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Ken Old a popular IMCA Modified winner at Texas Thunder Speedway

Ken Old and PJ Egbert waged one of those battles that the IMCA Modifieds are famous for Saturday night at Texas Thunder Speedway in Killeen, Texas, with Old taking the win after Egbert pulled into the pits with five laps to go.

Old survived a couple of fierce mid-race charges by Egbert as the two took the green after a pair of lap-10 restarts.

On the first of the two restarts Egbert used the high side after a great jump and cleanly passed Old as the twosome exited turn two. But a caution flag few before the lap was complete, so it was all for naught.

On the next restart the 2008 IMCA Modified National Champion tried the same move, but did not get such a great jump. The pair entered turn one side-by-side with Egbert very high and Old following the same mid-track line he had been running before the caution.

“I had a good run on the outside on the restart,” Egbert said after the race. “But we did make some contact in the turn and we had to slow a bit. I didn’t see what happened behind us, but we did make some contact.”

What happened behind them was a six-car pile-up as the hard-charging pack backed off to avoid Old and Egbert.

With still 10 laps to go, both Old and Egbert were OK to go with Jason Hoffman, who had survived the melee, and Hardy Henderson now lined up behind the leaders.

This time Old got away cleanly and won the drag race to turn one and the duo raced nose-to-tail for the next four laps. But suddenly, with five to go, Egbert slowed dramatically in turn 3-4 and scooted into the pits, done for the night.

“It jumped out of gear,” a subdued Egbert explained later. “I must have broken something when I hit one of those ruts.”

With Egbert gone and with a big lead over Hoffman, attention turned to the battle for second between Hoffman and Henderson, who had not only had survived the “big one,” but seemed to be getting faster as the track matured.

Henderson made the pass with three to go and held on to take the checked almost a quarter-lap behind Old. Hoffman, Mike McCarthy and David Goode rounded out the top five.

Unofficial IMCA Modified results

1. Ken Old #52
2. Hardy Henderson #63
3. Jason Hoffman #00
4. Mike McCarthy #20
5. David Goode #107
6. Jimmy Tidwell #112
7. Brad Smith #88s
8. Bill Lecompte #247
9. George Lamphere, Jr. #19
10. Larry Sanders #742
11. PJ Egbert #555
12. Wayne Walker #35
13. Brad Jordan # 3J
14. Joey Craig, #555x
15. Ben Ketteman #37
16. Rick Green # 82
17. Chris Elliot # 23
18. James Cochran # F5
19. Trevor Egbert # 78

The entertaining IMCA Stocks Cars put on a great show with 17 cars taking the green.

PJ Egbert, doing double duty, and David Dunn lined up in front with Tim Carman, Jr, and Joey Craig in row two.

Egbert got out first but was followed closely by Craig, Eric Jones and Jason Batt with this quartet running as a pack for several laps.

After a caution for debris, Batt jumped down to the low side of Egbert on the restart, but the experienced Egbert was able to get some bite coming off turn two to fend off the determined Batt.

But Batt wasn’t discouraged by any means. For the last eight laps Batt was all over the leader, but never could get enough traction coming off the turns to make a pass stick.

The last two laps had the near-capacity crowd on their feet, but Egbert held on and took the checkered.

Batt, Anthony Otken, Mart Wampler and Jessie James Cox, Jr. finished in that order behind the winner.

David Dunn and Tim Carman, Jr. won their eight-lap heat races.

Unofficial IMCA Stock Car results IMCA Stocks

1 PJ Egbert #707
2 Jason Batt #9
3 Anthony Otken #489
4 Mart Wampler #55
5 Jessie James Cox, Jr. #43
6 Joey Craig $555
7 Colton Monroe #712
8 Chuck Hatfield #31
9 Eric ‘EAZY E’ Jones #84X
10 Trevor Sparkman #20 (R)
11. Mike McCarthy #20M
12. Tim Carman, Jr. #0
13. Willie Free #1
14. Jacob Wininger #42J
15. David Dunn #24D
16. Joseph Charnock #27
17. Robin Rasmussen #3

Robert Garcia and Mike McDougal sat on the front row of the IMCA SportMod feature with Randy Doyle and Brandon Cotton in row two and eventual winner Mitch Tierney and Tim Foster in row three.

