This event has a very talented eleven year-old boy winning the 500CC Speedway Sprint Main Event! John Aden, the guy that built most of these racecars, finished first place in Intermediate Sprint driving his number 6 sprinter. At least one fist was shook in direction before completing all laps!
Tonight's event; The John Ladouceor Championship is named for the man that started the original IMS back in the Seventies.
Ken Maely is a Speedway icon. We was known as the "Hot Shoe Man" as he made the steel slide shoes for all the top dirt trackers and speedway stars of his long era. Ken passed away a few years ago and tonight we get to remember a guy that helped a lot of speedway riders learn their craft at Ken's private track.
Tonight street Harley Davidsons were raced on the small San Bernardino oval, not without consequence! Oops! Thrills and spills abound! See full-dress Harleys battling it out on a small dirt oval track! Race bikes with ape-hangers? You betcha!
Butch Waymire, the flying Third Division rider is bumped to Second Division.
The Last of the Mohicans, Last Man Out Challenge was won by young Gino Manzarez. As Flanders predicts in the opener, the young guys made their marks tonight! Second Division Pee Wee rider Hanna Smith won her Main. Jacob Wondolowski continued his domination of First Division Pee Wee. Nicky Reimer did the same in Youth. New-guy John Pavia won the Third Division Main, Joey Holt won in Second Division and Shawn McConnell won the Scratch Main.
This week's racing at Inland Motorsport Speedway is a tribute to Bobby Schwartz, who is contesting his 37th consecutive year of Speedway Racing. Bobby successfully raced in Europe in the early eighties and is still competitve today. There's an extended interview of Bobby by Bruce Flanders and we've included a brief slideshow and some old racing footage from England. Jimmy Fishback wins the trophy, his second win this season at IMS. Pee Wees and Youth racing is also on the program.
Tonight the Harley's return to the IMS oval in San Bernardino California. Also featured is new rider, "Beachball" Brown. DeWayne Stark, #268 made the mistake of falling-down in front of the plus-sized "Beachball" and a large crash ensued. Slo-mo and close-up.
Skirt Night was a blast at IMS! There were a lot of crashes and fortunately no one was seriously hurt. The Third Division Main was restarted twice due to crashes.
The Northern team held the trophy for this event going-in and kept it again as the North defeated the South by one point! You couldn't ask for a more dramatic ending to a war!
Former National Champion "Flyin" Mike Faria was victorious in the Scratch Main Event at Inland Motorsports Speedway in San Bernardino.
The Scratch Main Event was reduced from five riders to four when Buck Blair was excluded for touching the tapes. When the tapes finally went up Faria jumped into the front ahead of his competitors. The wily veteran was never seriously threatened and calmly led all four laps to claim the victory. Shaun Harmatiuk finished second, Jimmy "Little Animal" Fishback was third, Gino Manzares finished fourth, and Blair was credited with fifth.