TAMPA, FL – Rodney Melvin of Benton, IL drove his Thomason Engines Rayburn to fast time honors, and then won the first of six 15-lap heat races on Friday night to earn the pole position for Saturday night’s NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series 100-lap $10,000-to-win 4th Annual World Championship Race at East Bay Raceway Park.
Melvin out-qualified the 63-car field on Friday night with a lap around the 1/3-mille clay oval in 16.079 seconds to earn the pole for the first heat race. Melvin then won the first heat to take the inside front row starting spot for the big show on Saturday night.
Stacey Roberts of Sylvester, GA won the second heat race on Friday night in the Sunbelt Ford Rocket to earn the outside front row starting spot for the Saturday night main event. Shanon Buckingham of Morristown, TN won the third heat race in the Rusty Wallace Toyota Bloomquist to start the Saturday night feature race from the inside of the second row.
Anthony White of Clinton, TN will start the Saturday night 100-lapper from the outside of the second row after winning the fourth heat race on Friday night in the Stone Plus DWB. The 2006 race winner Randy Korte of Highland, IL will try for his second World Championship Race win from the fifth starting hole after he won the fifth heat race on Friday night driving the Terry Eaglin Motorsports Rocket.
Local favorite Phillip Cobb of Riverview, FL won the sixth heat race on Friday night to earn the outside third row starting spot for Saturday night’s main event driving the Coastal Trucking GRT.
The top three finishers in each of the six heat races on Friday night transferred into the top 18 starting spots for the main event on Saturday night. Ross Bailes of Blacksburg, SC in the Felony Farms Mastersbilt and Tim McCreadie of Waterloo, NY followed Melvin out of the first heat and into the main event.
Josh Peacock of Dover, FL in the Peacock Farms Warrior and Bryan Bernhardt of Clearwater, FL in the B&B Precision Movers Rocket finished second and third respectively in the second heat race behind Roberts to make the main event.
Larry Boutwell of Baker, FL in the McLeod Construction Rocket finished second in the third heat race followed by Jeff Fields of Aragon, GA in the J&J Transport Mastersbilt. Joining White in transferring from the fourth heat race were second-place Dennis Erb Jr. of Carpentersville, IL in the Thomason Engines Rayburn, and third-place Jeff Fortner of Vidalia, GA in the Extreme Hauling Rocket.
Two-time NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series National Champion David Gentry of Lewisburg, TN in the Payne’s Body Shop Mastersbilt and Jeff Mathews of Seffner, FL in the Vassar Cord Warrior followed Korte under the checkered flag in the fifth heat race to make the big show.
Matthew Turner of Dawsonville, GA in the Turner Excavating DWB and Wallace Peacock of Dover, FL in the Strawberry Garden TNT finished second and third respectively in the sixth heat behind Cobb on Friday night to take a seat in the starting field of the World Championship Race on Saturday night.
Drivers that finished fourth on back in the six heat races will another opportunity to make the 26-car starting field for the World Championship Race in one of two 20-lap B-Main Races to take place on Saturday night before the 100-lap big show. The top three finishers in each B-Main will take the 19th through 24th starting spot in the main event.
Starting spots 25 and 26 are NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series provisional spots reserved for the Top 15 in the 2008 National point standings. Among the Top 15 still on the outside looking in are the 2008 NeSmith Chevrolet DLMS National Champion Chip Brindle of Chatsworth, GA, and the Sunoco Race Fuels Rookie of the Year and third place points driver Scott Knowles of Lanett, AL.
Other Top 15 drivers starting the B-Mains on Saturday night are fourth-place Derrick Rainey of Powder Springs, GA, sixth-place Hunter Peacock of Macon, GA, seventh-place Eric Cooley of Fulton, MS, and tenth-place Frank Ingram of Woodstock, GA.
On Saturday night, gates open at 4 p.m. with racing scheduled for 7 p.m. For more information, call East Bay Raceway Park at 813-677-7223, or visit the track web site at www.eastbayracewaypark.com. East Bay Raceway Park is located five miles south of I-4 off U.S. Highway 41.
