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Dash
1. Shannon Babb
2. Jerry Bowersock
3. Rick Delong
4. Billy Moyer
5. Rick Aukland
6. Billy Drake
7. Kevin Weaver
8. Justin Paxton
9. Tony Mark?

Weaver and O'Neil started side by side in the feature in the sixth row, Kevin on the outside. They battled the whole race until O'neal droped out with about 6 laps left. Kevin went on to edge Aukland at the finish. My wife called to tell me this and said it was the best race she has ever seen. Congrats to Kevin!!! Keep up the good work.

"Gopher 50" results.......I think I have most of this correct, but some of the cars at the tail end may be out of order.

Here goes....

1)Moyer ($12,000), 2)O'Neal, 3)Aukland, 4)Webb, 5)Birkhofer, 6)R. Sheffler, 7)Parker
8)Drake, 9)Egersdorf, 10)Erb, 11)S. Kosiski
12)Barnhart, 13)Dixon, 14)Frye, 15)Laurson
16)C. Martin, 17)D. Miller, 18)Mathees,
19)Patterson, 20)Redetzke,......& then something like Kraft, Scott, Aikey,Weaver,Stokes,Waits, and Toland.

Again, sorry if not all of these are correct.....But they are pretty darn close (hey, you get what you pay for right?).

Moyer jumped out to the lead while a great battle went on behind him between O'Neal, Aukland, Weaver, and Stokes. This went on for the first 34 laps when, while closing in on the leader, O'Neal and Stokes bumped a bit giving Stokes a flat tire and ending his night.
On lap 39 Weaver stopped on the track while moving in for the lead. His night was over as well.

After the Weaver caution, Mr. Smooth pretty much had an easy time cashing in on the lion's share of the Blooming Prarie J C's money.

A very good race for the big track!!

I hope these results helped out the "at home"
4mers.

Take Care all!!!!!

Big Daddy 37

After 2-4 fell out of the race on lap 44 Moyer had the rest of the field lapped. Bill FRye started dead last and was up to fourth when he broke.
Top 7
1. billy moyer jr #21
the rest 1 lap down
2. brian birkoffer #15
3. Don O'neil #71
4. Gary Webb #56
5. Billy DRake #9
6. Kevin Weaver #b12
7. ROb Toland??? 1st

I lost track after that. When Babb dropped out on lap 44 so did AUkland and Frye.
leaving the rst of the field a lap down
dont quote me on these at all but ILL GUESS ON THESE!!!
9. Chris Smyser #25
11. Donnie BARNhardt #11
also in that area was DArren Miller #32, Kevin Kirkpatrick #33, Johnny STokes #1, WIllie Kraft and Lance MAthees

There were 39 late models on hand tonight!!
Kinda sorry turn out for ten thousand dollars. Some notables there were Johnny STokes from Mississippi, ERB made the trip over too.
QUick time tonight was Shannon BABB
heat winners were--Rob Toland--Rick Auckland--WIllie Kraft
CONSI WINNERS were Don Oneil and Chris Smyser...Moyer also won the dash!!!

40 mods
1. Kelly shyrock #3
2. Ron BArker 37b
3. Mark Noble 74
4. cOREY dripps 31
5. Scott Megonigle???? 2

RACE #19- FARLEY, IA-DON O'NEAL

(courtesy of Kosiski Fan)1. 71 Don O’Neal Martinsville IN
2. 12 Rick Auckland Fargo ND
3. 77 Jeff Aikey Cedar Falls IA
4. 1st Rob Toland East Moline IL
5. 1 Shannon Babb Decauter IL
6. 26 Steve Boley West Liberty
7. 55 Jeep Van Wormer Penn Co MI
8. 15 Brian Birkhofer Muscatine IA
9. 12g Ray Guss Jr Milan IL
10. 32d Darren Miller Milledgeville IL
11. 97 Diick Schiltz Conover NC
12. 56 Gary Webb Blue Grass IA
13. 11 Ace Ihm Hazel Green WI
14. 7 Matt Miller Toledo OH
15. 66 Bill Frye Green Briar AR
16. b12 Kevin Weaver Gibson City IL
17. 21 Billy Moyer Batesville AR
18. 7c Jim Curry Norman IN
19. 96 Terry English Benton KY
20. 9 Billy Drake Bloomington IL
21. 0 Kris Patterson St Johns MI
22. 14a Chris Adams Stacyville IA
23. 71k Willy Kraft Lakefield MN
24. 28 Dennis Erb Jr Carpentersville IL
25. 99 Johnny Johnson West Burlington IA
26. t2 Mike Klinkkammer West Branch IA

1. Babb 2. Birkhofer 3. O'neal 4. Boley 5. Moyer 6. Weaver 7. English 8. Toland 9. Frye 10. Webb 11. Erb Jr. 12. Johnny Johnson Other notes: This is very unnoficial, unsure of 6-12/ Guss dropped out/ Aukland, Izzo, Barnhardt failed to qualify.

