The 29th Annual East Bay Winternationals held this past week at East Bay Raceway Park and sanctioned by the Lucas Oil NARA DirtCar Series was an immense success by every indication with a record car count, packed grandstands and a successful launch of the Lucas Oil NARA Dirt Car Series’ sophomore season. After the grand finale Saturday evening Don O’Neal of Martinsville, IN emerged the point leader based on top finishes and two feature wins during the weeklong extravaganza. O’Neal was the only repeat winner during the Winternationals.
O’Neal leads the way with 940 points with Steve Francis in second only 20 points in arrears of O’Neal with 920 points. The remainder of the top ten in season points are Terry English (905), Rick Eckert (805), Billy Moyer (805), Dennis Erb, Jr. (790), Shannon Babb (790), Steve Shaver (775), Jimmy Mars (745) and Donnie Moran (735).
For the first time in Winternationals history one sanctioning body oversaw all six nights and series officials decided to drop the two worst finishes for each competitor.
“When we sat down and looked at doing all six nights at East Bay we wanted to make it fair to the drivers who are going to follow the Lucas Oil NARA Dirt Car Series and six consecutive nights of sanctioning races at East Bay could be tough for the outcome of the season so the fairest thing to do was drop everyone’s two worst finishes and then from that point on every race counts,” explained Spencer Wilson, President of the Lucas Oil NARA DirtCar Series on Monday afternoon.
Wilson also explained the system used for NARA provisionals, which are separate from the R.A.C.E. provisionals that were in place from the R.A.C.E. organization and the track.
“As for the provisionals the drivers only got points when they had an NARA provisionals available,” said Wilson. “Unless they had an NARA provisional available they didn’t get points. Like the night Shannon (Babb) got a R.A.C.E. provisional he was eligible for an NARA provisional but the way the points were stacked that particular night the provisionals didn’t work out to where he was in points so he lost his NARA provisional on that night but gained points. Unless they had a NARA provisional available they didn’t get points if put in through the R.A.C.E. provisionals and if they did receive points they weren’t eligible for one later in the week.”
“The way our provisionals works every driver who signed up on Monday is a member of NARA and receives one provisional and they receive a second provisional after the fifth attended race so basically we had ten different provisionals with NARA up until Saturday and Saturday was the only time we had the same person who had one earlier in the week.”
“The NARA provisionals are basically rewarded for attendance.”
Wilson also gave high marks to Al Varnadore, Todd Hutto and the rest of the East Bay Raceway staff and crew for helping make the Lucas Oil NARA Dirt Car Series second season kick-off such an astounding success.
“Absolutely we had a homerun, I think we did well and I’m proud of our group,” stated Wilson. “Everything went fantastic with Todd and Al and we developed a good relationship and actually they may come up during the summer when they get into their rainy season and give us a hand.”
Lucas Oil DirtCar Series President Spencer Wilson, P.R. Director & Series Announcer James Essex and Event Coordinator Rick Schwallie will be guests next Monday evening February 21 on the Dirt Nation radio program that airs from 8:00 – 10:00 PM EST at: www.racetalklive.com
For more on the Lucas Oil NARA DirtCar Series visit: www.naradirtcar.com
CURRENT LUCAS OIL NARA DIRTCAR SERIES POINT STANDINGS
Through February 12, 2005:
