By Bob Reed WoO LMS PR Vienna, WV (October 2, 2004) Saturday night Jackie Boggs of Grayson, KY, driving the McDonalds / Miller Brothers Coal / Hawkeye Trucking / Richard A. Mitchell Motorsports / Cropper Racing Engines Swartz Chassis Monte Carlo led all 100 laps of the Charter Communications sponsored 2004 Race Fest at the West Virginia Motor Speedway to claim the $15,000 feature prize.
“I won $22,000 this weekend,” said Boggs. “That’s a lot of money!” Jackie also said he was lucky and that he couldn’t have run three more laps due to engine problems. Boggs said that he was breaking valve springs and that they had been experiencing this problem for a while.
At the drop of the green, pole sitter Boggs took the lead and going down the back straight increased it to six car lengths over outside pole sitter Steve Shaver, third starting Bart Hartman, fourth starting Scott Bloomquist, fifth starting Darrell Lanigan and sixth starting Tim McCreadie. Through the first six laps the order remained unchanged with Boggs increasing his lead on every lap over Shaver. Finally on lap 7, Hartman drove his #75 Seubert Calf Ranches / Imler's Poultry / MCB Motorsports / Cornett Engine/Hoosier Tire / Rocket Chassis Gran Prix by Shaver and took up the chase for the lead.
By lap nine Boggs had caught the rear of the field and was beginning to lap cars. Even while lapping cars Boggs was increasing his lead every lap as the rest of the field from Hartman on back, remained close with everyone fighting for position. The first casualty of the race occurred on lap 12 when Rick Aukland took his #12 Ostrom Painting & Sandblasting / Malcuit Engines Dodge Intrepid pit side. One lap later World 100 winner Chub Frank stopped the #1* Lester Buildings / Corry Rubber/Allstar Performance / Nystrom's Auto Sales / Draime Racing Engines / Rocket Chassis / Pierotti Motorsports / Slavic Custom T-Shirts / Farr MotorSports / Corry Laser Chevrolet Monte Carlo on the back straight with rear suspension damage. After frantic work by several members of the 1* crew and several other crews, Frank called it a night.
At this point Boggs led Hartman, Shaver, Bloomquist, Lanigan, Eckert, McCreadie, Johnson, Moyer, Lucas, Barbara, Francis, Schlieper, Richards, Smith, Conley, Balzano, McDowell, Blankenship, Blair, Sheltra and Dohm, with the two retirements of Frank and Aukland.
When the green flew Boggs motored off leaving Hartman to contend with Shaver and the rest of the field. On lap 16 Rick Eckert in the #24 Raye Vest Excavating / J&J Steel / Hoosier Tire / Afco Race Products / Cornett Race Engines / Rocket Chassis Ford Taurus moved to 5th by Lanigan’s #29 Lanigan Autosports / Accutex Signs / Cornett / AFCO / GottaRace / Hoosier Tire / Rocket Chassis Ford Taurus. On the next lap it was Lucas and Francis who were on the move, passing McCreadie.
At the 20 lap mark Boggs led Hartman, Shaver, Bloomquist, Lanigan and Eckert by almost a straight. The next caution flew on lap 22 for the slowing of Billy Moyer’s #21 J&J Steel / Hawkeye Trucksales.com / Mcarthy One Hour Heating and Air / Banner Valley Hauling Chevrolet Monte Carlo. At this point the running order was Boggs, Hartman, Shaver, Bloomquist, Eckert, Lanigan, Lucas, Francis, Johnson, McCreadie, McDowell from 24th, Schlieper, Richards, Smith, Balzano, Blair, Blankenship, Barbara, Sheltra and Dohm.