Moyer snaps out of slump, takes $10,000 win at Fairbury American Legion Speedway.

(July 8) Following a disappointing week according to Billy Moyer’s standards, he broke out, by winning the UMP Summer Nationals and the $10,000 check for the winner’s purse. Driving the J&J Steel/ Petroff Towing/AFCO/ Clements Racing Engine/GRT, Moyer took the lead on lap 19 by passing Matt Miller, and never looked back racing to the win at the ¼ mile Illinois speedway. Following Moyer to the line, were Kevin Weaver, Matt Miller, Pete Parker, Terry English.

Pete Parker jumped into the lead from his pole position spot, and held the lead until lap 3, when Matt Miller slipped inside of Parker’s #10 machine. After talking the lead, Miller, aboard the Denny Thornton owned, Lo-Temp Brazing/ Rocket pulled out to a several car length lead, until he caught up with lapped traffic. As the leaders worked into traffic, the track quickly became one-grooved on the bottom of the track, and made working lapped traffic difficult. As Miller struggled to get around Ron Donaldsen, he moved up the track to pass the slower car, and Moyer slipped around both cars, and took the lead. While Miller tried to regain his position, his difficulties with Donaldsen continued, as Kevin Weaver slipped around as well, and Miller was now in third place. The top three cars pulled away, but featured no passing among themselves, and finished Moyer, Weaver, aboard the Turner Bus Service/Weaver Racing Supplies/Custom Racing Engines/ Rayburn, and Miller, with Pete Parker, and Terry English finishing in the top five. Rounding out the top ten include Mike Mullvain, Bob Pohlman Jr., Don O’Neal, Bob Pierce, and Joe Ross Jr. Among the drivers who failed to qualify for the feature included; Bill Frye, Steve Hillard, Kevin Claycomb, Rob Toland, Todd Bennett, and many more. Kevin Weaver set quick time of the 52 cars present. The Dash win went to Pete Parker, over Moyer. Heat race winners were Bob Pohlman Jr., Don O’Neal, Bob Pierce, and Joe Ross Jr. The semi-feature winners were Rick Aukland, and Ron Donaldsen.

Feature Finish: Billy Moyer Jr., Kevin Weaver, Matt Miller, Pete Parker, Terry English, Mike Mullvain, Bob Pohlman Jr., Don O’Neal, Bob Pierce, Joe Ross Jr., Billy Drake, Joe Harlan, Dennis Erb Jr., Gary May, Matt Taylor, Jay Fiene, Jeff Riblet, Jeff Leka, Ron Donaldsen, Corey Turner, Frank Schickel Jr., Rick Aukland

Aukland “Lays the Smack down” at Farmer City Summer Nationals…..

by Darin Stewart

(July 7) Rick Aukland of Fargo ND, continued the recent trend of MasterSbilt victories, with a Lynn Chevrolet-Buick-Geo sponsored UMP Summer Nationals win at Farmer City(IL) and the $5,000 check that goes with it, in front of the huge crowd at the ¼ mile fairgrounds in Central Illinois. Aukland also captured his first career checkered flag at the facility with the win. Chasing Aukland to the win were Kevin Weaver, Dennis Erb Jr., Billy Drake, Bob Pierce.

After running in the 2nd place in the opening laps of the 50-lap race, Aukland assumed control of the race after pole sitter Joe Ross Jr. slipped off the track in turn 2 on lap 20 and fell back in the field. After assuming the lead, Aukland proceeded to pull away from the field and work lapped traffic to perfection in his black and yellow #12 Malcuit/ MasterSbilt. “ The crew did a great job tonight. Everybody at the shop has been working real hard. They have been working on different things, and have been learning some things that helped us tonight. We started to slow up a bit at the end, and I was real glad to see the checkered flag come out. This was a good win for our team, and MasterSbilt Race Cars” said the winner Aukland. Runner up, Gibson City IL driver, Kevin Weaver thought maybe his car needed a few adjustments in order to mount a challenge” We changed motors today, and went to a small motor for these slick tracks. We just needed a little more gear to get it done. We’ll take a second place though, and move on” said the local favorite. The blue and white B12 driven by Weaver is sponsored by Turner Bus Service, and features Custom Racing Engines, and a CJ Rayburn Race Car. Rounding out the top five were Dennis Erb Jr., and Billy Drake, and Bob Pierce. Finishing sixth through tenth include Don O’Neal, Billy Moyer Jr., Joe Ross Jr., Roger Long, and Steve Hillard who charged from a 20th starting position.

