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Chamberlain
Scores Big Win in Late Models At Eldora’s 63rd Season-Opener
Michigan’s Mielke Wins DIRTcar UMP Modified Race; Pardo Scores Another
Eldora Stock Car Win
ROSSBURG, Ohio (April 16, 2016) – A brave move by “Insane” Duane
Chamberlain to fend off fourth-place starter Jeep VanWormer enabled him
to take control of the A-Feature and lead all 25 laps of the Late Model
event in Eldora’s 63rd season opener.
VanWormer, from Pinconning, Michigan, tried a slide job as they entered
turn three on the start, but glanced off the wall, which allowed
Chamberlain, from Richmond, Indiana, to brazenly take the lead as the
field completed the first lap.
“It was a big cushion and we were able to hold it wide open,”
Chamberlain said. “I got in the wall a bit and it took some air off the
car and I think it helped us out. I want to thank Bill Dues and the St.
Henry Nite Club. I wouldn’t be here without them and hopefully this is
the beginning of a really good season.”
Following a frenzied charge, Devin Moran, from Dresden, Ohio, started
10th and crossed the line second. But he was disqualified post-race by
DIRTcar officials for a non-conforming tire. That moved pole
sitter James Rice, from Verona, Kentucky, into second, while Steve
Casebolt, Nick Latham and Rusty Schlenk rounded out the top-five.
VanWormer ended up sixth.
David Mielke won the DIRTcar UMP Modifieds A-Feature as he pulled a
slide job in turn four on Ryan Sutter with 14 laps to go. Mielke, from
Gladwin, Michigan, started fifth, but didn’t stay there long as he
moved toward to front to claim victory.
“It’s a nice win,” Mielke said. “It’s just me and my dad here this
weekend. I was runner up in the Fall Nationals in 2012 and I’ve been
here before, but it’s nice to finally get a win here.”
Evan Taylor, from Saltsburg, Pennsylvania, was second, while Jeff Koz,
Nick Stroupe and Brian Post rounded out the top-five.
It was an eventful night for the Modifieds as Evan’s brother, Jonathan,
was running second, but clipped the wall in turn three early in the
race and was done for the night. Ryan Sutter was running third but was
collected in a wreck involving Scott Williams taking him out of
contention.
There was a five car pileup on the first lap in turns three and four
and Collin Thirlby, from Traverse City, Michigan, flipped his car, but
no drivers were injured. And in the third heat race earlier in the
night, Jason Kenney, from Celina, Ohio, took a violent flip on the
frontstetch. He was not injured.
Paul Pardo, who swept both feature races last August, won the Eldora
Stock Car race.
“It’s pay off when you win,” Pardo said. “It was a nice field of
drivers, too. We had some new guys who like to mix it up. I was just
driving the heck out of it. Trying to keep it straight.”
Pardo, from New Paris, Ohio, started fifth, but took the lead in turn
one from Donnie Jeschke and never looked back. Red Harvey Jr., crossed
the line second, but was 10 pounds light post-race at the scales and
disqualified. Rob Trent, who started seventh, was moved to second with
Jeschke, Frank Paladino and Earnie Woodard rounding out the top-five.
The racing at Eldora continues on April 23 with the Saturday Night
Speedfest featuring the DIRTcar UMP Modifieds, a double-feature for the
Eldora Stock Cars and Vore’s Compacts.
Admission gates will open at 2 pm, with hot laps 4:30 pm and a complete
racing program beginning at 6 pm. Tickets can be bought at
www.EldoraSpeedway.com, by phone at (937) 338-3815 or at the box office
at the race track. It’s $12 for adults and kids 12 and under are free.
The complete schedule for Eldora’s 63nd consecutive season, including
ticket and campsite information, is available at www.EldoraSpeedway.com.
