I sit on this computer friday night and read the weather reports from people living in the Brownstown area.. tornado warning had went off....reports of heavy...very heavy rain.... Chris Nunn reported that Tim Keithley said he was getting this race on.... that he and his crew planned on going to the track at midnight and working on it til the gates opened if necessary....
I was there during the Jackson 100 when they had a cloud burst right before the race and the pit area was horrible...
I just got to say that it is unbelievable how they got that track and pit area in shape ... GREAT JOB GUYS!!!

We pulled into Brownstown right around one oclock and the haulers were lined up as far back as you could see....
I recorded 69 late models and around 60 modifieds

There was a truck there that brought in bales of hay.... they had to call a second truck out with more ...guys put it around their pit area which did help...
Talked to a guy in the parking lot who had got there the night before.... said RV's and haulers had got stuck and had to be pulled out....

This was a LUCAS OIL LATE MODEL DIRT SERIES RACE so there were a lot of great drivers ....
I got interviews with Earl Pearson, jr, Rick Eckert, Jimmy Mars, Steve Francis, Eddie Carrier,jr, Dan Schieper,Darrell Lanigan, Billy Drake , Mike Marlar and two modified drivers Kevin DeYoung and Ryan Thomas..

The racing was awesome!!!! and no really bad accidents... a lot went over the burm...

Steve Francis broke a track record at 13.546
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Mike Marlar had trouble all night...he came out to qualify and pulled off...came back at tail and still was having trouble...
There were six heats...took top 3 to feature
Winners of heats were: Brian Birkhofer, Tim Dohm, Greg Johnson, Darren Miller, Rick Eckert, and Don Oneal

Winners of modified heats were Matt Boknecht, Jesse Cramer, Lee Hobbs, Aaron Ricketts, Chad Kinder, and Denny Schwartz

I really had a good time and got to meet a lot of really nice people...one of them was Eddie Carrier, Jr's wife Jamie......
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by the time I found Jesse Cramer it was time to go to grandstand to watch qualifying so I never got to say hello to Tina... sad.gif ..
Ran into Chris Nunn
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Also ran into Greg Johnson....he usually is in the #19 but was in the #4 tonight..... I met him at KLMS a couple of years ago.... was nice to run into him again
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Also got to talk with Lee Hobbs who is always one of my favorite to talk with
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Well I am still brain dead.........totally exhausted.. so I hope these comments make sense ohmy.gif ..
cj