Peebles, Ohio
August 1 and 2, 2008
We went to the track on thursday to check it out... it was in a really pretty setting..........foothills all around.............I loved them til I had to walk a few times from the pit area to the grandstands
......that was a longggggg walk and up and down the hill....The track was not an oval shape ..more like a D ..... the bleachers were some of the best bleachers I have sit in and in great shape.....facilities were also in good shape...........as far as the food..........it was so HOT you didn't feel like eatting..I had a funnel cake and a hot pretzel....they were both delicious .. so i am sure the food was as well...
Temps were around 95% on friday.....very very very hot.....
My hubby dropped me off at the pitgate and as I was getting out Kent Robinson's mom and dad "Becky and JB" pulled in......... well...I couldn't go into the pit area without talking with Becky....It had been a long time since I seen them.... I told them my woo's of the week so far and then headed to the pit area..
There was several cars in the pit and were still coming in at almost five.....they ended up with 67 cars..
I went to Team #22 area and talked to the boys...Chad saw how hot I was and told me to go into the hauler and cool down.... that sure helped..
I got seven interviews (Chris Stotts #s8..Jerry Bowersock #20...Rob Leemaster.....Brian Whiteman #52...Dan Reno #22...Weasel Rhoades #68..Justin Carlson #16) and then came back to the pit for three more after learning there was an eleven year old racing one of them...(Steven Partin #71...Randy (dad) and Dustin (son) Hunt...........
The only Illinois boy that I found in the pit area was my guy Chad Kinder #22s..and Kent Robinson, John DeMoss and Joey Kramer from Indiana...I had seen several of the guys race before..the local guys I didn't know....
Steve Arpin, Jared Landers, Don Adams and Shawn Tolson were familar names..
On friday I went over and got some new pictures of Steve Arpin and took a couple of pictures of him and now his wife..they are so cute..... My son just recently got burned pretty bad working on a car (radiator).. his wife gave me several tips on what Doug should do.......thankyou very much cutie...
I went wayyyyy back in the field where Joey Kramer was so I could take some new pictures of him... He is another one I always look for.... I asked Joey why he parked back in the woods and he said he needed the room for his rig...he said man I shoulda brought my weed whacker... I told him if I got chiggers I was gonna blame him....
I didn't get to run into Shawn Tolson til saturday... he is always a great one to talk with.. I got some new pics of him as well.....
They did group qualifying and then the winners of each heat drew for starting spot in feature....
OUt of the 67 there were three that qualified in the 15's....
1..Weasel Rhoades #68.........15.670......group one (won last seven races at this track)
2..Dave Jameson #D5............15.803......group one (pts leader at the track)
3..Chris Stotts #s8................15.988.....group one
Chad Kinder #22s qualified with 16.273......group one (5th in his group)
Kent Robinson #7r qualified with 16. 098..group 4 (top in his group)
Joey Kramer #77 qualified with 16.007 ...group 2 (top in group)
Don Adams #66 qualified with 16.215...group 2 (2nd fastest)
John DeMoss #79d qualified with 16.848 in group one
Steve Arpin #00 qualified with 16.203 in group 5
Jared Landers #777 qualified with 16.073 in group 2
Shawn Tolson #52T qualifed with 17.121 in group 6
****they use transponders on the cars **not sure I like that (lol...like that matters)......there were a few that did not work and had to keep working with them...............***
Ten lap heats..........taking top three to feature
In heat one Weasel Rhoades and Dave Jameson started on front row with Stotts and the #79c on second row..Kinder and DeWitt on row three
finish: Rhoades, Stotts, Kinder.............DeMoss
Heat two Joey Kramer and Jared Landers on front row, row two Don Adams and Joe Waton #92 row three #101 and Leemaster #00..
caution came out for the #J4 of Jeffries and the #00 of Leemaster...Leemaster had to leave the track with a flat tire...
