Boy..taking off thursday morning for the "BATTLE OF THE MODIFIEDS" at Kentucky I had no idea what I was in for............. it has to be my third favorite race of all time.... my first was by far the first time I went to Eldora...........the second was when Chad Kinder won at Eldora.........and this race this weekend... The caliber of drivers there was amazing!!!! Everywhere you looked was a great driver....
We got to the track around 12:30 and pulled in right behind KOHL who puts pictures on our site....I saw my sticker in his back window..... thankyou Kohl..... was nice meeting you.... with you being in the infield and me being in the pit we never ran into one another again.......
We parked our camper and set it up..........shortly after we arrived JERRY AND PAM HUDDLESTON pulled in...we got together and went to get our tickets and head to the bleachers to put our seats and blankets down.....
I decided not to go to the pit area today for interviews so to stay out of the way of the drivers who were arriving...
We went in to say hello to Team #22 and then went back to camper...........parked in front of us was MARTY HISER #23m from Argenta, Illinois.... I got an interview with him......when I found he was from Argenta I asked him if he knew the "Askrins" and he said he sure did.... he told me after Lee died he mowed the lawn for Georgie............geez...small world.... I told him that Georgie was my aunt, sister to my mother.... Was really nice to meet Marty and his family.....
Around 4 pm JB and Becky Robinson pulled in with their motor home and parked by us...parents of KENT ROBINSON #7r.......
Well race time was getting close so we went and put on warmer clothes and headed to our seats...
the cars started hot lapping..........man oh man......there were 49 late model there and 107 modified..
I saw late model drivers Terry and Tanner English...Jeff Walston...BJ McCammon, Sellars...Rodney Melvin...Frank Heckenast,jr and many more...
In modified there were drivers from all over...........they announced that there were fifteen states plus Canada represented there today.... ... there were USMTS drivers as well as Wissota drivers....they are always a thrill to watch.... I saw Jason Hughes who I had met in Florida, Corey Dripps, Kelly Shryock, Ed Shamhart, Denny and Danny Schwartz, Shon Flanery, Kent Robinson, Brian Shaw, Ricky Waggoner,Gary Cook,jr , Scott Weber, Mike Harrison and of course Chad Kinder.... you knew we were in for a good weekend !!
Wow.....the racing was great..... the track was rough thursday but I am telling you...Sherri was working that track...... friday it was choppy but better and saturday it looked pretty good......
The late model drivers put on a good show.....Terry English never disappoints me....He had it together all weekend taking all three shows............WAY TO GO TERRY....
BJ McCammon was there in the famous "92" late model...... it is nice to see a McCammon back on the track since Doug McCammon retired...... BJ told me that this weekend was the third time he had the car out..... BJ has started his own company in Danville called RaceCo..... I will have more info on here soon... I believe his fiance will give us some info...
The heats were won by Kenny Schrader, Brian Barbee , Peyton Taylor and Thompson
Top four to advance to the feature from the two b mains were: #75, Jeff Walston, #41 and Tanner English........(BJ McCammon finished 5th)......second b main the ones to make it were Terry Babb, Jeff Sloan, Ryan Little and Sellars...
Feature winner was Terry English and Peyton Taylor crossed over 2nd, Schrader 3rd, Cole 4th and BJ McCammon 5th....
In the modified there were ten heats and 4 B Mains........ I am not even going to try to understand the point system...........the more I ask the more confused I get...... I did talk to a USMTS driver who races on the points system all the time.... .he said he likes the system...but he said he felt there were too many cars in this show for it to work............
Heat winners were Mike Spatola, Tommy Weeder,jr, Bobby Martintoni, Dave Cain, Steve Arpin, Kenny Wallace, Kelly Shryock,Jason Hughes, Kenny Schrader and Chad Kinder....
There were 4 B Mains with two advancing to the feature...
1..Jason Hughes and Corey Dripps.........2..Chad Kinder and Kevin Weaver....3..#8x and Jess Hartman......4..Greg Johnson and Danny Schwartz....***there was a mess up on first B Main when only half the field was sent out on track for race so they had the second half race with one advancing to the feature....the winner was Ronnie Short..
In the feature Kenny Wallace and Kenny Schrader started on the front row.....
Dave Cain came from the 11th spot to pass Kenny Wallace for the win..Shryock who started in 12th crossed over third and Chad Kinder came all the way up from 18th to take 4th...Corey Dripps came from 21st to finish 5th............WHAT A RACE !!!!!!!
The weather was great for racing.... I wore shorts during the day and changed to jeans and a long sleeve shirt for night time... I did add a sweatshirt and hubby turned on the heater but we were comfortable....... we went back to the camper to get rested for the friday adventure...........
Talked with Marty Hiser briefly...he told me he was having some mechanical issues.... I talked with his mother and then headed to the trailer....
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