Kinder Repeats In Midway Modified Madness
by: Ronnie Williams

Lebanon, Mo. (April 8, 2006) - Newton, ILL driver Chad Kinder showed everyone why he is considered one of the top open-wheeled Modified drivers in the Midwest as he overcame motor problems Friday Night in Qualifying and grabbing the lead form leader Randy Zimmerman on lap 21 and grabbed the $6,000 to win 2nd annual Modified Madness at the Lebanon Midway Speedway.

Kinder, who lost oil pressure in hot laps Friday night thrashed to replace a new Mullins power plant in his car and just finished as the 1st heat was staged and ready to rollout in which he won.

After 2 very tough nights of qualifying, the Star-Studded field of 26 rolled off for the 50 lapper with Randy Zimmerman and Danny Crane bringing the field down to the green. The yellow quickly waved as Brian Franz and Johhny Fennewald got together along with Sonny Kimberling. On the restart, Zimmerman got the jump, but a mid pack jam-up caused the yellow.

The restart was single-filed and quickly Zimmerman grabbed the lead with Crane in tow followed by Kinder, and Joe Bradshaw. On lap 3 the yellow waved for Brian Franz as his wheel came right off ending his night. The restart had Zimmerman again go to the front as Kinder moved around Crane to grab second.
The caution waved 3 more times for sheet metal as several drivers were making moves to the front including 2004 UMP National champion Mike Harrison, Steve Muilenburg, Sean Williams along with Last Chance winner Scott Weber and Curt Rackers.

On lap 12 the yellow as Midway point champion Jamie Ragland had a brake rotor fly off ending his night.

On the restart, Kinder applied pressure to Zimmerman as Zimmerman kept in front. The cars had ran several caution laps and officials were thinking about fuel issues as the tight competion had the race taking a different out look. The yellow waved at lap 18 for a 4 car jam-up and officials red flagged it on the backstretch for fuel only for the drivers.

On the restart, the race took a long green run turn as Zimmerman shot out again with Kinder hot on his heels. On lap 21,Kinder made the power move off turn 2 and grabbed the lead as Scott Weber and Curt Rackers were wagging a great battle for the top 5 run coming from deep in the field. Around lap 35,Zimmerman who was running second, pulled to the infield with problems ending his night. With Kinder in the lead, Mike Harrison and Steve Muilenburg were battling for 2nd while Weber and Rackers were coming strong.

Harrison got a late shot at Kinder as the yellow waved for sheetmetal on lap 42 and the battle was on. Harrison tried the lowside in turn 1,but Kinder had his car working good on the middle groove and pulled away as Muilenburg,Weber, Rackers, and Gary Blackburn were battling. On lap 46,Rackers pulled to the infield after a great run from 19th as Kinder had drove away from Harrison. Weber and Muilenburg battled for third with Weber grabbing the spot late as the checkered flew with Kinder,Harrison,Weber,Muilenburg,Blackburn completing the top 5.Jim Roach,Nicholas Littlejohn,Joe Bradshaw,Jason Russell and Matt Johnson completed the top 10 with 12 cars finishing on the lead lap.

In support action,Eric Todd overtook leader Micheal White in a great side by side battle grabbing the lead on lap 14 to grab the WingedSprint Car feature with Johnathon Cornell,clint Todd and Joe Todd Completing the top 5 and Lebanon's Shawn Winfrey grabbed the early lead on Friday night to grab the Bomber feature.

The Regular points battles start on Friday April 14th with racing in 6 classes including the WingedSprints,Modifieds,SuperStocks,FactoryStocks,Bombers and the Fastrak LatesModels along with an Easter Egg hunt for the kids 10 and under at Intermission.

Results
Friday Night Qualifying
Modifieds
1st Ht-Chad Kinder-newton,ILL 2)Jason Russell-Henley 3)Dean Willie-Warrensburg 4)James McMillian-Warrensburg 5)Mike Montague-Lebanon 6)Wes Long-Springfield 7)Earl Roark-Henley 8)Jim Raoch-St Patrick
2nd Ht-Randy Zimmerman-Ft Scott,Kansas 2)Sean Williams-Willard 3)Tim Echavardia-Junction City,Kansas 4)Jared Landers-Benton,Ark 5)Kevin Blackburn-Fulton 6)Jimmy Willis-Macks Creek 7)Ken Dickinson-Camdenton 8)Brian Brown-Lebanon 9)Curt Rackers-Holts Summit
3rd Ht-Joe Bradshaw-Sedalia 2)Gary Blackburn-Fulton 3)Johnny Fenawald-Appleton City 4)Robbie Knabel-Russellville 5)Terry Kirk-Urbana 6)Richard Kimberling-Slater 7)Patrick Linn-Little Rock,Ark. 8)Hank Long-Stillwell,Okla.9)Rick Brown-Iberia
4th Ht-Mike Harrison-Highlan,IL 2)Bob Test-Jefferson City 3)Tony Jackson Jr-Lebanon 4)Eric Hudson-Rolla 5)Brian Bolin-Ft Scott,Kansas 6)Scott Weber-Festus 7)Sonny Kimberling-Slater 8)Micheal Maggard-Springfield
5th Ht-Matt Johnson-Archie 2)Steve Muilenburg-Sparta 3)Eddie Martin-Stillwell,Okla. 4)Kevin Halderman-Versailles 5)Chris Johnson-Lebanon 6)Nicholas Littlejohn-Arvado,Texas 7)Jamie Ragland-Lebanon 8)Nick Pence-Raymore
6th Ht-Danny Crane-Columbia 2)Peyton Taylor-Batesville,Ark 3)Brian Franz-Newton,Kansas 4)Kyle Curry-Gillette,Wy. 5)Ron Bolin Jr-Ft Scott Kansas 6)Jeremy Payne-Batesville,Ark. 7)Gary Clark-Walker 8)Shannon Frank-New Bloomfield
Pole Dash-Zimmerman 2)Crane 3)Kinder 4)Bradshaw 5)Johnson 6)Harrison
Qualifying Ft(Top 8 To Main)-1)Russell 2)Williams 3)G.Blackburn 4)Test 5)Echevardia 6)Muilenburg 7)Hudson 8)Jackson Jr 9)Curry 10)Knabel 11)Franz 12)Fennewald 13)Martin 14)McMillian 15)Landers 16)Taylor 17)Halderman 18)Willie

