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Limited Modifieds!
Awesome turnout guys! 49 on the first night, 57 on night 2 and 64 at the finale!
Star of the weekend? Why, the Eddie Martin-built, Big Chief Chassis of 2-time National Southern Sport Mod champion Keith White from Academy Texas. With 3 drastically different tracks, White won the rodeo, came from 12th to finish 6th at the train race and started 15th and won the barnburner too after the DQ of the 65 car who had come from 14th. Doesn't that say volumes about how good the racing was on Saturday night especailly when you couple it with what the USMTS Modifieds did? And also says a bunch about that Big Chief Chassis and it's driver! Can't take anything away from Chris Brown either. I know that car didn't make vaccuum and as a result, may have had a touch more hp, but that was talent making those passes. Look at what Chris did in the #21 Modified all night!
Very impressed with Thomas Schinderle too who came from 12th to 2nd on Saturday night in the #71 and off course, Brad Ball in the Spiller's Automotive #78 who came from 19th to 3rd! What a race! The Bridwell-Chapman Dust Devils of Paul White & Barry Moody started 6th and 18th and finished 4th and 5th! Vince Louden (from Shiner, Texas -- home of Shiner Bock beer by the way -- proud sponsor of the annual Texas Music Revolution concerts in Dallas but what does that have to do with racing anyway? It doesn't...) and HRP faithful David Cobb came from 16th and 20th to finish 6th and 7th! I'll say it again, what a race! and what a RACE TRACK! P. White drove that same #25 Dust Devil to a win on Friday, Dec 7th at Pike County Speedway in Mississippi and was third on Saturday night behind David Ashley's Raptor and Jamie Burford's TRE Chassis. Burford woould normally have been the 65th Limited Mod at HRP but then we would have only had 64 Mods Saturday night (and 73 for the weekend) because Tater Hyde's #9 was sitting in the spot that Jamie's #119 normally sits so thanks to Jamie for that! Look for that Pike Co. Limited Soup Bowl purse to be bigger next year so you Limited guys can run HRP one weekend and then Pike County the next weekend!
And you know what? Hat's off to the Limited drivers on Friday night for putting on a much better race with a lot more passing on the train track than the Modifieds could do. Former ASCS Gulf South Sprint Car champion Ray Allen Kulhanek drove that fast #87 that John-O Whittington used to win McAllen 2 years ago (I think it's Hot Chassis) from 8th starting spot to the win! Cobb came from 10th to finish 2nd and Howard Willis drove the Flynn Racing, Jerry Aylor #83 Hot Chassis from 6th to 3rd. Ball again came from way back -- 17th -- to finish 4th. This is when the track was "one-lane" folks!
On Thursday, K. White started 5th and Cobb again came from 14th to finish 2nd. I want to say Cobb's #46 is a Hot Chassis but I'm not sure. Phil Dixon drove his Limited to a podium finish that night with the 17th starting Kulhanek getting 4th and Louisiana's Shane Hebert in the Express Race Cars Chassis #99 rounding out the top five. 9 of the 20 starters didn't finish "The Rodeo".
Toughest name to pronounce: first heat winner, Andy Wojtaszczyk from Cypress, Texas. They said just call him Andy "W" and you can see why!
And thank God for folks like Rob and David Roy! (They have easy names to announce but that's not the real reason...) They get to more shows with less backing and less "stuff" than anybody I know. They took their old truck, open wheel trailer and Limited Modified #7UP and pulled it 5 hours from Shreveport to run this show Friday and Saturday night. Now, they don't get a bunch of kudos and accolades so why do they do it? They love it, that's why! Thanks guys!
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