Well not the case for Vermillion County.... they were out working the track and the pit area trying to get it dried out.....and mother nature was good to them on saturday and did not give them additional rain...
I got to the track at 4:30 and the track looked really good.... I went into the pit area today and was very surprised that it was not a muddy mess.....
My mission today was to get to know some of the sprint drivers and to find Roger Cary , the number 44 modified driver...
I got interviews with sprint drivers: Chad Branson #71; Korey Weyant #99; Jake Simmons #7s; Al Thomas #72; Nick Hanfland #73; Kyle Wissmiller #15; Mitch Wissmiller #23; Bryan Clauson #39; and a partial interview with Jon Stanbrough...
also got an interview with Roger Cary #44 modified and one with Justin Sondgeroth #24 crate late model....
I am going to be out of town for a week so will get them finished as soon as I get home...
I saw Scott Dunlap #79 street stock driver who has won two weekends in a row..also talked with his dad Lloyd...
On way back to the grandstand I ran into Timmy Snelling and his dad... Timmy told me he sold his hornet and now is racing his street stock #14 full time....
Next to him was Tyler Wiese #50 modified.... had been a while since I had ran into him...was nice to see him again....he made it into the A Main tonight and had trouble right at the git go.... hated to see that.....
I also ran into Tim Reynolds #40r modifed driver.... was good to see him again... got an updated picture....
The racing was really good and has been all three weekends....
some of the best modified racing around..... first week CHAD KINDER WON, last week ROGER CARY WON and this weekend JASON LAKEY WON.........
In crate late models Shumann #62 has won back to back features and Scott Dunlap back to back wins in street stock..... not sure what they did tonight but both were looking as if they would do the same tonight..... we left after modified race...NOT MY CHOICE...but if i want a ride home I have to go...
There were five heats for the sprints...8 laps taking 3 to feature...
2 B Mains
heat one #45 and #10 Shane Hmiel on front row; #72 and A J Anderson #34 on second row; #73 and #5 third row; 4th row Blake Nimee #79 and Casey Shuman #57;last row was #27 of Ryan Kaplan...........a caution came out for the #45 who hit the wall between 3 and 4...finish: #34 AJ Anderson...#57 Casey Shuman.....#10 Shane Hmiel..............Nimee, Kaplan,#5, #73, Jake Simmons #7s
heat two Maddix #28 and #22 of Triplett front row; 2nd row Branson #71 and ??; 3rd row is #10f Blake Fitzpatrick and #17 of Robbins; last row is #1c of Christain and #60 of Springer..................finish: Tripplett #22....Christain #c1......Branson #71........Fitzpatrick, Maddix...Robbins, #20;#Springer
heat three front row is the #77u of Chris Urish and #01; 2nd row was Bryan Clausen and #53 of Jon Stanbrough; 3rd row #59 and #72 of Al Thomas; 4th row is #12i of Jimmie Light and #7; and on tail is a #7....
there was a caution for a false start...2nd caution came out for the #12 of Light who stoped in turn 2...something broke in the front end.........finish: Bryan Clausen......Jon Stanbrough......I think Jon Sciscoe..............#77; #7; Thomas;#59...
heat four Rockwell #95 and #99 of Korey Weyant front row; 2nd row #12g of Gurley and #83; 3rd row was #15 of Kyle Wissmiller and #11T; 4th row Marc Arnold #4a and Mitch Wissmiller #23..tail is #71p of Billy Puterbaugh.......finish: #11T.....Gurley #12......Mitch Wissmiller #23...................Kyle Wissmiller
heat five front row was John Memmer #4m and #24; 2nd row #45 and #33; 3rd row is Ricky Williams #11w and JC Bland #98; 4th Boyd and #20.....caution came out for the #20 who spun in turn 4............finish: John Memmer #4m......Ricky Williams #11w.......Hud Cone #14..................#33;#24
Bmain one.....top 3 to feature
#10f Fitzpatrick........#71 Puterbaugh...........#27 Kaplan
Bmain two....
