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Eldora Speedway
Back in Black:
Bloomquist wins 7th $100,00 Victory
Tumultuous Two Years Turns Into Tremendous Performance at Dirt Late
Model Dream
ROSSBURG, Ohio (June 10) – Veteran Scott Bloomquist powered around the
outside of Georgia’s Brandon Overton on lap-55 and cruised the rest of
the way to a dominating win for his seventh career victory in the
$100,000-to-win Dirt Late Model Dream by Ferris Mowers at Eldora
Speedway on Saturday night.
“It’s like all these big shows, you are just glad they are over with,”
Bloomquist said of his return after laboratory tests and resulting
legal action saw he and four other drivers suspended from participation
at Eldora until mid-May. “Mission accomplished!”
Bloomquist, of Mooresburg, Tennessee, started in the seventh position
following a second-place in the opening heat race and methodically
worked his way forward from the drop of the green flag.
He cracked the top-five on lap eight and moved to fourth-place when
Pennsylvania’s Mason Zeigler, who was running in the top-five, brought
out the first caution flag when he slowed with a flat tire on
lap-12. On the double-file restart, Bloomquist jumped to the
runner-up position behind leader Brandon Overton.
Bloomquist swapped the second-position with New Berlin, Illinois’
Brandon Sheppard three times over the next 40 laps before finally
shaking free of the Rocket Chassis-house car on lap-53.
Two laps later, the 53-year old Bloomquist made the winning move to the
outside of Overton and was never seriously challenged the remaining 45
laps building as much as an eight second lead in the closing stages of
the event.
“This has always been one of my favorite places to race ever since I
first came here in 1988,” Bloomquist said. “It is such a
beautiful race track and you can race all over it from the inside wall
to the outside wall. I can’t say enough for how these guys prep a
race track. There were a few little bumps but that just gave the
track character.”
Bloomquist took his time with lapped traffic late in the race and
crossed the finish line 4.5 seconds ahead of Sheppard who won a
spirited battle with Overton for the runner-up position.
“I wasn’t really sure (how big the lead was), then I got to some of the
lapped traffic and the 18 car (Chase Junghans of Manhattan, Kansas) and
I about had him cleared. Our air got a little messed up and I got
loose so I backed off a little bit and tried not to get too much heat
in the tires. That would have cost us more than anything,”
Bloomquist said.
Sheppard’s runner-up finish and Overton’s third-place finish were
career best runs in the Dirt Late Model Dream for both of the young
drivers.
“That was a fun race there with Brandon (Overton). We always race
each other clean, so it was fun racing with him and congratulations to
Scott. He was pretty good,” said Sheppard, the 24 year old point leader
of the World of Outlaws Craftsman Late Model Series. “Once me and
Brandon got the line figured out that we wanted to run, we were already
too far behind.”
“That’s not too bad at all. We will take that,” commented
Overton, the 26 year old of Evans, Georgia who scored an emotional
victory in one of Thursday’s Twin 25 Feature races.
“Congratulations to Scott. If we are going to lose, these are the
two to lose to. Me and Brandon raced each other as clean as we
could. We faded a little bit but to get out there and lead we are
all tickled to death. I want to thank all the fans here and back
in Georgia. This place is pretty cool.”
Tim McCreadie, of Avon, New York, finished in fourth-place for his best
career Eldora finish, while Gaffney, South Carolina’s Chris Madden
rounded out the top five, after starting 14th.
Completing the top ten were 2014 Dirt Late Model Dream winner Dale
McDowell (Georgia), 1997 winner Jimmy Mars (Wisconsin), Mike Marlar
(Tennessee), Earl Pearson, Jr. (Florida), and young second-generation
driver Zach Dohm (West Virginia).
Kent Robinson, of Bloomington, Indiana, led the first 11 laps of the
main event from his outside front-row starting position before giving
way to Overton who led laps 12-55. After that it was all
Bloomquist.
“It's awesome to win here,” Bloomquist said. “We have a lot of
fans and a lot of naysayers but that’s what makes it all go
around. It’s something that doesn’t have an affect on the outcome
of the race, I believe, but it takes both (supporters and detractors)
to make that much noise. It makes me smile that so many people
have some kind of emotion toward us.”
Heat races were won by Mars, Shannon Babb (Illinois), Zeigler, Overton,
Robinson and Marlar. The B-Features, highlighted by defending
World 100 winner Bobby Pierce charging from 25th starting position to a
thrilling fourth-place finish to secure the final starting spot in the
28-car Dirt Late Model Dream, were won by Dale McDowell and Jon Henry
(Ada). The $1,000-to-win B-Scrambles for drivers who failed to
advance to Saturday’s main event, were captured by Eddie Carrier, Jr.
(West Virginia) and Brian Shirley (Illinois).