finish: Kramer, Jeffries, Don Adams........Jared Landers
Heat three ...there were four 1's in this heat and not knowing them did not know them apart..one was Kitchen and one was Gilpin and one was Maro...not sure about the other one......2nd row Hartman was on outside of #1
finish: I think Maro, Kitchen, Hartman............#1
Heat four Kent Robinson and Jamey Adams on front row...Walker and Bowersock on row 2....row three Kincaid and Whiteman
finish: Kent Robinson **big lead on 2nd, Adams, Bowersock.........Walker
Heat five was Jacob Hawkins and Steve Arpin on front row...2nd row ? and Carlson , 3rd row Gross and Roberts
several cautions in this race...#11 brought out the first caution..pulls off..2nd was for the #83 with four to go...next was for #47 of Gross who spins out
finish: Arpin, Hawkins, Carlson......Gross
Heat six you had Dixon and Avert on front row, 2nd row is Dave Hess and #30
the X pulled off the track with smoke coming from his car,,,the #18 spins out coming out of turn 3 on last lap..
finsh: Dixon, Hess, Henson #3...............Avert
consi one..........taking three
1.. #1
2..Gross #47
3..John DeMoss #79d
missing out was the #222 of Brad White
consi two
1..#4
2..Avert #70
3..B Whiteman
Tony Steffan won the $1000 Feature for the Legend Cars
Jamey Adams #42 won the street stock feature (Jamey also runs the #9 modified)
Feature for the modifieds.........there were 24 cars... I did not get the full lineup
row1....Kramer and Dixon
row2....Rhoades and Arpin
row3....Robinson and Maro
row4.....Stotts and Don Adams
row5....#1 and Jamey Adams
row6.....Hawkins and Hess
row7.....Kinder and Landers
row8.....Hartman and
row9.....Carlson
Joey Kramer got out to the lead and never looked back....
a caution comes out before third lap was in...involved the #1 of Maro, the #7r of Robinson and another #1.....**later I learned that Kent had been hit pretty hard and had bent his headers ....he stayed in for another lap getting into the #0 of Dixon causing him to spin....the #0 got his spot back...Kent said he had to pull off...
With three laps in running order was Kramer, Rhoades, Arpin, Donnie Adams ,Moro,Stotts, Hawkins, J Adams, Hess, Landers, Kinder, Hartman and Bowersock...
with five laps in Kramer..Rhoades..Arpin..d Adams..Stotts..Hess
With fifteen laps in: Kramer...Rhoades...Donnie Adams...Arpin....Hawkins..Hess..Hartman...#1...Dixon...J. Adams...Kinder.Gross..Bowersock...Carlson...#03...DeMoss...Jeffries...Stambaugh..Lander
***at this point it was so dusty you coud hardly see the cars on the track.... I don't know how they could see anything....
lap #35....Kramer..Rhoades...Hartman..Don Adams ..#1
I quit trying to score... I couldn't see... I jotted down what was on the pole and looked for key people I knew...
Bottom line was that Joey Kramer won the $1000 feature and looked very strong...no one had anything for him.... The #68 of Weasel Rhoades gave him a run a couple of times but then he broke down on the back stetch on the last lap and had to be pulled off the track....
Donnie Adams took the second spot and Hartman 3rd..Kitchen 4th , Hess 5th..Arpin 6th...Hawkins 7th,
We left the track at one a.m. and very very dirty..... lol........
Joey put on one heck of a show....
......we put some more fluid in our truck and we made it to our campsite...... we did not know what we were going to do.... the owner of the campground told us that he would take Howie to a dodge dealer in the morning.... I am thinking $$$$$$$$$$...........well low and behold our little couple who had helped us earlier had came back to check on us and followed our trail of transmission fluid........ he looked at our truck and took the part off of our transmission that had just been put on and said that it was missing the o ring.......and our fluid just ran out....... .... he came back the following morning and fixed our truck for nothing..............of course my husband gave him money that he did refuse but was made to take...... I loved this couple.."James and Christy...
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Reduced 69%
it is dangerous when you get the two of us together !!! I talked to her for a while and told her and JB , and Kent about our wonderful trip so far...