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Championship Hand Shake
Austin Archdale of Brimfield Illinois on the Left is Congratulated By Tom Brown of Wonder Lake Illinois. Austin was the 2009 Illinois Mini Sprint Association Point Champion and Tom was the 2009 Wisconsin - Illinois Mini Sprint Point Champion. Tom Also Was Crowned the 2009 Wilmot Wisconsin Raceway Mini Sprint Point Champ. Austin and Tom were on Hand Last Saturday Night at the VFW in McHenry Illinois Where Tom Brown Received His Awards. Tom Brown is the Fabricator and Builder of the Championship Winning Renegade Race Cars.
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Erik Sollenberger Stands Watch Over the Archdale Racing Machines in the Pits at the Dallas County Speedway in Urbana Missuori. Will Archdale # 20 on the Left and Austin # 2 on the Right were in Action for the Nights Racing at the End of September. Austin went on to Win His Heat and the Feature Event and Will Finished Second in His Heat and Fifth in the Feature Event. Next Up for the Archdale Racing is the "Bull Ring Nationals" in Kemper Arena on December 18 & 19 in Kansas City. |
ILLINOIS MINI SPRINT ASSOCIATION THANKS OUR 2009 SPONSORS The IMSA in making its inagural season would like to give a special thanks to all our sponsors who came on board for our 1st season. A special thanks goes to our title sponsors for the point fund for the drivers Gary Scharp of Merlins 200,000 Mi Shops of Peoria and E. Peoria IL. Bill Gray of Metro Moving and Delivery Service of E. Peoria IL. Thanks a bunch. Allen Ruppenthal of The Mini Sprint Shop { ERC } of Henderson Ky. for the certificates. KEIZER WHEELS for the $50 certificates. and Bell Helmets for the gift certificates. Special thanks to Erik Sollenberger of Eriks Floor Covering of Brimfield IL for sponsoring all the trophies for the 2009 racing season. Special thanks to Morey Denney of Spoon River Speedway Canton IL. Billy and Kim West of the Morgan Co Speedway in Jacksonville IL Steve Sheppard of Shepps Speedway in Alexander IL and the WIMS for allowing usto come and race at Sycamore with the Wi. guys. A big thanks for the 22 cars and drivers who raced with us for the inagural season without you racers we could not have made it. Thanks to Jim Morgan and Steve Rigg for being on the board and all their help. THANKS FROM ALL OF US AT THE IMSA ~~~ Looking Forward to 2010 ~~~ |
ARCHDALE TAKES FEATURE WIN AT DALLAS COUNTY SPEEDWAY ILLINOIS MSA Drivers take 1st. 5th & 6th. at Urbana Missouri |
| ILLINOIS MSA Inaugural Season Final Point Standings - 2009 |
1 #2 Austin Archdale Brimfield IL. 292 2 #47 Jack Sandall Pekin IL. 252 3 #15 Shane Morgan Creve Coeur IL. 228 4 #51 Brent Burrows Lewistown IL. 220 5 #20x Will Archdale Peoria Heights IL. 149 | 6 #1 Kirt Boers Madison WI. 118 7 #2c Chaz Gregory Pekin IL. 115 8 #64 Tad Roach Pontoon Beach IL. 101 9 #93 Mark Billings Columbia MO. 95 10 #74 Tim Brannam Holiday Hills IL. 94 |
CONGRATULATIONS TOP TEN ILLINOIS MSA DRIVERS !!! |
| ARCHDALE SCORES SECOND STRAIGHT WIN TAKES SHEPPS SPEEDWAY FEATURE Shepps Speedway -Alexander Illinois  What a Beautiful Night for ILLINOIS MSA Racing at Shepps Speedway Hot Shoe Austin Archdale of Brimfield IL continued his winning ways on Sunday night by taking his 2nd straight win by taking the checkers in the 15 lap feature event at Shepps Speedway on Sunday night. Archdale who won a week at the Wilmot Wi. Raceway and clinched the IMSA inagural series point championship in Illinois put his Tom Brown Racing/Renegade Chassis to the front at the drop of the green and lead all 15 laps. The battle was for the number 2 spot with Tad Roach of Pontoon Beach IL taking the 2nd spot with Shane Morgan of Creve Ceour iL and Will Archdale of Peoria Hgts IL in tow. A caution on lap 5 for the spinning car of Pekin's Chaz Gregory bunched the field once again. Austin would jump out to the lead again with Tad and Shane in a hard fought battle for the runner up spot. On lap 8 Brent Burrows of Lewistown IL would bring out another caution for a spin in turn 4. Once again Austin would take command up front with Tad and Shane battling