Pos Car # Name Points
1 71 Don O'Neal 940
2 15 Steve Francis 920
3 96 Terry English 905
4 24 Rick Eckert 805
4 21 Billy Moyer, Jr 805
6 28e Dennis Erb, Jr. 790
6 18 Shannon Babb 790
8 0 Steve Shaver 775
9 28m Jimmy Mars 745
10 99 Donnie Moran 735
11 7 Matt Miller 730
12 2 Brady Smith 715
13 6t Tim Dohm 710
14 39 Tim McCreadie 690
14 s9 Dan Schlieper 690
16 83 Scott James 675
16 1 Earl Pearson, Jr 675
18 28 Eddie Carrier, Jr. 625
19 32d Darren Miller 590
19 71c RJ Conley 590
21 70 1/2 Anthony Rushing 580
22 12 Rick Aukland 570
23 21m Jason Montgomery 560
24 42t Terry Casey 550
25 25 Shane Clanton 545
26 19j Davey Johnson 530
27 72 John Mason 520
27 9 Billy Drake 520
29 15b Brian Birkhofer 510
29 56 Rohn Moon 510
31 53 Ray Cook 500
32 71r Rod Conley 495
32 31t Trent Follmer 495
34 4B Jackie Boggs 475
35 18d Butch McGill 460
36 3s Brian Shirley 450
37 34 Steve Hillard 445
38 T31 Shane Tankersly 440
39 91 Ricky Elliott 430
39 75 John Gill 430
41 02 Keith Nosbisch 425
42 58¢ Garrett Durrett 420
43 00c Johnny Chastain 415
43 00 Freddy Smith 415
43 14 Corey Conley 415
46 9z Jayme Zidar 405
46 5wp Eric Jacobsen 405
46 1p Scott Pounds 405
49 74 Russ Scheffler 400
50 00f Bo Feathers 395
51 12m Matt Hubbard 390
51 21d Daniel Stone 390
51 w11 Rob Blair 390
54 71h Chris Conley 385
55 19 Greg Johnson 375
56 5e Micheal England 365
56 44 Dave Hess 365
56 56z Zach Carney 365
59 1w Wes Steidinger 360
59 1r Josh Richards 360
61 02f Jason Flory 355
62 2w Anthony White 350
62 1m Mike Mataragas 350
62 02k John Kuchar 350
62 36 Darin Meierotto 350
66 30 Mark Voigt 345
66 5m John VandenBerg 345
66 12s Jason Smith 345
69 3r Brent Robinson 340
69 q3 Micheal Jackson 340
69 25b Mike Benedum 340
69 77 Barry Bragdon 340
73 16h Mike Hammerle 335
73 1x1 Ronald Conley 335
75 17o Greggie Oliver 330
75 17j Wayne Johnson 330
75 11s Rick Sowders 330
75 4 Victor Lee 330
75 0b Scott Bloomquist 330
80 32s Ronnie Smith 325
80 11 Pat Doar 325
80 5 Steve Lucas 325
80 70 Jeff Choquette 325
84 113 Jeff Gress 315
84 u2 Kristin Flory 315
84 79 Bill Cunningham 315
84 81 Scott Riggs 315
84 40 Gerald Davis 315
89 41 Brad Neat 310
90 21l Dennis Little 305
90 28h Evan Harrell 305
90 42 Marshall Austin 305
93 1d Ronnie DeHaven Jr. 300
93 05 Roy Deese, Jr. 300
93 17x Tom Turner 300
93 y3k Jon Krogstad 300
93 c4 Freddie Carpenter 300
93 29f Andy Anderson 300
93 157 Mike Marlar 300
100 83m Joe Morris 295
100 29 Darrell Lanigan 295
102 99S Ken Schrader 285
103 19m Jeffrey Matejka 280
104 11m Kenny Pettyjohn 275
105 00k Randy Korte 255
105 2c Clint Cofffman 255
107 2x Joe Ramey 250
108 21e Caley Emerson 240
108 29s Ken Shaltenbrand 240
108 23 Patrick Sheltra 240
108 12c Richard Combs 240
112 71x Delmas Conley 230
113 23l Michael Lloyd 225
114 3c Mike Collins 210
115 97 Michael Chilton 205
115 P1 Tim Prince 205
117 14m Brad Looney 200
118 17m Dale McDowell 185
119 31 Skip Arp 175
120 12f Donald Fannin 155
121 89 Marshall Green 150
121 53t Lee Thomason 150
123 20 Josh Manning 130
124 18h Steve Harvey 125
125 1f DavidRoberts 100
125 45 Russell Frohnapfel 100
127 17t Steve Radich 85
127 7l Randy Lucas 85
129 14m Carl Edwards 75
129 17t Frank Smith 75
129 32 Roger Crouse 75
132 14m Reid Millard 50
132 h9 Dean Bowen 50
132 11z Bryan Collins 50
132 9h Dale Hammond 50
132 95 Steven Mathis 50
132 grt1 Jeff Sloan 50
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O’Neal leads the way with 940 points with Steve Francis in second only 20 points in arrears of O’Neal with 920 points. The remainder of the top ten in season points are Terry English (905), Rick Eckert (805), Billy Moyer (805), Dennis Erb, Jr. (790), Shannon Babb (790), Steve Shaver (775), Jimmy Mars (745) and Donnie Moran (735).
