Bloomington Speedway -- June 16 Results

BLOOMINGTON SPEEDWAY

!!! CHRISTIAN TAKES SEASON'S FIRST !!!

JEFF BLAND & WINSTON HOWE ALSO TAKE FIRST WIN OF THE SEASON

BLOOMINGTON, IN (June 16, 2006) - If you weren't on the hillside at Bloomington Speedway last night you passed up one of the best evenings of the year. The weather was beautiful and the racing was, as it always is, the best you'll find anywhere. If you weren't at Bloomington Speedway last night, plan now to be with us next Friday night.

SPRINT CARS -

The sprint car wars at Bloomington Speedway moved back toward normal last night. After being forced to miss the Sheldon Kinser Memorial last weekend, Dickie Gaines just couldn't stand to be out of action any longer. Car owner Danny Roberts and Crew Chief Daryl Tate had the car at the track early; and, about time for hot laps, Gaines strolled into the pits and started getting ready for battle. They had just bought a new motor from Steve Kinser; and they were ready for battle.

There was a new driver making his first appearance on the red clay. Matthew Goodnight of Winchester, Ind. traveled a good distance to race with us. He made a few appearance last season; but he is really just getting a start as a sprint car pilot. He ran four years in Baby Grand stock cars; and, before that, he spent four years in micro midgets. Although Goodnight may have been disappointed by his performance, he got some laps and he left the pits with a race car that would roll back onto the trailer. A lot of veteran race car drivers would tell Goodnight that it is possible to do far worse than that.

John Memmer of Evansville was back for the second year in a row. Fifteen year old Memmer had already established himself as a racer; because, prior to moving into sprint cars this season, he ran Legend cars. Last season he was the Indiana champion Legend racer; and he was ranked tenth nationally.

Kent Christian started the evening by winning his heat race with Jon Sciscoe, A.J. Clark, Danny Holtsclaw, and Dakoda Armstrong also racing their way into the feature.

In the second heat Chris Windom started on the outside of the first row and drove to victory followed by Steve Rone, Josh Cunningham, Kenny Carmichael, Jr., and Aric Gentry.

In the final heat Jared Fox beat out Dickie Gaines, Brent Beauchamp, Dave Peperak, and Arin McIntosh.

When the green flag waved to start the "B" feature, Mitch Cunningham took the point. Kevin Briscoe had had trouble in his heat race and had to start tenth in the "B". However, on the fourth lap he took third place; and on the sixth lap he took second. The following lap he passed Cunningham to take the lead that he would hold until the checkered flags waved.

On the redraw Chris Windom and Jon Sciscoe won front row starting positions for the feature event. When the green flag waved to start the feature, Chris Windom jumped into the lead; but Sciscoe was right on his back bumper. Kent Christian had started fifth; and on the fourth lap he was running third. Windom, Sciscoe, and Christian ran in that order until lap15 when Christian passed Holtsclaw to take second. It seemed as if Windom was destined to score his first feature win; however, on the 23rd lap, Christian used his many years of experience on the red clay to find his way past Windom. Christian then went on to lead the way to the checkered flags. Sciscoe, Holtsclaw and Briscoe rounded out the top five.

Gaines started fourth; however, early in the race, he slipped over the cushion, did two three sixties and charged off after the field. However, he had gone from fourth to last. He was able to work his way back up to a ninth place finish.

0'NEAL WOOD PRODUCTS MODIFIEDS -

In the O'Neal Wood Product modified division, Kent Robinson and Jeff Bland, Jr. pulled the pills that put them on the first row for the start of the feature event. Bland won the drag race into the first turn to take the initial lead. He held off Robinson for the initial eighteen laps. However, Ryan Thomas passed Robinson on the 19th circuit to take second place. Thomas and Bland battled for the balance of the race; but Jeff was not going to be denied. He drove to his first win of the season on the red clay.

Thomas held on to score a second place finish while Robinson, Ray Humphrey and John DeMoss made up the balance of the top five.

In preliminary modified competition, Rod Brickert, Brent Londeree, Bland, and Robinson won the heat races while Shelby Miles won the "B" feature.

Tire & Wheel Center Super Stocks:

Winston Howe has been running well all season; and everyone knew that he was due to score a feature win. He began his evening by finishing second in his heat race. The redraw gave him a fourth place starting spot in the feature. When the green flag waved to start the feature Marty Cooper spun creating a complete restart. That gave Tire & Wheel Center super stock points leader Jeremy Hines the pole starting position for the restart.