PRELIMINARY RESULTS FOR THE NeSMITH CHEVROLET DLMS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP RACE AT EAST BAY RACEWAY PARK IN TAMPA, FL ON 12/12/08:
QUALIFYING:
GROUP 1:
POS CAR # DRIVER HOMETOWN CHASSIS LAP 1 LAP 2 TIME
1 92b Billy Faust Highland, IL Rocket 16.421 16.250 16.250
2 12 Hunter Peacock Macon, GA Bullet 16.497 16.550 16.497
3 11r Stacey Roberts Sylvester, GA Rocket 16.878 16.662 16.662
4 21p Josh Peacock Dover, FL Warrior 17.019 16.703 16.703
5 21b Royce Bray Hull, GA Warrior 16.746 17.660 16.746
6 121 Benji Cole Canon, GA DWB 16.840 17.418 16.840
7 B69 Bryan Bernhardt Clearwater, FL Rocket 17.147 17.431 17.147
8 11 Steven Roberts Sylvester, GA Rocket 17.158 17.284 17.158
9 44 Stephen Rogers Knoxville, TN Warrior 17.502 17.178 17.178
10 10b Scott Riggs Harrisburg, IL Forward 17.472 18.495 17.472
11 8m Matt Miller Tampa, FL Rocket 17.671 18.375 17.671
GROUP 2:
POS CAR # DRIVER HOMETOWN CHASSIS LAP 1 LAP 2 TIME
1 P1 Wallace Peacock Dover, FL TnT 16.789 17.543 16.789
2 32 Phillip Cobb Riverview, FL GRT 17.667 16.943 16.943
3 10 Matthew Turner Dawsonville, GA DWB 16.971 17.361 16.971
4 8s Steve Miller Tampa, FL Rocket 46.178 16.994 16.994
5 9w Jimmy Waldrop Seffner, FL Rocket 17.091 19.414 17.091
6 79 Jason Kimball Brooksville, FL Rocket 17.237 17.601 17.237
7 2 Shane Hitt Buckhannon, WV Rocket 17.847 17.380 17.380
8 33c Eric Cooley Fulton, MS Mastersbilt 18.093 17.547 17.547
9 22x Danny Peoples Margaret, AL Warrior 17.561 17.559 17.559
10 88 David Polen Jr. Tampa, FL Rocket 17.616 33.128 17.616
11 24w Dennis Williams Zephyrhills, FL Rayburn 19.014 19.343 19.014
GROUP 3:
POS CAR # DRIVER HOMETOWN CHASSIS LAP 1 LAP 2 TIME
1 2w Anthony White Clinton, TN DWB 16.615 16.455 16.455
2 28e Dennis Erb Jr. Carpentersville, IL Rayburn 16.755 16.606 16.606
3 27 Jeff Fortner Vidalia, GA Rocket 16.727 17.010 16.727
4 87 Derrick Rainey Powder Springs, GA Warrior 16.911 17.000 16.911
5 105 Dave Schmauss Tampa, FL Warrior 16.921 17.265 16.921
6 16b Dan Brewer Wytheville, VA Barry Wright 17.508 17.029 17.029
7 28 Brandon Overton Appling, GA GRT 17.442 17.227 17.227
8 81c Kevin Cole Benton, IL Pierce 17.261 17.276 17.261
9 10x Jake Knowles Tyrone, GA Rocket 17.509 17.358 17.358
10 49 Jonathan Davenport Blairsville, GA Rayburn 17.753 17.640 17.640
11 59 Aaron Heck Mount Vernon, IL Rayburn 17.723 17.846 17.723
GROUP 4:
POS CAR # DRIVER HOMETOWN CHASSIS LAP 1 LAP 2 TIME
1 27m Rodney Melvin Benton, IL Rayburn 16.276 16.079 16.079
2 102 Tim McCreadie Waterloo, NY Rocket 16.572 17.160 16.572
3 87L Ross Bailes Blacksburg, SC Mastersbilt 17.510 16.900 16.900
4 38c Chip Brindle Chatsworth, GA Mastersbilt 17.275 16.982 16.982
