DuQuoin State Fair Auto Racing 67th ARCA Racing Series 100 8/31, USAC Silver Crown 71st Ted Horn 100 9/1, 26th Oldani Memorial (8/31 Prelims,9/1 Main)

DuQuoin ARCA Race Could Be Taken By Rookie

By Jay Hardin
Track Enterprises Staff

DuQuoin, Il-(August 28, 2019)-If the race at Springfield two weeks ago is any indication the upcoming 67th ARCA Menard’s Southern Illinois 100 could very well find a rookie driver in victory lane once again. In fact, it is quite possible that a driver still in his teens could be the first to the checkered flag on Saturday night. Several drivers on the entry list ran the Allen Crowe 100 at Springfield and young rookies were constantly in the top five positions with some leading during the 100 miles. In the end a driver making his very first appearance on dirt took home the first place trophy.
Utah resident Michael Self leads the ARCA point standings and won the Allen Crowe 100 at Springfield taking the lead shortly after the halfway point and leading the rest of the way. Self had never raced on dirt before Springfield but showed no evidence of being intimidated by the tricky surface. Self will be making his second start on dirt at DuQuoin but is a rookie at the Magic Mile.
The grandson of NFL Hall of Fame coach and NASCAR team owner Joe Gibbs, Ty Gibbs was also an ARCA dirt rookie at the Illinois State Fairgrounds. The 16 year old thrilled the crowd by taking the lead early in the race for 10 circuits. Mechanical issues dropped Gibbs out of the running but the strong showing indicates he could be a front-runner at DuQuoin. Fellow 16 year old Carson Hocevar of Michigan was also strong in the early going at Springfield until a long pit strop dropped him a lap down. Hocevar recovered and ended the day on the lead lap in 8th.
Georgia’s Cory Heim is older than Gibbs and Hocevar, though at 17 years of age not by much. Heim also was an ARCA dirt rookie but he led at Springfield as well, leading 11 miles before dropping back on a late race restart to finish 7th.
If one of the rookies can capture Saturday night’s even they will join a list of first timers winning at DuQuoin that includes Logan Seavey (2018), Grant Enfinger (2014), Chris Buescher (2011), Parker Kligerman (2009), Dave Goldsberry (1984), Rusty Wallace (1979), Joe Leonard (1964), Jay Frank (1950), and Frank Mundy (1955).
Practice for the 67th ARCA Menard’s Southern Illinois 100 begins Saturday at 2:30 p.m. with pole qualifying at 5:30 and the 100-mile race at 8.
 
Fatheadz Eyewear has added an extra $1,800 to the total purse for Sunday's Ted Horn 100 at the DuQuoin State Fairgrounds and all one mile dirt ovals on the USAC Silver Crown Champ Car Series schedule for the 2019 season!

Pits: 1pm
Stands: 4pm
Practice: 5pm
Qualifying: 6:30pm
Ted Horn 100: 8:15pm
(Central)

PC: Adam Mollenkopf

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TRD's Logan Seavey Ready to Defend DuQuoin Dirt in Next ARCA Start

Concord, North Carolina - Toyota Racing Development’s (TRD) Logan Seavey will suit up and grab the wheel of Venturini Motorsport’s (VMS) No.20 Craftsman Toyota this weekend to defend his 2018 ARCA Menards Series’ Southern Illinois 100 victory at the DuQuoin State Fairgrounds.

Last year’s race winner in just his second series start, Seavey looks to add more hardware when he returns to the dirt Saturday night under the lights on DuQuoin’s Magic Mile.

Seavey, the defending USAC P1 Insurance National Midget Series champion, will be making his fourth career series start and second of the season. He led 34 laps two weeks ago at Springfield but faded to fourth at the finish.

“I’m ready to go again with Venturini Motorsports this weekend at DuQuoin,” said Seavey. “Springfield didn’t quite go as planned just being a little too tight to be as good as we needed to be. But I know DuQuoin races well and fits a dirt racer style a lot better so it makes me look forward to it even more. I know the 20 Craftsman Camry will be just as good as it was last year, we just need to put the whole day together and I think we will be tough.”

A dirt specialist, Seavey has made the most out of his limited opportunities claiming a victory last year, a pole position in his last start at Springfield and three consecutive top-5’s overall. He’s led 69 laps in series competition and boasts a solid 3.0 starting average and a 2.7 finishing average during his brief stay in ARCA.
Seavey will join a pair of formidable teammates racing side-by-side with previous dirt winners Michael Self and Christian Eckes. Both full time VMS drivers won in their first ever dirt starts at Springfield - Eckes 18’ and Self this year’s winner. Self is also ARCA’s current point leader holding a 105-point advantage over Eckes.

