BLATTLER AND WATERMAN TAKE FIRST EVER CHECKERS AT THE MOUNTAIN-DEW BLOOMFIELD SPEEDWAY
By: Tony Paris

BLOOMFIELD, Ia. (April 15, 2006) - A new year and new look at the Mountain-Dew Bloomfield Speedway with five classes in action under the Casey's General Stores USRA sanctioning. With temps in the eighty's the racing action was just a hot with two drivers winning there first ever feature wins. The racing surface was nice and smooth with all the track prep and the widening of the racing surface making for four and five wide excitement.

The first feature of the night was the Kirkland Auto USRA hobby stock feature with twenty-eight cars checked in for action. With one try to get a lap in the red flag was out for Steve Hawkins of Cincinnati making contact with the outside wall and rolling on the front-stretch and Lance Meyer of Ottumwa also involved. Both drivers were okay but the cars having heavy damage. On the second try Jason McDaniel of Eldon took the early race lead and paced the field before Nathan Wood of Sigourney, Mark Moore of Ottumwa and Steve Allen of Oskaloosa all closed on the leader. Wood would make the pass in turns three and four with McDaniel regaining the position in turn one and two. This brought the crowed to there feet with two laps remaining McDaniel used the lap car to his advantage winning his second straight win in 2006. Wood took the runner-up spot followed by Moore in third and Allen in fourth.

In the Hougland Repair Shop USRA stock car division Bobby Greiner Jr. of Ottumwa took the early race lead and lead till a left rear tire went flat causing Greiner to spin with five laps remaining in the eighteen lap event. This would turn the lead over to last years track champion Mike Robinson of Moravia and Ryan Cook of WestPoint running second. On the restart Greiner would make his way from the work area to the tail of the feature. Robinson and Michale McClure of Floris and Cook battled for the topspot but Greiner would marched his way to the front taking the second spot but the white flag flew with Greiner putting pressure on the backend of Robinsons machine but Robinsion held off the late charge to take the win. Greiner took the second spot with Cook in third and Mike Harward of Floris in fourth after starting fourteenth.

The third feature of the night was the USRA b-modifieds making there first ever appearance at the Mountain-Dew Bloomfield Speedway. Jim Gillenwater of Keokuk took the early race lead with Jeff Waterman making his first ever trip to Bloomfield from Quincy, IL. and the two drivers battled for the topspot with Chris Larsen of Keokuk running third. Waterman would take the race lead on lap six of fourteen and drive is machine to victory lane for the first time ever. Waterman made the long pull payoff and one of his crew man winning the 50/50 prize giveaway. Gillenwater would take second followed by Larsen in third and Hugh Eddy from Milan, Mo. in fourth.

In the Kollision Korner hornet division David Probasco of Moulton took the green and lead till the checker flag flew. Dale Porter of Floris driving the number 31 machine usually fielded by the title sponsor owner John Garnett of Bloomfield took the second spot with Ron Kibbe taking third and Larry Hopkins of Ottumwa in fourth.

The fifth and final feature of the night was the Spilman Auto Parts USRA A-Modified division taking the green with Jim Lynch of Bloomfield taking the lead with Jared Durbin of Ft. Madison running second and Brandon Banks of Washington in third. Banks would work the bottom of the speedway passing Lynch for the lead and lap six of the twenty lap event. Banks looked to have everything going his way with a six car length lead before rear-end problems would shatter his hopes for his first win on lap eleven ending his night. On the restart Lynch would open up a two car length lead over Stephen Blattler of Oskaloosa running second. Blattler who started in the eleventh starting spot marched his way to put pressure on Lynch and take the lead with seven laps remaining. The second and third spot was heating up with Todd Holman of Ottumwa working his way from thirteenth starting spot to third and veteran racer Jerry Pilcher of Bloomfield starting tenth and worked his way to second. Blattler would take the checkers for the first time in his modified career with Pilcher taking second followed by Holman in third and David Holder of Clarence,Mo. in fourth.

Next weeks racing action at the Mountain-Dew Bloomfield Speedway will feature six classes in action with the five regular USRA classes along with the Mid-America Winged 305 Sprints in action with hot laps at 7:00pm and racing action to follow at 7:30pm.

