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Click here to go to a gallery of photos I shot during racing action at Williams Grove Speedway in Mechanicsburg, PA on Friday, July 25th, 2008.   John Westbrook won his first career 410 Sprint race while Cory Haas captured his first 358 Sprint win at Williams Grove this season.

Click here to go to a gallery of photos I shot during the USAC Indiana Sprint Week race at Tri-State Speedway in Haubstadt, Indiana on Saturday, July 19th, 2008.   Hunter Scheurenberg captured the A Main win while Levi Jones wrapped up the Sprint Week point title after a heated battle with Dave Darland and Jerry Coons Jr.

Click here to go to a gallery of photos I shot during the USAC Indiana Sprint Week race at Bloomington Speedway in Bloomington, Indiana on Friday, July 18th, 2008.   Jerry Coons Jr was the A Main winner for a second night in a row, piloting the Hoffman Racing # 69.

NOTE: I have only started going through this set of photos so there are a limited number posted.  I’ll be posting a bunch more during this week.

Click here to go to a gallery of photos I shot during the USAC Indiana Sprint Week race at Kamp Motor Speedway in Boswell, Indiana on Thursday, July 17th, 2008.   Jerry Coons Jr captured the victory in the Hoffman Racing # 69.

Wow what a trip !   I just got back from the second half of the USAC Indiana Sprint Week with stops this past week at Kamp Motor Speedway in Boswell which was a completely new track for my list and following that, Bloomington Speedway and Tri-State Speedway in Haubstadt.

Kamp was a neat, quarter mile bowl shaped track with good banking and horrible clay.   They normally only run fendered divisions there and one of the track workers was very blunt with me and said their normal track prep consists of two laps with the water truck and then packing the crap out of it.  On Thursday, he said, they watered it much of the day but when I arrived around 5:00 PM it was dry and hard and the water truck seemed to be broken down in turn three for about a half hour until they got it running again.  Needless to say, by the time the B Main rolled around, it was a dusty mess.  Still good racing, just couldn’t see it much less shoot the B Main or the A Main.

On to Bloomington for Friday night where we saw what the weekly Bloomington fans were saying the next day was “one of the best races they ever saw at Bloomington”.  I have to agree.    To say the A Main was outstanding would be a huge understatement !   That was some pretty intense stuff and lots of fun to shoot from a photographer’s standpoint.

Just when I thought I had seen the best racing I would see in 2008, Haubstadt followed up Bloomington’s high standard with an action packed night of racing that featured cars using the cushion that had piled up against the walls in the turns as another, faster lane of the track.  The fastest way around the track actually seemed to be to go up against the wall and bounce off the moisture rich clay that was thrown up there by previous laps and then slingshot down the straights.  Hunter Scheurenberg used that very groove to capture the biggest race of his young career in USAC.  Levi Jones outraced both Jerry Coons Jr and Dave Darland to take the overall points total in theSprint Week contest.   Let me just take a moment to re-iterate that Tom Hilfrich at Tri-State Speedway is a diety in the world of track preparation !   Thanks Tom for an excellent track in which to showcase my favorite division of racing.

I’ll be working on posting photos from all three nights this week so check back for links to the complete galleries as I update them.

Click here to go to a gallery of photos I shot during the Super 600 Showdown for Micro Sprints at LANCO/Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway in Brickerville, PA on Saturday, July 5th, 2007.  Robbie Kendall bested a strong field of 92 600cc Micro Sprints to capture the A Main.

Note: I’m still going through all the photos and I’ll be posting more as time allows.

Click here to go to a gallery of photos I shot during opening night action for the 2008 Pennsylvania Speedweek at Lincoln Speedway in Abbottstown, PA on Saturday, June 28th, 2008.   Doug Esh was victorious in the thirty lap feature event.

Click here to go to a gallery of photos I shot during the final race of the 2008 King of Indiana Sprints Series at Paragon Speedway in Paragon, Indiana on Saturday June 21st, 2008.   Jon Stanbrough captured the feature win and the 2008 K.I.S.S. champsionship.

NOTE: This is only a partial gallery and I will be posting more photos to this as time allows so check back in a week or two once I get time to get caught up.

Click here to go to a gallery of photos I shot during racing action at Gas City Speedway in Gas City, Indiana on Friday June 20th, 2008.   Damian Gardner was the feature winner.

NOTE: This is only a partial gallery and I will be posting more photos to this as time allows so check back in a week or two once I get time to get caught up.

Click here to go to a gallery of photos I shot during the USAC Sprint race at Hagerstown Speedway in Hagerstown, MD on Saturday, June 7th, 2008. Chad Boat won the A main and in doing so, becomes the youngest driver to win a USAC A Main.

NOTE: As with the Big Diamond gallery, I’ve just started going through these and posting those that jump out at me so it may be a few days until the full gallery is up and posted.