rebelracewriter Posted May 16, 2004 Report Share Posted May 16, 2004 Texas Thunder Speedway 5/15/04 By J M Hallas From worst to first, GW Takes IMCA Modified win Killeen, Texas. After missing heat race qualifying, the 2002 IMCA Modified Rookie of the Year, GW Egbert started dead last along side his cousin,2003 IMCA Modified Rookie of the Year, PJ Egbert who had car trouble in heat race action. The 22 car, 20 lap A-Main started with Wayne Walker and Allen Waltermire on the front. The duo were still side by side in turn 1, with Waltermire winning the battle out of turn 2 to grab the lead. David Cooke got out of shape and took a trip through the infield. The ensuing back caused Ben Ketteman to stall out before the completion of lap 2. On the restart Chuck Crowder moved into second with Ken Old on the high side grabbing third. On lap 3 Old was looking inside Crowder for second until the “big one” a la later. Crowder got sideways coming out of turn 4, Greg Dinsmore checked up with track points leader, Keith White getting into the side of him. Dinsmore drifted up the track collecting Walker as they slammed the front stretch wall. Glen Derks and Bo Phelan had nowhere to go and got together with Walker, as Phelan spun he was collected by Doug Lorenz. Fortunately all the drivers were ok after the grinding crash. As green flew again White dove inside Old and Waltermire to snag the top spot on lap 4 with Greg Killingsworth coming through to second. On lap 5 G. Killingsworth was taking a look inside White, while Old and Waltermire were door to door for third. By lap 6 GW Egbert had moved into the top five as Old and Cooke got by a fading Waltermire. Cooke spun from fourth to bring out the yellow at the start of lap 7. Under caution White stalled on track, after a dirt clod knocked the hot wire out of the distributer. G Killingworth led the the field back to green as the running order got was shaken up. Old, GW Egbert, Brian Killingsworth and Crowder rounded out the top five back under green. GW Egbert quickly got around Old and was wheel to wheel with G Killingsworth for the lead on lap 8 with G Killingsworth hanging on to the point. It didn’t take White long to work back up after pitting for repairs as he grabbed fourth on lap 9. At the halfway point the top five were G Killingsworth, GW Egbert, Old White and Ketteman. White and Old were side by side for third on lap 12 with White securing the spot. GW Egbert got along side G Killingsworth on lap 13 as the leaders ran three wide splitting the lap car of George Lamphere. The two were still tied together at the rub rails on lap 14 with GW Egbert getting the edge at the line. They were still wheel to wheel on lap 15, with GW Egbert finally getting totally around G Killingsworth on lap 16. White closed on G Killingsworth and make the pass for second with three to go, but GW Egbert had built a ½ straightaway lead. On the final lap GW Egbert ran into traffic allowing White to close slightly but never enough to make a challenge. As the checkers flew it was GW Egbert in the Phils Paint & Body/Big Tex Autoplex/E&E Transport/Nightmare Graphics/Midwest Motorsports/Dirt Works Chassis taking the victory after starting dead last. Pos/Car#/Driver/Start 1 717 GW Egbert (22) 2 1 Keith White (10) 3 56 Greg Killingsworth (12) 4 52 Ken Old (6) 5 44 Allen Waltermire (2) 6 46 Chuck Crowder (4) 7 19 George Lamphere (19) 8 37 Ben Ketteman (13) 9 168 Michael Rothammer (17) 10 123 David Cooke (9) 11 57 Brian Killingsworth (11) 12 63 Hardy Henderson (8) 13 71 Glen Derks (16) 14 8g Greg Dinsmore (3) 15 119 Wayne Walker (1) 16 2 Chris Renager (5) 17 23 Greg Atwood (7) 18 48 Bo Phelan (15) 19 97 Doug Lorenz (14) 20 247 Joey Craig (18) 21 711 Jason Bernal (20) 22 707 PJ Egbert (21) Heat race #1 had Derks lead lap 1 giving way to Waltermire on lap 2. After a side by side battle on lap 6 Cooke grabbed the lead and the win. In the second heat Dinsmore scored his first ever modified checkers as he led flag to