Rick Aukland set fast time of the 44 qualifiers with a time of 12.764. Three cars, including Randy Korte, Jeff Thrasher, and Matt Beadles were present, but failed to make a qualifying attempt. The UMP Summer Nationals moves on to the Fairbury American Legion Speedway for a $10,000 to win special on Saturday July 8.

Dash: Joe Ross Jr., Billy Moyer Jr., Rick Aukland, Don O’Neal, Kevin Weaver, Ed Dixon, Roger Long, Billy Drake, Jeff Martin

Heat 1: Ed Bauman, Todd Bennett, Roger Long, Steve Hillard, Mike Mullvain
Heat 2:Terry English, Billy Drake, Gary May, Mark Anderson, Mike Glasscock
Heat 3: Dennis Erb Jr., Matt Taylor, Steve Sheppard, Jeff Martin, Richie Hedrick
Heat 4: Matt Miller, Bob Pierce, Joe Harlan, Kevin Claycomb, Mark Faust

Semi 1: Steve Hillard, Jeff Martin, Richie Hedrick, Mike Mullvain
Semi 2: Kevin Claycomb, Frank Schickel Jr., Mike Glasscock, Mark Faust

Feature: Rick Aukland, Kevin Weaver, Dennis Erb Jr., Billy Drake, Bob Pierce, Don O’Neal, Billy Moyer Jr., Joe Ross Jr., Roger Long, Steve Hillard, Todd Bennett, Terry English, Matt Miller, Matt Taylor, Jeff Martin, Joe Harlan, Ed Bauman, Steve Sheppard Jr., Gary May, Ed Dixon, Frank Schickel Jr., Kevin Claycomb

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You're not going fast unless you have TRUE SPEED.

Macon Speedway
July 6,2000
Herald and Review 100
UMP Summernationals stop #15
by racenutdan

This was the 20th year for the Herald and Revew 100, and the 20th year I
have made the early July trek to this mid-Illinois 1/5mile (oops, 1/4 mile
the ads say) speedplant. Every time I think I have seen it all, I get
surprised. I have seen the last lap pass for
the lead. I have seen the payoff held up for 4 days due to a protest by a
driver 3 laps down who thought he won. I have seen the win given to a driver
light at the scales, and another taken away the same way. I have seen 2
drivers win on their first visit to Mighty Macon. I have seen attrition
leave only six cars running at the end. There was
one time one driver led the whole 100 laps. Twice the race has gone non-stop
green to checkered. There was the year a certain popular young driver had
motor problems at the start, switched cars, went from the front row to start
dead last, then passed everyone on his way to an apparent victory, only to
realize he weighs about 50 pounds less than the rookie he replaced - another
one lost to the scales. There was also the year that one driver had a flat,
went to the infield and two competitors who had already dropped out changed
the tire for him, then he went on to win.