As usual Boggs charged forward, but the action was in the pack. Eckert was now all over Bloomquist and was applying heavy pressure. Finally on lap 29, he made the pass stick and passed Bloomquist for fourth with Lanigan passing as well. On lap 33 Francis also passed Bloomquist dropping him to seventh. Francis had his #15 Valvoline / Mopar / Freeport Recycle Center / Action Auto Mart / Rocket Chassis Dodge Intrepid on the move and dropped Lanigan to sixth on lap 25. The top five now consisted of Boggs, Hartman, Shaver, Eckert and Francis. McDowell at this point had moved his #17M Larry Shaw Race Cars / S&H Motorsports / Dover Cylinder Head / Racetek/Petroff Towing / J&J Steel / New Vision Graphics / Rocket Chassis Pontiac Grand Prix into the top 10 with his pass by McCreadie.
Again on lap 32, Boggs caught the rear of the field and began lapping cars. About the same time McCreadie’s #39 Sweeteners Plus / A-C Speedworld / Texaco Havoline / Rocket Chassis Chevrolet Monte Carlo stopped in turn two with a right rear flat. McCreadie went pit side and returned to the rear. Bloomquist also dropped his #0 Miller Brothers Coal / Hawkeye Trucking / Custom Race Engines / Allstar Performance / Hoosier Tire / Sweet Manufacturing Ford Taurus from his seventh spot to the pits for a quick right rear tire change and also returned to the rear. At this juncture the field was Boggs, Hartman, Shaver, Eckert, Francis, Lanigan, McDowell, Lucas, Johnson, Blair, Richards, Balzano, Smith, Blankenship, Barbara, Sheltra, Dohm, Bloomquist, Moyer and McCreadie.
On the restart Boggs again took off followed by Hartman. Shaver, who didn’t seem to be as strong as he had earlier, had to contend with Eckert who was all over his rear bumper. On lap 33 both Eckert and Francis got by Shaver, and McDowell was now sixth over Lanigan. Boggs increased his lead every lap and by lap 40 he was leading by 15 car lengths. This long green was to the advantage of Bloomquist as the tire change put new life in him and he was working his way back to the front. By lap 50 he was back in seventh behind Lucas and on lap 55 when he got around Lucas he was almost a straight behind 5th place McDowell. In fact it took him until lap 70 to catch up to the rear bumper of the 17M.
On lap 72 Bloomquist passed McDowell and was now on the rear bumpers of Francis, Eckert and Shaver who were running together. He disposed of Shaver one lap later and began working on Eckert.
The action came to a stop on lap 76 when Josh Richards rolled to a stop on the back straight and then drove to the pits with what looked like engine problems. Now the order was Boggs followed by Hartman, Eckert, Francis, Bloomquist, Shaver, McDowell, Schlieper, Lanigan, Johnson, Balzano, McCreadie, Blankenship, Blair, Smith, Barbara, Sheltra and Moyer. At this point all the cars from Johnson back were lapped cars.
This time, when the green flew, Hartman powered under Boggs coming down the front straight and into turn one. As Hartman slid up the track, the two made slight contact between turns one and two with Boggs getting the best of it. He got straightened out, on the gas and back into the lead, but Hartman lost momentum and two spots. Both Francis and Eckert got by, dropping him to fourth.
By lap 80 Boggs had opened up a 12 to 15 car length lead over the now second place Francis who was trying to hold off the charging Eckert. On lap 81 Bloomquist passed Hartman for fourth and the next lap McDowell dropped him out of the top five. About this time Eckert also moved by Francis for second. On lap 81 Shaver who had run in the top five almost all night retired with a bent rear bird cage which resulted from earlier contact between he and Eckert.
With 15 laps to go, when the caution came out for a spinning Blankenship, the field was Boggs, Eckert, Francis, Bloomquist, McDowell, Hartman, Shaver, Schlieper, Lanigan, McCreadie, Johnson, Balzano, Smith, Blair, Barbara, Sheltra and Blankenship. McCreadie was the first lapped car.
When the green flew Boggs again took off and began building his lead. On lap 87 Bloomquist moved to third with a pass of Francis and on lap 90 to second with a pass of Eckert in turn four. At this point Boggs held a ½ straight lead over the now second place Bloomquist.
Over the final 10 laps Bloomquist cut Boggs’ lead in half but ran out of laps. Boggs took the checkered with Bloomquist, Francis, Eckert and McDowell rounding out the top five.
