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Adams Hauls $2,000 Back to Louisiana After Sprint Car Bandits Win at 82 Speedway; Heart O’ Texas Set for This Friday
Garland TX (07/06/20) by DarinShort.com. Fireworks, a full moon and a wide-open racetrack greeted fans and teams on the 4th of July, 2nd Annual Flags & Fireworks 25 at 82 Speedway in Petty, Texas. And when all the wild and highly unpredictable action atop the wide expanses of 82 Speedway had come to a conclusion, 4th place starter, Haughton Louisiana’s Kody Adams, would find his way to the Sprint Car Bandits (SCB) series victory lane for the first time in his career. It was also the 22nd different driver to pick up a Sprint Car Bandits victory in the past 36 events.
Race Rewind: In the first heat race, an advancing Chipper Woods would make hard impact with the wall coming out of corner four and flipped coming to a rest with a mangled car – and Chipper a left shoulder injury. We checked in with Chipper yesterday and he was in good spirits, but still in a lot of pain. Everyone at the Sprint Car Bandits family of teams, fans and series officials wish him a speedy recovery.
Resuming with heat race #1, Dale Wester would make a huge power move on the top shelf of corner 4 from his 4th place starting position and would take an impressive heat race win.
Heat race #2 featured Casey Burkham (starting 2nd) and Koty Adams (starting 4th) finishing first and second – and would also find themselves eventually battling for the lead in the feature later on in the evening. Chad Wilson (May 30th SCB feature winner at 82 Speedway) would fire off in 7th position and drive his way up to 3rd, amassing enough passing points to become the second highest qualifier for the feature event.
Louisiana racer Richard Reynolds would take command of heat race #3 and never looked back taking the win. Slated to start 4th was Chance McCrary, who would encounter engine woes earlier in the evening and scratched for the event.
During intermission, several Sprint Car Bandits teams dawned flags on their cars and participated in the ‘Flags & Fireworks’ special program along with a huge fireworks display and lots of patriotic music. We’d like to thank those drivers for their participation – as the fans totally enjoyed it.
Dale Wester would earn the top points getter honors for the championship feature event, with Chad Wilson, Casey Burkham and Koty Adams rounding out the top 4 starters.
After a spectacular 4-wide parade lap with fireworks ablaze in the sky, North Richland Hills Texas sprint pilot Chad Wilson would set his own blazing trail on the top shelf of the ‘Land of the XL’ and quickly finding himself with lapped traffic on lap 5.
Then disaster struck. Wilson entered corner #1 with Daniel Estes on the high side, the pair would make contact sending the #20 of Wilson spinning and the #72 of Estes flipping wildly outside the racing surface. Estes would emerge from the crash unscathed – but his car wasn’t as lucky. Wilson would find himself relegated to resume the event in 20th.
When the event resumed, fans had one eye focused on the new battle at the front of the field between Burkham and Adams, and their other eye watching Wilson slice and dice his way through the field.
It was then that Richard Reynolds would find his black #5 spinning at the bottom of corner #1, right at the same time as a thundering herd of ‘Bandits drivers were battling side-by-side resulting in a big pileup, and Wilson and Jordan Rupe would find their night coming to an end. This was Rupe’s first-ever SCB event, and it was an unfortunate end to both of those driver’s night.
But this event was far from over at that point. The race would resume and the battle up front raged with Koty Adams leading for several laps and Casey Burkham, Michael Day and Claud Estes III stalking through lapped traffic.
Burkham would blast by Adams to take the lead around lap 17 when a car spun into the infield of corner #4 bringing out the yellow.
The final laps were contested without stoppage and Koty Adams would find himself in SCB victory lane for the first time, with Michael Day finishing a solid 2nd, Claud Estes III in 3rd and Casey Burkham in 4th.
Feature Results – Flags and Fireworks 25 at 82 Speedway 7/4/20:
16 – Koty Adams (started 4th)
2 – Michael Day (started 7th)
74e – Claud Estes III (started 5th)
45b – Casey Burkham
35 – Jeff Emerson
23 – Junior Jenkins
12w – Dale Wester
82c – Christian Kinnison
16b – Blake Baccus
6m – Blake Mallory
35k – Dylan McCann
7 – Jarrod Warhurst
b52 – Brayden Voigt
33 – Michael Merrell
41 – Casey Merrell
41b – Lucas Boxwell
41j – Joshua Harner
20 – Chad Wilson
5 – Richard Reynolds
86 – Jordan Rupe
72 – Daniel Estes
47 – Chipper Wood (DNS)
13m – Chance McCrary (DNS)
Thank you to all the fans, staff, teams, sponsors and 82 Speedway for hosting such a fun and exciting 4th of July event!
Next up for the Sprint Car Bandits is the Muscular Dystrophy Association ‘Muscling in the Dirt 25’ at Heart O’ Texas Speedway in Elm Mott, TX (just north of Waco directly on I-35) this coming Friday, July 10th.
This is the final event before the scheduled Summer Break for the Sprint Car Bandits series, so don’t miss it! This season has been filled with thrilling events and great turnouts, and we expect another night of fun on July 10th at HOT!
TRACK INFO: HOT Speedway website is www.HeartOTexasSpeedway.com and their address is 784 N McLennan Drive Waco, TX 76640 (just north of town right off of I-35); track phone is 254-829-2294. Action fires up at 8pm on July 10th.
RACE TEAMS: all sprint car teams that sign in will draw for heat race starting positions, regardless of their engine C.I. displacement (up to and including 360C.I.) and will receive passing points to determine their straight-up from points feature race starting position. All drivers make sure to read the posted rules at the series website prior to heading to the track. Mandatory drivers meeting and draw cut-off is at 6:15pm.
The standard posted SCB purse and rules are in effect. All non-qualifiers or non-starters will each receive $100. As in 2019, there is no entry fee, no series membership fee and a $20 nightly draw fee. Drivers should go to www.SprintCarBandits.com prior to arrival for complete rules, purse and procedures information.
Click www.SprintCarBandits.com for the latest in series news and where the tour is headed to next. You can also reach the SCB on Facebook, at www.Facebook.com/SprintCarBandits .
We look forward to seeing you Friday July 10th when the Sprint Car Bandits tour returns to Heart O’ Texas Speedway, near Waco, Texas with high-powered 360C.I. winged Sprint Cars battling on the racy ¼ mile oval for the first time in 2020!
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