June 05, 2009 (Kankakee, IL) The Friday Night Lights were turned on for the third consecutive week, as beautiful weather again blessed the fans of Kankakee County Speedway. One-hundred four race cars signed in to compete in the four classes Friday night, and with a smooth track, minimal cautions, and some good racing to boot, fans were able to see the entire show and still be on their way home before 11PM.
For the second week in a row, thirty three street stocks registered including two Thunder Cars, but it made no difference to last week's winner Rick Thomas, who used his outside pole position starting spot to jump out to an early lead and then hold off the challenges of Joel Hillman, Nate Payton, and step-son Joel Funk. Funk would get around Payton and Hillman for the second spot and look to reel in his step-father, but time would not be on his side, as Thomas was able to hold on for the win. Hillman, Payton, and Darrin Kohler rounded out the top five, respectively. Heat race wins belonged to Hillman, Thomas, and Kohler, while Dave Polak scored the consi win.
Whether it be an old car or a brand new one, the end result was still the same for veteran driver Kevin Weaver of Gibson City, as he over took early pacesetter Ted Loomis after several laps and never looked back. "The Flatland Flash" would simply go uncontested as he sped to victory lane over last week's feature winner Aaron Ricketts, Loomis, John Provenzano, and Mike Provenzano.
And with twenty-seven UMP Late Models on hand, three heats and a consi were run to determine the starting grid. Derek Chandler, George Scheffler, and Loomis all scored heat race triumphs, while Jay Morris earned the consi win. Loomis was the night's fast qualifier at 14.628, and he electrified the large crowd with a hellacious run in the fast heat race, as he went from last to first in one super impressive lap. Some fans called that "worth the price of admission alone".
Thirty-two UMP Modifieds checked in this week, and in a strange twist of fate, Jim Farris of Odell, who destroyed his primary car in a wild roll-over a week ago, returned with the borrowed car of Bobby Crego/Jason Klopp, to score the wire-to-wire win over last week's feature winner Gary Cook Jr., Lance Dehm, Vince Cooper, and Mike Spatola. Farris, who builds his own FRP (Farris Race Products) Chassis used the borrowed ride previously last Saturday at Fairbury to register a third-place finish.
Heat race wins belonged to Dave Porth, Kevin Hastings, Shawn Scripter, and Farris, while Dave Baldwin and George Aimone scored consi checkers. Fast qualifier honors went to Dehm with a 15.976 effort.
Kurt Allison repeated as the I-Mod feature winner, as 12 cars lined up to do battle. Week one winner Mike Sullivan Jr. came home second, while Kenny Carlson, Mike Kingma, and Bob Fortner, rounded out the top five.Rich Rish, . Heat race action was also taken by Allison.
In the lone Miller Lite Match Race of the night, Indiana's Shawn Scripter easily defeated Kankakee's own Phil Line 2 - 0, who was hampered with an ailing car. Scripter will now move on to face Lance Dehm of Chatsworth.
UMP Street Stocks - 33 cars
SS Heat 1 (top 5)
1. J01 Hillman
2. 23JR Funk
3. 55 Wicker
4. 43 Hubert
5. 23 Hemp
6. 46 Kroll
7. 64 Richardson
8. 18 Pasek
9. 70H Huffman
10. 20 Sills
11. 36 Keen
SS Heat 2 (top 5)
1. 23T Thomas
2. 99 Payton
3. 3 Legner
