In additional news, an almost year-long project to determine all-time super late model feature winners at Grundy County has been completed.
Five-time track champion Eddie Hoffman leads all drivers with 134 feature wins. Larry Schuler with 78 and Ed Hoffman with 72 are second and third on the list.
Dave Weltmeyer (66 wins), Brett Sontag (41), Frank Gawlinski (36), Tom Jones (32), Ray Young (25), Ricky Baker (24) and Tracy Schuler (24) round out the all-time top 10 winners since the track opened in 1971.
Congratulations go out to Boris Jurkovic on his super late model victory on April 20 at Michigan’s Berlin Raceway.
Jurkovic wheeled his Rowdy Manufacturing-built, Reliable Recovery Services-sponsored Camry to the victory in the eighth annual Icebreaker 75. He defeated Michigan speedster Brian Campbell after first taking the race lead on lap eight.
While it’s not certain, Jurkovic’s win may have been the first by an Illinois driver at Berlin, a unique seven-sixteenths-mile oval in Marne, Mich.
Jim Anderson of Joliet is among the entries for USAC Silver Crown Champ Car Series race on the pavement at Ohio’s Toledo Speedway this Saturday for the Hemelgarn Racing/Super Fitness Rollie Beale Classic.
Anderson will drive the Joliet-based Kazmark Motorsports No. 92 entry.
Still considered a USAC Silver Crown rookie, Anderson – who won local midget titles with the old United Midget Auto Racing Ass’n and the disbanded Short Track Auto Racing Series in the past, turned in several impressive Silver Crown runs last year.
Anderson notched a fourth-place finish at Wisconsin’s Madison Int’l Speedway and a eighth-place run in his Silver Crown debut at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis.
The ARCA Midwest Tour kicks off its season with the Joe Shear Classic 200 on Sunday, May 5 at Madison. On Father’s Day – June 16 – the series will be at the Milwaukee Mile, as auto racing returns to the West Allis, Wis., speedway for the first time since 2015.
A 10-event schedule makes up the ARCA Midwest Tour slate, with the series finale again set for Wisconsin’s LaCrosse Fairgrounds Speedway in early October.
Unfortunately, the annual Wayne Carter Classic at Grundy is not on this year’s schedule.
Condolences go out to Bob Talaski and his family on the recent passing of his mother, Barbara Talaski, at the age of 100.
Bob Talaski was a long-time track official at Blue Island’s Raceway Park, where Mrs. Talaski sold tickets for some 15 years.
Finally, what else can be said about Wayne Adams recent 100th birthday celebration? Some 200 well-wishers came to say “Happy Birthday” to Adams at Teibel’s Restaurant in Schererville, Ind., on Saturday, April 13.
Two days later, the Village of Dolton, Ill., honored Adams by co-naming the street Adams has lived on for some 50-plus years to Wayne Adams Way.
Three major Chicago television stations were on hand to do a feature on Adams, who was the track announcer at Raceway Park from 1947 through the 1989 season.
Adams’ first night announcing at the speedway was Saturday, Aug. 2, 1947 with Doc Shanebrook winning the 25-lap midget feature on the dirt surface ahead of Tony Bettenhausen.