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Old Jan 21, 2006 | 01:42 PM
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Does anybody on here race a this track. I just moved from peoria to carbondale. I am tring to find a good dragstrip.
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Old Jan 22, 2006 | 03:47 PM
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i am going to hit it up soon i am in carbondale too, what kind of car do you have, you will probably see my silver z28 going to school everyday.
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it is an 1/8 mile i believe but i dont think it is open till late feb early march
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Old Jan 24, 2006 | 02:00 AM
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Hi I'm from st. louiis and I would also like to race at this track this
summer.If you find out when it is open please pm me.
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Old Jan 24, 2006 | 09:37 PM
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Here is the website for I-57 dragway http://www2.swishercs.com:8081/i57/index.html
It doesn't look like it has been updated in a while, but if you go to schedule it looks like they don't open up till may. If that is the case they suck!!!
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yeah i spoke to a guy from the track on the phone and he said march
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Old Jan 26, 2006 | 10:14 PM
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i race there, it used to be shitty but they repaved it
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Old Jan 28, 2006 | 11:31 AM
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its a nice track... i raced there last year in my 69 camaro... hopefully the 02 will get to come out and play at 57 this year....
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nice looking forward to being there when it opens
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Old Jan 29, 2006 | 07:38 PM
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Yea there is generally a good assortment of people there to race....not too many ricers to eat up on tho....As soon as Gateway opens up y'all should come up the the 'Lu for friday night midnight madness!
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Yea I've raced there before, can't wait to get my car back out soon. We should all have a track day down there sometime.
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