VMS enters DuQuoin with 63 all-time ARCA series victories which include seven team wins on dirt. Furthermore, VMS has claimed dirt supremacy the last three dirt races.
The Southern Illinois 100 on the Magic Mile at the DuQuoin State Fair is set for Saturday night August 31. Practice starts at 2:30 pm CT, General Tire Pole Qualifying is slated for 5:30 pm CT, and the race is set for 8 pm CT. The race will be televised live on MAVTV.

Logan Seavey Toyota Racing
Craftsman Track Enterprises

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“Sunshine” Looking for DuQuoin Redemption

By Jay Hardin
Track Enterprises Staff

DuQuoin, IL-(August 29, 2019)-There are times race fans may have heard a driver remark “this place owes me one” but the sentiment is often hard to justify. The young pilot who is arguably the hottest driver in United States Auto Club competition at the present time might just feel that way about the two dirt miles in the state of Illinois given the 2018 results. Tyler “Sunshine” Courtney of Indianapolis looked like a winner during the races at Springfield and DuQuoin last year but could not find victory lane. He returns this year with a shot at victories on both tracks and a chance to be the final driver to register a historic “triple crown”.
Courtney is a threat to win in all three of USAC’s prime divisions, the Midget series, Sprint Car series and the Silver Crown division. Courtney ran his first race in the big cars a few seasons ago taking over a seat occupied by veteran Tom Capie, eventually moving to a car owned by long time midget car owner Hans Lein of Wisconsin. Courtney and Lein have formed a winning combination, Courtney won his first Silver Crown race in September of 2017 at Eldora and led both at Springfield and DuQuoin in the black machine. The race at DuQuoin may have been the most heartbreaking as Courtney took over the lead from C.J. Leary with 13 miles to go after Leary began to run short on fuel. The same fate befell Courtney within 7 laps as his engine began to sputter and he was forced to the pits on lap 96.
Courtney comes back to the Magic Mile as one of the favorites to win the 71st Ted Horn 100 and a shot at becoming perhaps the last driver on a very exclusive list. Since 1953 just 14 drivers have won 100-mile championship races on the three Midwestern fairground mile race tracks, Indianapolis, Springfield and DuQuoin. With the announcement earlier that the Indiana State Fair was turning the “Track of Champions” into a practice facility for horses, it is possible that no one will be able to claim a victory on all three again. Further, just four men, Jimmy Bryan, A.J. Foyt, Al Unser and Jack Hewitt won all three (Bettenhausen (Springfield) 100, Ted Horn 100, Hoosier Hundred) in the same year.
Courtney won this year’s Hoosier Hundred at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in the same fashion as Chris Windom did at Springfield and DuQuoin in 2018. Courtney started 3rd and bided his time taking the lead from Kevin Thomas Jr. with less than 10 miles to go. His quest for the USAC Silver Crown “triple crown” continues Sunday night in the 71st Ted Horn 100. Practice for the big cars begins at 5 p.m. with the 100-miler beginning around 8.
 
Youngest DuQuoin Winner Returns Searching for Horn 100 Victory

By Jay Hardin
Track Enterprises Staff

DuQuoin, IL-(August 29, 2019)-In the year 2000 the Magic Mile at the DuQuoin State Fairgrounds had just been remodeled with a new concrete wall and lighting system. The ARCA stock car race was still held on Sunday afternoon, with the Ted Horn 100 USAC Silver Crown event on Monday afternoon. The UMP Modified Bill Oldani Memorial was in year seven and a fresh faced teenager from St. Charles, Missouri was in the mix in the Oldani field and an interested spectator for the Ted Horn 100. That teenager would become the youngest winner ever on the Magic Mile and he returns this weekend in search of Silver Crown success in Sunday’s Ted Horn 100.
It is hard to realize that Kyle Steffens is now in his mid-thirties and a veteran of over 20 years of competition. In 2000, he was 16 years, 1 month and 5 days when he took the lead of the UMP Modified event on Monday afternoon and sailed to victory beating veterans Jeff Leka, Kevin Gundaker and Jeff Parks to the finish line. A joyous victory lane celebration followed which included a bear hug to announcer Jim Childers that nearly lifted him off the ground.
The victory led Steffens to purchase his own Silver Crown car for 2001 but he missed the show in qualifying and the semi. Steffens returned in 2002 and just missed the show again. In 2005 Steffens was able to secure a ride in the seat of the famous orange and while number 12 Silver Crown championship dirt car fielded by O’Fallon, Illinois car owner and crew chief Bob Galas. The seat had been occupied by luminaries such as Jim Hurtubise, Chuck Gurney, Gary Bettenhausen, Jeff Swindell and Kevin Thomas, all winners of 100-mile dirt track championship races at some point in their careers. Steffens finally made the field finishing 26th. He tried again in 2007 for owner Chuck Hartenstein but was unable to qualify.
Since 2001 Kyle Steffens has made sporadic appearances in the Silver Crown series while driving late models and modifieds on area short tracks. He has always had an eye on the Silver Crown series and this year returns to the series and DuQuoin with a new car and a new paint scheme hoping to repeat the success found in 2000 at DuQuoin. If Steffens were able to win the Ted Horn 100 at DuQuoin he would become the first driver ever to lay claim to victory in the Silver Crown and Modified events on the Magic Mile. It is almost certain a wild victory lane celebration would follow that might include a dip in the infield lake.
Kyle Steffens and 37 other competitors roll into the Magic Mile on Sunday. Practice for the 71st Ted Horn 100 begins at 5 p.m. with the 100-miler taking the green flag around 8 p.m.
 
