Farmer City Raceway (IL)
June 25, 2004
By Dan Stewart
Roger Long used his patented high groove once again to win the feature event at Farmer City Raceway. At the start, polesitter Mark Anderson blasted out in front, with Long overtaking him on the backstretch on the first lap. Long never looked back, sad because he would have seen some great racing. And he would have seen Jason Fegers break loose from a five way battle for second to run down Long and pull alongside him on lap 17 in heavy traffic. As the two worked passed the lapped cars, Long spun and Fegers retired for the evening. Long was then put back to the front. The next four cars all held second place at one point ofr another, sometimes all at once, as the action went from the very inside of the track all the way to the wall in turns 3 and 4. Finishing behind Long was a fast closing Eric Smith, Jr Shickel, Ryan Dauber and Don Hammer. Fast time went to Don Hammer of the 27 cars on hand, with the dash being won by Long over Smith and Hammer. Heats went to Ed Barth, Donnie Walden and Jammie Wilson. Matt Taylor won the semi feature over Flip Shickel.
Feature finish:
Long
Eric Smith
Jr Shickel
Ryan Dauber
Don Hammer
Kyle Logue
Mark Anderson
Mike Mullvain
Jammie Wilson
Donnie Walden
Flip Shickel
The rough and rowdy sportsman division saw Rod Sandage winning the feature. Darrell Dick and Sandage had put on a great show, and as they got into lapping cars, Shane Tomlin was sitting at the end of the frontstretch. Dick was leading at the time, and the #88 car of Allen Stipp got sideways in front of Dick, who then drilled the car of Stipp's directly into Shane Tomlin's car, a very hard hit, with Stipp doing a complete flip straight up in the air and coming down on the roof. All drivers walked away unhurt. Also unhurt from his rollover in his heat race was Jay Smithson, who got caught between two cars going sideways coming off turn four, and Smithson went over one and a half times.
Jeff Leka once again won the modified class.
June 25, 2004
By Dan Stewart
Roger Long used his patented high groove once again to win the feature event at Farmer City Raceway. At the start, polesitter Mark Anderson blasted out in front, with Long overtaking him on the backstretch on the first lap. Long never looked back, sad because he would have seen some great racing. And he would have seen Jason Fegers break loose from a five way battle for second to run down Long and pull alongside him on lap 17 in heavy traffic. As the two worked passed the lapped cars, Long spun and Fegers retired for the evening. Long was then put back to the front. The next four cars all held second place at one point ofr another, sometimes all at once, as the action went from the very inside of the track all the way to the wall in turns 3 and 4. Finishing behind Long was a fast closing Eric Smith, Jr Shickel, Ryan Dauber and Don Hammer. Fast time went to Don Hammer of the 27 cars on hand, with the dash being won by Long over Smith and Hammer. Heats went to Ed Barth, Donnie Walden and Jammie Wilson. Matt Taylor won the semi feature over Flip Shickel.
Feature finish:
Long
Eric Smith
Jr Shickel
Ryan Dauber
Don Hammer
Kyle Logue
Mark Anderson
Mike Mullvain
Jammie Wilson
Donnie Walden
Flip Shickel
The rough and rowdy sportsman division saw Rod Sandage winning the feature. Darrell Dick and Sandage had put on a great show, and as they got into lapping cars, Shane Tomlin was sitting at the end of the frontstretch. Dick was leading at the time, and the #88 car of Allen Stipp got sideways in front of Dick, who then drilled the car of Stipp's directly into Shane Tomlin's car, a very hard hit, with Stipp doing a complete flip straight up in the air and coming down on the roof. All drivers walked away unhurt. Also unhurt from his rollover in his heat race was Jay Smithson, who got caught between two cars going sideways coming off turn four, and Smithson went over one and a half times.
Jeff Leka once again won the modified class.