Eldora officials turn their attention to the open wheel winged sprint
cars this coming Saturday night. The Arctic Cat All Star Circuit
of Champions return for the second leg of Ohio Sprint Speedweek
presented by Casey General Stores. Gates will open at 4:00 PM
with hot laps at 6 p.m. and the show scheduled for to begin at 7:30 p.m.
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RESULTS:
23rd Annual Dirt Late Model Dream by Ferris Mowers
Saturday, June 10, 2017
Heat 1 – (15 Laps)
1. 28M-Jimmy Mars[2] ; 2. 0-Scott Bloomquist[5] ; 3. 9-Devin Moran[3] ;
4. 22S-Gregg Satterlee[1] ; 5. 32S-Chris Simpson[4] ; 6. 91-Tyler
Erb[9] ; 7. 33M-Tim Manville[12] ; 8. 50-Shanon Buckingham[8] ; 9.
10-Eddie Carrier Jr. [7] ; 10. 51-Joey Moriarty[11] ; 11. 29-Spencer
Diercks[10] ; 12. 20-Jimmy Owens[13] ; 13. 40B-Kyle Bronson[6]
Heat 2 – (15 Laps)
1. 18B-Shannon Babb[1] ; 2. 1P-Earl Pearson Jr.[4] ; 3. 44-Chris
Madden[5] ; 4. 7B-Jeff Babcock[10] ; 5. 2-Nick Hoffman[9] ; 6. 15H-Jon
Henry[7] ; 7. 15-Steve Francis[3] ; 8. 88-Andrew Reaume[8] ; 9.
33-Jesse James Lay[11] ; 10. 93-Brian Harris[12] ; 11. 79-Troy
Worrick[13] ; 12. 32P-Bobby Pierce[2] ; 13. 1CJ-Rusty Schlenk[6]
Heat 3 – (15 Laps)
1. 25Z-Mason Zeigler[1] ; 2. 14-Darrell Lanigan[5] ; 3. 28-Dennis Erb
Jr. [4] ; 4. 17M-Dale McDowell[3] ; 5. 20C-Jacob Hawkins[8] ; 6.
4B-Jackie Boggs[6] ; 7. 101-Casey Roberts[7] ; 8. 21JR-Billy Moyer Jr.
[2] ; 9. 7W-Ricky Weiss[9] ; 10. 83-Scott James[11] ; 11. 4G-Kody
Evans[10] ; 12. 101T-Forrest Trent[12] ; 13. 6-Blake Spencer[13]
Heat 4 – (15 Laps)
1. 116-Brandon Overton[3] ; 2. 39-Tim McCreadie[4] ; 3. 21-Billy
Moyer[5] ; 4. 0J-Jake O’Neil[1] ; 5. 49-Jonathan Davenport[2] ; 6.
C9-Steve Casebolt[6] ; 7. 48-Tim Lance[11] ; 8. 3s-Brian Shirley[8] ;
9. 31-Nick Latham[7] ; 10. 5*-Bryant Dickinson[12] ; 11. 5N-Dustin
Nobbe[10] ; 12. 97-Brett Miller[13] ; 13. 25-Jason Feger[9]
Heat 5 – (15 Laps)
1. 7R-Kent Robinson[2] ; 2. 17-Zack Dohm[3] ; 3. 71-Hudson O’Neal[1] ;
4. 25C-Shane Clanton[4] ; 5. 55-Jeep VanWormer[6] ; 6. 18-Chase
Junghans[8] ; 7. 16B-Tyler Bruening[11] ; 8. 20S-Rodney Sanders[9] ; 9.
71R-Rod Conley[10] ; 10. 444-Brian Ligon[13] ; 11. 5-Don O’Neal[5]
Heat 6 – (15 Laps)
1. 157-Mike Marlar[2] ; 2. 1-Brandon Sheppard[5] ; 3. 99JR-Frank
Heckenast Jr. [4] ; 4. 71C-RJ Conley[3] ; 5. 7M-Donald McIntosh[6] ; 6.
1G-Devin Gilpin[7] ; 7. 12-Jason Jameson[10] ; 8. 1GK-Ryan King[8] ; 9.
1M-Mike Mataragas[9] ; 10. 95J-Jerry Bowersock[13] ; 11. 1C-Kenny
Collins[12] ; 12. c8-Timothy Culp[1]
B-Feature 1 – (20 Laps)
1. 17M-Dale McDowell[2] ; 2. 18-Chase Junghans[9] ; 3. 91-Tyler Erb[4]
; 4. 25C-Shane Clanton[3] ; 5. 20C-Jacob Hawkins[5] ; 6. 10-Eddie
Carrier Jr. [13] ; 7. 4B-Jackie Boggs[8] ; 8. 33M-Tim Manville[7] ; 9.
50-Shanon Buckingham[10] ; 10. 7W-Ricky Weiss[17] ; 11. 20-Jimmy
Owens[22] ; 12. 40B-Kyle Bronson[24] ; 13. 83-Scott James[20] ; 14.