“I’m really happy to win here at this race track,” said Boggs in victory lane. “I’ve always raced here and it used to be my favorite race track. Used to race here every week and never won a race here.”
Boggs also noted that he was lucky, stating “I think I’ve got two or three broken valve springs, my motor wouldn’t crank ‘til about 7400 and just flatfooted all the way around the race track. Those restarts were really bad, I mean, those Fords and Mopars were getting it on through there but after we got through the corners we were all right.”
The World of Outlaws Late Model Series will make their next stop at Fulton Speedway in Fulton, New York. With a $25,000 winning purse on the line and the points race getting tighter and tighter as the season winds down it will be an unmatched appearance. Ticket information for the June 21st event can be obtained visiting the Fulton speedway website at www.fultonspeedway.com or by calling the speedway directly at (315) 668-RACE.
24 - Rick Eckert 19.292
0 - Scott Bloomquist 19.308
23P - Patrick Sheltra 19.508
39 - Tim McCreadie 19.515
29L - Darrell Lanigan 19.535
1R - Josh Richards 19.626
0F - Steve Shaver 19.658
21 - Billy Moyer 19.710
75 - Bart Hartman 19.719
6T - Tim Dohm 19.733
12N - Rick Aukland 19.740
4B - Jackie Boggs 19.755
1* - Chub Frank 19.766
17B - Keith Barbara 19.782
6 - Steve Lucas 19.785
Eddie Carrier Jr. 19.799
W11 - Robbie Blair 19.825
17M - Dale McDowell 19.878
15 - Steve Francis 19.888
23 - John Blankenship 19.908
44 - Clint Smith 19.917
75JG - John Gill 19.932
19 - Davey Johnson 19.976
71R - Rod Conley 20.005
68 - Tim Hitt 20.032
99M - Donnie Moran 20.034
00H - Chuck Harper 20.045
E1 - Mike Balzano 20.072
14 - Corey Conley 20.072
55Y - Chris Schneider 20.098
2E - Rod Evans 20.107
9DS - Dan Schlieper 20.133
31 - Denny Chamberlain 20.172
12F - Devin Friese 20.222
28B - Dick Barton 20.246
4F - Alex Ferree 20.254
118C - Rodney Combs 20.332
T8 - Mark Banal 20.345
21MJ - Jason Montgomery 20.348
5E - Doug Eaton 20.370
40WM - Wayne Maffet 20.400
07R - Brent Rhebergen 20.419
25B - Michael Benedum 20.590
18F - Keith Berner 20.602
111 - Randy Boggs 20.627
42C - Chris Garnes 20.796
E10 - Brian Eaton 20.797
333 - Ty Myers 20.899
1X1 - Sonny Conley 20.963
77BB - Barry Bragdon 20.973
25RS - Ron Slavic 21.172
1*K - Bobby Kitchen 21.195
10B - Larry Bond 21.300
66M - Mike Christopher 21.341
38K - Gary Knollinger 21.342
113 - Jeff Gress 21.852
118D - Devin Sebree 22.002
2 - Joe Ramey 22.086
2JW - Josh Williams 22.147
218 - Brandon Russell 23.323
B4X - Audie Swartz NT
C4 - Freddie Carpenter NT
“Charter Communications 100” Feature:
1. JACKIE BOGGS ($15,000)
2. Scott Bloomquist
3. Steve Francis
4. Rick Eckert
5. Dale McDowell
6. Bart Hartman
7. Dan Schlieper
8. Tim McCreadie
9. Davey Johnson
10. Mike Balzano
11. Clint Smith
12. Robby Blair
13. John Blankenship
14. Keith Barbara
15. Patrick Sheltra
16. Darrell Lanigan
17. Steve Shaver
18. Josh Richards
19. Steve Lucas
20. Tim Dohm
21. Billy Moyer
22. Corey Conley
23. Chub Frank
24. Dale McDowell
Dash- Jackie Boggs
Consi 1- Steve Francis
Consi 2- Mike Balzano
Heat #1 - Steve Shaver
Heat #2 – Scott Bloomquist
Heat #3 – Bart Hartman
Heat #4 – Tim McCreadie
Heat #5 - Darrell Lanigan
Heat #6 - Jackie Boggs
“I won $22,000 this weekend,” said Boggs. “That’s a lot of money!” Jackie also said he was lucky and that he couldn’t have run three more laps due to engine problems. Boggs said that he was breaking valve springs and that they had been experiencing this problem for a while.
