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Four $1,000 winners kick-off
Eldora
DIRTcar event
Barber,
Bowersock, Gilpin and
Ruhlman Prevail Over 116 Cars from Ten States and Canada
ROSSBURG,
OH (October 3) – On a
typical race night, about one-third of the field gets to compete in the
headlining feature event.
The certainly
wasn’t the case Thursday night in Eldora Speedway’s opening leg of the
UMP
DIRTcar National Championships, as 96 of the 116 competing Modifieds
advanced
to not one, but four headliners.
Capturing $1,000 pay days were Bryan
Barber, Jerry Bowersock, Devin
Gilpin and Brian Ruhlman.
The
route to those four main events
entailed eight preliminary heat races and four B-Features and that will
be the
same map to be used Friday night in leg number two of the three-day
event.
A
driver’s best finish over the two
nights will then be used to line-up Saturday’s ‘alphabet soup’ of
feature
events; with the best 20 locked into one of the 32-starting positions. The balance will
come from the preceding
features, along with four ‘point provisional’ positions.
That
bodes well for Barber,
Bowersock, Gilpin and Ruhlman who pretty much locked themselves in
Thursday. The
balance of the field that
represented ten states and Canada will get shot number two on Friday. Joining the
Modifieds Saturday will be the
UMP DIRTcar Late Models as both feature events that night reward the
winner
with $5,000.
Barber
kicked off the night with a
strong run that was made a little more difficult in the closing laps. He had built up
a comfortable margin over
Ray Bollinger and Aaron Orr that was eliminated two laps from the
finish as a
spinning car collected both of them and relegated them to the pit area. That moved up
Chad Kinder and Jacob Hawkins
into second and third, and when the checkered flag flew that was how
they
crossed the line.
Bowersock
used his knowledge of
Eldora and his multiple championships to ride him to a strong win over
Andy
Sprague and Jimmy Payne, while Gilpin’s thrilling victory came at the
expense
of Dean Hoffman and Matt Mevert.
Closing
out the night was Ruhlman
in a daring last-lap pass over Matt Westfall, with a rapidly closing
Kent
Robinson right there in third.
Complete
event information, time
schedules and ticket purchase opportunities for the Friday and Saturday
legs of
the National Championships may be found on www.EldoraSpeedway.com.
A-Feature
1: 1)Bryan Barber
2)Chad Kinder 3)Jacob Hawkins
4)Kyle Strickler 5)Bart Hartman 6)Curt Spalding 7)Danny Schwartz
8)Brian Lynn
9)Ed Roley 10)Jeff Leka 11)Nathon Loney 12)Jon Henry 13)Jim Farris, Sr.
14)Dave
Wietholder 15)David Shain 16)Aaron Raby 17)Mario Toniolo 18)Jeff
Daniels
19)Marvin Burton 20)Lynn Johns 21)Ray Bollinger 22)Aaron Orr 23)Andrew
Corbin
24)Will Krup
A-Feature
2: Jerry Bowersock,
Andy Sprague 3)Jimmy Payne
4)Jacob Poel 5)Travis Stemler 6)Nick Stroupe 7)Kody Weisner 8)Bryce
Jewell
9)Jamie Lomax 10)Doug Adkins 11)Zach Schroeder 12)Steve Dixon
13)Jonathan
Taylor 14)Jess Hartman 15)Lance Dehm 16)Mark Kowarsch 17)Steve
Billenstein
18)Justin Matson 19)Eric Shepherd 20)Corey Bevard 21)Louis Clements
22)Eddie
Shaner 23)Stephen Schnapf 24)Mike Dirksen
A-Feature
3: 1)Devin Gilpin
2)Dean Hoffman 3)Matt Mevert
4)Jeff Curl 5)Jeff Babcock 6)Nick Hoffman 7)Rusty Griffaw 8)Collin
Thirlby
9)Scott Williams 10)Rob Williams 11)Nick Allen 12)Tyler Nicely 13)Chad
Rosenbeck 14)Gary Eicher 15)Joey Kramer 16)Andrew Terrill 17)Chad
Osterhoff
18)Nick Kurtz 19)Joel Watson 20)Tyler Deibert 21)Tim Richardson 22)John
Phlipot, Jr. 23)Dylan Woodling 24)Dwight Niehoff
A-Feature
4: 1)Brian Ruhlman
2)Matt Westfall 3)Kent
Robinson 4)Trent Young 5)Kenny Wallace 6)Evan Taylor 7)Tanner Wilson
8)Brand
Vaughan 9)Jeff Hamby 10)Ryan Sutter 11)Todd Sherman 12)David Mielke
13)John
Brooks 14)Kevin Miller 15)Jared Spalding 16)Tim Dalman 17)Gary Turpin
18)Adam
Thrush 19)Tom Treon 20)David Treon, Jr. 21)Derrick Austin 22)David
Stremme
23)Joel Dick 24)Jacoby Hines
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