MCDANIEL AND WELLER TAKE SECOND STRAIGHT WINS AT ELDON RACEWAY
By: Tony Paris

ELDON, IA (May 5) - The home of the super half-mile held it's second straight night of racing after mother-nature spoiled last week's action and two new faces with two repeat winners in victory lane at Eldon.

 In the stock car feature the father and son battle for the lead was Tyler McClure of Floris and Phil McClure of was a thriller with Tyler trying to hold of his father but Phil would take the lead on lap seven of the fourteen lap main event. Last week's winner Shane Weller of Agency raced his way from fifth to battle for the lead and took the race lead from Phil McClure on lap twelve and lead the final two laps for his second straight win. Phil McClure took second with son Tyler in third and Pat Rachels of Knoxville in fourth and Nathan Wood of Keswick in fifth.

The second feature of the night was the four bangers main with the Mark Williams of Fairfield taking the lead and paced the field the first two laps before retiring into the pit are with problems and Andrew Hustead of Rutledge, Mo.taking his first ever appearance at the Eldon Raceway and making it a good one with the win. Larry Hopkins of Ottumwa took the second spot after passing Dennis Allen of Agency for the runner-up spot. Allen took third with female racer Liz Harwood of Oskaloosa taking fourth. The racing action was stopped twice for Cory Sheetz of Keota and Derek Randall of Washington getting upside down both drivers walked away unhurt.

In the hobby stock feature Jimmy Hayes of Moravia and Danny Thrasher of Agency battled for the lead with Hayes leading the first nine laps of the twelve lap event before Jason McDaniel of Eldon made the pass after starting 12th. McDaniel lead the final three laps for his second straight victory with Hayes in second followed by Thrasher in third and fourth going to Dustin Griffiths of Ottumwa.

In the final feature of the night Casey Lancaster of Glenwood, Mo. would hold off Paul Underwood of Ottumwa in the P.B.Choppers modified main event. With several drivers having trouble in turns three and four making contact with the concrete wall ending there run to victory lane.

Next week will feature night number three at the Eldon Raceway with all four classes in action with hot laps at 7:00pm and racing action to follow.

FOUR BANGERS
Heat#1-1.Jimmy Garrett, Ottumwa 2.Mark Williams, Fairfield 3.Cory Sheetz,Keota 4.John Verrips,Wayland
5.Ethan Hustead,Colony,Mo. 6.Derek Randall,Washington 7.Steve Williams,Hedrick

Heat#2-1.Larry Hopkins,Ottumwa 2.Dennis Allen,Agency 3.Andrew Hustead,Rutledge,Mo. 4.Bill Wayland,
Riverside 5.Bill Young,Ottumwa 6.Liz Harwood,Oskaloosa 7.Alton Williams,Fairfield 8.Kevin Garrett,Bloomfield

A-Feature 1.A.Hustead 2.Hopkins 3.Allen 4.Wayland 5.Harwood 6.Young 7.A.Williams 8.E.Hustead 9.S.Williams
10.K.Garrett 11.Randall 12.M.Williams 13.J.Garrett 14.Sheetz 15.Verrips

HOBBY STOCKS
Heat#1-1.Bob Lynch,Ottumwa 2.Jared Curry,Fremont 3.Lonnie Greiner,Fairfield 4.Tim Kraber,Ottumwa 5.Dustin
Hook,Oskaloosa 6.Tommy Lewis,Birmingham 7.Scott Alderson,Gibson 8.Lance Meyer,Ottumwa

Heat#2-1.Jason McDaniel,Eldon 2.Jimmy Hayes,Moravia 3.Derek Kirkland,Centerville 4.Chris Helmick,Ottumwa
5.Mike Graf,Ottumwa 6.Jessie Garrett,Batavia

Heat#3-1.Dustin Griffiths,Ottumwa 2.Andy Coleman,Packwood 3.Mark Moore,Ottumwa 4.Danny Thrasher,Agency
5.Shawn Coleman,Packwood 6.Brad Prado,Ottumwa 7.Dave Scearcy,Libertyville

A-Feature 1.McDaniel 2.Hayes 3.Thrasher 4.Griffiths 5.Kirkland 6.Kraber 7.Lynch 8.Curry 9.Steve Allen,Oskaloosa
10.Helmick 11.Hook 12.S.Coleman 13.Graf 14.Meyer 15.Moore 16.Greiner 17.Garrett 19.A.Coleman 20.Lewis

STOCK CARS
Heat#1-1.Shane Weller,Agency 2.Phil McClure,Floris 3.Tyler McClure,Floris 4.Pat Rachels,Knoxville 5.Nathan
Wood,Keswick 6.Colt Mather,Webster

A-Feature 1.Weller 2.P.McClure 3.T.McClure 4.Rachels 5.Wood 6.Mather

P.B. CHOPPERS MODIFIEDS
Heat#1-1.Casey Lancaster,Glenwood,Mo. 2.Paul Underwood,Ottumwa 3.Tom Lathrop,Ottumwa 4.Jason
Riegel,Memphis,Mo. 5.Scott Dickey,Packwood

Heat#2-1.Kyle Harwood,Oskaloosa 2.Greg Cox,Altoona 3.Brandon Banks,Washington 4.Tim Sands, Conesville
5.Brad Tursic,Ottumwa 6.Tyler Vandekamp,Knoxville

A-Feature 1.Lancaster 2.Underwood 3.Lathrop 4.Tursic 5.Sands 6.Riegel 7.Banks 8.Cox 9.Harwood 10.Lance
Schlicher,Batavia 11.Dickey 12.Vandekamp