At the drop of the green, pole sitter Boggs took the lead and going down the back straight increased it to six car lengths over outside pole sitter Steve Shaver, third starting Bart Hartman, fourth starting Scott Bloomquist, fifth starting Darrell Lanigan and sixth starting Tim McCreadie. Through the first six laps the order remained unchanged with Boggs increasing his lead on every lap over Shaver. Finally on lap 7, Hartman drove his #75 Seubert Calf Ranches / Imler's Poultry / MCB Motorsports / Cornett Engine/Hoosier Tire / Rocket Chassis Gran Prix by Shaver and took up the chase for the lead.
By lap nine Boggs had caught the rear of the field and was beginning to lap cars. Even while lapping cars Boggs was increasing his lead every lap as the rest of the field from Hartman on back, remained close with everyone fighting for position. The first casualty of the race occurred on lap 12 when Rick Aukland took his #12 Ostrom Painting & Sandblasting / Malcuit Engines Dodge Intrepid pit side. One lap later World 100 winner Chub Frank stopped the #1* Lester Buildings / Corry Rubber/Allstar Performance / Nystrom's Auto Sales / Draime Racing Engines / Rocket Chassis / Pierotti Motorsports / Slavic Custom T-Shirts / Farr MotorSports / Corry Laser Chevrolet Monte Carlo on the back straight with rear suspension damage. After frantic work by several members of the 1* crew and several other crews, Frank called it a night.
At this point Boggs led Hartman, Shaver, Bloomquist, Lanigan, Eckert, McCreadie, Johnson, Moyer, Lucas, Barbara, Francis, Schlieper, Richards, Smith, Conley, Balzano, McDowell, Blankenship, Blair, Sheltra and Dohm, with the two retirements of Frank and Aukland.
When the green flew Boggs motored off leaving Hartman to contend with Shaver and the rest of the field. On lap 16 Rick Eckert in the #24 Raye Vest Excavating / J&J Steel / Hoosier Tire / Afco Race Products / Cornett Race Engines / Rocket Chassis Ford Taurus moved to 5th by Lanigan’s #29 Lanigan Autosports / Accutex Signs / Cornett / AFCO / GottaRace / Hoosier Tire / Rocket Chassis Ford Taurus. On the next lap it was Lucas and Francis who were on the move, passing McCreadie.
At the 20 lap mark Boggs led Hartman, Shaver, Bloomquist, Lanigan and Eckert by almost a straight. The next caution flew on lap 22 for the slowing of Billy Moyer’s #21 J&J Steel / Hawkeye Trucksales.com / Mcarthy One Hour Heating and Air / Banner Valley Hauling Chevrolet Monte Carlo. At this point the running order was Boggs, Hartman, Shaver, Bloomquist, Eckert, Lanigan, Lucas, Francis, Johnson, McCreadie, McDowell from 24th, Schlieper, Richards, Smith, Balzano, Blair, Blankenship, Barbara, Sheltra and Dohm.
As usual Boggs charged forward, but the action was in the pack. Eckert was now all over Bloomquist and was applying heavy pressure. Finally on lap 29, he made the pass stick and passed Bloomquist for fourth with Lanigan passing as well. On lap 33 Francis also passed Bloomquist dropping him to seventh. Francis had his #15 Valvoline / Mopar / Freeport Recycle Center / Action Auto Mart / Rocket Chassis Dodge Intrepid on the move and dropped Lanigan to sixth on lap 25. The top five now consisted of Boggs, Hartman, Shaver, Eckert and Francis. McDowell at this point had moved his #17M Larry Shaw Race Cars / S&H Motorsports / Dover Cylinder Head / Racetek/Petroff Towing / J&J Steel / New Vision Graphics / Rocket Chassis Pontiac Grand Prix into the top 10 with his pass by McCreadie.
