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Quincy Raceways
8000 Broadway St.
Quincy, Illinois
62305
Phone 217-224-3843
Hotline 217-224-4100
Email:
quincyraceways@gmail.com
Opening Night thru May 27 & Sept Races
Sunday Night Racing
Pit Gates open at 2:30pm
Grandstands open at 4:00pm
Drivers Meeting 4:30pm
Drivers Registration Ends 4:30
Hot Laps at 4:45pm
Racing at 5:30pm
June 3 thru August 26
Sunday Night Racing
Pit Gates open at 3:30pm
Grandstands open at 5:00pm
Drivers Meeting 5:30pm
Drivers Registration Ends 5:30
Hot Laps at 5:45pm
Racing at 6:30pm



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August 14, 2011

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Steve Eighinger discusses life at Quincy Raceways - “The Broadway
Bullring”
Past the Pit Gate.......
by Danny Rosencrans
January 24, 2012 -
There were a pair of errors in my Sunday report that need to be
corrected. Defending IMCA Sport Mod champion Joe Bliven will be
campaigning his own ride for 2012, having purchased a car a couple of
months ago, and rumor has it that the Uppinghouse family car will have
a new driver for this season.
Also,
Springfield,Il hot shoe Brandon Sheppard, son of Steve Jr. and
grandson of Steve Sr. was the Northern All Stars point champion in
2011. Ryan Unzicker was the UMP national points champion. Both of
these drivers are possible entrants when the All Stars make their
first stop at QR on April 15.
Apologies
for these mistakes, and we will see you at the car show!
January 22, 2012 --
Saturday night January
21 Quincy Raceways held their annual racing banquet at the K of C Hall
in Quincy.
Past the Pit Gate
by Danny Rosencrans
There were a pair of
errors in my Sunday report that need to be corrected. Defending IMCA
Sport Mod champion Joe Bliven will be campaigning his own ride for
2012, having purchased a car a couple of months ago, and rumor has it
that the Uppinghouse family car will have a new driver for this
season.
Also, Springfield,Il hot
shoe Brandon Sheppard, son of Steve Jr. and grandson of Steve Sr. was
the Northern All Stars point champion in 2011. Ryan Unzicker was the
UMP national points champion. Both of these drivers are possible
entrants when the All Stars make their first stop at QR on April 15.
Apologies for these
mistakes, and we will see you at the car show!
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All racers in any class at
Quincy Raceways will be required to purchase and use RACECEIVERs
during the 2012 season.

