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Blaney, Smith and Hanson win Thunder Thru the Plains By Greg Soukup EAGLE, NE (August 4) - Summer finally arrived at “America’s Home Track” Eagle Raceway Saturday night as 96KX presented the “Thunder Through The Plains”, featuring the All Stars Circuit of Champions. Scorching temperatures, sunny skies and a strong wind prevailed all during the day but Eagle’s track preparation crew came through with flying colors. The track remained smooth throughout the program and only got racier as the events progressed. In the modified feature the cars were running within 3/10 of a second of the track record. One of the All Stars even commented to an official “I’ve raced all over the world, and this was the best track I’ve ever seen”. The first event was the time trials for the sprint cars. Dale Blaney posted the fastest time with a 11.535, Randy Hannagan was second at 11.565, Lance Dewease in third with a 11.686 and fourth went to Tim Shaffer with a 11.721. In the Monster Energy Drink IMCA Modified feature Bob Ruisinger came back to the start/finish line in his #7 with the lead. He was followed by the 11X of Steve Devitt, the 12X of George Haney and the 11N of Nathan Landauer. Aaron Pella took just 5 laps to move his 3A around Landauer for fourth. A yellow flag was thrown on the next lap when Ed “Doc” Raines looped his #11AA in turn 1. Pella took advantage of the restart to move under Haney to grab third, but Chevy Hadan spun his #4 coming out of turn 2 bringing out another yellow. With 8 laps in the books Dylan Smith made a move inside Pella in the #95 to take over the fourth spot. 2 laps later Haney slowed dramatically allowing Smith to move into third and Pella back to fourth. Pella could hold his position for only 1 lap as Chris Alcorn’s #3 passed him the very next lap. On the same circuit Smith passed Devitt to take the second spot. With only 6 laps left Alcorn advanced to third. Another 2 circuits had been run when Smith got around Ruisinger for the lead. Alcorn managed to grab second on the very last lap. “The track was really smooth tonight. We were worried early on because it was a little sloppy in turn 4, but by the time the feature came around it was super racy” Smith said. “I started 10th, and just started picking cars off 1 at a time until I got to the front” he finished. Dylan’s sponsors include Active Live Family Chiropractic, Marquardt Plumbing, Hot Rods by Todd, Augustin Electric and Burke Show Cattle. The next A Main event was for the Valentino’s IMCA Hobby Stocks. Eric Hanson grabbed the early lead in his #33 followed by the B4 of Ben Becher, the M70 of Rick Munson and the 22 of Nick Beckman. Despite numerous battles, the running order stayed the same until with 8 laps to go RJ Macku got his 1R past Beckman to grab the fourth spot. With just 2 laps left Macku made a tremendous move all the way into the second spot, but his advance was cancelled when the #86 of Dan Jackson pulled into the infield with a fire under his hood. On the restart Beckman moved back around Macku for fourth and took over third on the last lap when Munson was forced high in turns 3 & 4 and fell all the way to 9th. At the finish it was Hanson, Becher, Beckman and Macku. This was Hanson’s first victory at Eagle Raceway in this, his first year at the track. “The track was nice and smooth tonight. It was what we needed because we’ve had nothing but troubles all year long. I don’t know how many times we swore we were going to quit racing, but we always decided to stick with it. Tonight just shows you that every dog has his day” Hanson stated. “It was great to have such a track where everyone played nice” he finished. The last race of the evening was for the All Stars Circuit of Champions sprint cars. Dale Blaney jumped to the early lead in his #2 with Lance Dewease’s 30C in second, the 1X of Randy Hannagan in third and Jeremy Campbell in fourth driving the Rick Ferkel 0. On the second lap it appeared that Blaney’s lead might be very short-lived when his engine began smoking heavily, but the problem soon cleared and Blaney began to stretch out his lead. Shortly thereafter Campbell managed to pass Hannagan for third. With 10 laps down the 56R of Ryan Meyers slowed to a stop in turn four, bringing out the caution flag. On the restart Tim Shaffer moved his #83A past Hannagan for the fourth spot. Meyers again slowed dramatically down the front stretch. When the yellow flew for him Mike Chadd slowed his #4 quickly in turn 1 and Mike Boston’s #51 got together with him. Boston was able to continue but Chadd was towed into the pits. At that time the running order was Blaney, Dewease, Campbell and Shaffer. With 9 laps left Shaffer passed Campbell to grab the third position. 