63rd Season Opener
April 16, 2016
Sunoco American Late Models
Qualifying
1.C9-Steve Casebolt, 15.505; 2.49-Brian Ruhlman, 15.649; 3.11R-James
Rice, 15.726;4.ID=45292- , 15.726; 5.31-Nick Latham, 15.729;
6.11RS-Rusty Schlenk, 15.732; 7.5N-Dustin Nobbe, 15.837; 8.55-Jeep
VanWormer, 15.852; 9.99M-Devin Moran, 15.875; 10.20C-Duane Chamberlain,
15.890; 11.95J-Jerry Bowersock, 15.899; 12.21-Robby Hensley, 15.960;
13.7B-Jeff Babcock, 16.001; 14.1N-Casey Noonan, 16.043; 15.M14-Brandon
Thirlby, 16.234; 16.21B-Rich Bell, 16.385; 17.9N-Ted Nobbe, 16.522;
18.53-Hillard Miller, 16.546; 19.15A-Phil Ausra, 16.550; 20.4G-Kody
Evans, 16.662; 21.76-Butch Kruckeberg, 16.807; 22.15H-Jon Henry,
16.831; 23.00-Mathew Chapman, 16.856; 24.8-Rob Anderzack, 16.929;
25.4-Jason Playter, 17.236; 26.11-Josh Rice, 99.991;
Heat 1, Group A - (8 Laps)
1. 11R-James Rice[2] ; 2. 55-Jeep VanWormer[1] ; 3. C9-Steve
Casebolt[4] ; 4. 99M-Devin Moran[5] ; 5. 95J-Jerry Bowersock[6] ; 6.
49-Brian Ruhlman[3] ; 7. M14-Brandon Thirlby[8] ; 8. 8-Rob Anderzack[9]
; 9. 7B-Jeff Babcock[7]
Heat 2, Group B - (8 Laps)
1. 20C-Duane Chamberlain[2] ; 2. 31-Nick Latham[4] ; 3. 11RS-Rusty
Schlenk[3] ; 4. 15H-Jon Henry[6] ; 5. 15A-Phil Ausra[5] ; 6. 00-Mathew
Chapman[7] ; 7. 11-Josh Rice[8] ; 8. 53-Hillard Miller[1]
Heat 3, Group C - (8 Laps)
1. 1N-Casey Noonan[2] ; 2. 21B-Rich Bell[1] ; 3. 21-Robby Hensley[3] ;
4. 5N-Dustin Nobbe[4] ; 5. 4G-Kody Evans[6] ; 6. 9N-Ted Nobbe[5] ; 7.
4-Jason Playter[8] ; 8. 76-Butch Kruckeberg[7]
B-Feature 1 - (12 Laps)
1. 11-Josh Rice[5] ; 2. 49-Brian Ruhlman[1] ; 3. M14-Brandon Thirlby[4]
; 4. 7B-Jeff Babcock[10] ; 5. 9N-Ted Nobbe[3] ; 6. 4-Jason
Playter[6] ; 7. 00-Mathew Chapman[2] ; 8. 76-Butch Kruckeberg[9] ; 9.
8-Rob Anderzack[7] ; 10. 53-Hillard Miller[8]
A-Feature 1 - (25 Laps)
1. 20C-Duane Chamberlain[2] ; 2. 11R-James Rice[1] ; 3. C9-Steve
Casebolt[7] ; 4. 31-Nick Latham[5] ; 5. 11RS-Rusty Schlenk[8] ; 6.
55-Jeep VanWormer[4] ; 7. 15H-Jon Henry[11] ; 8. 21B-Rich Bell[6] ; 9.
11-Josh Rice[16] ; 10. 7B-Jeff Babcock[19] ; 11. 49-Brian Ruhlman[17] ;
12. 95J-Jerry Bowersock[13] ; 13. 21-Robby Hensley[9] ; 14. 5N-Dustin
Nobbe[12] ; 15. M14-Brandon Thirlby[18] ; 16. 1N-Casey Noonan[3] ; 17.
15A-Phil Ausra[14] ; 18. 4G-Kody Evans[15] ; 19. 9N-Ted Nobbe[20] ; 20.
4-Jason Playter[22] ; 21. 8-Rob Anderzack[21] ; 22. 99M-Devin
Moran[10]
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Eldora Stock Cars
Heat 1 - (8 Laps)
1. 82-Chris Douglas[5] ; 2. 410-Paul Pardo[7] ; 3. 5G-Anthony Goode[3]
; 4. 17H-Red Harvey Jr.[8] ; 5. 67-Eddie Shaner[4] ; 6. 07D-Dan
Dippman[9] ; 7. 55-Brandon Archey[2] ; 8. 99-Andy King[1] ; 9.