4. B13 Peters
5. V66 Vaughn
6. 59 Polak
7. 1W Wirtz
8. 68 Thompson
9. 44 Lenzen
10. 1A Atkinson (Thunder car)
11. 10 Bratcher
SS Heat 3 (top 5)
1. 21K Kohler
2. 16 Turner
3. 96 Hamilton
4. 5 Shutter
5. 52 Kingsnorth
6. 03 Bleuer (Thunder car)
7. 33G Gaus
8. 70B Bushey
9. 2T Tolliver
10. V7 Glassford
11. 15G Gaus
SS Consi (top 5)
1. 59 Dave Polak
2. 1W Brian Wirtz
3. 46 Nate Kroll
4. 70B Ken Bushey
5. 10 Robert Bratcher
6. 03 Ryan Bleuer (Thunder car)
7. V7 Scott Glassford
8. 64 Chris Richardson
9. 68 Jay Thompson
10. 33G Katie Gaus
11. 70H Wayne Huffman
12. 20 Chris Sills
13. 1A Jeremy Atkinson (Thunder car)
14. 44 Kevin Lenzen
15. 18 Tom Pasek - no start
16. 2T Bill Tolliver - no start
17. 36 Bryan Keen - no start
18. 15G Eric Gaus - no start
FEATURE (15-laps)
1. 23T Rick Thomas (2)
2. 23JR Joel Funk (4)
3. J01 Joe Hillman (1)
4. 99 Nate Payton (5)
5. 21K Darrin Kohler (3)
6. 55 Billy Wicker (7)
7. 5 Shannon Shutter (12)
8. 1W Brian Wirtz (17)
9. 59 Dave Polak (16)
10. 96 Jay Hamilton (9)
11. 3 Tom Legner (8)
12. 16 Robert Turner (6)
13. 43 Dustin Hubert (10)
14. 23 Tony Hemp (13)
15. 10 Robert Bratcher (20)
16. B13 Brett Peters (11)
17. 52 Rick Kingsnorth (15)
18. V66 Lance Vaughn (14)
19. 46 Nate Kroll (18)
20. 70B Ken Bushey (19)
UMP Late Models - 27 cars
Fast Qualifier - Ted Loomis 14.628
LM Heat 1 (top 4)
1. 35 Chandler
2. M27 Provenzano
3. 10X Schmidt
4. 05 Schalmo
5. 92 Potts
6. 77M Morris
7. 97 Burba
8. 23M Madison
9. T111 Reineche
10. 49 Brewer - no start
LM Heat 2 (top 4)
1. 10S Scheffler
2. 92 Pleasant
3. 64 Cook Jr
4. 10H Hilleary
5. 45 Buschy
6. 66 Line
7. 93 Mitchell
8. 14T Thompson
9. 7T Thorsten
LM Heat 3 (fast heat)
1. 23 Loomis
2. 7P Provenzano
3. B12 Weaver
4. 14M Mathew
5. 11X Dimmick
6. 83 Bull
7. 95 Ricketts
8. 24 Quill
LM Consi (top 3)
1. 77M Jay Morris
2. 66 Phil Line
3. 92 Dick Potts
4. 93M Kyle Madison
5. 45 Zach Buschy
6. 7T Steve Thorsten
7. 97 Joe Burba
8. 93 Roy Mitchell
9. 14T Glenn Thompson - no start
10. 49 Scott Brewer - no start
11. T111 Bill Reiniche - no start
FEATURE (25-laps)
1. B12 Kevin Weaver (3)
2. 95 Aaron Ricketts (7)
3. 23 Ted Loomis (1)
4. 83 Scott Bull (6)
5. 7P John Provenzano (2)
6. M27 Mike Provezano (11)
7. 10S George Scheffler (10)
8. 10X Scott Schmidt (13)
9. 35 Derek Chandler (9)
10. 05 Gary Schalmo (15)
11. 11X Steve Dimmick (5)
12. 66 Phil Line (16)
13. 10H Don Hilleary (14)
14. 23M Kyle Madison (18)
15. 24 John Quill (8)
16. 77M Jay Morris (17)
17. 92 Rusty Pleasant (12)
18. 14 Kerry Mathew (4)
19. 92 Dick Potts (19)
20. 64 Gary Cook Jr (20)
UMP Modifieds - 32 cars
Fast Qualifier - Lance Dehm 15.976
Modified Heat 1 (top 3)
1. 25P Porth
2. 42 Wenger
3. 68 Bachman
4. 41 McCarty
5. G4 Aimone
6. 89M Molnar
7. 48 Pockrus
8. 66 Line
Modified Heat 2 (top 3)
1. 36 K. Hastings
2. 67 Funk
3. 21 Losh
4. 5J Johnson
5. 91 Novorolsky
6. 5o Todd
7. 98 King
8. 0 Kohler
Modified Heat 3 (top 3)
1. 10 Scripter
2. 36L Lomax
3. 20 Dixon
4. 6B Baldwin
5. 24 Ramson
6. 47 Hughes
7. 06 Kortge
8. 58 Carlson
Modified Heat 4 (fast heat)
1. 7 Farris
2. 89 Spatola
3. 35 J. Hastings
4. 64 Cook Jr
5. 70 Cooper
6. D1 Dehm
7. 7K Myszkiewicz
8. 21JR McCoy
Mod Consi 1 (top 2)
1. 6B Dave Baldwin
2. 41 Steve McCarty
3. 47 Terry Hughes
4. 89M Tony Molnar
5. 58 Scott Carlson
6. 91 Mark Novorolsky
7. 98 Ryan King
8. 66 Phil Line - no start
Mod Consi 2 (top 2)
1. G4 George Aimone