But Thursday evening's 100-lapper was probably one of the most action packed
races ever held in this series, at least in my eyes. Twenty-nine drivers ran
through 3 heats and a semi-feature to qualify for the twenty starting spots.
Once again, it was a battle of the 'locals' versus the 'travelers' with the
field split evenly between the two. The race track was not it's normal
2-grooves at the start of the race - it was at least 3 grooves or more and
by the time attrition started taking it's toll 2/3 of the way through the
race, it turned into a true 2-groove track, complete with 'marbles' between
the grooves on the high banked turns. Right from the start, Kevin Weaver
took off from his front row outside starting spot for the lead over pole
sitter Joe Ross, Jr., with Ross leading lap 2, then fade a bit as by lap 7
Ed Dixon had moved into 2nd, only to have problems ending his night on lap
8. Weaver continued to hold on to the lead until lap 18 when Shannon Babb
found the high side and slipped by the low running Weaver for the lead.
Weaver regained the lead until lap 32, when he was passed again by Babb, and
two laps later Ross also got around Weaver. Ross once again took the lead on
lap 42, as Babb fell out on lap 46, and Ross led until Weaver again
challenged and took the lead at lap 72. Weaver then led until lap 95 when
Matt Taylor, who was flying on the high side for several laps, challenged,
then took the lead and held on for an exciting win over Weaver, Ed Bauman
and Bob Pierce with Billy Drake and Steve Sheppard the only other cars on
the lead lap with Butch Smith the lone lapped car that managed to finish.
Attrition took it's toll as only 7 cars were still running at the end. Of
those seven drivers, Weaver has 2 wins in this race, Pierce 3 wins, Bauman 2
wins, and Billy Drake 2 wins, so it appears that experience in this race
probably pays off well. I believe the records will show 8 lead changes among
4 drivers. That is not the complete story, as several others tried
unsuccessfully to slip past the leader at different points, including Ed
Dixon, Billy Moyer, driving Jeff John's car, and Don O'Neal. O'Neal might
have been the story of the evening had it not been for bad luck. Spun on lap
27 by a lapped car, the 5th place starter went to the back, only to have a
flat on lap 53, go to the back again, and work his way through the field, to
challenge Weaver for the lead on lap 87, only to have another flat and rear
end suspension parts break. The Real Deal was then done for the night.
There was an extra $5,000 bonus to the winner if the race went nonstop, but
with 10 or 11 cautions, that went unclaimed.
The Dash was won by Ross,Jr with heat wins going to Billy Moyer,Dick
Taylor, and Matt Taylor with the semi going to Kirby Damery.
This was also the first win by the son of a former winner - Matt Taylor is
the son of 1988 winner Dick Taylor, who unofficially retired from full-time
racing after the event.
In all, 29 drivers from 6 states took part in the activites, with 5 states
represented in the starting field.

Unofficial finish:
117 Matt Taylor Springfield
B12 Kevin Weaver Gibson City
F15 Ed Bauman Springfield
32 Bob Pierce Danville
9 Billy Drake Bloomington
1s Steve Sheppard Springfield
7 Butch Smith Decatur
71 Don O'Neal Martinsville, IN
95 Billy Moyer Batesville,AR
25 Joe Ross, Jr. Springfield
14 Brian Ater Decatur
59 Jeff Thrasher Kinney
51 Mark Faust Highland
24 Dick Taylor Springfield
96 Cory Daugherty Decatur
18 Shannon Babb Decatur
6A Mark Anderson Lexington
10 Kirby Damery Decatur
11 Steve 'Ace' Ihm IA
50 Ed Dixon Washington,MO
racenutdan

Well as always the Mighty MACON Speedway was action packed and much to the delight of the late model fans a great show was seen by all with Matt Taylor becoming the first second-generation driver to visit victory lane for the HERALD-REVIEW 100 following in dad Dick's footsteps as Dick was the 1988 victor.

Fast Time: Shannon Babb

Dash: 1. Joe Ross, Jr., 2.Kevin Weaver, 3.Ed Dixon, 4.Steve Sheppard, Jr., 5.Billy Drake, 6.Don O'Neal

Heat 1: 1.Billy Moyer, 2.Bob Pierce, 3.Shannon Babb

Heat 2: 1. Dick Taylor, 2.Mark Anderson, 3.Butch Smith

Heat 3: 1.Matt Taylor, 2.Ed Bauman, 3.Mark Faust

Consi: 1.Kirby Damery, 2.Corey Daughtery

Feature: 1.Matt Taylor, 2.Kevin Weaver, 3.Bob Pierce, 4.Ed Bauman, 5.Steve Sheppard, Jr. (i'm not 100% sure of 4th and 5th but I believe these to be correct)

From here its on to the Farmer City Raceway and home of the racenuts!!

P.S. There was a $5,000 bonus on the line tonight for the Herald-Review victor if the race had gone green to checkered without a caution, however; it went uncollected. There were plenty of cautions but there was also plenty of great racing which seen 3 and 4 wide racing at times!

Spoon River Summernat's
45 late models showed up -- not bad for shaky weather ans sprinkles at the track around 6:00 had most of us wondering if we should even go in or not.
Fast time- #4 Mike Mullvain 14.711

Trophy Dash:
7 Curry
71 O'Neal
47 Hillard
00 Korte
B12 Weaver (series)
4 Mullvain
16M Ed Dixon (UMP)
Z Joe Harlan
11 Brad Denney (track)

heats - top 3 advance - 10 laps
1st heat: 28 Erb,16M Dixon,T2 Todd Bennett
2nd heat: Z Harlan,23 Ted Loomis,16A Johnson
3rd heat: 12 Aukland, 75 Cothron, 117 M Taylor
4th heat: 21 Moyer, 32 Pierce, 16 Negangard

