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SHELTON, AGEE, DAWSON, CHASE ALSO WIN AT 24 RACEWAY;
MLRA RETURNS FOR NEXT WEEK
by Ron Lueck - 24 Raceway
MOBERLY, MO (August 11) - It took three heats this weekend to set the
starting grid for the 21 B-modifieds to race in their feature at 24 Raceway.
Gary Lewis and Mike Shelten got the front row positions from their efforts
in the first two heats, while 13-year old Cayden Carter came from Oskaloosa,
IA to try his skills here in Moberly, starting in row 2 alongside Jacob
Grotewiel in his best starting position yet. Racing at Moberly takes a bit
of getting used to that outside concrete wall and on lap 2, Carter got
familiar with it in turns 1 & 2. His night was completed, retiring to the
pit area with enough damage to keep him from returning. No caution flag came
out for this indcident, and actually the entire 15 lap race did not have a
single yellow flag fly. Lewis moved into 2nd, right behind Bloomfield,
Iowa's Shelten for the first 8 laps, but Chad Lebsock kept giving Lewis a
challenge for most of that time early on. Lebsock took 2nd away from Lewis
on lap 11, by running low as Lewis took to the higher lane. And as these two
were doing their side by side racing, Shelten was running off with the lead
by at least six car-lengths. Shelten cruised to an easy win, with Lebsock
holding onto 2nd, followed by Lewis, then another Iowa driver, Carter
Vandenberg, as 5th place went to last week's winner Bob Woodrow. Great
racing in a caution-free event!
The Sportsman class also had great competition in their feature without any
cautions flags flying. Early on, it was Derrick Agee running the low lane
and Rick Girard racing up higher on the track. Agee led the first 2 laps,
Girard got the 3rd lap, and Agee took the rest of 'em as these two did the
side by side racing for the entire 12 laps! They would trade off leads on
the back stretch, but at the line, it looked almost a tie for most of the
late laps, with Agee getting credit for the lead from the scoring
department. Andrew Page and Randy Rindom were back in a battle for 3rd that
saw Page hold that positioin for the entire race. That low lane proved to be
the key for Agee, as Girard settled into 2nd, followed by Page and Rindom.
It was a back-to-back win for Agee.
Tim Dawson, Clayton Crump and Tom Creed ran as a 1-2-3 threesome in a
break-away from the rest of the field in the Hobby Stock class, until a late
race caution on lap 10 bunched up the group of ten racecars. From there, it
was a green-white-checkers finish with Dawson leading Crump, Creed, Chase
Breid and Nathan Stevenson to the finish line. Dawson stated it was a "great
run on a great track" as he led the entire way to his 4th win of 2009.
In the Hornet class, it seemed to be all Devin Still early in this race as
he got the jump on Kristi Chase from their front row starting positions. Rob
Chase and Brooke Hassler battled behind him for 2nd, with Chase running up
high while Hassler ran down low. Midway through the 12 lap race, R.Chase got
into position to challenge Still by now taking over the low lane while Still
stayed in the high one as they entered the rear of the field. Hassler and
Richard Doctorian were doing their own racing for 3rd by similar low
lane/high lane competition. Still led all the laps but the important one in
this feature, as Rob Chase pulled into a last lap lead at the finish line in
their two car breakaway. Chase was the only one of the 24 Raceway's season
points leaders from the five classes to pull off a win on this evening.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Aug 15 - MLRA Return visit with the Midwest LateModel Racing Association
Aug 22 - No Racing (planned summer pit stop # 2) and time off between State
Fair races on Thursday & Sunday
Aug 29 - Annual S.S.Autosports.com race for photo to be included in website
banner. A most-recent CHURCH Bulletin will be good for $5 off admission to
grandstands.
The top five finishers from the all five classes of A-mods, B-mods,
Sportsman, Hobby Stocks & 4 clyinder Hornets are listed below, but the
complete list is available on the website of www.24racewayinmoberly.com by
hitting the results button at the top of the home page. Season points can be
viewed in the same fashion on that website and both are a direct link with a
connection to www.speednetdirect.com . A complete and current 2009 season
schedule is also available there in the same fashion. Action photos from 24
Raceway can be viewed at www.photogliff.com with ordering available off that
website, for professional shots of both driver and racecar, and that too, is
only a click away on that same home page.