For the first time in Winternationals history one sanctioning body oversaw all six nights and series officials decided to drop the two worst finishes for each competitor.
“When we sat down and looked at doing all six nights at East Bay we wanted to make it fair to the drivers who are going to follow the Lucas Oil NARA Dirt Car Series and six consecutive nights of sanctioning races at East Bay could be tough for the outcome of the season so the fairest thing to do was drop everyone’s two worst finishes and then from that point on every race counts,” explained Spencer Wilson, President of the Lucas Oil NARA DirtCar Series on Monday afternoon.
Wilson also explained the system used for NARA provisionals, which are separate from the R.A.C.E. provisionals that were in place from the R.A.C.E. organization and the track.
“As for the provisionals the drivers only got points when they had an NARA provisionals available,” said Wilson. “Unless they had an NARA provisional available they didn’t get points. Like the night Shannon (Babb) got a R.A.C.E. provisional he was eligible for an NARA provisional but the way the points were stacked that particular night the provisionals didn’t work out to where he was in points so he lost his NARA provisional on that night but gained points. Unless they had a NARA provisional available they didn’t get points if put in through the R.A.C.E. provisionals and if they did receive points they weren’t eligible for one later in the week.”
“The way our provisionals works every driver who signed up on Monday is a member of NARA and receives one provisional and they receive a second provisional after the fifth attended race so basically we had ten different provisionals with NARA up until Saturday and Saturday was the only time we had the same person who had one earlier in the week.”
“The NARA provisionals are basically rewarded for attendance.”
Wilson also gave high marks to Al Varnadore, Todd Hutto and the rest of the East Bay Raceway staff and crew for helping make the Lucas Oil NARA Dirt Car Series second season kick-off such an astounding success.
“Absolutely we had a homerun, I think we did well and I’m proud of our group,” stated Wilson. “Everything went fantastic with Todd and Al and we developed a good relationship and actually they may come up during the summer when they get into their rainy season and give us a hand.”
Lucas Oil DirtCar Series President Spencer Wilson, P.R. Director & Series Announcer James Essex and Event Coordinator Rick Schwallie will be guests next Monday evening February 21 on the Dirt Nation radio program that airs from 8:00 – 10:00 PM EST at: www.racetalklive.com
For more on the Lucas Oil NARA DirtCar Series visit: www.naradirtcar.com
CURRENT LUCAS OIL NARA DIRTCAR SERIES POINT STANDINGS
Through February 12, 2005:
Pos Car # Name Points
1 71 Don O'Neal 940
2 15 Steve Francis 920
3 96 Terry English 905
4 24 Rick Eckert 805
4 21 Billy Moyer, Jr 805
6 28e Dennis Erb, Jr. 790
6 18 Shannon Babb 790
8 0 Steve Shaver 775
9 28m Jimmy Mars 745
10 99 Donnie Moran 735
11 7 Matt Miller 730