5 92k Brant Kehrer New Memphis, IL Rocket 17.836 17.429 17.429
6 61 Caleb Ashby Cunningham, TN PPM 18.240 17.456 17.456
7 1g Ronnie Johnson Chattanooga, TN Warrior 17.594 17.622 17.594
8 11w Randy Weaver Crossville, TN PPM 17.798 17.914 17.798
9 21m Ben McCreary Baldwyn, MS Mastersbilt 18.213 17.931 17.931
10 18L Jason Riggs Harrisburg, IL Rocket 18.710 18.240 18.240
GROUP 5:
POS CAR # DRIVER HOMETOWN CHASSIS LAP 1 LAP 2 TIME
1 69 Randy Korte Highland, IL Rocket 16.661 16.638 16.638
2 9 Jeff Mathews Seffner, FL Warrior 16.708 16.915 16.708
3 11g David Gentry Lewisburg, TN Mastersbilt 16.860 16.823 16.823
4 11h Doug Horton Bruceton Mills, WV Warrior 17.968 17.183 17.183
5 22p Travis Pennington Winston, GA GRT 18.302 17.287 17.287
6 22w William Thomas Phenix City, AL Scorpion 17.633 17.349 17.349
7 92s Matt Santel New Memphis, IL Rocket 17.446 17.464 17.446
8 17ss Shan Smith Dade City, FL TnT 17.770 17.656 17.656
9 22 Jason Wilson Margaret, AL Warrior 18.411 17.800 17.800
10 41v Travis Varnadore Dover, FL Rayburn 17.808 18.051 17.808
GROUP 6:
POS CAR # DRIVER HOMETOWN CHASSIS LAP 1 LAP 2 TIME
1 50 Shanon Buckingham Morristown, TN Bloomquist 16.604 16.317 16.317
2 66k Scott Knowles Lanett, AL Warrior 16.952 17.289 16.952
3 16 Jeff Fields Aragon, GA Mastersbilt 17.155 17.057 17.057
4 12c Jon Callaway Herrington, DE Rocket 17.404 17.187 17.187
5 58 Larry Boutwell Baker, FL Rocket 17.719 17.226 17.226
6 2x Nick Lyons Centrailia, IL Forward 17.483 17.564 17.483
7 F9 Frank Ingram Woodstock, GA Rocket 17.552 17.769 17.552
8 20u Bruce Unterbrink Greenville, IL Rocket 18.152 17.553 17.553
9 21 Rusty Hoge Ooltewah, TN GRT 18.895 17.932 17.932
10 91 Guy Robinson Rockmart, GA TnT 18.691 NT 18.691
HEAT RACES (15 Laps – Top 3 Transfer To Main Event):
1ST HEAT: 1. Melvin; 2. Bailes; 3. McCreadie; 4. Brindle; 5. Johnson; 6. McCreary; 7. Ashby; 8. Kehrer; 9. Weaver; 10. J. Riggs.
2ND HEAT: 1. Stacey Roberts; 2. J. Peacock; 3. Bernhardt; 4. Bray; 5. B. Cole; 6. Stephen Roberts; 7. Faust; 8. S. Riggs; 9. H. Peacock; 10. Rogers; 11. M. Miller.
3RD HEAT: 1. Buckingham; 2. Boutwell; 3. Fields; 4. Ingram; 5. Lyons; 6. Hoge; 7. S. Knowles; 8. Callaway; 9. Unterbrink; 10. Robinson.
4TH HEAT: 1. White; 2. Erb; 3. Fortner; 4. K. Cole; 5. Rainey; 6. Brewer; 7. Heck; 8. Davenport; 9. Overton; 10. J. Knowles; 11. Schmauss.
5TH HEAT: 1. Korte; 2. Gentry; 3. Mathews; 4. Horton; 5. Thomas; 6. Pennington; 7. Wilson; 8. Varnadore; 9. Santel; 10. Smith.
6TH HEAT: 1. Cobb; 2. Turner; 3. W. Peacock; 4. S. Miller; 5. Polen; 6. Cooley; 7. Kimball; 8. Williams; 9. Hitt; 10. Peoples; 11. Waldrop.
