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Farmer City Raceway Banquet Scheduled
direct from www.trackenterprises.com
Track Enterprises has set a date to honor the 2003 Farmer City Raceway Track Champions. The banquet will take place at the American Legion Hall in Farmer City, Illinois on Friday, January 2, 2004.

The banquet will begin with Cocktails at 6:00 p.m., Dinner will be served at 7:00 p.m., followed by the awards presentation at 8:00 p.m., and dancing to begin at 9:00 p.m. Tickets will be available at the door on January 2, 2004 at a cost of $18.00 per person.

The 2003 Farmer City Raceway Track Champions are: Roger Long in the Late Model division, Jeff Leka in the Modified division, Jim Felker Jr. in the Sportsman division, and Ryan Unzicker in the Street Stock Division.

For more information call Track Enterprises at 217-764-3200.


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Farmer City Raceway 2003 in Review
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Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2003 by Shawn,  from www.trackenterprises.com
The Farmer City Raceway, Farmer City, IL has concluded its 9th season under the management of Track Enterprises, Inc.  The 2003 season started in April and came to a close in August.  Four divisions are ran every Friday night at the high banked ¼ mile dirt oval, they include: UMP Late Models, UMP Modified, Sportsman, and Street Stock. 

The season opened on April 11, with Jeff Leka winning the RPM Late Model Shoot Out that was held over from the 2002 season.  May 2 was Scout night honoring our local Boy & Girl Scouts, with over a 150 scouts in the stands to watch the 2003 Hornet Debut.  NASCAR Night was held on May 13 with Ken Schrader and Kenny Wallace in town racing with the all of the local UMP Late Model & Modified drivers. May 30 the raceway hosted the first annual Tri-State Challenge paying $10,000 to win for the Late Models with Shannon Babb of Moweaqua taking the paycheck.  June 20, RC Cola sponsored Twin 30 lap features for the UMP Late Models with Billy Drake of Bloomington winning both feature events.  On June 23, the O'Reilly World of Outlaws made their annual stop in Farmer City with Steve Kinser taking the feature win, Derek Odell of East Alton took the checkered flag for the 600 cc mini sprints.  Lynn Chevrolet/Buick hosted the UMP Summer Nationals on July 11, with Don O'Neal of Martinsville, IN taking home the top honors.  On July 16, Andrae's Harley Davidson hosted an exciting night of motorcycle racing as the AMA Motorcycles were in town with Johnny Murphree winning the Expert class.  The 2003 Late Model Shoot Out was won by Roger Long of Fithian on August 8.  On August 15 the raceway had a battle of the Sprint cars with both USAC & SCRA Non-Wing Sprints on this ¼ mile track with Tracy Hines of Greenfield, IN winning the feature event.  The Farmer City Raceway season concluded on August 22, when the MARA Midgets made a stop in Farmer City with the annual Don Branson Memorial. 

Every week of the 2003 racing season we were able to give one of our drivers an extra $200 for the Timber Wolf Hard Charger Award, which is awarded to the driver that passed the most cars in their feature event.  The Contingency Connection was an added bonus for the drivers this year too with several drivers taking advantage of prizes and money being awarded.

Congratulations to the 2003 Farmer City Raceway Track Champions: Roger Long of Fithian - UMP Late Model, Jeff Leka of Buffalo - UMP Modified, James Felker Jr. of Bloomington - Sportsman, and Ryan Unzicker of El Paso - Street Stock.


SEASON FINALE
August 8, 2003

Roger Long put the exclamation point on the season with his seventh track championship at Farmer City Raceway. The final night of racing included the Shootout, a 20 lap race for the dash winners all year long. Long started sixth, and took the lead on lap 7 for the win by a straightaway over Donnie Waldon and fast qualifier Eric Smith. The regular dash went to Steve Sheppard Jr over Waldon. Heat races went to Wade Logue, Chris Dick and Jason Feger. Jay Sparks won the semi-feature over Chris Dick. Ryan Dauber led the first 4 laps of the feature, before being passed by Long, who had a hard time getting around Eric Smith and Dauber at the same time. Long then went on to lead the final 21 laps, for his second feature in a row. Finish: 36 Roger Long, 9 Eric Smith, 1w Donnie Waldon, S10 Jr Shickel, 4 Mike Mullvain, 25 Jason Feger, 7 Jay Sparks, 1a Justin Allgaier, 64 Ryan Dauber, 15 Joe Ross Jr, 5s Steve Sheppard Jr.
Modified track champion Jeff Leka also won his feature event after a hot battle with Tim O'Donnell.
Sportsman feature went to Jim Felker, Jr.
Street stock winner was Richard Peddicoart.

2003 FINAL POINTS.....COURTESY OF     www.trackenterprises.com the official website of Farmer City Raceway

Position Car Number Driver / Hometown Feature Poles Heat Wins Feature Wins Nights Raced Total Points Deficit
1 36 Roger Long / Fithian, IL 0 3 6 14 802 0
2 s10 JR Shickel / Bloomington, IL 0 1 1 16 598 204
3 9 Eric Smith / Shirley, IL 0 0 0 14 561 241
4 15 Joe Ross , Jr. / Springfield, IL 0 7 1 14 537 265
5 4 Mike Mullvain / Bartonville, IL 0 2 2 15 506 296
6 1A Justin Allgaier / Springfield, IL 0 3 1 14 473 329
7 5s Steve Sheppard Jr. / New Berlin, IL 0 4 0 14 437 365
8 25 Jason Feger / Bloomington, IL 0 1 0 14 393 409
9 1w Donny Walden / Towanda, IL 0 0 0 16 364 438
10 30 Mike Glasscock / Leroy, IL 0 1 0 13 328 474
11 9 Billy Drake / Bloomington, IL 0 0 2 5 309 493
12 45 Don Hammer / Clinton, IL 0 0 0 13 307 495
13 22 Chris Dick / Deland, IL <