McDougal was out first followed by the thundering herd, but McDougal’s engine didn’t sound right as he sputtered a bit down the front straight. Nevertheless, he had all the power the track could handle at that point and he put a little distance on Garcia, who was running in second, with each lap.

With five to go McDougal had almost half a lap lead over Garcia and Cotton, who were enjoying their friendly battle for second. Suddenly, almost out of nowhere, Tierney blasted by both Garcia and Cotton to grab second, but with a lot of real estate between him and the still-sputtering leader.

With just a couple of laps remaining McDougal’s engine finally succumbed and the almost-sure-winner pulled into the pits. That left Mitch Tierney to take the checkered followed by Garcia, Cotton, Joe O’Bryan and Tim Foster. McDougal finished up in sixth.

Unofficial IMCA Sport Mod results

1. Mitch Tierney #48
2. Robert Garcia #331
3. Brandon Cotton #56
4. Joe O’Bryan #44X
5. Tim Foster #36
6. Mike McDougal #224
7. Randy Doyle #65 (R)
8. David Goode, Jr. #88 (r)
9. Sarah Goode #13 (R)
10. Steven Abbey #95

Twenty Street Stocks lined up for their 20-lap feature which was won by pole-sitter Eric Jones. Jason Bernal, Clint Williams, Paul Kohl and Bobby Norton rounded out the top five.

Norton, Kohl and Bernal won their respective heat races.

Unofficial Street Stock results

1. Eric ‘EAZY E’ Jones #84X
2. Jason Bernal #555
3. Clint Williams #3
4. Paul Kohl #96
5. Bobby Norton #30
6. Richard Valentine #96V
7. Chris Florio #21
8. Ken Plonsky #4
9. Robert Roysdon #55
10. Cody Bible #81
11. Kevin Ashley #2
12. Tony McPherson, Jr # 84
13. Ryan Anderson #48
14. Jennifer Silva #19J
15. Jacob Dunn #63X
16. Gene Burnett #43
17. Dennis Simmons #83
18. Albert Wininger, Jr #40
19. Jeff Bauser #B74
20. Jeff Currier #65

In the Dwarf Car feature, Mike Tedford had the car to beat until he pulled into the infield spewing steam from his motorcycle engine. That left Billy White with the lead with Buck McFarlin hot on his heels.

With two to go, McFarlin scooted to the inside and completed the pass for the lead. White tried several times to return the favor, but came up about a car-length short at the checkered flag.

Tony Williams, Tom Tomlin and Donnie Hunt rounded out the top five.

Unofficial Classic Dwarf Car results

1. Buck McFarlin #65
2. Billy White #17
3. Tony Williams #01
4. Tom Tomlin #74
5. Donnie Hunt #8
6. Mike Tedford #35
7. Eazy Casey #2EZ
8. Michael Dion #07
9. Dave Tedford #25
10. Gary White #1

James Herring and Shelby Ellsworth won their respective wild and wooly Twister main events.

Unofficial Twister Results

1st A-Main
1. James Herring #48
2. TJ Yagalla #190
3. Michael Hilliard #23
4. Travis Mendenhall #7D
5. Trent Dalton #15
6. Jason Styczynski #241
7. Steven Crossley #B-52
8. Kim Ramirez #03
9. James Nutterville #751
10. Zacheary Driskell #35

2nd A-Main
1. Michael Hilliard #23
2. Jason Slyczynski #241
3. Brent Dalton #14
4. Steven Crossley #B-52
5. Tony Williams #180
6. Michael Crandall #24K
7. Mike Dzialoski #DZ1
8. Zacheary Driskell #35
9. James Nutterville #751
10. John Femrite #B4U

Staff Report

Keith White wraps up “Ice Breaker” weekend at Abilene Speedway with third win

The final night of Abilene Speedway’s Ice Breaker special saw Keith White collect his third win of the weekend, while Vince Ogle won for the second time and Billy Wade and Jeff Kinnaird both collected their first checkers.

The opening night IMCA Modified winner, White had his work cut out in duplicating Saturday’s Southern SportMod triumph as he had to chase down early leader and defending track champion Josh McGaha.

White stayed glued to McGaha’s bumper throughout several restarts, then in a bold move on a tricky track, jumped to the high side taking the lead on lap 12. From there White put it on cruise control as he inched away from McGaha on his way to the checkers.

Ogle, the Saturday IMCA Sunoco Stock Car winner, topped Sunday’s Modified final.