2. 24 Jim Ramson
3. 5J Jeremy Johnson
4. 06 Ryan Kortge
5.. 5o Mike Todd
6. 48 Adam Pockrus
7. 0 Travis Kohler - no start
FEATURE (20-laps)
1. 7 Jim Farris (1)
2. 64 Gary Cook Jr (4)
3. D1 Lance Dehm (6)
4. 70 Vince Cooper (5)
5. 89 Mike Spatola (2)
6. 25P Dave Porth (9)
7. 36 Kevin Hastings (10)
8. 35 Jason Hastings (3)
9. 36L Jamie Lomax (14)
10. 68 Matt Bachman (15)
11. G4 George Aimone (19)
12. 21JR Justin McCoy (8)
13. 24 Jim Ramson (21)
14. 41 Steve McCarty (20)
15. 21 Derek Losh (16)
16. 7K Kevin Myszkiewicz (7)
17. 10 Shawn Scripter (11)
18. 67 Joel Funk (13)
19. 6B Dave Baldwin (18)
20. 20 AJ Dixon (17)
21. 42 McKay Wenger (12)
I-Mods - 12 cars
I-Mod Heat
1. 225 Allison
2. 77 Kingma
3. M80 Montalta
4. 71 Fortner
5. 21C Carlson
6. 89 ???
7. 38 Sullivan Jr
8. 88 Martin
9. 24C Kinderman
10. 37H Hamilton
11. 9M Malone
12. 014 Rich Rish
FEATURE (15-laps)
1. 225 Kurt Allison (1)
2. 38 Jim Sullivan Jr (7)
3. 21C Kenny Carlson (5)
4. 77 Mike Kingma (2)
5. 71 Bob Fortner (4)
6. 014 Rich Rish (12)
7. 89 ??? (6)
8. 88 Neil Martin (8)
9. 9M DJ Malone (11)
10. 37H Kyle Hamilton (10)
11. 24C Clint Kinderman (9)
12. M80 Nick Montalta (3)
For the second week in a row, thirty three street stocks registered including two Thunder Cars, but it made no difference to last week's winner Rick Thomas, who used his outside pole position starting spot to jump out to an early lead and then hold off the challenges of Joel Hillman, Nate Payton, and step-son Joel Funk. Funk would get around Payton and Hillman for the second spot and look to reel in his step-father, but time would not be on his side, as Thomas was able to hold on for the win. Hillman, Payton, and Darrin Kohler rounded out the top five, respectively. Heat race wins belonged to Hillman, Thomas, and Kohler, while Dave Polak scored the consi win.
Whether it be an old car or a brand new one, the end result was still the same for veteran driver Kevin Weaver of Gibson City, as he over took early pacesetter Ted Loomis after several laps and never looked back. "The Flatland Flash" would simply go uncontested as he sped to victory lane over last week's feature winner Aaron Ricketts, Loomis, John Provenzano, and Mike Provenzano.
And with twenty-seven UMP Late Models on hand, three heats and a consi were run to determine the starting grid. Derek Chandler, George Scheffler, and Loomis all scored heat race triumphs, while Jay Morris earned the consi win. Loomis was the night's fast qualifier at 14.628, and he electrified the large crowd with a hellacious run in the fast heat race, as he went from last to first in one super impressive lap. Some fans called that "worth the price of admission alone".
Thirty-two UMP Modifieds checked in this week, and in a strange twist of fate, Jim Farris of Odell, who destroyed his primary car in a wild roll-over a week ago, returned with the borrowed car of Bobby Crego/Jason Klopp, to score the wire-to-wire win over last week's feature winner Gary Cook Jr., Lance Dehm, Vince Cooper, and Mike Spatola. Farris, who builds his own FRP (Farris Race Products) Chassis used the borrowed ride previously last Saturday at Fairbury to register a third-place finish.
Heat race wins belonged to Dave Porth, Kevin Hastings, Shawn Scripter, and Farris, while Dave Baldwin and George Aimone scored consi checkers. Fast qualifier honors went to Dehm with a 15.976 effort.