1st semi winner advances
93 LanceJr, 36 Long, R7 Bowman
2nd semi winner advances
9 Drake, T2 Chasteen(?) 71F Freeburg

Feature:
7 Curry
71 O'Neal
28 Erb
B12 Weaver
12 Aukland
00 Korte
21 Moyer
47 Hillard
32 Pierce
75 Cothron
16M Dixon
Z Harlan
T2 Bennett
4 Mullavin
9 Drake
16A Johnson
117 M. Taylor
23 Loomis
93 LanceJr
16 Negangard

Notes:
The "out of control" tour that I had previously referred to in other posts is apparently over. For MOST of the 50 laps, Erb and O'Neal raced pretty much side by side with O'Neal pretty much holding the advantage over Erb, but I never did see either one touch the other -- the Erb we have all seen in the past is back -- maybe the "Erb is in control" tour is next!!

The scorers and I, and obviously a lot of people in the stands and the pits did not see the same finish in the 4th heat, where they scored Moyer 1st and Pierce 2nd. I thought Pierce had clearly passed Moyer in turn 3, and had about a full car length on Moyer at the flag. (wouldn't be my first error-LOL)

The only yellow in the feature came on the first lap as #16 Shawn Negangard's bad fortunes continued - this time the dry sump belt broke shortly after taking green flag and he coasted to a stop in turn one.

That yellow flag negated the pass just executed by O'Neal on Curry, the only time Curry was challenged for the lead.

On a personal note, my apologies go out to all those who listened to me when I said there would be only one support class. Instead, they had pro stocks, hobos AND 46 modifieds. All racing was still done at 11:20 -- not bad.

The top two are definitely correct, and I believe 3rd and 4th. Not sure about 5th thru 8th.

1) Kevin Weaver, B12, Gibson City, IL; 13.750
2) Tony Izzo Jr., 16, Bridgeview, IL; 13.760
3) Dennis Erb Jr., 28, Carpentersville, IL; 13.810
4) Steve Tyne, 99, Streator, IL; 13.831
5) Joe Izzo, 166, LaSalle, IL; 13.832
6) Bob Pierce, 32, Danville, IL; 13.837

LM Dash (Top 6 to feature, 7-9 to pole of each heat):
1) 28; Erb Jr., 2) 16; Izzo Jr., 3) 166; Izzo, 4) B12; Weaver, 5) 32; Pierce, 6) 00; Randy Korte, 7) 99; Tyne
8) 71; Don O'Neal, 9) 7; Frank Reaber

Mod Dash:
1) #9; **** Wood, 2) #23; Dan Hamstra, 3) #7; Hirshberger, 4) #25; Marty Thompson, 5) #24; ?, 6) #8; Gerald Meier

Mod Heat 1:
1) #1K; Tom Kroll
2) #00; Dennis Wilson
3) #18; Dan Droguemueller
4) #G1; Mike Garland
5) #69; Jim Farris
6) #B4; Plummer
7) #00K; Tony Roland
8) #39; Allen
9) #21; Brandon Slager

Mod Heat 2:
1) #96; Dale Lueth
2) #24; ?
3) #23jr; Joel Funk
4) #33; Evans
5) #22; ?
6) #11; Rick Roedell
7) #x; Travis Kohler
8) #17; Joe Izzo (flipped car)

Mod Heat 3:
1) #11; Matt Rhyne
2) #2T; Patrick
3) #21c; Kosmatka
4) #99; ?
5) #2m; Mueller
6) #1; Rocky Griffins
7) #99; Partin
8) #21; ?

LM Heat 1 (Top 4):
1) #21; Billy Moyer, Batesville, AR
2) #99; Tyne
3) #0; Richie Hedrick, Urbana, IL
4) #28; Sam Epling, Bensenville, IL
5) #15m; Skip Martin
6) #45L; Brad Schwartz
7) #26; Danny Thacker
8) #6; Jim Zdroik
9) #45T; Bart Schwartz
10) #22, Eric Dauber

LM Heat 2 (Top 4):
1) #27; Bob Pohlman Jr, Oak Lawn, IL
2) #71; O'Neal
3) #23; Ted Loomis, Kingston, IL
4) #55; Shawn Toczek
5) #16; Shawn Negangard
6) #9; Tom Pauley
7) #8; Reece O'Connor
8) #27; Mike Provenzano
9) #S-10; Jr. Shickel
10) #40; Schooley
11) #17m; ? (Not McDowell)
12) #14; Jim Partipilo