KOLLISION KORNER HORNETS
Heat#1-1.David Probasco,Moulton 2.Larry Hopkins,Ottumwa 3.Dale Porter,Floris 4.Ron Kibbe 5.Bill Young,Drakesville 6.Mat Moore,Ottumwa 7.Aaron Robinsion,Moravia 8.Kristina Garrett,Bloomfield 9.Jim Garrett,Bloomfield 10.Kevin Garrett,Bloomfield

A-Feature 1.Probasco 2.Porter 3.Kibbe 4.Hopkins 5.J.Garrett 6.K.Garrett 7.Young 8.Moore 9.Kristinia Garrett 10.Robinson


KIRKLAND AUTO USRA HOBBY STOCKS

Heat#1-1.Robby Sands,Centerville 2.Jamie Orwig,Chartion 3.Ray Lasser Jr.,Ottumwa 4.Chad Dehne,Ottumwa 5.Brad Prado,Ottumwa 6.Jeff Griffiths,Ottumwa 7.Ben Jones,Williamsburg

Heat#2-1.Jason McDaniel,Eldon 2.Rocky Fosdyck,Selma 3.Dstin Griffiths,Ottumwa 4.Gary Harward,Floris 5.Shannon Sample,Milton 6.Steve Hawkins,Cincinatti 7.Rusty Sands,Unionville,Mo.

Heat#3-1.Nathan Wood,Sigourney 2.Derek Kirkland,Centerville 3.Shawn Smothers,Albia 4.Lance Meyer,Ottumwa 5.Rick Wilson,Ottumwa 6.Clayton Robbins,Greentop,Mo.

Heat#4-1.Steve Allen,Oskaloosa 2.Mark Moore,Ottumwa 3.Jim Sulser,Centerville 4.Paul Underwood,Ottumwa 5.Daniel Robbins,Greentop,Mo. 6.Jim Walker,Mystic

A-Feature 1.McDaniel 2.Wood 3.Moore 4.Allen 5.Underwood 6.D.Griffiths 7.Orwig 8.Walker 9.Kirkland 10.Harward 11.Sample 12.Sulser 13.Wilson 14.Lasser 15.Rusty Sands 16.Daniel Robbins 17.Smothers 18.Robby Sands 19.Prado 20.Dehne 21.Hawkins 22.Meyer 23.Fosdyck 24.Griffiths 25.Clayton Robbins 26.Jones

HOUGLAND REPAIR SHOP USRA STOCK CARS

Heat#1-1.Mike Robinson,Moravia 2.Michale McClure,Floris 3.Lonnie Taylor,Bloomfield 4.Jim Redmann,Lockridge 5.Mike McClure,Bloomfield 6.Brian Jackson,Moravia 7.John Oliver Jr.,Mt. Pleasent 8.David Boas,Bloomfield

Heat#2-1.Jim Lynch,Bloomfield 2.Bobby Greiner Jr,Ottumwa 3.Ryan Cook,Westpoint 4.Tyler McClure,Floris 5.Chris Hawkins,Drakesville 6.T.J.Bainbridge,Eldon 7.Mike Harward,Floris 8.Jared Miller,Bloomfield

A-Feature 1.Robinson 2.Greiner 3.Cook 4.Harward 5.Bainbridge 6.Michael McClure 7.Jackson 8.Miller 9.Lynch 10.Hawkins 11.T.McClure 12.Oliver 13.Redmann 14.Mike McClure 15.Taylor 16.Boas

USRA B-MODIFEDS

Heat#1-1.Chris Larson,Keokuk 2.Jim Gillenwater,Keokuk 3.High Eddy,Milan,Mo. 4.Kelly O`Haver,Kirksville,Mo. 5.Brandon Savage,Keokuk

Heat#2-1.Jeff Waterman,Quincy,IL. 2.Jeff Eddy,Molan,Mo. 3.Chris Leather,Macon,Mo. 4.Tony Dunker,Quincy,IL

A-Feature 1.Waterman 2.Gillenwater 3.Larson 4.Hugh Eddy 5.O`Haver 6.Jeff Eddy 7.Savage 8.Leathers 9.Dunker

SPILMAN AUTO PARTS USRA A-MODIFIEDS

Heat#1-1.Brandon Banks,Washington 2.Jeremy Townsend,Bloomfield 3.Jim Lynch,Bloomfield 4.Steve Stewart,Washington 5.Casey Lancaster,Glenwood,Mo. 6.Stephen Blattler,Oskaloosa 7.Todd Holman,Ottumwa

Heat#2-1.Jerry Pilcher,Bloomfield 2.David Holder,Clarence,Mo. 3.Kyle Harwood,Oskaloosa 4.Toby Vandekamp,St. Louis,Mo. 5.Jared Durbin,Ft. Madision 6.Dsutin Clark,Eldon 7.Dennis Elliott,Mt.Ayer

A-Feature 1.Blattler 2.Pilcher 3.Holman 4.Holder 5.Stewart 6.Elliott 7.Harwood 8.Lancaster 9.Durbin 10.Lynch 11..Banks 12.Townsend 13.Clark 14.Vandekamp