Defending track Champion Henry Hanger had not been out of the Top 5 all season but prior to Saturday night the Winchester speedster had yet to visit the J7J trenching victory lane. Hanger rectified that problem on Saturday night by holding off the advances of Steve Vann, who made a valiant effort and was rewarded with his best finish ever at Winchester, a very close runner-up finish. Landon Arnold prevailed in a terrific four car battle for third through sixth as Colt Russell and Marty May had fine runs to edge sixth place Tony Mooney for their Top 5 finish.
The headache and/or bad luck award for the night had to go to Kelly Walker(#25). A spectacular 16.30 lap superseded the track record held by former Super Stock and Open Wheel Champion David Jackson's 16.31 mark. Unfortunately Walker experienced mechanical maladies and was scratched not able to start the main event. Mark Haddon ran a close second to walker in the headache department as the Winchester hot shoe was involved in a lap two incident that sent Mark over the turn one berm and rendered him momentarily unconscious. Mark was OK but through for the evening.
Open Wheel
1)Henry Hanger
2)Steve Vann
3)Landon Arnold
4)Colt Russell
5)Tony Mooney
6)Marty May
7)Gary Tucker
8)Robert Baker
9)Toby Crumbley
10)Daran Anderson
In the two barrel Late Model main it was a real struggle with David Seibers shadowing Jeff Tate for the entire 20 laps before finally settling for second spot while Tate became the fourth different 2-BBL LM feature winner in four events. McMinnville’s Larry DeLong gave it the old college try but could only muster a very strong third place run ahead of neighbor Terry Fowler and Shane Echols.
Seibers and Tate were the heat race victors.
2-BBL Late Model
1)Jeff Tate
2)David Seibers
3)Larry DeLong
4)Terry Fowler
5)Shane Echols
6)Randy Judge
7)Ricky Fuller
8)Ryan Gifford
9)Ryan Green
10)Eddie Graves
Every week the Outlaw Pony feature is a hotly contested event and this week’s race continued that tradition with Brad Sain all over defending champion Tony Patterson but alas would trail the two time champion across the finish line with Mike Brashears in third. Steve Gannon drove his Ford Ranger 4-cylinder to fourth spot with Ricky Brown in fifth. Patterson made it a clean sweep by also winning his heat race.
Outlaw Pony
1)Tony Patterson
2)Brad Sain
3)Mike Brashears
4)Steve Gannon
5)Ricky Brown
Heat winner’s Ricky Riddle and Bobby Bradford had a major battle for some eight laps before Bradford broke. With Bradford out Riddle may have assumed the heat was off but a great run by Jonathan Sells saw Sells push the two time winner the final laps before finally settling for a place finish while Johnny Payne’s show run was his best finish of 2004. Brian Hudson and Marty Anderson were fourth and fifth.
Super Stock
1)Ricky Riddle
2)Jonathan Sells
3)Johnny Payne
4)Brian Hudson
5)Marty Anderson
Heat winner Gary Whaley jumped in front of pole sitter Chad Gene at the onset of the 15 lap feature then out muscled Mike Hines and two time victor John Whaley for his first victory of the year. Charles Robinson had a fine run to nab fourth while Gene was fifth in front of defending champion Jeff Anderson.
John Whaley also won his heat race.
Pure Stock
1)Gary Whaley
2)Mike Hines
3)John Whaley
4)Charles Robinson
5)Chad Gene
2004 Tullahoma News Driver of the Year Jason Todd had to wrestle the lead from early leader and father Julius Todd then withstand a banzai run by 2004’s Most Improved Driver Michael Brown to net win number four. Clyde Petty and Josh Carlton were fourth and fifth with some seven or eight racers tightly bunched from start to finish.
Petty and Julius Todd were the heat winners.
Mini Stock
1)Jason Todd
2)Michael Brown
3)Julius Todd
4)Clyde Petty
5)Josh Carlton
Racing continues Saturday night, April 16 with the 1st Annual Dogwood Festival. All classes will be in action. www.winchesterspeedwaytn.com (931)967-0066
Dennis Bowling
The headache and/or bad luck award for the night had to go to Kelly Walker(#25). A spectacular 16.30 lap superseded the track record held by former Super Stock and Open Wheel Champion David Jackson's 16.31 mark. Unfortunately Walker experienced mechanical maladies and was scratched not able to start the main event. Mark Haddon ran a close second to walker in the headache department as the Winchester hot shoe was involved in a lap two incident that sent Mark over the turn one berm and rendered him momentarily unconscious. Mark was OK but through for the evening.
Open Wheel
1)Henry Hanger
2)Steve Vann
3)Landon Arnold
4)Colt Russell
5)Tony Mooney
6)Marty May
7)Gary Tucker
8)Robert Baker
9)Toby Crumbley
10)Daran Anderson
In the two barrel Late Model main it was a real struggle with David Seibers shadowing Jeff Tate for the entire 20 laps before finally settling for second spot while Tate became the fourth different 2-BBL LM feature winner in four events. McMinnville’s Larry DeLong gave it the old college try but could only muster a very strong third place run ahead of neighbor Terry Fowler and Shane Echols.
Seibers and Tate were the heat race victors.
2-BBL Late Model
1)Jeff Tate
2)David Seibers
3)Larry DeLong
4)Terry Fowler
5)Shane Echols
6)Randy Judge
7)Ricky Fuller
8)Ryan Gifford
9)Ryan Green
10)Eddie Graves
Every week the Outlaw Pony feature is a hotly contested event and this week’s race continued that tradition with Brad Sain all over defending champion Tony Patterson but alas would trail the two time champion across the finish line with Mike Brashears in third. Steve Gannon drove his Ford Ranger 4-cylinder to fourth spot with Ricky Brown in fifth. Patterson made it a clean sweep by also winning his heat race.
Outlaw Pony
1)Tony Patterson
2)Brad Sain
3)Mike Brashears
4)Steve Gannon
5)Ricky Brown
Heat winner’s Ricky Riddle and Bobby Bradford had a major battle for some eight laps before Bradford broke. With Bradford out Riddle may have assumed the heat was off but a great run by Jonathan Sells saw Sells push the two time winner the final laps before finally settling for a place finish while Johnny Payne’s show run was his best finish of 2004. Brian Hudson and Marty Anderson were fourth and fifth.
Super Stock
1)Ricky Riddle
2)Jonathan Sells
3)Johnny Payne
4)Brian Hudson
5)Marty Anderson
Heat winner Gary Whaley jumped in front of pole sitter Chad Gene at the onset of the 15 lap feature then out muscled Mike Hines and two time victor John Whaley for his first victory of the year. Charles Robinson had a fine run to nab fourth while Gene was fifth in front of defending champion Jeff Anderson.
John Whaley also won his heat race.
Pure Stock
1)Gary Whaley
2)Mike Hines
3)John Whaley
4)Charles Robinson
5)Chad Gene
2004 Tullahoma News Driver of the Year Jason Todd had to wrestle the lead from early leader and father Julius Todd then withstand a banzai run by 2004’s Most Improved Driver Michael Brown to net win number four. Clyde Petty and Josh Carlton were fourth and fifth with some seven or eight racers tightly bunched from start to finish.
Petty and Julius Todd were the heat winners.
Mini Stock
1)Jason Todd
2)Michael Brown
3)Julius Todd
4)Clyde Petty
5)Josh Carlton
Racing continues Saturday night, April 16 with the 1st Annual Dogwood Festival. All classes will be in action. www.winchesterspeedwaytn.com (931)967-0066
Dennis Bowling