LM Heat 3 (Top 4):
1) #7; Reaber
2) #10; Pete Parker, Kaukauna, WI
3) #21; Eddie Leviner
4) #00; Tony Roland
5) #3; Randy Woodling
6) #55; Jim Loomis Jr.
7) #19; Garrett Slager, Mokena, IL
8) #9; Billy Drake, Bloomington, IL
9) #7; John Provenzano, Marseilles, IL
10) #5; Jeff Hartzell

NOTE: Provenzano and Hartzell were caught in an early race incident that also took out the #9 of Drake. Provenzano overcooked it (turned into a bad push) coming out of the corner running himself, and the #5 of Hartzell straight into the front stretch wall. Provenzano was scratched for the evening, Hartzell returned with heavy damage to the nose, and Drake's car was mostly body damage to the roof and side of the car.

Mod Consi:
1) #11; Roeddell (on the last lap using the high side), 2) #69; Farris, 3) #33; Evans, 4) #2m; Mueller, 5) #00; Roland
6) #B4; Plummer, 7) #39; Allen, 8) #99; ?, 9) #21; ?, 10) #12; Bohm, 11) #21s; Slager

LM Consi 1 (Top 2):
1) #3; Woodling, 2) #9; Drake, 3) #6; Butch Slager, 4) #15m; Martin, 5) #S-10; Shickel, 6) #26; Thacker
7) #17m; ?, 8) #27; M Provenzano, 9) #9, Pauley, 10) #22, E. Dauber

LM Consi 2 (Top 2):
1) #16; Negangard, 2) #14; Partipilo, 3) #45L; Schwartz, 4) #6; Zdroik, 5) #40; Schooley, 6) #55; Loomis Jr.
7) #45T; Schwartz, 8) #5; Hartzell, 9) #64; R. Dauber

LM Feature ($5,000 to win, 40 laps):
1) #B12; Weaver, 2) #00; Korte, 3) #21; Moyer, 4) #28; Erb Jr,, 5) #71; O'Neal, 6) #7; Reaber, 7) #10; Parker
8) #99; Tyne, 9) #28; Epling, 10) #27; Pohlman Jr., 11) #166; Izzo

That's all I have (unofficial btw). Track was super dusty all night, had two grooves though; mid-track and right on the bottom. The top was no-man's land. The early race incident with Izzo Jr. and Erb Jr. saw Tony Jr.'s car turned sideways on the backstraight by Erb Jr., with Erb Jr. keeping his foot in the throttle and sending Tony off the track's exit ramp, almost into the barrier for Turn 3. The resulting onslaught between the two took a few minutes as Tony Jr. came up behind Erb Jr. and hammered into the rear end of his car as a payback on the frontstretch, sending Erb Jr. almost into the incident. As I've said before (read the previous LaSalle Results??? post), it was appalling on both driver's accounts, and I feel that both should be penalized as a result of the incident.

Weaver dominated the event, pulling away to a half track lead at largest by way of lapped traffic, and using the extreme low groove. Moyer came on near the end (using the middle groove), closing on Korte (who ran everywhere) but not getting quite close enough to pass him as the laps wound down. Weaver's car seemed to almost stutter on the last green flag run, as his lead dropped to almost half, as his car appeared to slow, but the car resurged to take him to the $5,000 winner's purse.

The race was marred with tons of cautions, the aforementioned incident, and a runaway field with most of the field strung out and racing was rather iffy. Track came apart real bad all night (probably from the sheer amount of rain in the area), as I'm sure everyone that left the facility was covered in dust.

Mod Feature ($1,000 to win; 20 laps);
1) #23; Hamstra, 2) #25; Thompson, 3) #96; Lueth, 4) #9; Wood, 5) #1k; Kroll, 6) #11; Rhyne, 7) #8; Meier
8) #24; (from dash), 9) #00; Wilson, 10) #24; (from heat 2)

That's the best that I have the finish down (unofficial of course), as I tried to scribble it down super quick. Racing for the modifieds proved to be a complete irony over what most people would generally pick. Not only was there far less cautions (like, almost none, perhaps 1), but the racing was actually more exciting than the LM's with a 4-way battle for the lead (sometimes even 3-wide) between Hamstra, Thompson, Lueth, and Wood for the top spot.

