Kankakee Motor Speedway, May 26, 2006
Started for Kankakee about 2 pm... arrived there right around 5:30 p.m....... Team #22 pulled in not too far behind us...
I ran into Sherri H and talked with her briefly... she is one busy lady.. I have a lot of respect for her..
I ran into Jeff and Pam Leka and as always enjoyed talking with them....Pam took me over to the pit area of 'Tommy Burnside #3 and introduced me.... He is quite a character...really enjoyed inteviewing him...
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I ran into Dan Hamstra and took a picture of him with his new 2006 car... got to meet and interview Gabe Menser... while there ran into the newly wed "Tim"..Zippo.... he is heading to Las Vegas on Monday for his honeymoon... he and his new bride will be staying at the LUXOR.... that is where we stayed when we went to Vegas... nice hotel.... also got to talk with Rob Fuqua, another favorite of mine....
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I finally got to meet Tim Reynolds #40 and his father Maurice... was a pleasure....
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I took a lot of pictures of the cars lined up to go out on the track for qualifying.... some I don't know..if you recognize them please let me know...
I interviewed Kevin Hastings and meant to get back to pit area to interview that son of his...Jason "Hollywood" Hastings.... dad is quite proud of him....
Also caught Nick Allen...really nice kid...
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Tried to get Frank Heckenast , Sr but he was not in his pit area when I was there..also tried to get Don Kiger but he was not there either..
There were 67 modifieds in attendance... Dan Hamstra had fast time with 15.202...#1 (not sure if this was Menser or not...15.257 and Chad Kinder 3rd with 15.296..4th was Joel Funk,jr with 15.334 5th was Jason Hastings with 15.455..
There were 7 heats taking top two
In heat #1 Brent Mullins was totally in charge taking the win with the #24 of Cooper coming across 2nd..
In heat #2 Arby Burton took first with Lance Dehm second...Gary Cook crossed over 3rd with Kevin DeYoung #13 crossing 4th
In heat #3 Chad Kinder led by a pretty large margin..the #0 of Travis Kohler crossed 2nd, the #69 third and Jeff Leka crossed over 4th..
In heat #4 Denny Schwartz shot out to an early lead taking first over the #68 of Bachman...3rd was #225 of Bitterline..** there was a battle in the middle of the field between the #225 of Bitterline and the #95 of Aaron Ricketts... Aaron kept trying to get around the #225 and when he did going into turn four the #225 got into the back of him causing him to hit the wall sending #95 to tail ..
In heat #5 there was a very scarey moment when the #78 car of Richard Wood coming out of turn one rolled his car... was really good to see him crawl out of the car...Tommy Burnside took the win with Tommy Kroll crossing second and Dave Porth third..Don Kiger 4th...
In heat #6 Jason Hastings took first with Gabe Menser a close second and the #28F crossed over third and Lakey #J16 fourth..
In heat #7 the #23jr of Joel Funk,jr took first with Danny Schwartz second and Dan Hamstra third..Fuqua came across fourth...
They took the winners from the seven heats and had a Dash For Cash.. ...Brent Mullins, Arby Burton, Chad Kinder, Denny Schwartz, Tommy Burnside, Jason Hastings and Joel Funk,jr..
Mullins dns.....
Burton/Schwartz
Kinder/Burnside
Hastings/funk
First caution came for a false start......2nd caution was when the #35 of Hastings went over the burm..the third caution came when the #3 of Tommy Burnside flipped violently landing on its lid trying to avoid hitting the #35 who had got sideways coming out of turn one.... was good to see Tommy climbing out of his car.... 4th caution came for a spin by the #23jr of Joel Funk...
Ended with Chad Kinder taking the win...Denny Schwartz second...Joel Funk third and Arby Burton 4th..
There were 3 consi's....12 laps..top 2
consi #1
Porth/Bitterline
Hamstra/Leka
Lakey/#70
#37/McCarthy
Spatola/2g
###Jeff Leka got screwed in this consi twice........
there was a real battle going on with Hamstra and Leka..... Hamstra had been out in front most the race and then Leka got around him..... the race ended only to be told that there was still another lap to go...they had to file out on track again after the cars for consi two had already came out...they made those cars go infield and they restarted the last lap..............what a disaster!!! Jeff had clearly crossed the finish line in first with Hamstra second and Lakey third....on restart of last lap it was a scramble...coming into turn four it was inches for Leka and Hamstra when Jason Lakey did a slide job on Leka putting him into the wall.....needless to say Leka was highly upset ...so...the night was over for both Leka and Lakey giving Hamstra the win with Pohlman second...
consi #2
Cook,jr/Porth
#92/ #00
Fuqua/#p1
Osterhoff/#19
Matthys/Huffman
#51/Estrada
#28/Phil Line
Dave Porth crossed over for first with Gary Cook,jr taking second and Osterhoff taking third....
consi #3
Farris/#28f
DeYoung/Kiger
Frego/Bull
Thorton/#112
Wilson/#88
Keving Hastings/#41
on start there was a lot of bumping going on..cars slowed up in the front causing the #36 of Hastings to run into the back of the #61 of Wilson.. the #61 of Wilson and the #36 of Hastings both left the track..
on restart there was another crash...Cody Hood went over the burn to avoid hitting the cars
the #28f took first with Kiger taking second... Scott Bull and Don Kiger really put on a battle for that second spot.....
the B Main
J.D Francis #37/Osterhoff #130
#19/ #41
Bitterline #225/Gussie #112
DeYoung #13/ Tim Reynolds#40
Spatola#89/Adams #75
Thorton #7t/Farris #69
#28/Phil Line #66
Ferguson #2f/#7
#00/ Huffman #23
K. Hastings #36/Aaron Ricketts #95
caution one for the #75 of Adam when he went over the burm
caution two when the #89 of Spatola got sideways in turn four
caution 3 for the #75 when he spun in turn one
caution 4 when the #225 of Bitterline spun with 8 laps in
caution 5 for the #7T
ended with J.D Francis taking first, Osterhoff 2nd, DeYoung 3rd, #19 4th, and Reynolds 5th...
*** the #95 of Aaron Ricketts was the man on the move in this race.... he started dead last and worked his way all the to around the 8th spot....
FEATURE...'
Kinder/Schwartz
Funk,jr/Burton
Burnside/J. Hastings
Dehm/Cooper
Bachman/ Taylor
Menser/ Kroll
Hamstra/Dan Schwartz
Hood/Porth
Cook,jr/Pohlman
#28F/Kiger
caution one came out for Dave Porth when he hit the wall with 33 laps to go
caution two came out for Burnside who spun in turn two
caution 3 came out for Travis Kohler....**a flat right rear caused by the 23jr car of joel funk hitting it after travis passed him for 5th. he stayed out another lap trying to figure out if rr was cut down and went straight to the back because of it.
caution came out with four to go...
Chad Kinder took the lead on lap one and through all the cautions remained in the lead.... he got into lap traffic which always makes you nervous but passed with no problems...
He had it going on...When interviewed he gave credit to Sherri Heckenast for doing a great job on getting the track prepared for the races with all the rain that we have been having....
Sherri you did an awesome job.....
Late Model event was won by Ryan Dauber #64...Izzo #21 and Ted Loomis #23