flag. G Killingsworth got around early leader Jason Bernal to get the heat #3 honors. In the 15 lap IMCA Stock feature, Shad Stevens and Chris Ochoa lead the field to green with Stevens getting the advantage going into turn 1. Doug Lorenz suffered a flat left front while running third causing the pack to stack up. As Stevens and Justin McGehee pulled ahead the field was two and three wide. The yellow flew on lap 3 when Jon Neilson ½ spun and stopped in turn 1, while Nick Gabaree and Anthony Otken got together at the top of turn 3. On the restart McGehee was pressuring Stevens for the lead on the low side while Phil Egbert moved into the top five, from his tenth starting spot. At the midpoint the top four had sepatated themselves from the field with Stevens, McGehee, Jason Batt, Richard Riley and Egbert in the top five spots. On lap 9 Stevens and McGehee were door to door for the point as McGehee inched ahead by a nose to lead. On lap 10, the two got hooked allowing Batt and Riley get by. Just as Batt took the lead he slowed and stopped in turn 2, while Buck Owens was spinning at the other end of the track. As the race resumed, Stevens was back on the point followed by McGehee, Riley, Chris Moore and Derrick Sears. Stevens got a good restart leaving McGehee and Riley battling for second. Riley had the left rear tire come off on lap 13, but he was able to continue. McGehee caught back up to Stevens as the white flag flew. Going into turn 3 McGehee made a bonzai move as he tried a slide job on Stevens for the lead. McGehee wasn’t quite clear as he slid up and the two made contact. Stevens tried to fight back with the duo swapping paint and sparks flying as they crossed the line with McGehee in the Smith Construction/McGehee Real Estate/Phils Paint & Body/Pflugerville Machine/ Kamikazee Chassis getting the win. IMCA Stock 1 79 Justin McGehee 2 23 Shad Stevens 3 20c Chris Moore 4 84x Eric Jones 5 94 Richard Riley 6 7 Derrick Sears 7 51j Jon Neilson 8 411 Gary Simmerman 9 489 Anthony Otken 10 113 Ed Kiener 11 29 Ray Tinkey 12 99 Jason Batt 13 13 Chris Ochoa 14 8 Buck Owens 15 170 Phil Egbert 16 97 Doug Lorenz 17 97c Nick Gabaree 18 76 Omar Lingo 19 747 Chris Simmerman 20 4 Cham Savage 21 15 Ronnie Dowell Batt, Owens and McGehee took the heat race checkers. Paul Mullins got the early lead in the 15 lap Street Stock main but TY Hawkey quickly applied the pressure getting the top spot on lap 4. Paul Kohl got by Mullins on lap 5 for second but surrendered the spot to Andrew Simmerman on lap 8. Kohl and Mullins hooked bumpers on lap 10 battling for third with Kohl hitting the wall and rolling to the infield. Hawkey took the checkers by a good margin over Simmerman, who was making his first start in his Brothers Roberts car. Street Stock 1 1 TY Hawkey 2 21 Andrew Simmerman 3 39 Paul Mullins 4 91 Joe Fuller 5 12 Scott Cooper 6 33 Jeremy Adkins 7 36 Tracey Kitchens 8 96 Paul Kohl 9 97 Brian Fuller 19 18 Pat Worthy The 19 car Thunder Stock Main saw Tony Hamil grab the lead as green waved. On lap 6 Jeff Medlock was able to get around Hamil as they ran through lap traffic. The races only yellow was on lap 8 for a bumper on the track. On the restart Medlock got out to a good lead and was able run off the snare the victory. Thunder Stock 1 44 Jeff Medlock 2 4 Tony Hamil 3 66 Gary Grant 4 20 Trevor Sparkman 5 00 Danny Colburn 6 93 Jacob Dunn 7 22w Justin Wieringa 8 38 Tracey Cole 9 8 Eric Odiorne 10 3 Robin Rasmussen 11 43 Stephan Gregiore 12 6 Vicent Stokes 13 63 Danny Dunn 14 21 Walt Moore 15 85 Corey Stephan 16 39 Mary Mullins 17 99 Steve Young 18 5E Mel Edwards 19 30 Bobby Norton Heat winners were Medlock and Hamil Mini Stock 1 83 Kenny Ware 2 1 Jason Hoffman 3 5 David Stewart 4 81 Michael Crandell 5 77 Larry Ware 6 58 DJ Mac Williams 7 8 Guy Frederick 8 17 Billy White 9 344 Jesus Dones 10 43 Joseph Gregoire 11 32 Marilyn Holder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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