Kurt Allison repeated as the I-Mod feature winner, as 12 cars lined up to do battle. Week one winner Mike Sullivan Jr. came home second, while Kenny Carlson, Mike Kingma, and Bob Fortner, rounded out the top five.Rich Rish, . Heat race action was also taken by Allison.
In the lone Miller Lite Match Race of the night, Indiana's Shawn Scripter easily defeated Kankakee's own Phil Line 2 - 0, who was hampered with an ailing car. Scripter will now move on to face Lance Dehm of Chatsworth.
UMP Street Stocks - 33 cars
SS Heat 1 (top 5)
1. J01 Hillman
2. 23JR Funk
3. 55 Wicker
4. 43 Hubert
5. 23 Hemp
6. 46 Kroll
7. 64 Richardson
8. 18 Pasek
9. 70H Huffman
10. 20 Sills
11. 36 Keen
SS Heat 2 (top 5)
1. 23T Thomas
2. 99 Payton
3. 3 Legner
4. B13 Peters
5. V66 Vaughn
6. 59 Polak
7. 1W Wirtz
8. 68 Thompson
9. 44 Lenzen
10. 1A Atkinson (Thunder car)
11. 10 Bratcher
SS Heat 3 (top 5)
1. 21K Kohler
2. 16 Turner
3. 96 Hamilton
4. 5 Shutter
5. 52 Kingsnorth
6. 03 Bleuer (Thunder car)
7. 33G Gaus
8. 70B Bushey
9. 2T Tolliver
10. V7 Glassford
11. 15G Gaus
SS Consi (top 5)
1. 59 Dave Polak
2. 1W Brian Wirtz
3. 46 Nate Kroll
4. 70B Ken Bushey
5. 10 Robert Bratcher
6. 03 Ryan Bleuer (Thunder car)
7. V7 Scott Glassford
8. 64 Chris Richardson
9. 68 Jay Thompson
10. 33G Katie Gaus
11. 70H Wayne Huffman
12. 20 Chris Sills
13. 1A Jeremy Atkinson (Thunder car)
14. 44 Kevin Lenzen
15. 18 Tom Pasek - no start
16. 2T Bill Tolliver - no start
17. 36 Bryan Keen - no start
18. 15G Eric Gaus - no start
FEATURE (15-laps)
1. 23T Rick Thomas (2)
2. 23JR Joel Funk (4)
3. J01 Joe Hillman (1)
4. 99 Nate Payton (5)
5. 21K Darrin Kohler (3)
6. 55 Billy Wicker (7)
7. 5 Shannon Shutter (12)
8. 1W Brian Wirtz (17)
9. 59 Dave Polak (16)
10. 96 Jay Hamilton (9)
11. 3 Tom Legner (8)
12. 16 Robert Turner (6)
13. 43 Dustin Hubert (10)
14. 23 Tony Hemp (13)
15. 10 Robert Bratcher (20)
16. B13 Brett Peters (11)
17. 52 Rick Kingsnorth (15)
18. V66 Lance Vaughn (14)
19. 46 Nate Kroll (18)
20. 70B Ken Bushey (19)
UMP Late Models - 27 cars
Fast Qualifier - Ted Loomis 14.628
LM Heat 1 (top 4)
1. 35 Chandler
2. M27 Provenzano
3. 10X Schmidt
4. 05 Schalmo
5. 92 Potts
6. 77M Morris
7. 97 Burba
8. 23M Madison
9. T111 Reineche
10. 49 Brewer - no start
LM Heat 2 (top 4)
1. 10S Scheffler
2. 92 Pleasant
3. 64 Cook Jr
4. 10H Hilleary
5. 45 Buschy
6. 66 Line
7. 93 Mitchell
8. 14T Thompson
9. 7T Thorsten
LM Heat 3 (fast heat)
1. 23 Loomis
2. 7P Provenzano
3. B12 Weaver
4. 14M Mathew
5. 11X Dimmick
6. 83 Bull
7. 95 Ricketts
8. 24 Quill
LM Consi (top 3)
1. 77M Jay Morris
2. 66 Phil Line
3. 92 Dick Potts
4. 93M Kyle Madison
5. 45 Zach Buschy