IT IS ARCA RACE DAY at the DuQuoin State Fair in DuQuoin, IL! The Magic Mile motors to life under the lights tonight with the cars and stars of the ARCA Racing Menards Series on the 1 mile dirt oval for the 67th edition of the Southern Illinois 100. Three time Southern Illinois 100 winner Six time Bill Oldani Memorial Modified winner Ken Schrader will be back doing double duty in both divisions tonight. Joining him are a whole host of great competitors including defending race winner Logan Seavey, ARCA points leader and the 2019 Springfield winner Michael Self, local dirt track aces Ryan Unzicker and Kelly Kovski, plus more!

Don't miss out on this thrilling night of awesome racing action under the lights of the legendary Magic Mile! Full details below...

Saturday, August 31
Menards ARCA RACING SERIES
67th Annual Southern Illinois 100
+ DIRTcar UMP Modified 26th Annual Bill Oldani Memorial Prelims

SATURDAY, AUGUST 31 DU QUOIN TIMES:
10:30 AM Pits & Registration
1:00 PM Ticket Office & Grandstands
2:30-3:30 PM ARCA Practice
3:45-4:15 PM Modified Practice/Qualifying
5:30 PM ARCA General Tire Pole Qualifying
6:30 PM Modified Heats
7:00-7:30 ARCA Driver Autographs
7:30 PM Pre-Race Ceremonies
8:00 PM ARCA Menards Series 100

DU QUOIN TICKET INFO:
Tickets will be available on raceday or by calling the Du Quoin Fair office at 618-542-1535. Info and tickets can also be obtained by calling the Track Enterprises office at 217-764-3200.

RESERVED SEATING
Advance Tickets (Presale)
$25 Adults Per Day
$10 Children 11 & Under Per Day
Day Of Tickets (At Gate)
$30 Adults Per Day
$10 Children 11 & Under Per Day

PIT PASSES
$35 Adults Each Day
$20 Children 11 & Under Each Day
$50 Two-Day Pit Pass

More Information:

For more information, contact Track Enterprises by calling the office at 217-764-3200 or by visiting their website at www.trackenterprises.com

Follow Track Enterprises online at https://www.trackenterprises.com/, like them on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/TrackEnterprises), and follow them on Twitter (@TEIRacing)

Follow ARCA online at www.arcaracing.com, like them on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/ARCARACING), and follow them on Twitter (@ARCA_Racing)

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IT IS USAC RACE DAY at the DuQuoin State Fair! The 71st edition of the Ted Horn 100 takes to the Magic Mile. The Silver Crown event the past few seasons has been exciting, unpredictable, edge of your seat action! See who will add their name into the history books in this chapter as the Champ Cars put on a show. The 26th Bill Oldani Memorial feature event for the Modifieds will kick off the festivities when we go racing this evening. Check out more great racing under the lights at the Magic Mile! More information below...

Sunday, September 1
USAC Racing Silver Crown Series
68th Annual Ted Horn 100
+ DIRTcar UMP Modifieds 26th Annual Bill Oldani Memorial $2,000 To Win Feature

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 DU QUOIN TIMES:
1:00 PM Pits & Registration
4:00 PM Ticket Office & Grandstands
5:00-6:10 PM USAC Practice
6:10 PM Modified Hotlaps
6:30 PM USAC Qualifying
7:15 PM UMP Modified Bill Oldani Memorial Feature
8:15 PM USAC Silver Crown Ted Horn 100

DU QUOIN TICKET INFO:
Tickets will be available on raceday or by calling the Du Quoin Fair office at 618-542-1535. Info and tickets can also be obtained by calling the Track Enterprises office at 217-764-3200.

RESERVED SEATING
Advance Tickets (Presale)
$25 Adults Per Day
$10 Children 11 & Under Per Day
Day Of Tickets (At Gate)
$30 Adults Per Day
$10 Children 11 & Under Per Day

PIT PASSES
$35 Adults Each Day
$20 Children 11 & Under Each Day
$50 Two-Day Pit Pass

More Information:

For more information, contact Track Enterprises by calling the office at 217-764-3200 or by visiting their website at www.trackenterprises.com

Follow Track Enterprises online at https://www.trackenterprises.com/, like them on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/TrackEnterprises), and follow them on Twitter (@TEIRacing)

Follow USAC online at www.usacracing.com, like them on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/usacracing), and follow them on Twitter (@USACNation)

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