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Myers And Smith Take Night #2 Of Heartland Nationals
By Bill Nelson
July 29 - Spring Valley MN - A sweltering day greeted the drivers and fans at
Deer Creek Speedway for night #2 of the World of Outlaws Heartland Nationals.
The Sunplace Tanning WISSOTA Late Models were up first for their 25 lap $750
to win feature event. A four car pileup in turn one on the start took
out the winner from night one along with a couple other strong runners.
Jason Gabrielson took command from the drop of the green flag on the restart
with Curt Myers quickly moving into the second position. A caution with
two down bunched up the field again. Gabrielson again was quick on the
restart with Myers and Steve Thomas in the third spot Myers quickly
moved alongside of Gabrielson on the next lap but was only able to get his
nose alongside for the next four laps. With twenty to go Myers slipped
up allowing Gabrielson to get back out to a three car lead. Rodney
Dregney was working on getting past Thomas while Dave Mass was working on
cracking the top five when another caution flew with seventeen to go.
Gabrielson continued to lead with Myers working to his inside again. Two
laps later Myers completed the pass with Mass starting to pressure Gabrielson.
Thirteen to go and Gabrielson, Thomas and Mass where three wide for
position. Another strong weekly runner Chris Groth now was working on
getting into the top five. Ten to go and the three wide race for second
continued with Mass eventually taking the spot. Gabrielson held on for
the third spot followed by Thomas and Groth. Up front Myers continued to
cruise away from the field taking home the win.
Steve Francis led the first lap of the 50 lap $10,000 to win Heartland
Nationals night #2. Darrell Lanigan and Billy Moyer were racing hard for
fifth early on. Brian Birkhofer and Brady Smith were in third and fourth
early on as Clint Smith had quickly moved into the second spot behind
Francis. Francis, Smith and Birkhofer went three wide into one on lap
nine with Smith coming out of two with the lead. Birkhofer quickly
slowed on the next lap bringing out the caution. On the restart Smith
led while Shane Clanton, Brady Smith and Francis were three wide for
second. Ninth starting Chub Frank was the car to watch for the next few
laps as he had dropped back slightly and now found a high side groove and
quickly flew around and into the top 5. Frank started to pressure
Lanigan for fourth with thirteen down. Nineteen down and Clint Smith
continued to pull away from the field while Jimmy Mars got into a good rhythm
and started to slowly make his way to the front around the bottom of the
speedway. Lots of good battles for position through the field kept most
of the fans attention as Clint Smith continued to slowly pull away from the
field up front. Mars kept rolling around the bottom picking off Lanigan
for the fourth spot with ten to go. Clint Smith built up a full straight
away lead before the checkers flew on night number two with Francis solidly in
second, Brady Smith came home third while Mars kept his advantage over Lanigan
for fourth.
Results of WoO Late Model Series (Finishing Position/Start/Driver/Laps
Completed/Money Won): 1. (1) Clint Smith/50 $10,000; 2. (2) Steve Francis/50
$6,000; 3. (4) Brady Smith/50 $3,500; 4. (10) Jimmy Mars/50 $2,500; 5. (5)
Darrell Lanigan/50 $2,200; 6. (9) Chub Frank/50 $2,000; 7. (6) Billy Moyer/50
$1,800; 8. (15) Dale McDowell/50 $1,600; 9. (7) Josh Richards/50 $1,400; 10.
(22) Tim McCreadie/50 $1,200; 11. (8) Shane Clanton/50 $1,000; 12. (12) Eddie
Carrier Jr./50 $900; 13. (18) Garrett Durrett/50 $800; 14. (3) Brian Birkhofer/50
$700; 15. (21) Rick Eckert/50 $700; 16. (14) Justin Fegers/49 $700; 17. (16)
Eric Jacobsen/49 $700; 18. (11) Kerry Hansen/49 $700; 19. (20) Gary Webb/48
$700; 20. (24) Barry Underdahl/43 $700; 21. (19) Lance Matthees/25 $700; 22.
(25) Jerry Bloom/14 $700; 23. (17) Chad Simpson/10 $700; 24. (13) John
Blankenship/10 $700; 25. (23) Andrew McKay/8 $700.
Heat No. 1 B. Smith, Birkhofer, Richards, Mars, Blankenship, Jacobsen, Foss,
Kuehn, Ludemann (DNS) McKay.
Heat No. 2 Lanigan, Francis, Clanton, Hansen, Fegers, Simpson, Eckert,
Underdahl, Kramer, McCreadie.
Heat No. 3 C. Smith, Moyer, Frank, Carrier, McDowell, Durrett, Matthees, Webb,
Bloom (DNS) Brand.
B-Main Matthees, Webb, Eckert, McCreadie, McKay, Underdahl, Kramer, Kuehn,
Bloom, Ludemann (DNS) Foss, Brand.
Dash C. Smith, Francis, Birkhofer, B. Smith, Lanigan, Moyer.
WISSOTA Super Stocks
Feature – Curt Myers, Dave Mass, Jason Gabrielson, Steve Thomas, Chris Groth,
Rodney Dregney, Chris Klinger, Dan Gullikson, Dustin Nelson, Lucas Peterson,
Chris Quast, Kevin Hager, Ryan Siegle, Brian Fetting, Josh bartel, Cory Mahder,
Tom McEldowney, Dave Haberman, Andy Hofteig, Ted Marrs, Cole Queensland,
Justin Sass, Bobby Swanson, Kurt Kromschroeder
Heat 1 – Gabrielson, Marrs, Peterson, Mahder, Queensland, Kromschroeder,
Fetting, Hofteig
Heat 2 – Haberman, Thomas, Myers, Quast, Siegle, Nelson, Sass, Hager
Heat 3 – Dregney, Klinger, Groth, Mass, Gullikson, Bartel, Swanson,
McEldowney
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