“ELITE 18” FEATURE RACE STARTING LINE-UP:
ROW 1:
27m Rodney Melvin – 11r Stacey Roberts
ROW 2:
50 Shanon Buckingham – 2w Anthony White
ROW 3:
69 Randy Korte – 32 Phillip Cobb
ROW 4:
87L Ross Bailes – 21p Josh Peacock
ROW 5:
58 Larry Boutwell – 28e Dennis Erb Jr.
ROW 6:
11g David Gentry – 10 Matthew Turner
ROW 7:
102 Tim McCreadie – B69 Bryan Bernhardt
ROW 8:
16 Jeff Fields – 27 Jeff Fortner
ROW 9:
9 Jeff Mathews – P1 Wallace Peacock
B-MAIN LINE-UPS (20 Laps – Top 3 Transfer To Main Event):
1ST B-MAIN:
38c Chip Brindle – F9 Frank Ingram
11h Doug Horton – 1g Ronnie Johnson
2x Nick Lyons – 22t William Thomas
21m Ben McCreary – 21h Rusty Hoge
22p Travis Pennington – 61 Caleb Ashby
66k Scott Knowles – 22 Jason Wilson
92k Brant Kehrer – 12c Jon Callaway
41v Travis Varnadore – 11w Randy Weaver
20u Bruce Unterbrink – 92s Matt Santel
18L Jason Riggs – 91 Guy Robinson
17ss Shan Smith
2ND B-MAIN:
21b Royce Bray – 81c Kevin Cole
8s Steve Miller – 121 Benji Cole
87 Derrick Rainey – 88 David Polen Jr.
11 Stephen Roberts – 16b Dan Brewer
33c Eric Cooley – 92b Billy Faust
59 Aaron Heck – 79 Jason Kimball
10b Steve Cole – 49 Jonathan Davenport
24w Dennis Williams – 12 Hunter Peacock
28 Brandon Overton – 2 Shane Hitt
44 Steven Rogers – 10x Jake Knowles
22x Danny Peoples – 8m Matt Miller
105 Dave Schmauss – 9w Jimmy Waldrop
Melvin out-qualified the 63-car field on Friday night with a lap around the 1/3-mille clay oval in 16.079 seconds to earn the pole for the first heat race. Melvin then won the first heat to take the inside front row starting spot for the big show on Saturday night.
Stacey Roberts of Sylvester, GA won the second heat race on Friday night in the Sunbelt Ford Rocket to earn the outside front row starting spot for the Saturday night main event. Shanon Buckingham of Morristown, TN won the third heat race in the Rusty Wallace Toyota Bloomquist to start the Saturday night feature race from the inside of the second row.
Anthony White of Clinton, TN will start the Saturday night 100-lapper from the outside of the second row after winning the fourth heat race on Friday night in the Stone Plus DWB. The 2006 race winner Randy Korte of Highland, IL will try for his second World Championship Race win from the fifth starting hole after he won the fifth heat race on Friday night driving the Terry Eaglin Motorsports Rocket.
Local favorite Phillip Cobb of Riverview, FL won the sixth heat race on Friday night to earn the outside third row starting spot for Saturday night’s main event driving the Coastal Trucking GRT.
The top three finishers in each of the six heat races on Friday night transferred into the top 18 starting spots for the main event on Saturday night. Ross Bailes of Blacksburg, SC in the Felony Farms Mastersbilt and Tim McCreadie of Waterloo, NY followed Melvin out of the first heat and into the main event.
Josh Peacock of Dover, FL in the Peacock Farms Warrior and Bryan Bernhardt of Clearwater, FL in the B&B Precision Movers Rocket finished second and third respectively in the second heat race behind Roberts to make the main event.
Larry Boutwell of Baker, FL in the McLeod Construction Rocket finished second in the third heat race followed by Jeff Fields of Aragon, GA in the J&J Transport Mastersbilt. Joining White in transferring from the fourth heat race were second-place Dennis Erb Jr. of Carpentersville, IL in the Thomason Engines Rayburn, and third-place Jeff Fortner of Vidalia, GA in the Extreme Hauling Rocket.
