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Kramer, Pitts thrill packed house
at Eldora
ROSSBURG,
OH (August 10, 2013) —
Prior to a dazzling fireworks display that capped off Family Fun Night,
feature
race winners Joey Kramer (UMP DIRTcar Modifieds) and Dean Pitts (Stock
Cars) helped
to wow a large and appreciative crowd with a sensational show of their
own. Drivers from
eight states and one
province helped to swell the pit area for a wild doubleheader night of
action.
Kramer,
the defending track
champion, became the sixth different Modified driver to win in six
races at
Eldora this season. That broke a record set back in 1996 when five
different
drivers won the first five races. It wasn’t without drama; however, in
the
18-lap feature.
Dwight
Niehoff, of Lockwood, Mo.,
clicked off the first five laps in first place. Kramer slid into second
on the
second lap and the chase was on. Kramer, of Hanover, Ind., stalked
Niehoff the
next few laps and made his move on lap five with a slide job coming out
of Turn
4. Kramer made it stick, then set sail as Kody Wiesner, Matt Westfall
and Jerry
Bowersock furiously battled for second, third and fourth.
A
caution with 13 laps complete
erased Kramer’s 2.44-second lead over the field. Kramer, choosing the
outside
row on the double-file restart, rocketed away from the field. But he
tagged the
wall coming out of Turn 2 with two laps remaining, straightened the
nose and
regained his composure. Still, it allowed Wiesner to go door-to-door
with
Kramer in Turns 3-4 resulting in a drag race down the frontstretch.
“I
hooked a rut and it turned into
the wall,” Kramer said of smacking the concrete in Turn 2. “All I knew
was to
turn left off the wall and (floor) it because they were right on me.
That boy
in second place drove a heck of a race. He ran me clean down in the
corner.
That was a heck of a race. You know that concrete doesn’t move.”
Kramer
held off the challenge
behind him for his seventh career win at Eldora.
“There’s
no words to explain
standing on this stage at Eldora Speedway,” Kramer said from the
Victory Lane
stage. “All these kids in the audience, I don’t know how many of you
are here
for your first race, but I hope we made it a good one for you.”
Wiesner,
Westfall, Jonathan Taylor
and Aaron Orr rounded out the top five.
“That
was probably one of the most
fun races I’ve ran in a long time,” Wiesner said. “The track was
awesome.”
In
the Stocks, Emily Gade of Iowa
thrilled the crowd by running out front the first eight laps. Adam
Schaeff,
Pitts, Nick Bowers, Earnie Woodard, Barney Craig and Paul Pardo were
among the
drivers in a spirited pursuit. After a great restart following a
caution with
six laps complete, Gade found trouble just two laps later.
Making
only her second appearance
at Eldora, Gade smacked the wall in Turn 3-4 to end her run.
Schaeff
inherited the lead and sat
just seven laps from his first victory at Eldora. He held off Pitts in
a
side-by-side battle for several laps as the top four drivers were all
within
.515 seconds of each other. With two laps remaining Pitts, of Botkins,
Ohio,
worked his way past Schaeff coming out of Turn 2 and raced away to the
win.
“Once
I got underneath him a couple
times he raced me clean. I’ve got all the hats off in the world to him.
He did
a nice job,” Pitts said of racing Schaeff. “I hated for the No. 6 car
(Gade)
‘cause I don’t know if we would have caught her. When I saw she had
trouble I
thought, ‘Oh man, this might be mine.’”
Schaeff took the loss in
stride and was
thrilled with his best career finish at Eldora.
“I’ll tell you what, that’s
what it’s all
about right there,” Schaeff said. “That was a blast. That was the most
fun I
had racing.”
Eldora Speedway returns to
action with the 6th
annual WIX Filters Baltes Classic on Sunday, Sept. 1. The Sunoco
American Late
Model Series, UMP DIRTcar Modifieds and Eldora Stock cars will compete.
Complete event information may be obtained by visiting the track’s
website
www.EldoraSpeedway.com, or by calling the speedway office at (937)
338-3815.
Additionally, race fans and race teams can get behind-the-scenes access
by
following @EldoraSpeedway on Twitter, hitting ‘Like’ at
Facebook.com/EldoraSpeedway and view video highlights at
YouTube.com/EldoraSpeedwayInc. The
new
Eldora Speedway app for the iPhone, iPad and Android is now available
for
download via iTunes and Google Play.
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UMP
DIRTcar MODIFIED
TIME
TRIALS - 1. 7-Evan Taylor
[18.407]; 2. 26-Mike Dirksen [99.999]; 3. 10BB-Bryan Barber [17.426];
4.
