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7/16/10

Rapid Speedway

Rock Rapids, IA

410s & HRA Wingless Sprints

29 410s

16 Non-wing

410s

Heat one (started): 1. Terry McCarl 24 (3) 2. Dusty Ballenger 2D (1) 3. Troy Meyer 11 (4) 4. Donovan Peterson 3 (2) 5. Cody Hansen 4H (6) / 6. Robby Wolfgang 33 (5) 7. Chuck McGillivray 101 (7) 8. Kevin Ingle 2K (8) 9. Dusty Beenken 21 (9) DNS - Marlon Jones 9m

Ballenger led lap one, but T. McCarl took over for good on the second go-around. T. Meyer was strong in nailing down third. The top four qualified for the redraw, while the top five went to the A.

Heat two (started): 1. Gregg Bakker 11x (1) 2. Jody Rosenboom 14 (3) 3. Austin McCarl 17A (7) 4. Rob Kubli 19 (5) 5. Clint Garner 40 (9) / 6. DJ Brink 21x (2) .7. Brock Dump 12D (4) 8. Jake Ossenfort 99J (6) 9. Dusty Wasmund 9 (8) 10. Greg Valentine 32 (10)

Bakker led the 8-lap distance. A. McCarl started deep but worked his way up using the low side of the heavy surface. Kubli grabbed the redraw spot from Brink after a long battle with two to go, and Garner followed him on the final lap for the last transfer.

Heat three (started): 1. Jeremy Kerzman 1H (2) 2. Lynton Jeffrey 12 (5) 3. Dylan Peterson 25 (3) 4. Chad Meyer 4 (6) 5. Gerod Olivier 2x (8) / 6. Jason Eckard 2H (9) 7. Tommy Barber 75 (1) 8. Trish Underberg 11u (7) 9. Greg Gunderson 39 (4)

Kerzman led flag to flag. Jeffrey was the mover, gaining three spots. Gunderson exited after one lap.

B main (started): 1. Wolfgang (1) 2. Brink (2) 3. Eckard (3) 4. Jones (14) 5. Ingle (7) 6. Wasmund (11) 7. Ossenfort (8) / 8. Dump (5) 9. Barber (6) 10. Underberg (9) 11. Beenken (10) 12. Valentine (12) 13. McGillivray (4) 14. Gunderson (13)

Wolfgang led throughout in the 10-lapper. Valentine spun in front of the leader at the halfway point. After avoiding him, Wolfgang led Brink, Eckard, Ingle, Dump and Ossenfort back to green. McGillivray was third, but exited with a flat right rear under caution. Jones, who restarted eighth, had new life and jetted to fourth after a chaotic restart that saw much shuffling. Ossenfort grabbed the final transfer with two to go.

A main (started): 1. T. McCarl (3) 2. C. Meyer (7) 3. Ballenger (1) 4. Garner (14) 5. T. Meyer (4) 6. Jeffrey (11) 7. Wasmund (19) 8. Brink (17) 9. Ossenfort (22) 10. Rosenboom (8) 11. Hansen (13) 12. Eckard (18) 13. Ingle (20) 14. Kerzman (2) 15. Kubli (6) 16. Do. Peterson (5) 17. Olivier (15) 18. Bakker (9) 19. Jones (19) 20. Dy. Peterson (12) 21. Wolfgang (16) 22. A. McCarl (10)

Several happenings when the green dropped on the 25-lapper. Garner jumped the start and was sent to the tail. Do. Peterson spun in turn two and restarted at the tail. A. McCarl took it pitside with a loose fuel pump bolt. On the restart, sprint car pinball resulted in Wolfgang breaking a front end and retiring. Ballenger shot out to an early lead, but with a lap in, an inadvertent yellow was called. The restart saw Ballenger leading T. McCarl, Kerzman, C. Meyer and T. Meyer. T. McCarl shot under Ballenger on lap four to take the lead. On lap seven, Dy. Peterson stopped on the track, bringing caution. Kubli had been into the top five, but jumped the berm on the backstretch and slavaged sixth for the restart. The restart would see him jump it again and need a new left rear tire. It was time for a fuel stop. T. McCarl led Ballenger, C. Meyer, Kerzman and Bakker who had a pass for fourth negated by the caution. Dy. Peterson spun again on the restart and was sent to the pits. T. McCarl pulled away, but two laps later, Jones spun and retired, and Bakker exited from fifth. Two laps later, the final slowdown came for Rosenboom, who stopped after contact with a charging Garner (from the tail). The final restart saw T. McCarl ahead of Ballenger, C. Meyer, T. Meyer, Kerzman and Garner. C. Meyer made quick work of Ballenger for second, while Garner moved up to fourth. T. McCarl cruised to the win worth $2,500. Ossenfort was the hard-charger.