Two-time NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series National Champion David Gentry of Lewisburg, TN in the Payne’s Body Shop Mastersbilt and Jeff Mathews of Seffner, FL in the Vassar Cord Warrior followed Korte under the checkered flag in the fifth heat race to make the big show.
Matthew Turner of Dawsonville, GA in the Turner Excavating DWB and Wallace Peacock of Dover, FL in the Strawberry Garden TNT finished second and third respectively in the sixth heat behind Cobb on Friday night to take a seat in the starting field of the World Championship Race on Saturday night.
Drivers that finished fourth on back in the six heat races will another opportunity to make the 26-car starting field for the World Championship Race in one of two 20-lap B-Main Races to take place on Saturday night before the 100-lap big show. The top three finishers in each B-Main will take the 19th through 24th starting spot in the main event.
Starting spots 25 and 26 are NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series provisional spots reserved for the Top 15 in the 2008 National point standings. Among the Top 15 still on the outside looking in are the 2008 NeSmith Chevrolet DLMS National Champion Chip Brindle of Chatsworth, GA, and the Sunoco Race Fuels Rookie of the Year and third place points driver Scott Knowles of Lanett, AL.
Other Top 15 drivers starting the B-Mains on Saturday night are fourth-place Derrick Rainey of Powder Springs, GA, sixth-place Hunter Peacock of Macon, GA, seventh-place Eric Cooley of Fulton, MS, and tenth-place Frank Ingram of Woodstock, GA.
On Saturday night, gates open at 4 p.m. with racing scheduled for 7 p.m. For more information, call East Bay Raceway Park at 813-677-7223, or visit the track web site at www.eastbayracewaypark.com. East Bay Raceway Park is located five miles south of I-4 off U.S. Highway 41.
PRELIMINARY RESULTS FOR THE NeSMITH CHEVROLET DLMS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP RACE AT EAST BAY RACEWAY PARK IN TAMPA, FL ON 12/12/08:
QUALIFYING:
GROUP 1:
POS CAR # DRIVER HOMETOWN CHASSIS LAP 1 LAP 2 TIME
1 92b Billy Faust Highland, IL Rocket 16.421 16.250 16.250
2 12 Hunter Peacock Macon, GA Bullet 16.497 16.550 16.497
3 11r Stacey Roberts Sylvester, GA Rocket 16.878 16.662 16.662
4 21p Josh Peacock Dover, FL Warrior 17.019 16.703 16.703
5 21b Royce Bray Hull, GA Warrior 16.746 17.660 16.746
6 121 Benji Cole Canon, GA DWB 16.840 17.418 16.840
7 B69 Bryan Bernhardt Clearwater, FL Rocket 17.147 17.431 17.147
8 11 Steven Roberts Sylvester, GA Rocket 17.158 17.284 17.158
9 44 Stephen Rogers Knoxville, TN Warrior 17.502 17.178 17.178
10 10b Scott Riggs Harrisburg, IL Forward 17.472 18.495 17.472
11 8m Matt Miller Tampa, FL Rocket 17.671 18.375 17.671
GROUP 2:
POS CAR # DRIVER HOMETOWN CHASSIS LAP 1 LAP 2 TIME
1 P1 Wallace Peacock Dover, FL TnT 16.789 17.543 16.789
2 32 Phillip Cobb Riverview, FL GRT 17.667 16.943 16.943
3 10 Matthew Turner Dawsonville, GA DWB 16.971 17.361 16.971
4 8s Steve Miller Tampa, FL Rocket 46.178 16.994 16.994
5 9w Jimmy Waldrop Seffner, FL Rocket 17.091 19.414 17.091
6 79 Jason Kimball Brooksville, FL Rocket 17.237 17.601 17.237
7 2 Shane Hitt Buckhannon, WV Rocket 17.847 17.380 17.380