RACE #11- SUMNER, IL---BOB PIERCE

RACE #10- PEVELY, MO---ED DIXON

(COURTESY OF I-55 RACEWAY)

Fan of #96

32 Cars - Billy Drake fast time.

Feature: 1) Claycomb 2) Weaver 3) Dixon 4) Drake 5) Tudor 6) O'Neal 7)Burwell 8) English 9) Keeling 10) Vanwormer 11) Phillips 12) Sellars 13) Tindall 14) Rust 15) Dietz 16) Mike 17) Toland 18) Russell 19) Albright 20) Roberts

Moyer, Korte, Curry, Pace, Millikan all present but did not make the show.

Claycomb passed Weaver with about 3 laps to go. Very good race. Ebglish in a Rayburn House car, got caught in a lap one spin went to the pits and came back out in 19th place and came up to finish 8th in a badly beatn up car.

RACE #8- PEORIA, IL---RICK AUKLAND

show was complete at 10:15 (they have a curfew)
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still here and full of it
1racenut

RACE #7- KANKAKEE, IL---DON O'NEAL

(Courtesy of Aukland Fan)

51 Cars (Izzo's couldn't get that with all 3 divisions at times for a Friday night show!)

Oneal and Drake had some good side by side racing. Mark Anderson dropped out of the race.

Webb, Hedrick (0) and Pauley got into accident in turn 1 after Pauley and Hedrick jumped restart. Webb trailered his car and Hedrick was towed off. Gary May was also towed off when trying to avoid contact he was hit by **** Potts who tried to avoid May and another car.

Hedrick made a great run to the front to only run out of laps. I assume he was given a promoters provisional as he started in the back of the feature.

1. O'Neal, 2. Weaver, 3. Pierce, 4. Izzo, 5. Erb
I couldn't tell exactly how they finished from that point on as I was watching the battle for first and then fourth. I looked to see if final results were posted and couldn't find.

Pohlman led first 20 or so laps before O'Neal passed him. Pohlman dropped out with about 15 laps left.

Weaver took off on the high side after a yellow for Ted Loomis and caught O'Neal with 20 laps to go. However, Weaver was blocked a couple times on the straights and was consistently hitting the cushion causing him to slow through the corners. O'Neal did a nice job of driving and was very smooth.

Erb got up to second but strayed from the low groove and dropped back. It was nice to see Dennis run good back at his home track. In watching him 3 years ago I can see a dramatic difference in his driving style and ability from touring with HAT. Very impressive.

Good racing all night with two grooves. Had a 20 minute rain delay and it drizzled several times throughout the night.

RACE #6- EAST MOLINE, IL----BILLY DRAKE

RACE #5- HALES CORNER, WI---KEVIN WEAVER

Top ten as far as I can remember: Weaver, Drake, Russ Scheffler, Chris Carlson, Bret Sievert, Pete Parker, Jimmy Watson.

Jimmy Watson was fast time, Drake won the dash. Don O'Neal won a heat after crashing in the dash. O'Neal had more problems with a cut tire on the opening lap wich set off a three car pileup. O'Neal used the cleanup time to get a new tire and proceeded to claw his way around a tight little bull ring up to I believe ninth. That guy is really having a great year and is lot of fun to watch.

RACE #4- HAUBSTADT, IN---ED DIXON

Feature: (40 laps)
1. Ed Dixon 2. Kevin Claycomb 3. Randy Korte 4. Jim Burwell 5. Donnie Tudor 6. Kevin Weaver
7. Billy Drake 8. Bill Millikan 9. Mark Oller 10.Mark Faust 11.Clay Baumann 12.Shawn Negangard
13.Todd Rust 14.Rodney Melvin 15.Steve Karnes 16.Don O'Neal 17.Mike Chandler 18.Donnie Barnhart 19.Gary Keeling 20.Shannon Babb
Dash:
1. Claycomb 2. O'Neal 3. Keeling 4. Drake 5. Dixon
Heat 1:
1. Millikan 2. Barnhart 3. Karnes

Heat 2:
1. Korte 2. Weaver 3. Babb
Heat 3:
1. Burwell 2. Oller 3. Melvin
Consi:
1. Baumann 2. Rust

RACE #3-CLARKSVILLE, TN---DONNIE BARNHART
A FEATURE:
1. Donnie Barnhart, N. Little Rock, AR 2. Don O'Neal, Martinsville, IN 3. Kevin Weaver, Gibson City, IL 4. Shannon Babbs, Decatur, IL 5. Curtis Roberts, Coleman,MI 6. Doug McCammon, Palestine, IL 7. Billy Drake, Bloomington, IL 8. Tony Albright, Clarksville, TN 9. Chuck Proctor, Charlotte, TN 10. Bobby Melvin, Logan, IL

