of people to pull off one race show or one racing vehicle. Sometimes it helps to understand what the other job requires and to remember to say thanks for all the things they do get done.
 
terry cox won A championship but i cant remember what year and louie janssen won several also lori roach won a few but im good to remeber what year i was born so remembering these years is a task lol
 
I know from an old 1980 Godfrey Speedway program that we have that Mike Hammerle won the LM title in '79. I think Jake Seets won the limited sportsman title that season.
 
2003 UMP Late Models - Ed Dixon
2003 UMP Modifieds - John Seets
2003 Sportsman - Don Patton
2003 Street Stocks - Dallas Rexford
 
2006 - UMP Late Models - Chad Zobrist
2006 - UMP Modifieds - Bobby Martintoni
2006 - Sportsman - Brandon Hogenson
2006 - Street Stocks - Josh Jackson
 
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