4B-Darryl Banks [18.225]; 5. 31J-John Brooks [18.153]; 6. 17JE-Je
Stalder
[18.168]; 7. 23J-Jon Henry [18.353]; 8. 1-Steve Billenstein [18.511];
9.
54-Matt Westfall [17.223]; 10. 35-Tim Cornett [18.908]; 11. 93-Josh
Greber
[18.853]; 12. 00N-Dwight Niehoff [17.589]; 13. 1SW-Scott Williams
[18.128]; 14.
2-Jason Kinney [18.023]; 15. 67W-Rocky Wilson [18.423]; 16. 10-Scott
Bowersock
[18.610]; 17. 20-Josh Morton [18.029]; 18. 10H-Brad Hess [18.078]; 19.
01-Joel
Ortberg [17.477]; 20. 5X-Tim Richardson [18.429]; 21. 71-Matt Chambers
[19.739]; 22. 36-Brandon Vaughan [18.059]; 23. 15-Nick Katterhenry
[18.085];
24. 4J-David Treon, Jr [19.369]; 25. 18-Ryan Sutter [18.286]; 26.
77-Joey
Kramer [17.430]; 27. 79-Shane Unger [18.502]; 28. 52-John Phlipot, Jr
[18.257];
29. 00-Dave Daughtery [17.863]; 30. 51-Cody Timmerman [18.895]; 31.
0-Brent
Hole [17.869]; 32. 0A-Derrick Austin [18.646]; 33. 88-Scott Orr
[17.637]; 34.
188-Aaron Orr [17.466]; 35. 5-Jonathan Taylor [17.670]; 36. 21T-Tom
Treon
[18.230]; 37. 55S-Zach Schroeder [17.915]; 38. 20KW-Kody Wiesner
[17.397]; 39.
11-Rob Williams [17.647]; 40. 5XB-Jerry Bowersock [17.437];
HEAT
1 - 1. 36-Brandon Vaughan [2];
2. 88-Scott Orr [4]; 3. 54-Matt Westfall [6]; 4. 5XB-Jerry Bowersock
[5]; 5.
0-Brent Hole [3]; 6. 31J-John Brooks [1]; 7. 67W-Rocky Wilson [8]; 8.
52-John
Phlipot, Jr [7]; 9. 10-Scott Bowersock [9]; 10. 35-Tim Cornett [10];
HEAT
2 - 1. 20KW-Kody Wiesner [6];
2. 11-Rob Williams [4]; 3. 17JE-Je Stalder [1]; 4. 188-Aaron Orr [5];
5.
10H-Brad Hess [2]; 6. 4J-David Treon, Jr [DNF]; 7. 55S-Zach Schroeder
[DNF]; 8.
18-Ryan Sutter [DNF]; 9. 5X-Tim Richardson [DNF]; 10. 0A-Derrick Austin
[DNS];
HEAT
3 - 1. 5-Jonathan Taylor [4];
2. 4B-Darryl Banks [1]; 3. 10BB-Bryan Barber [6]; 4. 01-Joel Ortberg
[5]; 5.
15-Nick Katterhenry [2]; 6. 2-Jason Kinney [3]; 7. 71-Matt Chambers
[10]; 8.
93-Josh Greber [9]; 9. 79-Shane Unger [DNF]; 10. 23J-Jon Henry [DNF];
HEAT
4 - 1. 77-Joey Kramer [6]; 2.
00N-Dwight Niehoff [5]; 3. 20-Josh Morton [3]; 4. 7-Evan Taylor [7]; 5.
1-Steve
Billenstein [8]; 6. 26-Mike Dirksen [10]; 7. 21T-Tom Treon [1]; 8.
51-Cody
Timmerman [9]; 9. 1SW-Scott Williams [DNF]; 10. 00-Dave Daughtery [DNF];
B-FEATURE
1 - 1. 0-Brent Hole [1];
2. 52-John Phlipot, Jr [7]; 3. 18-Ryan Sutter [8]; 4. 55S-Zach
Schroeder [6];
5. 0A-Derrick Austin [12]; 6. 35-Tim Cornett [11]; 7. 10H-Brad Hess
[DNF]; 8.
31J-John Brooks [DNF]; 9. 4J-David Treon, Jr [DNF]; 10. 67W-Rocky
Wilson [DNF];
11. 10-Scott Bowersock [DNS]; 12. 5X-Tim Richardson [DNS];
A
FEATURE - 1. 77-Joey Kramer [5];
2. 20KW-Kody Wiesner [7]; 3. 54-Matt Westfall [8]; 4. 5-Jonathan Taylor
[11];
5. 188-Aaron Orr [3]; 6. 01-Joel Ortberg [2]; 7. 7-Evan Taylor [16]; 8.