B FEATURE 1:1. Randle Sweeney, Clifty, KY 2. Stuart Mays, Fairview, TN 3. Gary Frost, Clarksville, TN 4. Billy Faust, Lebanon, IL 5. Jeff Blackburn, Princeton, KY

B FEATURE 2:1. Eddie Pace, Clarksville, TN 2. Lee DeVasier, Lexington, KY
3. Dan Sturgeon, Bloomington, IL 4. Terry Kephart, Clarksville, TN 5. Dave Phillips, Woodlawn, TN

HEAT 1: Chuck Proctor, Charlotte, TN
HEAT 2: Donnie Tudor, Shawneetown, IL
HEAT 3: Mike Hammerle
HEAT 4: Don O'Neal, Martinsville, IN
DASH: Kevin Weaver, Gibson City, IL
FAST TIME: Kevin Weaver 13.296

RACE #2- MT. VERNON, IL---BILLY DRAKE

FEATURE:
1. Billy Drake 9 2. Bobby Melvin 27B 3. Doug McCammon 92 4. Kevin Weaver B12
5. Rodney Melvin 27 6. Kevin Claycomb 7. Don O'Neal 71 8. Rich Hedrick 0 9. Donnie Tudor 14T 10. Mark Faust 51 11. Ed Dixon 50 12. Cory Daugherty 96 13. Ron Sensel 36 14. Bob Pierce 32 15. Bill Millikan 12 16. Clay Baumann 77 17. Donnie Barnhart 11 18. Mark Gansmann 20 19. Curis Roberts 9X 20. Jimmy Burwell R1

FIRST CONSI:
1. Clay Baumann 77 2. Shannon Babb 18 3. Butch Smith 7S 4. Dan Sturgeon 26
5. Steve Lampley 33 6. Mike Galloway 83T 7. Joe Morris 83 8. Mike Chandler 51X
9. John Terry 95

SECOND CONSI:
1. Cory Daugherty 2. Scott James 83J 3. Brain Wolfmeir 37 4. Jim Curry 7C 5. Steve Galloway 45G 6. Shawn Negangard 16 7. Steve Ashby 16X

DASH:
1. Ed Dixon 50 2. Doug McCammon 92 3. Mark Gansman 20 4. Kevin Weaver B12
5. Kevin Claycomb 28 6. Don O'Neal 71

HEAT:
1. Bobby Melvin 27B 2. Ron Sensel 36 3. Rodney Melvin 27 4. Donnie Tudor 14T

HEAT:
1. Billy Drake 9 2. Jimmy Burwell R1 3. Rich Hedrick 0 4. Mark Faust 51

HEAT:
1. Bob Pierce 32 2. Billy Millikan 12 3. Donnie Barnhardt 11 4. Curtis Roberts 9X

Well folks there were 31 or 32 cars on hand Fast time went to Guzman (sp) not sure which time they used for him though sorry.

The Top 6 qualifiers were in the Trophy Dash as mentioned before with 3 others being added to the field as provisional ...those finishing 7th, 8th & 9 would start on the pole of each of the 3 heats...

Finishing order of the dash to determine where they would start in the feature .

Heat 1 (followed the dash immediately)
Top 4 transfering to the Feature
50 Dixon B12 92 Doug McCammon 9r)

Unofficial Top Five Feature Finish
71 Don O'Neal
18 Shannon Babb
11B Donnie Barnhart
36 Roger Long
99 Steve Barnett

UMP SUMMERNATIONALS

23 NIGHTS OF RACING ACTION IN 9 STATES

RACE #23- WAUSEON, OH- KEVIN WEAVER

1st Kevin Weaver
2nd Rick Aukland
3rd Shannon Babb
4th Justin Paxton
5th Shane Yoder
kevin weaver beat rick aukland at the line by a foot and it was the only foot that he lead the entire race. but it was also the most important foot.

RACE #11- SUMNER, IL---BOB PIERCE

RACE #10- PEVELY, MO---ED DIXON

(COURTESY OF I-55 RACEWAY)

RACE #8- PEORIA, IL---RICK AUKLAND

RACE #7- KANKAKEE, IL---DON O'NEAL

(Courtesy of Aukland Fan)

RACE #6- EAST MOLINE, IL----BILLY DRAKE

RACE #5- HALES CORNER, WI---KEVIN WEAVER

RACE #4- HAUBSTADT, IN---ED DIXON