8 33c Eric Cooley Fulton, MS Mastersbilt 18.093 17.547 17.547
9 22x Danny Peoples Margaret, AL Warrior 17.561 17.559 17.559
10 88 David Polen Jr. Tampa, FL Rocket 17.616 33.128 17.616
11 24w Dennis Williams Zephyrhills, FL Rayburn 19.014 19.343 19.014
GROUP 3:
POS CAR # DRIVER HOMETOWN CHASSIS LAP 1 LAP 2 TIME
1 2w Anthony White Clinton, TN DWB 16.615 16.455 16.455
2 28e Dennis Erb Jr. Carpentersville, IL Rayburn 16.755 16.606 16.606
3 27 Jeff Fortner Vidalia, GA Rocket 16.727 17.010 16.727
4 87 Derrick Rainey Powder Springs, GA Warrior 16.911 17.000 16.911
5 105 Dave Schmauss Tampa, FL Warrior 16.921 17.265 16.921
6 16b Dan Brewer Wytheville, VA Barry Wright 17.508 17.029 17.029
7 28 Brandon Overton Appling, GA GRT 17.442 17.227 17.227
8 81c Kevin Cole Benton, IL Pierce 17.261 17.276 17.261
9 10x Jake Knowles Tyrone, GA Rocket 17.509 17.358 17.358
10 49 Jonathan Davenport Blairsville, GA Rayburn 17.753 17.640 17.640
11 59 Aaron Heck Mount Vernon, IL Rayburn 17.723 17.846 17.723
GROUP 4:
POS CAR # DRIVER HOMETOWN CHASSIS LAP 1 LAP 2 TIME
1 27m Rodney Melvin Benton, IL Rayburn 16.276 16.079 16.079
2 102 Tim McCreadie Waterloo, NY Rocket 16.572 17.160 16.572
3 87L Ross Bailes Blacksburg, SC Mastersbilt 17.510 16.900 16.900
4 38c Chip Brindle Chatsworth, GA Mastersbilt 17.275 16.982 16.982
5 92k Brant Kehrer New Memphis, IL Rocket 17.836 17.429 17.429
6 61 Caleb Ashby Cunningham, TN PPM 18.240 17.456 17.456
7 1g Ronnie Johnson Chattanooga, TN Warrior 17.594 17.622 17.594
8 11w Randy Weaver Crossville, TN PPM 17.798 17.914 17.798
9 21m Ben McCreary Baldwyn, MS Mastersbilt 18.213 17.931 17.931
10 18L Jason Riggs Harrisburg, IL Rocket 18.710 18.240 18.240
GROUP 5:
POS CAR # DRIVER HOMETOWN CHASSIS LAP 1 LAP 2 TIME
1 69 Randy Korte Highland, IL Rocket 16.661 16.638 16.638
2 9 Jeff Mathews Seffner, FL Warrior 16.708 16.915 16.708
3 11g David Gentry Lewisburg, TN Mastersbilt 16.860 16.823 16.823
4 11h Doug Horton Bruceton Mills, WV Warrior 17.968 17.183 17.183
5 22p Travis Pennington Winston, GA GRT 18.302 17.287 17.287
6 22w William Thomas Phenix City, AL Scorpion 17.633 17.349 17.349
7 92s Matt Santel New Memphis, IL Rocket 17.446 17.464 17.446
8 17ss Shan Smith Dade City, FL TnT 17.770 17.656 17.656
9 22 Jason Wilson Margaret, AL Warrior 18.411 17.800 17.800
10 41v Travis Varnadore Dover, FL Rayburn 17.808 18.051 17.808
GROUP 6:
POS CAR # DRIVER HOMETOWN CHASSIS LAP 1 LAP 2 TIME
1 50 Shanon Buckingham Morristown, TN Bloomquist 16.604 16.317 16.317
2 66k Scott Knowles Lanett, AL Warrior 16.952 17.289 16.952
3 16 Jeff Fields Aragon, GA Mastersbilt 17.155 17.057 17.057
4 12c Jon Callaway Herrington, DE Rocket 17.404 17.187 17.187
5 58 Larry Boutwell Baker, FL Rocket 17.719 17.226 17.226
6 2x Nick Lyons Centrailia, IL Forward 17.483 17.564 17.483
7 F9 Frank Ingram Woodstock, GA Rocket 17.552 17.769 17.552
8 20u Bruce Unterbrink Greenville, IL Rocket 18.152 17.553 17.553
9 21 Rusty Hoge Ooltewah, TN GRT 18.895 17.932 17.932
10 91 Guy Robinson Rockmart, GA TnT 18.691 NT 18.691
HEAT RACES (15 Laps – Top 3 Transfer To Main Event):
1ST HEAT: 1. Melvin; 2. Bailes; 3. McCreadie; 4. Brindle; 5. Johnson; 6. McCreary; 7. Ashby; 8. Kehrer; 9. Weaver; 10. J. Riggs.
