Bloomington Speedway -- June 30, 2006 Results

!!! JOSH CUNNINGHAM WINS FIRST !!!

HUMPHREY & HINES EACH WIN THIRD OF THE SEASON

BLOOMINGTON, IN (July 1, 2006) - Each year a fair number of fans make their way to Bloomington Speedway primarily to see one of the best fireworks shows around, courtesy of Bloomington Power Sports. However, by the time that they return home, many of them realize that the fireworks on the track were far more exciting than those in the sky above the infield. Many of them leave the track after that first visit as confirmed racing fans. Mike Miles knows that a single visit is ofter all that is needed to turn a slightly interested visitor into a confirmed race fan. That, after all, is the plan.

While we believe the races to be a better show, the fireworks were, indeed, impressive. The ooh and aah meters were pegged for the entire duration of the show. It's great to see the wide smiles on the face of everyone in the stands when the lights come back on..

It was a beautiful evening. The racing was great. And, everyone on the hillside left having received much more than their ten dollars worth.

SPRINT CARS -

The sprint car competition at Bloomington Speedway has been fierce all season; and it seems to get tougher the deeper into the season that we get. A total of 42 cars unloaded to compete for the first place money up for grabs last night. However, most of them were looking for something even more important to a racer - their first Bloomington Speedway feature win.

Jon Stanbrough started the evening off by winning the first heat race from his outside front row starting position. Brent Beauchamp and Ty Decard took the other two transfer spots for from the first heat. Danny Holtsclaw, Dickie Gaines, Hunter Schuerenberg, amd Brad Sweet won the other four heat races. The first fifteen cars for the feature event had been determined. The first ten cars would be determined by the redraw; however, those fifteen knew that they were in the show.

The final six drivers would come from the two "B" features. However, the tough part of that is that there were twenty-seven drivers battling for those final six spots.

Brady Short and Jared Fox started up front in the first "B' feature. They both have first class equipment and a lot of laps on the Bloomington Speedway red clay. When the green flag waved they charged into the lead; and they finished as they started - in front. Kenny Carmichael, Jr. edged sixteen year old Chris Babcock for the final transfer spot from the first "B" feature.

Steve Rone and Kerry Kinser started on the front row of the second "B"; and they finished first and third respectively, earning their feature berths. However, Bobby Stines came from his tenth place starting position to finish second in his "B" feature. The other nine drivers would join the eleven drivers who failed to transfer from the first "B" feature in packing up and watching the the feature event.

The first ten starting positions were determined by a redraw among the first two drivers from each of the five heat races. Josh Cunningham pulled the number one pill to earn the right to start on the pole. Four time Bloomington Speedway sprint car champion Kevin Briscoe would share the front row with Cunningham. The other eight drivers would fill the next four rows. From the start, it was a battle between Josh Cunningam and Kevin Briscoe. Jon Stanbrough who started fourth moved up to joint the fray fairly quickly. On lap 17 Stanbrough passed Briscoe to take second place; and started to duel with Cunningham for the lead. However, on the 20th circuit, Jon made a bobble and dropped back several spots. This returned the task of taking the win away from Cunningham to Briscoe.

Briscoe tried every line that he knew; but he was unable to get past Josh.

The win was Josh's first ever on the red clay; however, everyone knew that it was coming. Going into last night's competition, Josh had five consecutive top ten finishes. He drove a near perfect race; and he held off two of the toughest racers at Bloomington Speedway. Briscoe held on to take second place trailed by Brad Sweet, Stanbrough, and Hunter Schuerenberg.

0'NEAL WOOD PRODUCTS MODIFIEDS -

In the O'Neal Wood Product modified division, David Benham and Jerry Davis pulled the pills that put them on the first row for the start of the feature event. Davis grabbed the initial lead; and he looked like he might hand a flag to flag drubbing to the rest of the field. However, on the eighth circuit, Davis retired with apparent mechanical woes.

Kent Robinson inherited the lead; but he was left to battle with Ray Humphrey for the lead. On the tenth circuit, Humphrey took the lead away from Robinson; however, he certainly did not have a comfortable lead. Robinson was right behind him; and Benham and Ryan Thomas were waiting for there waiting for their chance to take the lead away from Humphrey. On lap 21 Jeff Bland, Jr. who had started 16th passed Hobbs and Thomas to take third. On the following circuit, he passed Robinson to take second. However, that was as far as he could go. He would be forced to settle for second and to concede the win to Humphrey, Hobbs, Robinson, and Thomas rounded out the top five.

In preliminary action Humphrey, Hobbs, and Richie Lex won their heat races while Bland prevailed in the "B" feature.