PROMO: Next up for August 15th is the return of the Midwest LateModel Racing
Association to 24 Raceway. This saturday, the O'Reilly MLRA presented by
Lucas Oil will bring plenty of action as these fast late models are back for
another visit, after their July 11th 40-lap race on the high banks of the
Moberly track, just 3 miles east of US highway 63.
Their will be drawings for some lucky fans to win: a 4-pack of tickets to
Qualifying Day at Kansas Speedway; 2 tickets to Lucas Oil Speedway on Aug.
22 (while we're not racing here at 24 Raceway); and a fan ride-along a the
2-seater latemodel.
It will be a full night as all of the five regular classes of both A &
B-modifieds, Sportsman, Hobby Stocks and 4 cylinder Hornets will also
compete.
Adult admission for this week is $17 to the grandstand, with kids, aged 12
and under, admitted free to see Dirt Track Racing at its Best! Pit passes
are $30 per person.
The grandstands will open at 4 p.m. Hot laps at 6:15 following a short
drivers' meeting. Racing on the high banks of Moberly, featuring the fast
latemodels of the MLRA will take place again at 7pm at 24 Raceway this
Saturday the 15th.
Last week's bicycle give-away was sponsored by the Burton Racing family of
Kyle (#20 Hornet), Rachal (#76 Hornet) and Ray (#44 Hornet) from the
Centralia/Clark areas, and was won by one lucky Trisha Mott from Columbia.
This week, another bicycle will go home with a lucky kid entered into the
Jr. Race Club Fan drawing, simply by signing up at the lower grandstand
area.
Of 93 race team entries, the Top 5 finishers are as follows:
(all hometowns are Missouri unless otherwise noted)
A-Modifieds A-main feature (of 40 entries) 30 laps
1) 18L Michael Long, Quincy, IL
2) 33z Zack VanderBeek, New Sharon, IA (heat 1 winner)
3) 14 Jon Tesch, Watertown, SD (heat 4 winner)
4) 18 Chase Junghans, Manhattan, KS (heat 2 winner)
5) 65 Tommy Myer, Blooming Prairie, MN
A-Modifieds B-main heat 1
1) 19r Ryan Gustin, Marshalltown, IA
2) 4R Dereck Ramirez, Woodward, OK
3) 11P Curt Potter, Boonville
4) 26 Gary Blackburn Jr., Fulton
5) 07 Kenny Mudd, Winfield
A-Modifieds B-main heat 2
1) 65 Tommy Myer, Blooming Prairie, MN
2) 3 Kelly Shryock, Fertile, IA
3) 21m Dean Mahlstedt, Clear Lake, IA
4) 8 Colt Mather, Webster, IA
5) 1P Steve Potter, Boonville
B-Modifieds (of 21 entries) 15 laps
1) Mike Shelten, Bloomfield, IA (heat 2 winner)
2) 29L Chad Lebsock, Centralia
3) 12L Gary Lewis, Hallsville (heat 1 winner)
4) 7 Carter Vandenberg, Oskaloosa, IA
5) 3 Bob Woodrow, Hannibal
Sportsman (of 12 entries) 12 laps
1) 14 Derrick Agee, Huntsville
2) 00 Rick Girard, Columbia (heat 1 winner)
3) 24A Andrew Page, Columbia (heat 2 winner)
4) 01i Mike Harward, Floris, IA
5) 48 Randy Rindom, Moberly
Hobby Stocks (of 10 entries) 12 laps
1) 28 Tim Dawson, Callao (heat 1 winner)
2) 3C Clayton Crump, Centralia (heat 2 winner)
3) 17 Tom Creed, Moberly
4) 12B Chase Breid, Madison
5) 57 Nathan Stevenson, Macon
4 cyl. Hornets (of 10 entries) 12 laps
1) 3 Rob Chase, Clark
2) 73 Devin Still, Anabel (heat 2 winner)
3) 21 Brooke Hassler, Columbia
4) 36 Richard Doctorian, Kansas City
5) 33 Kristi Chase, Clark (heat 1 winner)
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