In the Herb’s mini modified division the championship will go right down to the wire as four time champion Ken “Doctor Teeth” Johnson of Paddock Lake holds the smallest lead of his career going into the final evening for points. Just 70 points separate Johnson and Mike VanHouten of Cary, Illinois.VanHouten last six nights have been great, while Johnson has struggled with problems. This class of cars has been strong all season, as an average of 12.3 cars has come out weekly. In third place is Phil Schultz of Silver Lake who started the season as point leader after having two feature weeks during the first few weeks. Second year driver Curt Thomazin of Elkhorn had fast time on a non point night and is fourth in the point battle. Last years co-rookie of the season is Bristol’s Chris Marinello,having one feature win. Bill Damron owner of Herb’s used cycle parts south of Antioch,IL. on Highway 83 is the proud supporter of this division. The Perfection Auto Body legends group will have another championship go right down to the final checkered flag. Steve Licht of Burlington holds a slim 25 point lead over defending champion Curt Gnatzig of Hartford. Herman Greinig of Addison,IL. is comfortably in third. Rookie Joe Scala of Fox River Grove,IL. is fourth and Lyle Kuklinski of New Berlin. The newest division which looks like it will be even stronger in 2004, the Bandolero class. This group has not been here since 1998 when it did not caught on. A season high number of cars were on hand the final weekly Friday night show with 11 year old Michael Bilderback of South Beloit,IL. holding a large point lead and has already been crowned champion even before the championship race. Loves Park, IL. driver Michael Cooter who is 14 years of age has given the other Michael some close competition.Brian Heberlin of South Beloit,IL. is currently third. Bobby Yonkee of Willowbrook,IL. is only 8 years old but holds down fourth place. David Cooter Jr. from Loves Park,IL. was injured earlier in the season at another track came back to finish fifth. Another division to race will be the popular Burris circle track tour karts as 5 classes of these karts will be here. Tyler Peterson of Woodstock,IL.a third generation racer Aaron Katzenberg of Genoa City, Billy Hulbert of Shannahon,IL.the 2000 junior light championship and Michael Bilderback the 2002 tour champion are just a few of the many to compete. The Great Lakes Allison legacy series, the super mini cups, the Rascal outlaws, the Formula Indy/Northern Michigan groups and the American short trackers/sport trucks bring the total to ten divisions and one great show expected. Time trials will begin at 6pm.racing at 7:30 pm.A weekend pass will admit an adult for just $25 all three days.This means that Friday would be free and about 15 % would be saved on the entire weekend.Juniors are $12 and under 8 are free. The track phone number is 262-248-8566. |