A two-time track champion at Abilene in the division, Ogle led from start to finish after passing pole starter Chris Elliott on the opening circuit. The front pair pulled away from the rest of the field, with Ogle stretching his advantage over the last two circuits.

Wade got around early Stock Car leader Tony Ritterbush after a restart, held off Ritterbush after another caution and built his lead on the way to the finish.

Eric Jones took one last shot at Wade and Ritterbush on the final lap but came up short and settled for third.

After following Allen Montgomery across the IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stock stripe both Friday and Saturday, Kinnaird took it upon himself to spoil Montgomery’s bid for the weekend sweep.

Kinnaird used track position to get out front early and build a good lead, while Montgomery was forced to make his way through the front of the pack. Montgomery used lapped traffic to close in at one point, but Kinnaird again ran away once clear and grabbed the win.

Feature Results
Modifieds – 1. Vince Ogle, Lubbock; 2. Chris Elliott, Eastland; 3. Richard McDaniel, Edgewood; 4. Chris Dawson, Post; 5. Monte Bolton, Lubbock; 6. Tommy Fain, Abilene; 7. Chad Maurer, Eaton Rapids, Mich.; 8. Keith White, Academy; 9. Jason Schoenberger, Gorham, Kan.; 10. Jeff Emerson, Sherman; 11. Fred Wojtek, Robert Lee; 12. Bob Sikes, Eunice, N.M.; 13. Charles Brewer, Abilene; 14. Gabe Tucker, Carbon; 15. Kelly Allen, Lubbock; 16. Joe Colyer, Abilene; 17. Neal Debord, Amarillo; 18. Levi Ely, Abilene; 19. Mark Patterson, Abilene; 20. Kenneth Graves, Tahoka.

Southern SportMods – 1. Keith White, Academy; 2. Josh McGaha, Brownwood; 3. Bill Pittaway, Corpus Christi; 4. David Riley, Wolforth; 5. Brandon Stewart, Academy; 6. Ronnie Welborn, Princeton; 7. Matt Mueller, Stamford; 8. Mark Patterson, Abilene; 9. Jeff Whitehead, Slaton; 10. Gabe Tucker, Abilene; 11. Tyler Fain, Tuscola; 12. Shane Wojtek, Robert Lee; 13. James Myers, Corpus Christi; 14. Jonathon Campbell, Abilene; 15. Justin Shaw, Sweetwater; 16. Danny Hogue, Abilene; 17. Dean Abbey, Comanche; 18. Bradley Poor, Abilene; 19. Chris Meyers, Eunice, N.M.; 20. Scotty Wallace, Lorenzo.

Stock Cars – 1. Billy Wade, San Angelo; 2. Tony Ritterbush, Dunlap, Iowa; 3. Eric Jones, Killeen; 4. Terry Wojtek, Sterling City; 5. Willie Free, Snyder; 6. Mike Van Genderen, Newton, Iowa; 7. Mart Wampler, Snyder; 8. Kevin Opheim, Mason City, Iowa; 9. Matt Guillaume, Tomball; 10. Jeremy Gettler, Adair, Iowa; 11. Wayne Stremmel, Stamford; 12. Cory Davis, Eunice, N.M.; 13. Bill Brzezinski Sr., Roby; 14. Dustin Locke, Eunice, N.M.; 15. Duain Pritchett, Combine; 16. Vince Ogle, Lubbock; 17. Jason Batt, Killeen; 18. John Armstrong, Merkel.

Hobby Stocks – 1. Jeff Kinnaird, Mansfield; 2. Allen Montgomery, Fort Worth; 3. Charles Cosper, Belton; 4. Matt Drottz, Ankeny, Iowa; 5. Tobie Talk, Abilene; 6. Nyle Godwin, Redfield, Iowa; 7. Tommy Phillips, Abilene; 8. Billy Taylor, Gatesville; 9. Will Poston, Midland; 10. Dustin Mims, Dublin; 11. Jaron Shahan, China Springs; 12. Robert Barnett, Sweetwater; 13. Terry Comer II, Hawley; 14. Melvin Burrows, Gatesville; 15. Dale Roys, Merkel; 16. Edward Johnson, Odessa; 17. Cody Brosh, Robert Lee; 18. Rodney Sparks, Abilene; 19. Adam Reeves, Sweetwater; 20. Evan Davis, Mineral Wells.

By J M Hallas

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