Again on lap 32, Boggs caught the rear of the field and began lapping cars. About the same time McCreadie’s #39 Sweeteners Plus / A-C Speedworld / Texaco Havoline / Rocket Chassis Chevrolet Monte Carlo stopped in turn two with a right rear flat. McCreadie went pit side and returned to the rear. Bloomquist also dropped his #0 Miller Brothers Coal / Hawkeye Trucking / Custom Race Engines / Allstar Performance / Hoosier Tire / Sweet Manufacturing Ford Taurus from his seventh spot to the pits for a quick right rear tire change and also returned to the rear. At this juncture the field was Boggs, Hartman, Shaver, Eckert, Francis, Lanigan, McDowell, Lucas, Johnson, Blair, Richards, Balzano, Smith, Blankenship, Barbara, Sheltra, Dohm, Bloomquist, Moyer and McCreadie.
On the restart Boggs again took off followed by Hartman. Shaver, who didn’t seem to be as strong as he had earlier, had to contend with Eckert who was all over his rear bumper. On lap 33 both Eckert and Francis got by Shaver, and McDowell was now sixth over Lanigan. Boggs increased his lead every lap and by lap 40 he was leading by 15 car lengths. This long green was to the advantage of Bloomquist as the tire change put new life in him and he was working his way back to the front. By lap 50 he was back in seventh behind Lucas and on lap 55 when he got around Lucas he was almost a straight behind 5th place McDowell. In fact it took him until lap 70 to catch up to the rear bumper of the 17M.
On lap 72 Bloomquist passed McDowell and was now on the rear bumpers of Francis, Eckert and Shaver who were running together. He disposed of Shaver one lap later and began working on Eckert.
The action came to a stop on lap 76 when Josh Richards rolled to a stop on the back straight and then drove to the pits with what looked like engine problems. Now the order was Boggs followed by Hartman, Eckert, Francis, Bloomquist, Shaver, McDowell, Schlieper, Lanigan, Johnson, Balzano, McCreadie, Blankenship, Blair, Smith, Barbara, Sheltra and Moyer. At this point all the cars from Johnson back were lapped cars.
This time, when the green flew, Hartman powered under Boggs coming down the front straight and into turn one. As Hartman slid up the track, the two made slight contact between turns one and two with Boggs getting the best of it. He got straightened out, on the gas and back into the lead, but Hartman lost momentum and two spots. Both Francis and Eckert got by, dropping him to fourth.
By lap 80 Boggs had opened up a 12 to 15 car length lead over the now second place Francis who was trying to hold off the charging Eckert. On lap 81 Bloomquist passed Hartman for fourth and the next lap McDowell dropped him out of the top five. About this time Eckert also moved by Francis for second. On lap 81 Shaver who had run in the top five almost all night retired with a bent rear bird cage which resulted from earlier contact between he and Eckert.
With 15 laps to go, when the caution came out for a spinning Blankenship, the field was Boggs, Eckert, Francis, Bloomquist, McDowell, Hartman, Shaver, Schlieper, Lanigan, McCreadie, Johnson, Balzano, Smith, Blair, Barbara, Sheltra and Blankenship. McCreadie was the first lapped car.
When the green flew Boggs again took off and began building his lead. On lap 87 Bloomquist moved to third with a pass of Francis and on lap 90 to second with a pass of Eckert in turn four. At this point Boggs held a ½ straight lead over the now second place Bloomquist.
Over the final 10 laps Bloomquist cut Boggs’ lead in half but ran out of laps. Boggs took the checkered with Bloomquist, Francis, Eckert and McDowell rounding out the top five.
“I’m really happy to win here at this race track,” said Boggs in victory lane. “I’ve always raced here and it used to be my favorite race track. Used to race here every week and never won a race here.”
