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Eric Smith takes Farmer City Raceway feature win Friday July
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by: Dan Stewart
FARMER CITY, IL (July 3) - The regular weekly show returned to Farmer
City Raceway Friday night, following all the excitement of Monday night's
Summernational race. Wisconsin's Jamie Zidar turned in fast time of the
twenty late models on hand at 12.906 seconds. The first heat went to Bret
Sievert over Jeff Beyers, Jamie Zidar and Mike Glynn. The second heat went
to Eric Smith over Daren Friedman, Richie Hedrick and Brandon Sheppard. The
third heat was a barn-burner as Joe Harlan held off Steve Sheppard Jr for
the win, followed by Scott Bull and Jimmy Dehm. Bret Sievert started the
feature on the pole, and assumed immediate control, but Eric Smith decided
on the second lap it was go time, and go he did. Smith led the remaining
laps, but the best racing of the night was going on right behind him.
Eleventh place starter Brandon Sheppard ended up in second after turning up
the wick late in the race, and was closing quick as the checkers fell. Third
would go to Bret Sievert, followed by Daren Friedman, Steve Sheppard Jr,
Scott Bull, Joe Harlan, Mike Glynn, Jeff Beyers, Richie Hedrick, Jamie Zidar,
Rocky Griffin, Jeremy Conaway and Jimmy Dehm.
The crate late model heat race and feature went to Nick Bauman. Bauman was
followed in the feature by Bobby Pierce, Nick Macklin, John Barnard and Ron
Wilson.
The modified class had twenty one cars present. The first heat race was a
close battle going to Jeff Curl over Mike Spatola, Justin DeLong and Lance
Dehm. The second heat went to Derek Losh over Cory Schwengel, Jeff Leka and
Jeb Friedman. The third heat was another hot battle, as Cha Osterhoff held
off Jim Farris and last Monday's feature winner Gabe Menser. The feature
went to Chad Osterhoff over a fast charging Jeff Leka, Mike Spatola, Justin
DeLong, Derek Losh, Cory Schwengel, Gabe Menser, Jim Farris, Jeb Friedman
with Lance Dehm rounding out the top ten.
The street stock heats went to Rick Thomas and Terry Miller. In the feature,
Rick Thomas would beat Terry Miller to the checkers, followed closely by Jim
Quinn, Troy Dodson, Josh Griffith, Joel Funk and Darrell Lehigh.
The hornet feature went to Eric Wilson over Eric Keymon, Jason Maier, and
Larry Hawk.
The kidmodz were in action tonight with the #08 car taking the heat and the
feature
Total of 84 cars in the pits, and the complete show was finished at 10:45,
and that included a 20+ minute fireworks display
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