3 laps later Adam Gullion’s #96KX slowed in turns 3 and 4, coming to a halt high in turn 4. Miranda Throckmorton’s #22T slowed to a stop just past Gullion with an engine fire. Blaney again used the clear track to his advantage, holding off all challengers to the checkered flag. Randy Hannagan used a super move to move back around Campbell with 3 laps left to take home the fourth spot. “This is an amazing track” Blaney said. “I haven’t been here since like 2001 I don’t think. I was here almost every year from 1998-2001 with the Outlaws, but I honestly couldn’t tell you how I finished. It wasn’t very good I know” he continued. “But, my experience on the track sure helped tonight. The car was really good in the heat, and luckily I never got hung up in traffic in the feature” he continued. “I want to thank George Fisher Racing. He’s the car owner, the mechanic and he builds the engines. He does it all. I don’t have 1 sponsor name on the car or the hauler; and if you look at all of the others, that’s pretty unusual. But George gives me everything I need every night” he finished. Join us Saturday, August 16th for Sizzlin’ August Nights presented by the Blaze. It will also be Driver Appreciation Night! There will be a free meal for the drivers and pit crew immediately following the features in the pit area. We thank all drivers and pit crew for supporting Eagle Raceway…America’s Home Track! Eagle Raceway Results for 8-2-08: O’Reilly’s All Star Circuit of Champions: A Feature- 1) 2 Dale Blaney 2) 30c Lance Dewease 3) 83a Tim Shaffer 4) 1x Randy Hannagan 5) 0 Jeremy Campbell 6) 20e Brian Ellenberger 7) w20 Greg Wilson 8) 11 Brandon Martin 9) 96au Bruce White 10) 23 Terry Holliman 11) 1k Kim Kennedy 12) 51 Mike Boston 13) 23r Tadd Holliman 14) 3b Bradley Greer 15) 35 Trevor Grossenbacher 16) 21 Stu Snyder 17) 14g Gene Ackland 18) 22t Miranda Throckmorton 19) 96kx Adam Gullion 20) 4 Mike Chad 21) 5b Chad Blonde 22) 56r Ryan Myers 23) 92j JR Topper 24) 3 Jeff Griffis B Feature- 1) 56r Ryan Myers 2) 22t Miranda Throckmorton 3) 21 Stu Snyder 4) 1k Kim Kennedy 5) 8b Bobby Becker 6) 82 Jason Danley 7) 93 Bob Schaffer 8) 17 Gage Dorr 9) 6r Ryan Bunton 10) 28 Ken Klabunde 11) 27 Brad Wright 12) 76 Jay Russell 13) 6 Nick Bryan 14) 17b Jason Becker 15) 3z Zach Davis 16) 71 Tige Jensen 17) 16 Lee Stark 18) 9j Mark Schmidt Monster IMCA Modifieds: A Feature- 1) 95 Dylan Smith 2) 3 Chris Alcorn 3) 7 Bob Ruisinger 4) 11x Steve Devitt 5) 3a Aaron Pella 6) 11n Nathan Landauer 7) 5p Bob Phillips 8) 81 Mike Densberger 9) 13 Doug Deterding 10) 42k Jan Korth 11) v45 Rik Gropp 12) 19 Scott Anderson 13) 11aa Ad Raines 14) 57 Brian Cudly 15) 41 Clint Hummer 16) 12x George Haney 17) 4 Chevy Hadan 18) 1x Jeff Spring 19) 24t Terry Hurt 20) 8c Chad Andersen B Feature- 1) 8c Chad Andersen 2) 81 Mike Densberger 3) 41 Clint Hummer 4) v45 Rik Gropp 5) 24t Terry Hurt 6) 49 Ryan Fuchser 7) 5st Dan Wayman 8) 2k Kyle Schamp 9) 00 Tim Pickens 10) 22j Justin Jurgens 11) 95r Lucas Robinson 12) 4t Jerry Trejo 13) 21t Tracy Harr (DNS) Valentino’s IMCA Hobby Stocks: A Feature- 1) 33 Eric Hanson 2) b4 Ben Becher -R 3) 22 Nick Beckman 4) 21h Shane Hiatt 5) 94 Mike Hansen 6) 14 Ron Novak 7) 12 Dan Noonan 8) m70 Rick Munson 9) 1r RJ Macku 10) 10k Lee Kracht 11) 22k Kevin Anderson 12) 86 Justin Wulf 13) 53 Don Kros 14) 17j Danny Lane 15) 93 Thom Marsh 16) 98 Dan Jackson 17) 92 Don Hall Jr 18) 52 Roger Timperley 19) 21 Derick Noonan 20) 38c Casey Moyer B Feature- 1) 22k Kevin Anderson 2) 53 Don Kros 3) 17j Danny Lane 4) 93 Thom Marsh 5) 21 Derick Noonan 6) 71k Josh Kennell 7) 77 Keith Dragoo 8) 9er Charlie Bartels 9) 32h Harold Silvey 10) 99 Jason Tadlock -R Thanks for supporting... 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