HRA

Heat one (started): 1. Chuck McGillivray 1 (1) 2. Clinton Bruns 7 (4) 3. Gerod Olivier 2x (5) 4. Alex Schriever 0 (2) 5. Jordan Nordstrom 11J (6) 6. Eric McGillivray 09 (8) 7. Heather Underberg 11 (3) 8. Kourtney Pederson 91 (7)

C. McGillivray led all six laps. Good racing between Bruns and Schriever. Bruns grabbed third with three to go. Olivier made his pass for third on the last lap.

Heat two (started): 1. Matt Hasara 87 (2) 2. Eric Schulz 4 (3) 3. Bret Mellenberndt 97 (7) 4. Doug Martens 51 (4) 5. Leon Deboer 2 (1) 6. Brandon Stevenson 0x (5) 7. Donovan Peterson 11xs (8) 8. Dylan Peterson 25 (6)

Hasara led flag to flag. Dy. Peterson stopped on lap two and retired. Mellenberndt made a move on Martens for third at the halfway point, and came up just short of second.

A main (started): 1. Schulz (4) 2. Hasara (3) 3. Martens (6) 4. Mellenberndt (8) 5. Olivier (7) 6. Bruns (5) 7. Schriever (2) 8. Do. Peterson (14) 9. Stevenson (12) 10. Nordstrom (9) 11. E. McGillivray (11) 12. Deboer (10) 13. Underberg (13) 14. Pederson (15) 15. C. McGillivray (1) 16. Dy. Peterson (16)

C. McGillivray was the early leader in the 18-lapper. Dy. Peterson spun on lap three and then the restart, sending him pitside. C. McGillivray led Schulz, Schriever, Hasara and Bruns back to green flag racing. Schulz, who had been battling for the lead, took it for good. C. McGillivray pulled in on lap seven. Great racing between Mellenberndt and Olivier covered the last ten or so laps, with Mellenberndt grabbing fourth at the checkers. Do. Peterson was the hard-charger.

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It was neat watching the 410's at Rock Rapids for my 1st time. Been to some of the weekly shows over the years. Hats off to the track prep people for giving the racers a damn good surface all night long, even though the Outlaw Feature got a little lengthy due to spins & cars taking off a little too early on starts & restarts.

Yes Jacob Ossenfort was the hard charger in the winged sprint car feature, but watching Clint Garner come from the tail up to 4th was definetly worth watching. I'm sure that he was pretty pumped up after being sent to the rear on the initial start.

And for Dylan Peterson, what was up on those performances in both sprint car features by spinning out twice in each of those races. Obviously, someone was driving way over their head & luckily didn't get on his head.

One other observation that I noticed was that 25 of the 29 winged sprint cars were running Hoosier rear tires on their machines. I liked the tire rule that they have in place. Like the race director says, it doesn't matter what brand name, compound or width of the tire, the only thing that it has to be is round.

What a long night - and I showed up after the heats were completed. Heard the advertised 7:00 PM start time didn't happen as well. Pretty lackluster feature up front with T-Mac checking out and putting a nice move in traffic to seal the win. Clint was the show coming from the back after "jumping" the initial start.

I really do enjoy Rocky putting on these 410 shows with a great payout, but there is definitely some work that needs to be done, like starting on time and getting out a decent time. 11:30 is not an adequate time at all to be getting done, and a 20 minute intermission didn't help from what I was told. I felt like I was at Hartford and the only thing missing last night was Lightning the I-90 bear...

And yes, Dylan Peterson looked like he had never driven before, along with a few other guys. Congrats to T-Mac on picking up his 2nd win since coming back! Rumor has it spot1 got some nice pictures of ya in victory lane!

BIG J

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

You're right, he did..................although he may not particularly like what goes on, he knows what has to be done. It is well documented that he does not care for McCarl, although he will say the SOB can drive a car, just does not like his attitude. Others can be as hungry to win but don't have to act like a jackass, why is that? Also, was not particularly impressed with this feature and it's not because of who won. All of the yellows and pace laps were absolutely silly. Why is it that you don't get a full lap in on a restart, some of these idiots don't know where to line up again? C'mon, most of them have done this quite a few times..............all it did was make for a long night.

And you will be able to see photos from Friday night come Monday morning on www.pilotracewaynews.com and maybe on hoseheads after they get sent on Sunday. Took Saturday night off as didn't feel like being outside all that much. Probably a good thing too with the storm warnings that Jackson had around 10 PM. Guess there was rotation just South of Lakefield. Winds around 90-100 MPH, not sure if it was on the ground, tho.