Greg Durbin Memorial story/results Aug. 8
BY ROB HINCKLEY
EAST MOLINE, Ill. (August 8) – Travis Denning formulated the strategy as he circled the quarter-mile oval.
Denning got the hole shot from his P3 start, had the lead before the first circuit was completed and ended up cruising to the 30-lap Greg Durbin Memorial Sunday evening at East Moline Speedway.
The second annual event was held to celebrate the late member of the prominent Durbin racing family and driver of the No. 8 Modified.
The Sterling, Ill. hotshoe had a straightaway advantage vanish on Lap 11 when one of the only three cautions flew. He then battled Jeff Larson after the restart with Larson edging to the front briefly. The left rear wheel came off the No. B1 sending Larson to a stop and bringing out the second yellow.
Denning stayed on the point and let Greg’s brothers Brandon Durbin and Eric Barnes battle for the runner up spot. Durbin charged the high groove at the end, but took second. Donavon Lodge snuck by Barnes. Ray Cox, Jr. rounded out the top five.
Denning gathered $2,008 for the victory out of the nearly $8,000 up for grabs.
Larson and Denning won the heats.
Point leader Jarett Franzen exploded off a restart in the high groove and propelled by early leader C.J. Durbin to win the Legacy Corporation IMCA SportMod 15-lap finale.
Durbin, Trey Grimm, Dakota Cole and Perry Gellerstedt followed.
Jesse Owen won for the fifth time in the County Waste Systems Street Stocks. He won the 15-lap feature over Rick Schriner, Kyler Hickenbottom, William Bennett and Kori Murphy.
The Riverbend Pizza Place Sport Compacts sported the largest field among the six divisions. At the end of the 12-lap, 19-car ender Aaron Hitt took it to the Winners Circle.
Hitt passed Eric Stogdell before the latter dropped out and beat Dustin Forbes, Travis Hawkins, point leader Jimmy Dutlinger and Josh Lane.
Ray Guss, Jr. powered the Keith Simmons-owned Nova to the Nostalgic Stock Car Racing Club 15-lap victory. Early leader Andrew Hamburg, Matt Fulton, Ben Hamburg and Terry Mattly followed.
A total of 86 cars were in the pits and the final checkered flag fell around 9 p.m.
The season continues on the quarter-mile dirt oval Sunday Aug. 15 with weekly racing in all seven classes Gates open at 4 p.m. Hot laps are at 5:15 with racing to follow.
For more information, log on to the East Moline Speedway Facebook page or call 563-343-8250.
UNOFFICIAL RESULTS
J&J Camper Sales IMCA Modfieds
Greg Durbin Memorial (30 laps) – 1. 56D-Travis Denning[3]; 2. 15D-Brandon Durbin[8]; 3. 1A-Donovan Lodge[15]; 4. 1-Eric Barnes[16]; 5. 11-Ray Cox Jr[4]; 6. 35-Chance Huston[13]; 7. G1-Mike Garland[2]; 8. 1M-Mike Goben[7]; 9. 313-Doug Lenth[5]; 10. 613-Dan Hahn[10]; 11. J1-Jim Sandusky[14]; 12. 85-Andy Nezworski[12]; 13. 3C-Richard Vela[11]; 14. B1-Jeff Larson[9]; 15. 17-Jason Pershy[1]; 16. 89-TJ Patz[6]