Hines jumped into the lead; and it looked like Jeremy was headed for another feature win. Winston Howe was running second; however, before he could get very involved in battling with Hines, he found himself in a real battle with Chris Hillman for second. Of course, that was just fine with Jeremy. On the 16th circuit, Hines' car broke and he rolled into the infield. About the same time Chris Hillman dropped from the fray. The attrition left Howe in the lead; but former Tire & Wheel Center super stock champion Greg Kendall was in hot pursuit. Howe managed out-duel Kendall for the feature win. Kendall had to settle for second. Defending Tire & Wheel Center super stock champion Danny Harris finished third ahead of Troy Clark and Ben DuBois.

In preliminary super stock action, Marty Cooper and Jeremy Hines won the heat races.

COMING EVENTS -

June 23 The Duck WQKC 93.7 Night -- Sprints - O'Neal Wood Products Modifieds - Tire & Wheel Center Super Stocks - General Admission $10 (Children 6 and under free and Children 7-12 $5 when accompanied by a paying adult)- Pit Admission $20

June 30 21st Annual Gigantic Ariel Fireworks Display sponsored by Bloomington Powersports -- Sprints - O'Neal Wood Products Modifieds - Tire & Wheel Center Super Stocks - General Admission $10 (Children 6 and under free and Children 7-12 $5 when accompanied by a paying adult)- Pit Admission $20

July 7 Sprints - O'Neal Wood Products Modifieds - Tire & Wheel Center Super Stocks - General Admission $10 (Children 6 and under free and Children 7-12 $5 when accompanied by a paying adult)- Pit Admission $20

RESULTS:

SPRINT CARS

AUTO HEAVEN AUTO PARTS HEAT 1: 1.(5) Kent Christian, 2.(9) Jon Sciscoe, 3.(2) A.J. Clark, 4.(4) Danny Holtsclaw, 5.(8) Dakoda Armstrong, 6.(10) Chris Babcock. 7.(1) Kenny Carmichael, 8.(3) Jim Mills, 9.(6) Kevin Briscoe, 10.(7) Cole Whitt

PAUL D. BAUGH LAW OFFICE HEAT 2: 1.(2) Chris Windom, 2.(4) Steve Rone, 3.(9) Josh Cunningham, 4.(5) Kenny Carmichael, Jr., 5.(6) Aric Gentry, 6.(1) Kevin Studley, 7.(7) Eric Smith, 8.(8) Joe Gilbert, 9.(3) Brett Burdette

WALNUT STREET AUTO SALES/CAMPUS RENTAL HEAT 3: 1.(2) Jared Fox, 2.(8) Dickie Gaines, 3.(4) Brent Beauchamp, 4.(1) Dave Peperak, 5.(3) Arin McIntosh, 6.(7) Mitch Cunningham, 7.(5) John Memmer, 8.(9) Matt Goodnight, 9.(6) Bobby Stines

J.B. Salvage "B" Feature: 1.(10) Kevin Briscoe, 2.(3) Mitch Cunningham. 3.(1) Chris Babcock, 4.(13) Cole Whitt, 5.(2) Kevin Studley, 6.(7) Jim Mills, 7.(6) John Memmer, 8.(5) Eric Smith, 9.(11) Brett Burdette, 10.(10) Kenny Carmichael, 11.(8) Joe Gilbert, 12.(9) Matthew Goodnight

ROOTS RV FEATURE: 1.(5) 4M Kent Christian, 2.(1) 17 Chris Windom, 3.(2) 11P Jon Sciscoe, 4.(10) 3H Danny Holtsclaw, 5.(16) 5 Kevin Briscoe, 6.(3) 9R Steve Rone, 7.(6) 56 Jared Fox, 8.(11) 92c Kenny Carmichael, Jr., 9.(4) 21x Dickie Gaines, 10.(8) 6s Josh Cunningham, 11.(9) 111 Brent Beauchamp, 12.(13) 7c Dakoda Armstrong, 13.(17) 17c Mitch Cunningham, 14.(19) 29w Cole Whitt, 15.(20) 57 Kevin Studley, 16.(15) 34M Arin McIntosh, 17.(14) 10 Aric Gentry, 18.(18) 35 Chris Babcock, 19.(12) 7 Dave Peperak, 20.(7) 3AC A.J. Clark Lap Leaders: Chris Windom (1-22), Kent Christian (23-25)