Tire & Wheel Center Super Stocks:

Jeremy Hines rolled off of the trailer last night with the points lead and two feature wins to his credit so far in the 2006 season. He got his night off to a good start when he won his heat race from his third place starting position. He even did well in the redraw when he pulled out the one pill to put him on the pole for the start of the feature. He then led the feature flag to flag. Greg Kendall started right behind Hines; but, by the time that the first lap was in the books, Kendall had second place, They would run that way until the 20th lap when Troy Clark passed Kendall to take second place. Kendall hung on to finish third with Danny Harris and Winston Howe rounding out the top five.

The win was Hines' third of the season. So long as he performs as well he has so far this season, it's going to take a Herculean effort to take the championship away from Hines.

Leading up to the feature event, Hines, Kendall, and Jack Frye won the heat races

COMING EVENTS -

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

July 14 19th Annual Valvoline Indiana Sprint Week - USAC Sanctioned Sprint Cars -- $4000 to win - Plus Tire & Wheel Center Super Stocks ($600 to Win with proper decals) - General Admission $20 - Pit Admission $25

Other Indiana Sprint Week events are scheduled for Twin Cities Raceway Park (July 13), Tri State Speedway (July 15), Kokomo Speedway (July 16), Gas City I-69 Speedway (July 19), Lawrenceburg Speedway (July 20), and The Terre Haute Action Track (July 21)

July 7 UMRA TQ Midgets - 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.(2) John Stanborugh, 2.(1) Brent Beauchamp, 3.(5) Ty Deckard, 4.(6) Brady Short, 5.(8) Kenny Carmichael, Jr., 6.(7) John Memmer. 7.(3) J.T. Stapp, 8.(4) Jeremiah Vanesky, 9.(9) Mitch Cunningham

PAUL D. BAUGH LAW OFFICE HEAT 2: 1.(1) Danny Holtsclaw, 2.(4) Jon Sciscoe, 3.(3) Arin McIntosh, 4.(7) Jared Fox, 5.(6) Matt Goodnight, 6.(8) Dakoda Armstrong, 7.(2) Joe Gilbert, 8.(5) Brett Burdette, 9.(9) Tim Spindler

WALNUT STREET AUTO SALES/CAMPUS RENTAL HEAT 3: 1.(1) Dickie Gainers, 2.(2) Kevin Briscoe, 3.(7) Chris Windom, 4.(4) Steve Rpme, 5.(5) Eric Smith, 6.(8) Michael Bridges, 7.(6) Johnd Dick, 8.(3) Devin Priddy

CRYSTAL PURE WATER HEAT 4: 1.(3) Hunter Schuerenberg, ,2.(4) Josh Cunningham, 3.(2) Jason Holt, 4.(8) Kerry Kinser, 5.(5) Scott Hampton, 6.(6) Bryan Stanfill, 7.(1) J.T. Imperial, 8.(7) Kevin StudleyAS

HEAT 5: 1.(2) Brad Sweet, ,2.(1) Kent Christian, 3.(5) Kenny Carmichael, Sr.t, 4.(8) Chris Babcock, 5.(4) Dave Peperak, 6.(6) Nick Johnson, 7.(7) Bobby Stinesl, 8.(3) Josh Cooley

J.B. Salvage "B" Feature #1: 1.(1) Brady Short, 2.(2) Jared Fox, 3.(4) Kenny Carmichael, Jr.,, 4.(3) Chris Babcock, 5.(8) Bryan Stanfill, 6.(14) Mitch Cunningham, 7.(7) Michael Bridges, 8.(6) Dave Peperak, 9.(11) Jeremiah Vanesky, 10.(12) Brett Burdette, 11.(9) Joe Gilbert, 12.(5) Scott Hampton, 13.(10) John Dick, 14.(13) Josh Cooley

J.B. Salvage "B" Feature #1: 1.(1) Steve Rone, 2.(10) Bobby Stines, 3.(2) Kerry Kinser, 4.(4) Eric Smith, 5.(6) Dakoda Armstrong, 6.(5) John Memmer, 7.(8) J.T. Stapp, 8.(12) Kevin Studley, 9.(9) J.T. Imperial, 10.(3) Matt Goodnight, 11.(11) Devon Priddy, 12.(7) Nick Johnson

ROOTS RV FEATURE: 1.(1) 6s Josh Cunningham, 2.(2) 5 Kevin Briscoe, 3.(7) 3J Brad Sweet, 4.(4) 53 Jon Stanbrough, 5.(3) 35s Hunter Schuerenberg, 6.(6) 3H Danny Holtsclaw, 7.(16) 36 Brady Short, 8.(11) 48 Ty Deckard, 9.(8) 11P Jon Sciscoe, 10.(10) 21x Dickie Gaines, 11.(9) 111 Brent Beauchamp, 12.(12) 34M Arin McIntosh, 13.(13) 17 Chris Windom, 14.(17) 9R Steve Rone, 15.(15) 47 Kenny Carmichael, Sr., 16.(21) 99k Kerry Kinser, 17.(5) 1c Kent Christian, 18.(20) 92c Kenny Carmichael, Jr., 19.(14) 99 Jason Holt, 20.(19) 88 Bobby Stines, 21.(18) 56 Jared Fox