Bombers
1st Ht-Chad Cromer-Lebanon 2)Wayne Coffman-Lebanon 3)Joe Gregory-Flacon 4)Matt Stephens-Stoutland 5)Lee Sing-Lebanon 6)Billy Waters-Lynchburg 7)Kyle Crabtree-lynchburg
2nd Ht-Shawn Winfrey-Lebanon 2)Mike Piercey-Lebanon 3)Aaron York-Highlandville 4)Jennifer Crouch-Lebanon 5)Jay Flinn-Versailles 6)Cody Harmon-Lebanon 7)Andrew Cheever-Lebanon
3rd Ht-Brian Goff-Jefferson City 2)Greg Wall-Buffalo 3)Tony McClain-Conway 4)Keith Cheever-Lebanon 5)Jerry Goring-Lebanon 6)Jack Hamer-Ava 7)Joe Francis-Lebanon
A Ft-1)Winfrey 2)Francis 3)Cromer 4)Hamer 5)Coffman 6)Wall 7)Gregory 8)Harmon 9)York 10)Goring 11)Piercey 12)McClain 13)Crouch 14)Waters 15)Crabtree 16)Sing DNS-Goff,A.Cheever,Stephens,Flinn,K.Cheever

Sat Results
Modifieds
1st Ht-Fennewald 2)Ragland 3)Weber 4)Roach 5)Kirk 6)Bolin Jr 7)Halderman 8)Curry 9)Brown 10)Long
2nd Ht-Franz 2)Rackers 3)S.Kimberling 4)Bolin 5)
Willie 6)K.Blackburn 7)Johnson 8)Pence 9)Chad Lyle-Lone Jack 10)Jamie Carter-New Bloomfield 11)Frank
3rd Ht-Littlejohn 2)Knabel 3)Montague 4)Brown 5)Linn 6)Roark 7)Martin 8)McMillian 9)R.Kimberling
Last Chance(Top 7 To Main) 1)Weber 2)Rackers 3)Knabel 4)Roach 5)Kimberling 6)Montague 7)Martin 8)Lyle 9)Willie10) Roark 11)Carter 12)Linn 13)K.Blackburn 14)Halderman 15)Brown 16)Frank 17)Johnson 18)Bolin Jr 19)Bolin 20)Long 21)Pence 22)McMillian 23)Kirk 24)Curry 25)B.Brown

Hard luck Award to Brian Bolin-running in last transfer spot and looped it on the backstretch with 5 to go-great job of saving the car.

A Ft-1)Kinder(3) 2)Harrison(6) 3)Weber(18) 4)Muilenburg(12) 5)G.Blackburn(9) 6)Roach(21) 7)LittleJohn(17) 8)Bradshaw(4) 9)Russell(7) 10)Johnson(5) 11)Fennewald(15) 12)Willis(26) 13)Hudson (13) 14)Montague(23) 15)Knabel(20) 16)Rackers(19) 17)Crane(2) 18)Test(10) 19)Martin(24) 20)Zimmerman(1) 21)Williams(8) 22)Ragland(25) 23)Franz(16) 24)Jackson Jr(14) 25)Echavardia(11) 26)S.Kimberling(22) ( )=starting position

Winged Sprints
1st Ht-Clint Todd-Lynchburg 2)Eric Todd-Falcon 3)Steve Lawrence-Springfield 4)John Rowland-Warsaw 5)Chad Johnston-Neosho 6)Rusty Quick-Lebanon 7)Jeremy-Williams-Lynchburg 8)Tim Belt-Neosho
2nd ht-Joe todd-Falcon 2)Josh Fisher-Smithton 3)Micheal White-LaMonte 4)Johnathon Cornell-Sedalia 5)Bradley Roberts-Cole Camp 6)Terry Moore-Grain Valley 7)Keith Breedlove-Lynchburg
3rd Ht-Doug Fry-Carthage 2)Matt Tatro-Crocker 3)Scott Wedelstadt-Lebanon 4)Mike Williams-Lynchburg 5)Kyle-Bellm-Nixa 6)John Helm-Gallitin 7)Jeremy Hazel-Lynchburg
A Ft-1)E.Todd 2)White 3)Cornell 4)C.Todd 5)J.Todd 6)Helm 7)Bellm 8)C.Johnston 9)Quick 10)Rowland 11)Wedelstadt 12)Hazel13)Tatro 14)Roberts 15)M.Williams 16)Lawrence 17)Fisher 18)Fry 19)Breedlove 20)Moore DNS-J.Williams,Belt