for the 2nd spot. Shane would get a run on the 2nd spot when another caution on lap 11 for Burrows in turn 4. At the restart Austin would stay up front and Morgan would use the high side of turn 1 on lap 12 to move into 2nd spot. Tad and Will would battle for 3rd spot with Tad taking 3rd and Will 4th. We all had a great time at Shepps and the fans loved to see our cars race. The officilas of Shepps were exceptionally polite and treated us very good from the people at the sign in booth to the track officials. We are looking forward to getting another race at the fine 1/4 mi track. KEIZER WHEELS / THE MINI SPRINT SHOP (ERC) 8 LAP HEAT 1. Brent Burrows - Lewistown IL 2. Austin Archdale - Brimfield IL 3.Nick Antonovich - Madison IL 4.Will Archdale - Peoria Hgts IL 5. Tad Roach - Pontoon Beach IL 6.Shane Morgan - Creve Coeur IL 7. Chaz Gragory - Pekin IL KEIZER WHEELS / THE MINI SPRINT SHOP (ERC) 15 LAP FEATURE 1.Austin Archdale - Brimfield IL 2. Shane Morgan - Creve Coeur IL 3. Tad Roach - Pontoon Beach IL 4. Will Archdale - Peoria Hgts IL 5. Chaz Gregory - Pekin IL 6. Brent Burrows - Lewistown 7. Nick Antonovich - Madison IL ~~~ Thanks To All From Shepps Speedway For Making Our Night Special ~~~
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| ARCHDALE TAKES INAUGURAL IMSA POINT CROWN Follows it up on Sunday with WIMS Season Championship Win Austin Archdale of Brimfield IL took home the Illinois Mini Sprint Association inagural point championship on Sat night at Spoon River Speedway near Canton IL. Archdale went into the night of racing with a 39 point lead over Jack Sandall of Pekin IL. In the 8 lap heat race Will Archdale of Peoria Hgts IL took the Keizer Wheels / The Mini Sprint Shop (ERC) win. Austin would finish 2nd with Brent Borrows of Lewistown 3rd and Shane Morgan of Creve Ceour 4th Jack Sandall in 5th spot with Chaz Gregory in 6th spot and Harry Rogers of Galesburg 7th. The cars were in the staging area for the 15 lap feature when the skies opened up and the race was called. The drivers voted not to go back on Oct 3rd for the make up. The heat race was the final points for 2009. The purse money was divided up equally between the drivers present. On Sun night Austin and Will made the 4 hr trip to Wilmot WI. for the WIMS program at Wilmot Raceway . It was season championship night at Wilmot Rcaeway. A total of 139 cars were in attendance for the night of racing with 20 WIMS cars to do battle for the championship night. Nick Petska would take the 1st 8 lap heat win and Austin would take the 2nd 8 lap heat. The #6 was drawn for the feature and Austin would start outside of row 3 and Will would start inside row 8 for the 20 lap feature. Greg Fortier and Tim Brannam would bring the field to the green. Nick Sheridan would take the early lead with Tim Brannam, Ron Brannam and Austin in that order. Sheridan would spin on lap 6. T. Brannam would take the point with R. Brannam and Austin and Nick Pestka in tow. R. Brannam would slip by T. Brannam and Austin made the pass also. On lap 10 R. Brannam would drop out with gear problems and Austin took over the 1st spot. Nick Petska would move to 2nd with Tom Brown the WIMS point leader coming from deep in the field - 18th. to move into 3rd. spot and Ryan Irwin from - 11th to 4th. Austin would fight off 2 more cautions and take the 20 lap win. Will Archdale made a strong move to the front of the field coming from his - 15th. starting spot to finish a good run in the 6th spot. 1. A. Archdale 2. Nick Petska 3. Tom Brown 4. Ryan Irwin 5. Tim Brannamm 6. W.Archdale 7. Allen Fuesling 8. Zach Fischer 9. John Kirk 10. Greg Fortier |
Brent Burrows # 51 - Lewistown Illinois |
| ILLINOIS MSA DRIVERS Compete at Wilmot Raceway
Wilmot Wisconsin Photos Courtesy of McKay's Digital Photos |
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Jack Sandall #47 | Austin Archdale #2A |
Illinois MSA Action at Morgan County Speedway
