John started in the 5th row of the 2nd heat race and finished 5th. He then started in the back of the first B feature and finished 3rd. The top 4 transfered. John started 19th in the A feature and finished 13th. Tomorrow racing starts at 2pm. John will have another chance to finish in the top 7 of the A. If he does not they will take the top 5 in points of the remaining cars. Since John made it into the A both night so far he has a good chance of being high up in the points.
A Feature (25 Laps)(Started): 1) Allen Sharpensteen (2) 2) Randy Timms (3) 3) Jeff Taylor (1) 4) Jason Hughes (9) 5) Eddie Martin (7) 6) Jason Teague (4) 7) Derek Ramirez (12) 8) Steve Kosiski (8) 9) Jim Ciampi (17) 10) Chad Wheeler (5) 11) Tate Cole (11) 12) Morgan Bagley (18) 13) Johnny Allen (19) 14) Troy Gemmill (22) 15) Bobby Malchuis (20) 16) Brandon Kenny (13) 17) Andy Morris (10) 18) Chris Brown (15) 19) Jeremy Ross (14) 20) Richie Tosh (6) 21) Gary Andrews (24) 22) Justin Fulton (16) 23) William Gould (21) 24) Bryan Rowland (23)
Lap Leaders: Sharpensteen 1-25
Sharpensteen and his SHARP chassis opened a quick ten length lead over Taylor by the third lap.....Timms took over the runnerup position one lap later.....Timms would keep to within four car lengths before making his move to pressure the leader on lap fourteen. Timms looked to ready to take the lead on lap fourteen but the third caution of the feature kept that from happening.....Timms tried again with under five laps to go but Sharpensteen held on to take the Saturday night qualifier.....Richie Tosh had been in the top seven all race long until four laps to go when he coasted to a stop in turns three and four. This allowed Ramirez to hold onto the seventh and final automatic transfer spot into Sunday afternoons $5000 to win/$1000 to start feature
1st B Feature (15 Laps)(Top 4 Transfer): 1) Brandon Kenny 2) Justin Fulton 3) Johnny Allen 4) Troy Gemmill 5) Brenden Gemmill 6) Joe Adams 7) Brandon Henry 8) Joe Duvall 9) Mark Dotson 10) Joel Hill DNS) Hunter Rasdon, Blake Sedgwick
2nd B Feature (15 Laps)(Top 4 Transfer): 1) Jeremy Ross 2) Jim Ciampi 3) Bobby Malchuis 4) Bryan Rowland 5) Carl Conley II 6) Charles Randolph II 7) Kevin Lacy 8) Delaney Erickson 9) Dalton Clay 10) Dan Morris 11) Jake Richards DNS) Steve Miller
3rd B Feature (15 Laps)(Top 4 Transfer): 1) Chris Brown 2) Morgan Bagley 3) William Gould 4) Gary Andrews 5) Mark Smith 6) Mike Withrow 7) Dena Wilson 8) Brandon Watts 9) Chad Davis 10) Jared Russell 11) Joe Wright
1st Heat (10 Laps): 1) Alan Sharpensteen 2) Joe Duvall 3) Andy Morris 4) Morgan Bagley 5) Joe Adams 6) Justin Fulton 7) Carl Conley II 8) Delaney Erickson 9) Kevin Lacy 10) Blake Sedgwick
2nd Heat (10Laps): 1) Eddie Martin 2) Steve Kosiski 3) Tate Cole 4) Brenden Gemmill 5) Johnny Allen 6) Charles Randolph II 7) Chad Davis 8) Mark Smith 9) Dena Wilson 10) Steve Miller
3rd Heat (10 Laps): 1) Randy Timms 2) Richie Tosh 3) Bryan Rowland 4) Brandon Kenny 5) Chirs Brown 6) Brandon Watts 7) Brandon Henry 8) Mike Withrow 9) Hunter Rasdon
4th Heat (10 Laps): 1) Jason Teague 2) Jeff Taylor 3) Jake Richards 4) Jim Ciampi 5) Bobby Malchuis 6) Jeremy Ross 7) Dalton Clay 8) Troy Gemmill 9) Dan Morris
5th Heat (10 Laps): 1) Chad Wheeler 2) Jason Hughes 3) Derek Ramirez 4) William Gould 5) Gary Andrews 6) Joe Wright 7) Joel Hill 8) Mark Dotson 9) Jared Russell
New drivers who joined in on the action on this second qualifying night were Joe Duvall and Enid teammates Joe Adams and Mark Smith. Greg Skaggs was a no-show.
The top seven from tonights "A" feature join the top seven from Friday nights feature (Phillips, Payne, Landers, Holtzkamper, Weder, Tesch and Bone) as drivers locked into Sunday afternoons $5000 to win/$1000 to start feature finale.
They will run a third set of heats, "B" features and another "A" feature, which will take the top seven out of that and add to the drivers listed above. The remaining five will go to the drivers who have the best averaged finish of all three nights, not locked in.
Gates open at noon with racing at 2:00 PM. I hope to be there and be able to post complete results as soon as I get home.
David Smith Jr.
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