6. 7T Steve Thorsten
7. 97 Joe Burba
8. 93 Roy Mitchell
9. 14T Glenn Thompson - no start
10. 49 Scott Brewer - no start
11. T111 Bill Reiniche - no start
FEATURE (25-laps)
1. B12 Kevin Weaver (3)
2. 95 Aaron Ricketts (7)
3. 23 Ted Loomis (1)
4. 83 Scott Bull (6)
5. 7P John Provenzano (2)
6. M27 Mike Provezano (11)
7. 10S George Scheffler (10)
8. 10X Scott Schmidt (13)
9. 35 Derek Chandler (9)
10. 05 Gary Schalmo (15)
11. 11X Steve Dimmick (5)
12. 66 Phil Line (16)
13. 10H Don Hilleary (14)
14. 23M Kyle Madison (18)
15. 24 John Quill (8)
16. 77M Jay Morris (17)
17. 92 Rusty Pleasant (12)
18. 14 Kerry Mathew (4)
19. 92 Dick Potts (19)
20. 64 Gary Cook Jr (20)
UMP Modifieds - 32 cars
Fast Qualifier - Lance Dehm 15.976
Modified Heat 1 (top 3)
1. 25P Porth
2. 42 Wenger
3. 68 Bachman
4. 41 McCarty
5. G4 Aimone
6. 89M Molnar
7. 48 Pockrus
8. 66 Line
Modified Heat 2 (top 3)
1. 36 K. Hastings
2. 67 Funk
3. 21 Losh
4. 5J Johnson
5. 91 Novorolsky
6. 5o Todd
7. 98 King
8. 0 Kohler
Modified Heat 3 (top 3)
1. 10 Scripter
2. 36L Lomax
3. 20 Dixon
4. 6B Baldwin
5. 24 Ramson
6. 47 Hughes
7. 06 Kortge
8. 58 Carlson
Modified Heat 4 (fast heat)
1. 7 Farris
2. 89 Spatola
3. 35 J. Hastings
4. 64 Cook Jr
5. 70 Cooper
6. D1 Dehm
7. 7K Myszkiewicz
8. 21JR McCoy
Mod Consi 1 (top 2)
1. 6B Dave Baldwin
2. 41 Steve McCarty
3. 47 Terry Hughes
4. 89M Tony Molnar
5. 58 Scott Carlson
6. 91 Mark Novorolsky
7. 98 Ryan King
8. 66 Phil Line - no start
Mod Consi 2 (top 2)
1. G4 George Aimone
2. 24 Jim Ramson
3. 5J Jeremy Johnson
4. 06 Ryan Kortge
5.. 5o Mike Todd
6. 48 Adam Pockrus
7. 0 Travis Kohler - no start
FEATURE (20-laps)
1. 7 Jim Farris (1)
2. 64 Gary Cook Jr (4)
3. D1 Lance Dehm (6)
4. 70 Vince Cooper (5)
5. 89 Mike Spatola (2)
6. 25P Dave Porth (9)
7. 36 Kevin Hastings (10)
8. 35 Jason Hastings (3)
9. 36L Jamie Lomax (14)
10. 68 Matt Bachman (15)
11. G4 George Aimone (19)
12. 21JR Justin McCoy (8)
13. 24 Jim Ramson (21)
14. 41 Steve McCarty (20)
15. 21 Derek Losh (16)
16. 7K Kevin Myszkiewicz (7)
17. 10 Shawn Scripter (11)
18. 67 Joel Funk (13)
19. 6B Dave Baldwin (18)
20. 20 AJ Dixon (17)
21. 42 McKay Wenger (12)
I-Mods - 12 cars
I-Mod Heat
1. 225 Allison
2. 77 Kingma
3. M80 Montalta
4. 71 Fortner
5. 21C Carlson
6. 89 ???
7. 38 Sullivan Jr
8. 88 Martin
9. 24C Kinderman
10. 37H Hamilton
11. 9M Malone
12. 014 Rich Rish
FEATURE (15-laps)
1. 225 Kurt Allison (1)
2. 38 Jim Sullivan Jr (7)
3. 21C Kenny Carlson (5)
4. 77 Mike Kingma (2)
5. 71 Bob Fortner (4)
6. 014 Rich Rish (12)
7. 89 ??? (6)
8. 88 Neil Martin (8)
9. 9M DJ Malone (11)
10. 37H Kyle Hamilton (10)
11. 24C Clint Kinderman (9)
12. M80 Nick Montalta (3)