O'NEAL WOOD PRODUCTS MODIFIEDS

SERVPRO OF MONROE COUNTY 1: 1.(2) Rob Brickert, 2.(5) Ryan Thomas, 3.(4) Chris Streeval, 4.(6) Greg Deckard, 5.(8) J.P. Hume, 6.(3) Brian Yateman, 7.(9) Jared Bailey, 8.(7) Matt Hamilton, 9.(1) Jason Thomas

SOUTHSIDE STORAGE HEAT 2: 1.(1) Brent Londeree, 2.(6) Matt Boknecht, 3.(2) Bradley Sterrett, 4.(8) J.D. Roberts, 5.(5) Shelby Miles, 6.(3) Don Parsons, 7.(4) Kenneth Streeval, 8.(7) Kyle Woolard, 9.(9) Dan Lewellen

MONROE COUNTY PIZZA DEPT. HEAT 3: 1.(1) Jeff Bland, Jr., 2.(2) John DeMoss, 3.(6) Jesse Cramer, 4.(4) Ray Humphrey, 5.(8) Brent Payne, 6.(5) Jason Eads, 7.(7) Travis Fleetwood

SONS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION HEAT 4: 1.(5) Kent Robinson, 2.(8) Clint DeMoss, 3.(6) A.J. Bowlen, 4.(7) Benny Smith, 5.(3) David Lawson, 6.(2) Brad Brown, 7.(4) Bobby McIntosh, 8.(1) Richie Lex

BELL;'S EXHAUST "B" FEATURE: 1.(2) Shelby Miles, 2.(7) Josh Eads, 3.(1) J.P. Hume, 4.(9) Jared Bailey, 5.(5) Brian Yateman, 6.(15) Jason Thomas, 7.(14) Kyle Woolard, 8.(13) Matt Hamilton, 9.(3) Brent Payne, 10.(8) Brad Brown, 11.(4) David Lawson, 12.(10) Kenneth Streeval, 13.(6) Don Parsons

BLACK LUMBER MODIFIED FEATURE: 1.(2) 38s Jeff Bland, Jr., 2.(3) T9 Ryan Thomas, 3.(7R) 38s Jeff Bland, Jr, 4.(1) 1H Ray Humphrey, 5.(8) 79d John DeMoss, 6.(11) 12T Jesse Cramer, 7.(5) 3 Brent Londeree, 8.(4) 78c Clint DeMoss, 9.(18) 46 Josh Eads, 10.(14) 90x J.D. Roberts, 11.(9) 30 Chris Streeval, 12.(17) 76 Shelby Miles, 13.(10) 90 Bradley Sterrett, 14.(19) 5H J.P. Hume, 15.(13) 5 Greg Deckard, 16.(16) 87 Bennie Smith, Jr., 17.(6) 22 Matt Boknecht, 18.(7) 51 Rob Brickert, 19.(20) 24 Jared Bailey,, 20.(20) N10S Brian Yateman Lap Leaders: Jeff Bland, Jr. (1-30)

TIRE & WHEEL CENTER SUPER STOCKS:

TREE EXPERT TREE SERVICE HEAT 1: 1.(3) Marty Cooper, 2.(6) Ben DuBois, 3.(7) Greg Kendall, 4.(5) Travis Howe, 5.(9) Jay Baker, 6.(4) Jay Baker, 7.(8) Travis Todd

PERFORMANCE CONCRETE PUMPING HEAT 2: 1.(3) Jeremy Hines, 2.(2) Winston Howe, 3.(1) Chris Hillman, 4.(6) Greg Amick, 5.(8) Troy Clark, 6.(4) Danny Harris, 7.(5) Kevin Arthur, 8.(7) Gerald Todd, 9.(9) Steve Hollars

K & S ROLLOFF SUPER STOCK FEATURE: 1.(4) 81 Winston Howe, 2.(5) 44 Greg Kendall, 3.(12) 19 Danny Harris, 4.(10) 13c Troy Clark, 5.(2) 55 Ben DuBois, 6.(8) 27A Greg Amick 7.(7) 0 Travis Howe, 8.(14) 74 Kevin Arthur, 9.(13) T15 Travis Todd, 10.(15) 51T Gerald Toddt, 11.(16) 18 Steve Hollars, 12.(9) 22J Jay Baker, Jr., 13.(6) 11 Chris Hillman, 14.(3) 5H Jeremy Hines, 15.(1) 00c Marty Cooper, 16.(11) 2 Jack Frye Lap Leaders: Jeremy Hines (1-15), Winston Howe (16-25)