20-Robbie Phlipot[6]
Heat 2 - (8 Laps)
1. 17-Jeremy Creech[4] ; 2. 71C-Barney Craig[1] ; 3. 91-Ed Hounshell[5]
; 4. 00D-David Daughtery[6] ; 5. 00P-Dean Pitts[8] ; 6. 54-Dan
Wooten[7] ; 7. 14-Ronnie Bloomfield[3] ; 8. 36-Adam Schaeff[2]
Heat 3 - (8 Laps)
1. 7-Jordan Conover[1] ; 2. 99J-Donnie Jeschke[2] ; 3. 27-Frank
Paladino[4] ; 4. 01-Earnie Woodard[6] ; 5. 97-Shaun Smith[3] ; 6.
74D-Craig Dippman[8] ; 7. 11-T.J Smith[7] ; 8. 00-Corey Wooten[5]
Heat 4 - (8 Laps)
1. 69-Rob Trent[1] ; 2. 23-Casey Barr[8] ; 3. J1-Jeff Matheny[6] ; 4.
47-John Leach[3] ; 5. 19-Wayne Williams[4] ; 6. 5-Ricky Ray Dillon[5] ;
7. 5T-Dwayne Treon[7] ; 8. 01X-Erik Skaggs[2]
B-Feature - (8 Laps)
1. 74D-Craig Dippman[7] ; 2. 36-Adam Schaeff[14] ; 3. 55-Brandon
Archey[9] ; 4. 00P-Dean Pitts[2] ; 5. 11-T.J Smith[11] ; 6. 14-Ronnie
Bloomfield[10] ; 7. 97-Shaun Smith[3] ; 8. 00-Corey Wooten[15] ; 9.
54-Dan Wooten[6]
A-Feature - (15 Laps)
1. 410-Paul Pardo[6] ; 2. 69-Rob Trent[7] ; 3. 99J-Donnie Jeschke[4] ;
4. 27-Frank Paladino[11] ; 5. 01-Earnie Woodard[15] ; 6. 36-Adam
Schaeff[18] ; 7. 17-Jeremy Creech[9] ; 8. 00D-David Daughtery[14] ; 9.
23-Casey Barr[3] ; 10. 91-Ed Hounshell[1] ; 11. 71C-Barney Craig[5] ;
12. 55-Brandon Archey[19] ; 13. 47-John Leach[16] ; 14. 00P-Dean
Pitts[20] ; 15. 11-T.J Smith[21] ; 16. J1-Jeff Matheny[12] ; 17.
82-Chris Douglas[10] ; 18. 97-Shaun Smith[23] ; 19. 00-Corey Wooten[24]
; 20. 74D-Craig Dippman[17] ; 21. 17H-Red Harvey Jr.[13]
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DIRTcar UMP Modifieds
Heat 1 - (8 Laps)
1. 28-Chad Rosenbeck[2] ; 2. 5-Jonathan Taylor[9] ; 3. 47-Collin
Thirlby[6] ; 4. 71D-Anthony Davis[1] ; 5. 10B-Scott Bowersock[3] ; 6.
1-Scott Williams[8] ; 7. 26-Jared Spalding[5] ; 8. 34X-Andy Bibler[4] ;
9. 20M-Josh Morton[7]
Heat 2 - (8 Laps)
1. 5X-Tim Richardson[2] ; 2. 16-Jeff Koz[6] ; 3. 05-David Smith[4] ; 4.
3W-Dylan Woodling[5] ; 5. 4L-Mike Learman[3] ; 6. 0%-Derrick Austin[8]
; 7. 96-Peter Wormcastle[1] ; 8. 555-Justin Coulter[7] ; 9. 45-Nick
Stroupe[9]
Heat 3 - (8 Laps)
1. 87-David Mielke[8] ; 2. 18-Ryan Sutter[2] ; 3. 17-Brandon
Ramsey[7] ; 4. 188-Aaron Orr[9] ; 5. 36D-Tom Conrad[1] ; 6. 52-Weasel
Phlipot[3] ; 7. 4K-Jason Kinney[4] ; 8. 5H-Jason Hoogerhyde[6] ; 9.