101-Casey Roberts[11] ; 15. 71R-Rod Conley[18] ; 16. 51-Joey
Moriarty[16] ; 17. 101T-Forrest Trent[25] ; 18. 16B-Tyler Bruening[12]
; 19. 29-Spencer Diercks[19] ; 20. 6-Blake Spencer[26] ; 21. 4G-Kody
Evans[23] ; 22. 55-Jeep VanWormer[6] ; 23. 20S-Rodney Sanders[15] ; 24.
22S-Gregg Satterlee[1] ; 25. 444-Brian Ligon[21] ; 26. 21JR-Billy Moyer
Jr. [14]
B Scramble 1 (5 Laps)
1. 10-Eddie Carrier Jr. [2] ; 2. 4B-Jackie Boggs[3] ; 3. 20C-Jacob
Hawkins[1] ; 4. 7W-Ricky Weiss[6] ; 5. 40B-Kyle Bronson[8] ; 6.
20-Jimmy Owens[7] ; 7. 83-Scott James[9] ; 8. 51-Joey Moriarty[12] ; 9.
71R-Rod Conley[11] ; 10. 4G-Kody Evans[17] ; 11. 6-Blake Spencer[16] ;
12. 33M-Tim Manville[4]
B-Feature 2 – (20 Laps)
1. 15H-Jon Henry[7] ; 2. 49-Jonathan Davenport[5] ; 3. 7B-Jeff
Babcock[1] ; 4. 32P-Bobby Pierce[25] ; 5. 7M-Donald McIntosh[6] ; 6.
3s-Brian Shirley[14] ; 7. C9-Steve Casebolt[8] ; 8. 15-Steve
Francis[10] ; 9. 88-Andrew Reaume[13] ; 10. 33-Jesse James Lay[16] ;
11. 12-Jason Jameson[12] ; 12. 48-Tim Lance[11] ; 13. 31-Nick
Latham[17] ; 14. 93-Brian Harris[19] ; 15. 5N-Dustin Nobbe[23] ; 16.
1M-Mike Mataragas[18] ; 17. 1GK-Ryan King[15] ; 18. 1C-Kenny
Collins[24] ; 19. 95J-Jerry Bowersock[21] ; 20. 5*-Bryant Dickinson[20]
; 21. 97-Brett Miller[26] ; 22. 25-Jason Feger[29] ; 23. 1G-Devin
Gilpin[9] ; 24. 2-Nick Hoffman[4] ; 25. 0J-Jake O’Neil[2] ; 26. 71C-RJ
Conley[3] ; 27. 79-Troy Worrick[22]
B Scramble 2 (5 Laps)
1. 3s-Brian Shirley[2] ; 2. 7M-Donald McIntosh[1] ; 3. 15-Steve
Francis[4] ; 4. C9-Steve Casebolt[3] ; 5. 88-Andrew Reaume[5] ; 6.
48-Tim Lance[8] ; 7. 33-Jesse James Lay[6] ; 8. 5N-Dustin Nobbe[11] ;
9. 93-Brian Harris[10] ; 10. 1M-Mike Mataragas[12] ; 11. 95J-Jerry
Bowersock[15] ; 12. 97-Brett Miller[17] ; 13. 1GK-Ryan King[13] ; 14.
1C-Kenny Collins[14] ; 15. 5*-Bryant Dickinson[16] ; 16. 31-Nick
Latham[9]
Dirt Late Model Dream – (100 Laps)
1. 0-Scott Bloomquist[7] ; 2. 1-Brandon Sheppard[12] ; 3. 116-Brandon
Overton[3] ; 4. 39-Tim McCreadie[10] ; 5. 44-Chris Madden[14] ; 6.
17M-Dale McDowell[21] ; 7. 28M-Jimmy Mars[6] ; 8. 157-Mike Marlar[1] ;
9. 1P-Earl Pearson Jr.[8] ; 10. 17-Zack Dohm[11] ; 11. 32S-Chris
Simpson[20] ; 12. 21-Billy Moyer[16] ; 13. 32P-Bobby Pierce[28] ; 14.
18-Chase Junghans[23] ; 15. 28-Dennis Erb Jr. [15] ; 16. 5-Don
O’Neal[19] ; 17. 7R-Kent Robinson[2] ; 18. 15H-Jon Henry[22] ; 19.
71-Hudson O’Neal[17] ; 20. 9-Devin Moran[13] ; 21. 7B-Jeff Babcock[26]
; 22. 14-Darrell Lanigan[9] ; 23. 25Z-Mason Zeigler[4] ; 24. 91-Tyler
Erb[25] ; 25. 49-Jonathan Davenport[24] ; 26. 25C-Shane Clanton[27] ;
27. 18B-Shannon Babb[5] ; 28. 99JR-Frank Heckenast Jr. [18]
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