00N-Dwight Niehoff [1]; 9. 55S-Zach Schroeder [23]; 10. 5XB-Jerry
Bowersock
[4]; 11. 17JE-Je Stalder [14]; 12. 4B-Darryl Banks [15]; 13. 88-Scott
Orr [9];
14. 36-Brandon Vaughan [13]; 15. 0-Brent Hole [17]; 16. 15-Nick
Katterhenry
[18]; 17. 2-Jason Kinney [20]; 18. 26-Mike Dirksen [24]; 19. 1-Steve
Billenstein [22]; 20. 18-Ryan Sutter [DNF]; 21. 10BB-Bryan Barber
[DNS]; 22.
11-Rob Williams [DNS]; 23. 20-Josh Morton [DNS]; 24. 52-John Phlipot,
Jr [DNS];
STOCK
CAR
TIME
TRIALS - 1. 36-Adam Schaeff
[20.315]; 2. 25-Nick Bowers [20.298]; 3. 20-Shawn Phillippi [20.912];
4. 7D-Dan
Wooten [20.587]; 5. 1F-Anthony Flannery [20.175]; 6. 1W-Mark Wooten
[20.993];
7. 5G-Anthony Goode [19.877]; 8. 19-Wayne Williams [21.512]; 9. 53-Jan
Launder
[22.248]; 10. 8C-Brad Conover [99.999]; 11. 5W-Craig Swartz [23.731];
12.
27-Frank Paladino [21.525]; 13. 6-Emily Gade [20.657]; 14. 7-Jordan
Conover
[20.915]; 15. 61-Rob Trent [19.869]; 16. 23-Casey Barr [21.361]; 17.
17-Jeremy
Creech [19.891]; 18. 410-Paul Pardo [19.174]; 19. 65-Rodney Lacey
[22.320]; 20.
49-Eric Sandlin [20.411]; 21. 98-Cale Ramey [27.689]; 22. 01-Earnie
Woodard
[19.986]; 23. 82-Chris Douglas [20.830]; 24. 00-Dean Pitts [20.102];
25.
58-Alex Peace [23.349]; 26. 71C-Barney Craig [19.566];
HEAT
1 - 1. 6-Emily Gade [2]; 2.
00-Dean Pitts [4]; 3. 36-Adam Schaeff [3]; 4. 5G-Anthony Goode [5]; 5.
65-Rodney Lacey [8]; 6. 7-Jordan Conover [DNF]; 7. 410-Paul Pardo
[DNF]; 8.
19-Wayne Williams [DNF]; 9. 98-Cale Ramey [DNS];
HEAT
2 - 1. 82-Chris Douglas [2];
2. 71C-Barney Craig [6]; 3. 17-Jeremy Creech [5]; 4. 49-Eric Sandlin
[3]; 5.
1W-Mark Wooten [1]; 6. 1F-Anthony Flannery [4]; 7. 27-Frank Paladino
[7]; 8.
8C-Brad Conover [9]; 9. 58-Alex Peace [DNF];
HEAT
3 - 1. 25-Nick Bowers [4]; 2.
01-Earnie Woodard [5]; 3. 20-Shawn Phillippi [2]; 4. 7D-Dan Wooten [3];
5.
23-Casey Barr [1]; 6. 53-Jan Launder [7]; 7. 5W-Craig Swartz [DNF]; 8.
61-Rob
Trent [DNS];
A
FEATURE - 1. 00-Dean Pitts [5];
2. 36-Adam Schaeff [3]; 3. 71C-Barney Craig [8]; 4. 01-Earnie Woodard
[6]; 5.
61-Rob Trent [24]; 6. 1F-Anthony Flannery [17]; 7. 20-Shawn Phillippi
[9]; 8. 49-Eric
Sandlin [11]; 9. 5G-Anthony Goode [10]; 10. 23-Casey Barr [15]; 11.
27-Frank
Paladino [20]; 12. 58-Alex Peace [25]; 13. 6-Emily Gade [DNF]; 14.
25-Nick
Bowers [DNF]; 15. 410-Paul Pardo [DNF]; 16. 17-Jeremy Creech [DNF]; 17.
1W-Mark
Wooten [DNF]; 18. 7D-Dan Wooten [DNF]; 19. 53-Jan Launder [DNF]; 20.
5W-Craig
Swartz [DNF]; 21. 82-Chris Douglas [DNF]; 22. 65-Rodney Lacey [DNS];
23.
7-Jordan Conover [DNS]; 24. 19-Wayne Williams [DNS]; 25. 98-Cale Ramey
[DNS];
26. 8C-Brad Conover [DNS];
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