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Pit Spot Map Rentals
Reserved Pit Stall
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Quincy Raceways Announces 2012 Purse Structure
Quincy Raceways has added the sanctioned UMP Late Models for the
2012. The payoff will feature $1000 to Win the 30 lap main event with
the 2nd $700.3rd $500, 4th $400, 5th
$300, 6th $200, 7th $175, 8th $160, 9th
$150, 10th through 18th $125 and 19th
through 24th $115. All non feature qualifiers will receive
$75. The total purse for the UMP Late Models for a weekly event will
be $5400, the highest in Quincy Raceways history.
The IMCA Stock Cars
and IMCA Northern Sport Mods have also had their payoffs announced
which will be the same as Lee County Speedway and 34 Raceway with $300
for 1st, $200 for 2nd, $150 for 3rd,
125 for 4th, $100 for 5th, $80 for 6th,
$70 for 7th, $65 for 8th, $60 for 9th
through 12th, $55 for 13th through 15th,
and $50 for 16th through 24. All non feature qualifiers
will receive $40. The total purse for both the IMCA Stock Cars and
IMCA Northern Sport Mods will be $1945. The payoff for the UMP
Modifieds, Hobby Stocks and IMCA Sport Compacts will remain the same
as in 2011.
It also being
announced that all racers in any class at Quincy Raceways will be
required to purchase and use RACECEIVERs during the 2012 season.
RACECEIVERs are available for purchase from most racing suppliers with
Pit Side Parts in Donnellson, Iowa and Griffin Performance in Quincy
having special buys on them at this time. It was felt that by using
the RACECEIVER system, the time it takes to realign the cars during
caution flags and the on track safety of competitors and race
officials would be greatly improved.
Quincy Raceways new email address is
quincyraceways@gmail.com
Please use this for all email communications with the track. It will
be checked at least daily if not more. There will be new phone service
as well in the near future, hopefully with the same phone numbers as
before.
The 2012 schedule is
being worked out now with at least two late model special events
possibly Northern All Stars and MARS and at least one MOWA sprint car
show as well. We will be announcing more as soon as possible.
Racecievers will be
required by all drivers at Quincy Raceways in 2012. More detail on
that soon as well.
Quincy Raceways will be under
new ownership for the 2012 season.
November 3, 2011 -
The announcement came late Wednesday night when Paul Holtschlag and
Bob Rhinberger announced their partnership, representing the fourth
ownership group for the 37-year-old facility since 2007.
Holtschlag had been a co-owner since 2009 with Tony Rhinberger. Tony
Rhinberger was bought out by Bob Rhinberger, his father. No sale price
was disclosed.
In
another major -- and equally important -- announcement, Holtschlag
said the track's late model division, its marquee series, will be
sanctioned by United Midwestern Promoters (UMP), barring any
unforeseen problems with unfinished paperwork in the coming weeks.
"Quincy has a great racing fan base and racers who love to race,"
Holtschlag said. "We're going to get this going in the right
direction, and feel the UMP sanctioning of the late models is the way
to go. The economy is tough out there right now, but we're confident
and we're excited about this new direction for the late model class at
Quincy Raceways."
The average weekly late model car counts have dropped in each of the
last five years, from a track-record 25 in 2006 to 15 last season.
Quincy Raceways sanctioned its modified class with UMP in 2009 and
drew a weekly average of 25 cars, a record for a modified division at
the track. The previous high had been 24 in the old "B" modified
series in 2002.
The UMP late model sanctioning reverses a recent announcement made by
Tony Rhinberger before he sold his half of the track operation that
Quincy Raceways late models would be aligned with the Missouri-based
United Late Model Association (ULMA), severing a 14-year sanctioning
agreement with the International Motorsports Contest Association (IMCA),
headquartered in Vinton, Iowa.
Holtschlag, Bob Rhinberger and other track officials met with late
model drivers Tuesday night to let them know about the change in
ownership and get their input on what sanctioning direction the track
should take.
"The overwhelming majority, I would say 90 percent, was for going with
UMP," said Holtschlag, a local businessman who also owns several group
homes in Missouri, Kutter's Bar and Grill on the Quincy riverfont, a
restaurant in southeastern Iowa and is developing the site at 18th and
Broadway that once housed Prairie Farms Dairy properties.
UMP currently sanctions eight racing divisions with more than 100
tracks in 19 states and one Canadian province. UMP was created in 1984
by the late Bob Memmer, and is arguably best known for its annual
Summernationals "Hell Tour" each June and July. The organization's
corporate headquarters are in Concord, N.C., but much of its
dirt-track operations is housed in Grayville, Ill. There are 22 UMP
tracks in Illinois.
Quincy will be the only UMP track in the region with
Sunday night racing, which is expected to help draw larger late model
fields. Shepp's Speedway in Alexander, Ill., formerly raced on Sundays
but is switching to Fridays.
Holtschlag said the overriding key to the .29-mile track's success
will be its racing surface, which was much improved in 2011 over 2010.
Considerable offseason work was done a year ago at this time and it
paid dividends, said Holtschlag, who coordinated much of that work
himself.
"Word gets around, and I feel we made progress this past season," he
said. "I think most of the comments about the track last season were
very positive."
Quincy Raceways was family owned and operated for the first 32 years
(1975-2007) of its existence. The late Albert Scott ran the track
until selling it his son, Bob Scott, in 1993. The track was purchased
by Tony Rhinberger and Mike Karhoff in January 2007. Rhinberger then
bought out Karhoff and operated the facility by himself through 2008
until teaming Holtschlag in 2009.

The inaugural class of the Quincy Raceways Hall of Fame included from
left to right, Steve Fraise, Jan Scott, Bob Scott, Jeff Scott, Henry
DeLonjay, Mark Burgtorf and Don Hummel.
Photo by Hulett Photography.
Quincy Raceways Announces
First Hall of Fame Inductees
By Jack Walbring
QUINCY, IL (September 26, 2011) -
The Quincy Raceways Hall of
Fame committee announced the first members of the newly created Quincy
Raceways Hall of Fame on Sunday September 25. Those inducted included
a long time track sponsor, three drivers, a former track employee and
the Quincy Raceways founders.

Joe Bliven captured the first ever IMCA Northern Sport Mod Track
Championship as well as the Illinois State Championship at Quincy
Raceways for the 2011 season.
Photo by Hulett Photography.
Quincy Raceways Crowns
Champions on Final Night of 2011
By Jack Walbring
(September 26, 2011) -
Quincy Raceways put the
crown on the 2011 season during the Tom Boland Ford/Selby Implement
Company Season Championship races on Sunday September 25.
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