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Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun
By Brett Zerfowski 

MACON, IL (May 29) - As the rain fell on May 1^st, it forced a rainout and make-up features for the Street Stocks (and their Big Ten Street Stock Series which paid $500-to-win) and the Pro Hornets.  It ended up with double features in each class as they would also run their regular show, including heat races on a warm late-May evening at Macon Speedway. 

Joe Reed started second-row-inside behind his brother-in-law Sam McCoy and ended up taking control of the race and ended up with the checkered flag, his fifth in six feature races in 2010. 

In the second Pro Hornet feature, Sam McCoy tried to pick up his first feature in the class but would be unsuccessful as he was passed by Cory Ballinger, who would go on for the ten-lap feature, his first of the season.  Finishing second would be Justin Hall, who started at the end of the field. 

In the $500-to-win Street Stock make-up for Big Ten Series points, Larry Russell, Jr. would take the win as he passed Mike Pickering on the 11^th lap coming out of the second turn onto the backstretch.  Those two would battle until the 13^th lap (Big Ten races run 15-lap feature events) when Pickering would try to get the lead back, racing hard on the inside with “Bub” Russell but would put too much on the gas and spin around, causing an Agency One Insurance and Real Estate caution flag.  Russell would hold on for two more laps en route to the win, his third of the season.  The Big Ten Street Stock Series is sponsored by Decatur Used Cars. 

The second feature would not be so kind to “Bub” Russell as he did not have a good heat race; he would start in the eighth row of ten.  Defending Street Stock champion Blake Shelley tried to use the high side of Macon Speedway to run for the 12-lap feature but would be unable to get much traction as he would fall to fourth behind Terry Miller, Michael Pasley and Nick Justice.  Miller would be the winner of the second feature, using the bottom of the racetrack. 

The Touchstone Energy Sportsman feature would be for more than the normal as the top four finishers would receive an automatic bid to the Sportsman Nationals race during the Illinois State Fair.  Dave Crawley, Jr., who has been terrific at Macon in 2010, started behind the returning Al Crawley, in the 20-lap A-Main feature.  Al Crawley was running a solid race but would fall second to Dave Crawley and then smoke would start coming from the hood of the car.  Al’s car was broken, a busted hose doomed him and forced him to watch Dave Crawley, Jr. rush around the track for the win and the bid to Springfield.  Also making the field for the Nationals race are Rick Roedel, Norm Wood and Phil Moreland. 

The Modified feature would live up to as much excitement and on-the-edge-of-your-seat racing as it possibly could have with Aaron Burcham, Mark Tullis and Dave Crawley all running very closely during the feature race.  Burcham stuck to the low side of the track, Tullis chose the high side and Crawley ran right in the middle.  The low side would stick for Burcham and Crawley would take second away from Tullis in the race’s late laps.  The win for Burcham was his second and looks to make it three in-a-row Monday in his new car, a newly designed car supporting the troops of the United States with the “Wounded Warrior Project.”  Danny Smith finished fourth and Curt Rhodes took fifth.  As a correction to the previous week’s publication, Rhodes finished second in the Modified feature at Macon Speedway after starting in the back of the field. 

The evening wrapped up with Adam Webb winning his first Amateur Hornet feature of 2010 in a wild 10-lap affair. 

The crowd was treated to an appearance of the monster truck Raminator, driven by Mark Hall, during intermission.  Raminator would crush three cars and do a few spins in the turns to wow the audience. 

All eyes turn to Monday and Memorial Day for the first NASCAR Night of the 2010 season.  Macon Speedway co-owners Ken Schrader, Kenny Wallace and NASCAR Nationwide Series driver Justin Allgaier will be on hand for autographs (beginning at 4:30pm) and Schrader and Wallace will compete in the UMP Modified class also the Street Stocks will be racing.  The Northern All-Star Late Model Series will also be coming to Macon for a special $2,000-to-win night of racing.  Gates open at 4pm, racing at 6pm on Memorial Day Monday at Macon Speedway.