#77 Chris Urish.......#15 Kyle Wissmiller.......#28 Maddix
Feature
1..Bryan Clauson #39 (3)
2..Jon Stanbrough #53 (8)
3..AJ Anderson #34 (1)
4..Jon Memmer #4m (5)
5..#11
6..#7
7..Mitch Wissmiller
8..#57
9..Tripplett
** Bryan Clauson and AJ Anderson was putting on a great show battling it out for first...Clauson pulled away for lead.... the running order was Clauson, Anderson, Gurley and Memmer....
caution comes out for Shane Hmiel ...he flips in the back stretch..he is ok...
on restart Stanbrough had already made it up to fifth...
Finish:
1..Bryan Clauson
2..Jon Stanbrough
3..AJ Anderson
4..John Memmer
5..#11
6..#7
7..Mitch Wissmiller
8..#57
9..Tripplett
...............
Modified... 4 heats...4 cars to feature:
heat one:
Curtis/Williams
Kohler/Ro Cary
Hufford/Ferguson
#21d/VanSant
Mehler
caution for the C4 of Williams who has a flat tire....
top four to feature: Ferguson....Cary....Curtis....VanSant...../// Mehler..Hufford...#21d...Kohler
heat two:
Wiese/Kiger
Bauman/#10
#Z56/Odonnell
#3/#14
Albright/Fox
the Z56 is smoking really bad....the #14 pulls off with a flat tire..he had scrapped the wall....Odonnell pulls off track....
top four to feature: Kiger....Wiese.....#10....Bauman....//// Z56...#3...Albright
heat three:
#33r/#29
McClara/Schwingel
Overmeyer/Hayden
Reynolds/#88
Overmeyer,jr
#00 of Overmeyer,jr goes over burm...keeps going....
caution for the #00 over burm again.....
top four to feature: #33....McClara....#29......Tim Reynolds.....////Hayden, Schwengel,#88, Overmeyer,jr, Overmeyer
heat four:
Mills/Lakey
Ry Cary/#166
Bumgardner/Barker
Kinder/#39
top four to feature: Lakey....Cary....Kinder....Mills
B Main ..top four to feature
Michael Fox
Tres Mehler
Derrick Hufford
#21d
B Main 2
Jimmy Hayden
Cory Schwengel
Paul Bumgardner
#39
Feature:
Ferguson/Kiger
Milburn/Lakey
Ro Cary/??
McClara/Ry Cary
Curtis/ #10
Walker/Kinder
VanSant/Bauman
Reynolds/Mills
Schwengel/Hayden
#33r
.
on start the #33r brings out a caution....before restart Tyler Wiese pulls his car off track...
Michael Fox pulls off with a flat tire before start.....
On restart the front running cars all crashed into one another bringing out yet another caution....Kinder verily squeezed thru..........whew...!!!
Don Kiger who had been leading, the #2 of Ferguson who was 2nd, and #23c of Curtis all had to go to the tail............
Kiger is not too happy.... on restart first lap around Kiger went over the burn...not long after Kiger pulled off the track....
running order was Lakey, Ryan Cary , Roger Cary, McClara, Chad Kinder,
this race went without another caution until about three laps left when Gordon Curtis spun out...
...by this time Chad had made his way up to third....
Was a really good race... Jason Lakey got out in the lead from the start and never looked back.... Roger Cary was exchanging 3rd and 4thspot with Wes McClara....
Chad Kinder worked his way up and passed both Cary and McClara but he could not get around Ryan Cary and had to settle for third.... very good hard driving by all...
Finish:
1..Jason Lakey
2..Ryan Cary
3..Chad Kinder
4..Roger Cary
5..Wes McClara
6..#29
7..Jimmy Hayden
8..Mills
9..Tim Reynolds.....
Had a really nice time tonight.... got to talk with Joe Jeffries..... a nice crowd on hand...good food and am looking forward to going back...
Will add my pictures when I get a chance.... it is almost 5 am and i am leaving tomorrow for a week..
Have fun...stay safe...
cj