58P-James Post[5]
Heat 4 - (8 Laps)
1. 7-Evan Taylor[8] ; 2. 45P-Brian Post[3] ; 3. 12-Jeremy Rayburn[1] ;
4. 09D-Joel Dick[4] ; 5. 11H-Mike Hohlbein[2] ; 6. 21-Drew Charlson[6]
; 7. 10L-Nathon Loney[5] ; 8. 36-Brandon Vaughan[7] ; 9. 88-Scott Orr[9]
B-Feature 1 - (8 Laps)
1. 52-Weasel Phlipot[4] ; 2. 10B-Scott Bowersock[1] ; 3. 26-Jared
Spalding[5] ; 4. 1-Scott Williams[3] ; 5. 34X-Andy Bibler[7] ; 6.
58P-James Post[10] ; 7. 36D-Tom Conrad[2] ; 8. 5H-Jason Hoogerhyde[8] ;
9. 20M-Josh Morton[9] ; 10. 4K-Jason Kinney[6]
B-Feature 2 - (8 Laps)
1. 45-Nick Stroupe[9] ; 2. 0%-Derrick Austin[3] ; 3. 4L-Mike Learman[1]
; 4. 11H-Mike Hohlbein[2] ; 5. 21-Drew Charlson[4] ; 6. 96-Peter
Wormcastle[5] ; 7. 88-Scott Orr[10] ; 8. 10L-Nathon Loney[6] ; 9.
555-Justin Coulter[7] ; 10. 36-Brandon Vaughan[8]
A-Feature - (20 Laps)
1. 87-David Mielke[5] ; 2. 7-Evan Taylor[4] ; 3. 16-Jeff Koz[2] ; 4.
45-Nick Stroupe[18] ; 5. 45P-Brian Post[8] ; 6. 09D-Joel Dick[16] ; 7.
17-Brandon Ramsey[11] ; 8. 5X-Tim Richardson[6] ; 9. 12-Jeremy
Rayburn[12] ; 10. 28-Chad Rosenbeck[7] ; 11. 26-Jared Spalding[21] ;
12. 11H-Mike Hohlbein[24] ; 13. 4L-Mike Learman[22] ; 14. 18-Ryan
Sutter[1] ; 15. 1-Scott Williams[23] ; 16. 3W-Dylan Woodling[14] ; 17.
52-Weasel Phlipot[17] ; 18. 5-Jonathan Taylor[3] ; 19. 47-Collin
Thirlby[9] ; 20. 188-Aaron Orr[15] ; 21. 0%-Derrick Austin[20] ; 22.
10B-Scott Bowersock[19] ; 23. 34X-Andy Bibler[25] ; 24. 71D-Anthony
Davis[13]
About Eldora Speedway:
Since carved from a cornfield in the natural amphitheater that existed
between the Eldora Ballroom and the Wabash River by bandleader Earl
Baltes in 1954, Eldora Speedway has grown to be a frontrunner in
motorsports growth and stability. Baltes chose to sell the legendary
high-banked clay oval to motorsports entrepreneur and NASCAR, IndyCar
and USAC champion Tony Stewart in 2004. Celebrating its 63nd
season in 2016, Eldora hosts the biggest events in short-track racing
including the 22nd annual Dirt Late Model Dream by Ferris Mowers; the
33rd annual Kings Royal Weekend; the fourth NASCAR Camping World Truck
Series race on dirt; and the 46thannual World 100. The complete
schedule for Eldora’s 63rd consecutive season, including ticket and
campsite information, is available at www.EldoraSpeedway.com and can be
requested by phone at (937) 338-3815. Fans can get behind-the-scenes
access of Eldora Speedway by following @EldoraSpeedway on Twitter,
hitting ‘Like’ at www.facebook.com/EldoraSpeedwayand on
www.youtube.com/EldoraSpeedwayInc.
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