1st Heat (8 laps) – 1. Larson 2. Cox 3. Pershy 4. Goben
2nd Heat (8 laps) – 1. Denning 2. Garland 3. Lenth 4. Durbin
Legacy Corporation IMCA SportMods
Feature (15 laps) – 1. 1. 33-Jarett Franzen[7]; 2. 88D-CJ Durbin[1]; 3. 88-Trey Grimm[6]; 4. 18C-Dakota Cole[2]; 5. 39-Perry Gellerstedt[9]; 6. 76-Chuck Fox[5]; 7. 43LV-Logan Veloz[8]; 8. 65-David Engelkens[12]; 9. 79-Nathan Balensiefen[15]; 10. B33-Cody Calam[13]; 11. 12-Jared Coppejans[10]; 12. 09R-Rob Nylin[4]; 13. 85-Erick Turner[3]; 14. 6-Broderick Prescott[11]; 15. 33X-Jeff Waterfall[16]; 16. (DNS) 17-Jed Frederick
1st Heat (8 laps) – 1. Durbin 2. Fox 3. Veloz 4. Turner
2nd Heat (8 laps) – 1. Cole 2. Franzen 3. Nylin 4. Gellerstedt
County Waste Systems Street Stocks
Feature (15 laps) – 1. 95-Jesse Owen[5]; 2. 8-Rick Schriner[4]; 3. 8H-Kyler Hickenbottom[7]; 4. 6X-William Bennett[2]; 5. 26N-Kori Murphy[3]; 6. R00-Veronica Anderson[6]; 7. 91-Noah Bielema[8]; 8. 61S-Jeff Streitmatter[1]
1st Heat (8 laps) – 1. Owen 2. Schriner 3. Bennett 4. Murphy
Weekend Performance IMCA Mod Lites
Feature (15 laps) – 1. Z-Mike Zemo Jr[7]; 2. 171-Brandon Freeburg[8]; 3. 5-Michael Dominguez[5]; 4. 17M-Mike Morrow2]; 5. 29-Anthony Guss[6]; 6. 91-Rob Guss[1]; 7. 00B-Brittani Dominguez[11]; 8. 21-Dillon Letts[3]; 9. 11P-Jon Padilla[9]; 10. 18G-RJ Gonzales[10]; 11. (DNS) 16G-Blake Gonzales
1st Heat (8 laps) – 1. Morrow 2. R. Gonzales 3. Freeburg 4. A. Guss
2nd Heat (8 laps) – 1. Zemo 2. Padilla 3. M. Dominguez 4. R. Guss
Riverbend Pizza Place Sport Compacts
Feature (12 laps) – 1. 813-Aaron Hitt[3]; 2. 815F-Dustin Forbes[12]; 3. 8-Travis Hawkins[7]; 4. 28X-Jimmy Dutlinger[11]; 5. 513-Josh Lane[6]; 6. 125T-Tim Sibley[4]; 7. 28-Cyle Hawkins[10]; 8. 53-Norm Marcov[9]; 9. 514-Jason Rhoads[14]; 10. 14-Drew Wise[13]; 11. 4-Chris Kissell[15]; 12. 24X-Scott Delles[17]; 13. 5C-Gary Roberson[16]; 14. 09-Eric Stogdell[2]; 15. 516-John Norton[18]; 16. 42A-Troy Anderson[8]; 17. 47-Thomas Adams[19]; 18. 28E-Andrew Bolio[1]; 19. 11P-Codie Proehl[5]
1st Heat (6 laps) – 1. Forbes 2. Hitt 3. Proehl 4. Anderson
2nd Heat (6 laps) – 1. Sibley 2. C. Hawkins 3. Lane 4. Bolio
3rd Heat (6 laps) – 1. Stogdell 2. Marcov 3. T. Hawkins 4. Dutlinger
Nostalgic Stock Car Racing Club
Feature (12 laps) – 1. 1. 38-Ray Guss Jr[5]; 2. 57-Andrew Hamburg[6]; 3. 32D-Matt Fulton[4]; 4. 75K-Ben Hamburg[7]; 5. 43-Terry Mattly[11]; 6. 4X-Nick Proehl[12]; 7. 95-Austin Honts[9]; 8. 112-Pat Tuttle[13]; 9. Z1-Tanner Gerard[15]; 10. TR1-Matthew Hirst[8]; 11. 55-Mark Claeys[2]; 12. 25-Duke Fulton[3]; 13. 18-Jeff Hollenbeck[16]; 14. (DNS) 00-Jeff Walker; 15. (DNS) 56-Brian Ashmore
1st Heat (6 laps) – 1. Guss 2. B. Hamburg 3. Mattly 4. A. Hamburg
2nd Heat (6 laps) – 1. Honts 2. Proehl 3. M. Fulton 4. Gerard
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