Farmer City Raceway (IL)
July 14, 2006
Friday night saw a new, old familiar face in victory lane, with former track champion Joe Ross Jr coming off a two year slump in convincing style. Ross Jr led all 25 laps, mostly under hard pressure from the defending champion Eric Smith. Current points leader Matt Taylor started off the night with fast time of the 26 late models on hand at 12.771 seconds. The heats were some hard charging events, with Taylor holding off a fast Richie Hedrick and Rocky Griffin in the first one. The second heat went to Joe Ross Jr in another fast race over Eric Smith and Rod Sandage. The third heat went to Darren Miller over Brian Dively and Jr Shickel. The semi feature went to Chris Dick over Jeff Byers and Lindell Jewell. The feature started off with a first lap tangle by the second row consisting of Freidman and Hedrick, also involving Jason Cleaver, all three were done for the evening. At the restart, Ross Jr took off in the lead and was never headed. Eric Smith was second with Brian Dively, Rocky Griffin and Mike Mullvain rounding out the top five.
unofficial finish:
117 Joe Ross Jr
9 Eric Smith
11D Brian Dively
1G Rocky Griffin
4 Mike Mullvain
36 Scott Bull (Roger Long's car)
38L Ryan Little
35 Derek Chandler
10 Rod Sandage
43 Jimmy Felker Jr
15 Lisa Shickel
29J Lindell Jewell
The Sportsman feature went to Greg Kimmons over Ben Hulse, Nick Macklin and Billy Nail
The Street Stock feature was an exciting race, as Jeremy Nichols led most of the race, then had a left front steering problem with three laps to go, but held off Jim Quinn until the end, with Quinn taking the win over Nichols, Chris Tackett and Lance Johnson.
The Modified feature went to Jeff Leka, taking the lead late in the race from Jeb Freidman, followed by Lance Dehm, Rob Fuqua, Randy Huffman, Al Crawley, Wes O'Dell, McKay Wenger, Gabe Menser, Jeffrey Curl and Tim O'Donnell.
There were 105 cars in the pits with the entire show finished once again before 10:30 pm
July 14, 2006
Friday night saw a new, old familiar face in victory lane, with former track champion Joe Ross Jr coming off a two year slump in convincing style. Ross Jr led all 25 laps, mostly under hard pressure from the defending champion Eric Smith. Current points leader Matt Taylor started off the night with fast time of the 26 late models on hand at 12.771 seconds. The heats were some hard charging events, with Taylor holding off a fast Richie Hedrick and Rocky Griffin in the first one. The second heat went to Joe Ross Jr in another fast race over Eric Smith and Rod Sandage. The third heat went to Darren Miller over Brian Dively and Jr Shickel. The semi feature went to Chris Dick over Jeff Byers and Lindell Jewell. The feature started off with a first lap tangle by the second row consisting of Freidman and Hedrick, also involving Jason Cleaver, all three were done for the evening. At the restart, Ross Jr took off in the lead and was never headed. Eric Smith was second with Brian Dively, Rocky Griffin and Mike Mullvain rounding out the top five.
unofficial finish:
117 Joe Ross Jr
9 Eric Smith
11D Brian Dively
1G Rocky Griffin
4 Mike Mullvain
36 Scott Bull (Roger Long's car)
38L Ryan Little
35 Derek Chandler
10 Rod Sandage
43 Jimmy Felker Jr
15 Lisa Shickel
29J Lindell Jewell
The Sportsman feature went to Greg Kimmons over Ben Hulse, Nick Macklin and Billy Nail
The Street Stock feature was an exciting race, as Jeremy Nichols led most of the race, then had a left front steering problem with three laps to go, but held off Jim Quinn until the end, with Quinn taking the win over Nichols, Chris Tackett and Lance Johnson.
The Modified feature went to Jeff Leka, taking the lead late in the race from Jeb Freidman, followed by Lance Dehm, Rob Fuqua, Randy Huffman, Al Crawley, Wes O'Dell, McKay Wenger, Gabe Menser, Jeffrey Curl and Tim O'Donnell.
There were 105 cars in the pits with the entire show finished once again before 10:30 pm