O'NEAL WOOD PRODUCTS MODIFIEDS

SERVPRO OF MONROE COUNTY 1: 1.(10) Ray Humphrey, 2.(2) Jerry Davis, 3.(5) Ryan Thomas, 4.(6) Jesse Cramer, 5.(8) Don Shoulders, 6.(4) Brian Yateman, 7.(3) Chad Combs, 8.(2) A.J. Bowlen, 9.(9) Matt Boknecht, 10.(7) Donnie Parsons

SOUTHSIDE STORAGE HEAT 2: 1.(1) Lee Hobbs, 2.(3) Kent Robinson, 3.(4) John DeMoss, 4.(8) Josh Eads, 5.(9) Brandon Short, 6.(6) Brent Payne, 7.(5) David Lawson, 8.(2) Brian Sullivan, 9.(10) Bobby Davis, 10.(7) Bennie Smith, Jr.

MONROE COUNTY PIZZA DEPT. HEAT 3: 1.(3) Richie Lex, 2.(4) Dave Benham, 3.(6) Don Fleetwood, 4.(7) Bradley Sterrett, 5.(9) Ryan Lawrence, 6.(2) Gary Hall, 7.(5) Jim Reynolds, 8.(8) Jeff Bland, Jr., 9.(1) Glen Thompson

BELL;'S EXHAUST "B" FEATURE: 1.(9) Jeff Bland, Jr., 2.(2) Brent Payne, 3.(10) Matt Boknecht, 4.(7) A.J. Bowlen, 5.(11) Bobby Davis, 6.(5) David, Lawson, 7.(8) Brian Sullivan, 8.(12) Glenn Thompson, 9.(6) Jim Reynolds, 10.(3) Gary Hall, 11.(14) Bennie Smith, Jr., 12.(1) Brian Yateman

BLACK LUMBER MODIFIED FEATURE: 1.(3) 1H Ray Humphrey, 2.(16) 38s Jeff Bland, Jr., 3.(5) H0 Lee Hobbs, 4.(3) 7R Kent Robinson, 5.(7) T9 Ryan Thomas, 6.(10) 12T Jesse Cramer, 7.(11) 46 Josh Eads, 8.(12) 90 Bradley Sterrett, 9.(18) 22x Matt Boknecht, 10.(1) 00 Dave Benham, 11.(14) 46x Brandon Short, 12.(13) 65 Don Shoulders, 13.(8) 79d John DeMoss, 14.(19) 6 A.J. Bowlen, 15.(20) 32 Bobby Davis, 16.(9) Don Fleetwood, 17.(17) 5P Brent Payne, 18.(15) 8L Ryan Lawrence, 19.(2) 22 Jerry Davis, 20.(4) 7L Richie Lex

TIRE & WHEEL CENTER SUPER STOCKS:

TREE EXPERT TREE SERVICE HEAT 1: 1.(3) Jeremy Hines, 2.(4) Kevin Arthur, 3.(5) Joe Lucas, 4.(6) Chris Hillman, 5.(7) Danny Harris, 6.(1) Travis Howe, 7.(1) Chris Deweese

PERFORMANCE CONCRETE PUMPING HEAT 2: 1.(1) Greg Kendall, 2.(7) Troy Clark, 3.(3) Steve Hollars, 4.(6) Terry Arthur, 5.(5) Travis Todd, 6.(4) Randy Howe, 7.(2) Bobby Griffiths

AVERS PIZZA HEAT 3: 1.(1) Jack Frye, 2.(6) Winston Howe, 3.(2) Ben Dubois, 4.(3) Greg Amick, 5.(7) Larry Babbs, 6.(5) Josh Burton, 7.(4) Gerald Todd

K & S ROLLOFF SUPER STOCK FEATURE: 1.(1) 5H Jeremy Hines, 2.(5) 13c Troy Clark, 3.(3) 44 Greg Kendall, 4.(13) 19 Danny Harris, 5.(4) 81 Winston Howe, 6.(11) 5 Terry Arthur 7.(19) 21 Chris Deweese, 8.(2) 74 Kevin Arthur, 9.(8) 18 Steve Hollars, 10.(21) 51T Gerald Todd, 11.(12) 27A Greg Amick, 12.(17) 43 Randy Howe, 13.(7) 3J Joe Lucas, 14.(6) 2 Jack Frye, 15.(15) 33 Larry Babbs, 16.(10) 11 Chris Hillman, 17.(14) T15 Travis Todd, 18.(9)55 Ben DuBois, 19.(16) 0 Travis Howe, 20.(20) 45 Bobby Griffiths