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John started last (7th) in the last (3rd) heat race. He won it! This would put him on the pole for the A feature. He lead every lap to take home his 2nd win of the 2008 season.
Allen Masters NCRA Modifieds at Belleville
Belleville, KS - July 4, 2008 - Belleville, Kansas - Former three-time series champion John Allen of Chanute, Kansas wired the field to become the fourth different winner in four events thus far this season as he won the fifteen lap O'Reilly/NCRA modified presented by ICM/Ethanol feature event Friday night at the Belleville Highbanks Speedway in Belleville, Kansas.
Allen started on the pole with outside front row starter Marc Hurd, Brian Casey, Brian Powers and Greg Stephens all giving chase as Allen and his Hughes chassis quickly built a ten car length lead atop the big half mile oval. The races only caution waved on lap six when series rookie Jordan Whitehead slowed to a stop on the front stretch.
Once racing action resumed, Hurd kept pace with the leader and dove down low in turns three and four to briefly pull even with the leader, but Allen and his Buzzard Racing Engines would quickly pull away and would go on unchallenged the rest of the distance. The battle for positions three through sixth caught the crowds attention as Casey, Powers, Cody Gearhart and Jimmie Hobbs were separated by just five car lengths of each other the rest of the distance.
But in the end it was all Allen as he collected his first series victory on the 2008 race season, the twelfth of his career.
Hurd would finish ten car lengths behind Allen to finish second while Stephens outdueled Powers and Casey for the third position.
Hobbs, Hurd and Allen all picked up the eight lap heat races for the twenty-two car field.
NCRA Modifieds
Belleville High Banks
Belleville, KS
Fri. July 4, 2008
1st Heat: 1. Jimmie Hobbs (Wichita, KS), 2. Brian Casey (Hutchinson, Ks), 3. Troy Gemmill (Ponca City, Ok), 4. Jarrod Johnston (Concordia, Ks), 5. Kurt Johnston (Concordia, Ks), 6. Jordan Whitehead (Andover, Ks), 7. Micaah Johnson (Courtland, Ks), 8. Brandon Blochlinger (Concordia, Ks),
2nd Heat: 1. Marc Hurd (Wichita, Ks), 2. Brian Powers (Wichita, Ks), 3. Greg Stephens (Wichita, Ks), 4. Cody Gearhart (Turpin, Ok), 5. Troy Davis (Salina, Ks), 6. Don Renfro (Wichita, Ks), 7. Brandon Morton (Broken Arrow, Ok),
3rd Heat: 1. John Allen (Chanute, Ks), 2. Brendon Gemmill (Ponca City, Ok), 3. Marlin Farr (Nickerson, Ks), 4. Joe Cleveland (Delphos, Ks), 5. Dan Daniels (Humboldt, Ks), 6. Brad Johnston (Haysville, Ks), 7. Dustin Huehl (Salina, Ks),
A Feature:: 1. John Allen (Chanute, Ks), 2. Marc Hurd (Wichita, Ks), 3. Greg Stephens (Wichita, Ks), 4. Brian Powers (Wichita, Ks), 5. Brian Casey (Hutchinson, Ks), 6. Cody Gearhart (Turpin, Ok), 7. Dustin Huehl (Salina, Ks), 8. Jimmie Hobbs (Wichita, KS), 9. Marlin Farr (Nickerson, Ks), 10. Brendon Gemmill (Ponca City, Ok), 11. Jarrod Johnston (Concordia, Ks), 12. Kurt Johnston (Concordia, Ks), 13. Dan Daniels (Humboldt, Ks), 14. Troy Davis (Salina, Ks), 15. Jordan Whitehead (Andover, Ks), 16. Joe Cleveland (Delphos, Ks), 17. Brandon Blochlinger (Concordia, Ks), 18. Micaah Johnson (Courtland, Ks), 19. Brandon Morton (Broken Arrow, Ok), 20. Brad Johnston (Haysville, Ks), 21. Troy Gemmill (Ponca City, Ok), 22. Don Renfro (Wichita, Ks)