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The new series has drawn some new faces and new cars to the 17 race inagural season.The new series will visit 5 central IL Speedways in 2009.The only cars that will be able to race this series are upright race cars with the wings just like the big brothers the 410 sprint cars. Series President Roger Sollenberger who was co-founder and later resigned of the MAOSS group which has disbaned, formed the new series when a lot of the drivers were in contact to try and get some races close to the immediate Peoria area. The series was put together after a meetinbg in Dec in Pekin IL when about 12 drivers showed up and discussed the new venture. Drivers from the St Louis area showed up and indicated there is about 6 cars from that area who would come back and race this new series. With the new cars and some of the cars from the WI. area have showed interest in some of the races this could push some of the shows to 14 to 16 cars. The rules for the series will be posted soon . The new series address is : I.M.S.A Box 72 Brimfield IL 61517 |
I.M.S.A. SERIES SPONSORS ANNOUNCED The Inagural 2009 Season for the IMSA Series has added 2 Title Sponsors Who Will Co-Sponsor a Point Fund for the Drivers. The Sponsors are Bill Gray of Metro Delivery Service of E. Peoria IL. Gary Scharp of Merlins 200,000 Mile Shops of E. Peoria and Peoria IL. Both Sponsors have been heavily involved in racing for a few years. Bill Gray has raced Late models and Modifieds in central Il. for years Bill and his son Chad will join the series this season with 2 new mini sprints. Gary Scharp also has raced modifieds at Peoria for a few years and has 2 daughters racing go karts and doing quiet well. We Welcome Both Sponsors to the New Series |
ILLINOIS M.S.A. ANNOUNCES SPONSOR CONTINGENCY BELL HELMETS EXTREME RACING COMPONENTS KEIZER ALUMINUM WHEELS SUPER SHOX We at IMSA are pleased to announce 4 new contingency sponsors to our 2009 mini sprint racing series. These sponsors will be giving away some discount coupons toward purchases of their fine products. Extreme Racing Components { ERC } will be sponsoring one of our heat races and the winner will receive a gift certificate towards a nice discount towards purchase of their fine racing products for their mini sprint. ERC will be doing this for all 17 races in 2009. Bell Helmets has also came on board and will be giving a 20% discount on bell helmets to the winner of the 2nd heat race each night. Bell Helmets is the leading supplier of high quality helmets for off road racing , motorcycle, bicycle helmets and auto racing . Keizer Aluminum Wheels has also came on board for the IMSA inagural season. They will be giving away discount coupons for their racing wheels Keizer Wheels have dedicated themselves to producing a racing wheel of the highest quaility. Keizer Wheels are cold spun with U.S. aerospace quality aluminum to meet precise tolerances. Their double spun,cold,drawn parts in combination with their unique and protected heat treat processes give Keizer Wheels the perfect part. SUPER SHOX has also came on board for the inagural season and will be giving away coupons for our 2009 awards banquet for the drivers. SUPER SHOX is a shock that has superior performance, a larger life span and is rebuildable has more value than a low quality cheap throw away shock. The initial cost may be slightly higher , but when you factor in performance, longevity, durability, and return on investment SUPER SHOX is the best performing shock for sprint cars , midgets, mini sprints, and Late Models. From all of us at Illinois Mini Sprint Association for these fine sponsors thank you very much for your interest and support for Mini Sprint Racing in Illinois |
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Your ILLINOIS Mini Sprint Association BOARD of OFFICIALS for 2009
| PRESIDENT - ROGER SOLLENBERGER | roger.sollenberger@yahoo.com | Brimfield Illinois | ||
| VICE PRESIDENT - ERIK SOLLENBERGER | eriksfloor2@aol.com | Brimfield Illinois | ||
| SECRETARY - SHIRLEY SOLLENBERGER | ssollenberger@icc.edu | Brimfield Illinois | ||
| TREASURER - SHIRLEY SOLLENBERGER | ssollenberger@icc.edu | Brimfield Illinois | ||
| Board Member - JIM MORGAN | jdmrgn1@verizon.net | Morton Illinois | ||
| Board Member - STEVE RIGG | Pekin Illinois |