2ND HEAT: 1. Stacey Roberts; 2. J. Peacock; 3. Bernhardt; 4. Bray; 5. B. Cole; 6. Stephen Roberts; 7. Faust; 8. S. Riggs; 9. H. Peacock; 10. Rogers; 11. M. Miller.
3RD HEAT: 1. Buckingham; 2. Boutwell; 3. Fields; 4. Ingram; 5. Lyons; 6. Hoge; 7. S. Knowles; 8. Callaway; 9. Unterbrink; 10. Robinson.
4TH HEAT: 1. White; 2. Erb; 3. Fortner; 4. K. Cole; 5. Rainey; 6. Brewer; 7. Heck; 8. Davenport; 9. Overton; 10. J. Knowles; 11. Schmauss.
5TH HEAT: 1. Korte; 2. Gentry; 3. Mathews; 4. Horton; 5. Thomas; 6. Pennington; 7. Wilson; 8. Varnadore; 9. Santel; 10. Smith.
6TH HEAT: 1. Cobb; 2. Turner; 3. W. Peacock; 4. S. Miller; 5. Polen; 6. Cooley; 7. Kimball; 8. Williams; 9. Hitt; 10. Peoples; 11. Waldrop.
“ELITE 18” FEATURE RACE STARTING LINE-UP:
ROW 1:
27m Rodney Melvin – 11r Stacey Roberts
ROW 2:
50 Shanon Buckingham – 2w Anthony White
ROW 3:
69 Randy Korte – 32 Phillip Cobb
ROW 4:
87L Ross Bailes – 21p Josh Peacock
ROW 5:
58 Larry Boutwell – 28e Dennis Erb Jr.
ROW 6:
11g David Gentry – 10 Matthew Turner
ROW 7:
102 Tim McCreadie – B69 Bryan Bernhardt
ROW 8:
16 Jeff Fields – 27 Jeff Fortner
ROW 9:
9 Jeff Mathews – P1 Wallace Peacock
B-MAIN LINE-UPS (20 Laps – Top 3 Transfer To Main Event):
1ST B-MAIN:
38c Chip Brindle – F9 Frank Ingram
11h Doug Horton – 1g Ronnie Johnson
2x Nick Lyons – 22t William Thomas
21m Ben McCreary – 21h Rusty Hoge
22p Travis Pennington – 61 Caleb Ashby
66k Scott Knowles – 22 Jason Wilson
92k Brant Kehrer – 12c Jon Callaway
41v Travis Varnadore – 11w Randy Weaver
20u Bruce Unterbrink – 92s Matt Santel
18L Jason Riggs – 91 Guy Robinson
17ss Shan Smith
2ND B-MAIN:
21b Royce Bray – 81c Kevin Cole
8s Steve Miller – 121 Benji Cole
87 Derrick Rainey – 88 David Polen Jr.
11 Stephen Roberts – 16b Dan Brewer
33c Eric Cooley – 92b Billy Faust
59 Aaron Heck – 79 Jason Kimball
10b Steve Cole – 49 Jonathan Davenport
24w Dennis Williams – 12 Hunter Peacock
28 Brandon Overton – 2 Shane Hitt
44 Steven Rogers – 10x Jake Knowles
22x Danny Peoples – 8m Matt Miller
105 Dave Schmauss – 9w Jimmy Waldrop