Boggs also noted that he was lucky, stating “I think I’ve got two or three broken valve springs, my motor wouldn’t crank ‘til about 7400 and just flatfooted all the way around the race track. Those restarts were really bad, I mean, those Fords and Mopars were getting it on through there but after we got through the corners we were all right.”
The World of Outlaws Late Model Series will make their next stop at Fulton Speedway in Fulton, New York. With a $25,000 winning purse on the line and the points race getting tighter and tighter as the season winds down it will be an unmatched appearance. Ticket information for the June 21st event can be obtained visiting the Fulton speedway website at www.fultonspeedway.com or by calling the speedway directly at (315) 668-RACE.
24 - Rick Eckert 19.292
0 - Scott Bloomquist 19.308
23P - Patrick Sheltra 19.508
39 - Tim McCreadie 19.515
29L - Darrell Lanigan 19.535
1R - Josh Richards 19.626
0F - Steve Shaver 19.658
21 - Billy Moyer 19.710
75 - Bart Hartman 19.719
6T - Tim Dohm 19.733
12N - Rick Aukland 19.740
4B - Jackie Boggs 19.755
1* - Chub Frank 19.766
17B - Keith Barbara 19.782
6 - Steve Lucas 19.785
Eddie Carrier Jr. 19.799
W11 - Robbie Blair 19.825
17M - Dale McDowell 19.878
15 - Steve Francis 19.888
23 - John Blankenship 19.908
44 - Clint Smith 19.917
75JG - John Gill 19.932
19 - Davey Johnson 19.976
71R - Rod Conley 20.005
68 - Tim Hitt 20.032
99M - Donnie Moran 20.034
00H - Chuck Harper 20.045
E1 - Mike Balzano 20.072
14 - Corey Conley 20.072
55Y - Chris Schneider 20.098
2E - Rod Evans 20.107
9DS - Dan Schlieper 20.133
31 - Denny Chamberlain 20.172
12F - Devin Friese 20.222
28B - Dick Barton 20.246
4F - Alex Ferree 20.254
118C - Rodney Combs 20.332
T8 - Mark Banal 20.345
21MJ - Jason Montgomery 20.348
5E - Doug Eaton 20.370
40WM - Wayne Maffet 20.400
07R - Brent Rhebergen 20.419
25B - Michael Benedum 20.590
18F - Keith Berner 20.602
111 - Randy Boggs 20.627
42C - Chris Garnes 20.796
E10 - Brian Eaton 20.797
333 - Ty Myers 20.899
1X1 - Sonny Conley 20.963
77BB - Barry Bragdon 20.973
25RS - Ron Slavic 21.172
1*K - Bobby Kitchen 21.195
10B - Larry Bond 21.300
66M - Mike Christopher 21.341
38K - Gary Knollinger 21.342
113 - Jeff Gress 21.852
118D - Devin Sebree 22.002
2 - Joe Ramey 22.086
2JW - Josh Williams 22.147
218 - Brandon Russell 23.323
B4X - Audie Swartz NT
C4 - Freddie Carpenter NT
“Charter Communications 100” Feature:
1. JACKIE BOGGS ($15,000)
2. Scott Bloomquist
3. Steve Francis
4. Rick Eckert
5. Dale McDowell
6. Bart Hartman
7. Dan Schlieper
8. Tim McCreadie
9. Davey Johnson
10. Mike Balzano
11. Clint Smith
12. Robby Blair
13. John Blankenship
14. Keith Barbara
15. Patrick Sheltra
16. Darrell Lanigan
17. Steve Shaver
18. Josh Richards
19. Steve Lucas
20. Tim Dohm
21. Billy Moyer
22. Corey Conley
23. Chub Frank
24. Dale McDowell
Dash- Jackie Boggs
Consi 1- Steve Francis
Consi 2- Mike Balzano
Heat #1 - Steve Shaver
Heat #2 – Scott Bloomquist
Heat #3 – Bart Hartman
Heat #4 – Tim McCreadie
Heat #5 - Darrell Lanigan
Heat #6 - Jackie Boggs