12 2 Brady Smith 715
13 6t Tim Dohm 710
14 39 Tim McCreadie 690
14 s9 Dan Schlieper 690
16 83 Scott James 675
16 1 Earl Pearson, Jr 675
18 28 Eddie Carrier, Jr. 625
19 32d Darren Miller 590
19 71c RJ Conley 590
21 70 1/2 Anthony Rushing 580
22 12 Rick Aukland 570
23 21m Jason Montgomery 560
24 42t Terry Casey 550
25 25 Shane Clanton 545
26 19j Davey Johnson 530
27 72 John Mason 520
27 9 Billy Drake 520
29 15b Brian Birkhofer 510
29 56 Rohn Moon 510
31 53 Ray Cook 500
32 71r Rod Conley 495
32 31t Trent Follmer 495
34 4B Jackie Boggs 475
35 18d Butch McGill 460
36 3s Brian Shirley 450
37 34 Steve Hillard 445
38 T31 Shane Tankersly 440
39 91 Ricky Elliott 430
39 75 John Gill 430
41 02 Keith Nosbisch 425
42 58¢ Garrett Durrett 420
43 00c Johnny Chastain 415
43 00 Freddy Smith 415
43 14 Corey Conley 415
46 9z Jayme Zidar 405
46 5wp Eric Jacobsen 405
46 1p Scott Pounds 405
49 74 Russ Scheffler 400
50 00f Bo Feathers 395
51 12m Matt Hubbard 390
51 21d Daniel Stone 390
51 w11 Rob Blair 390
54 71h Chris Conley 385
55 19 Greg Johnson 375
56 5e Micheal England 365
56 44 Dave Hess 365
56 56z Zach Carney 365
59 1w Wes Steidinger 360
59 1r Josh Richards 360
61 02f Jason Flory 355
62 2w Anthony White 350
62 1m Mike Mataragas 350
62 02k John Kuchar 350
62 36 Darin Meierotto 350
66 30 Mark Voigt 345
66 5m John VandenBerg 345
66 12s Jason Smith 345
69 3r Brent Robinson 340
69 q3 Micheal Jackson 340
69 25b Mike Benedum 340
69 77 Barry Bragdon 340
73 16h Mike Hammerle 335
73 1x1 Ronald Conley 335
75 17o Greggie Oliver 330
75 17j Wayne Johnson 330
75 11s Rick Sowders 330
75 4 Victor Lee 330
75 0b Scott Bloomquist 330
80 32s Ronnie Smith 325
80 11 Pat Doar 325
80 5 Steve Lucas 325
80 70 Jeff Choquette 325
84 113 Jeff Gress 315
84 u2 Kristin Flory 315
84 79 Bill Cunningham 315
84 81 Scott Riggs 315
84 40 Gerald Davis 315
89 41 Brad Neat 310
90 21l Dennis Little 305
90 28h Evan Harrell 305
90 42 Marshall Austin 305
93 1d Ronnie DeHaven Jr. 300
93 05 Roy Deese, Jr. 300
93 17x Tom Turner 300
93 y3k Jon Krogstad 300
93 c4 Freddie Carpenter 300
93 29f Andy Anderson 300
93 157 Mike Marlar 300
100 83m Joe Morris 295
100 29 Darrell Lanigan 295
102 99S Ken Schrader 285
103 19m Jeffrey Matejka 280
104 11m Kenny Pettyjohn 275
105 00k Randy Korte 255
105 2c Clint Cofffman 255
107 2x Joe Ramey 250
108 21e Caley Emerson 240
108 29s Ken Shaltenbrand 240
108 23 Patrick Sheltra 240
108 12c Richard Combs 240
112 71x Delmas Conley 230
113 23l Michael Lloyd 225
114 3c Mike Collins 210
115 97 Michael Chilton 205
115 P1 Tim Prince 205
117 14m Brad Looney 200
118 17m Dale McDowell 185
119 31 Skip Arp 175
120 12f Donald Fannin 155
121 89 Marshall Green 150
121 53t Lee Thomason 150
123 20 Josh Manning 130
124 18h Steve Harvey 125
125 1f DavidRoberts 100
125 45 Russell Frohnapfel 100
127 17t Steve Radich 85
127 7l Randy Lucas 85
129 14m Carl Edwards 75
129 17t Frank Smith 75
129 32 Roger Crouse 75
132 14m Reid Millard 50
132 h9 Dean Bowen 50
132 11z Bryan Collins 50
132 9h Dale Hammond 50
132 95 Steven Mathis 50
132 grt1 Jeff Sloan 50
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