Cardinal Motor Speedway results, 8/21/04

[NickHolt]

Breeding Thunders to the checked flag!

 

Dark clouds, high winds, lightning and thunder greeted us back to the track after a week off and racers went through another night of wondering if we would get the show in or not. A shower after the first heat of the night , it looked doubtful that the races would go on. But the rain passed , the track workers rolled the track back in and it was on!

 

26 IMCA Modifieds were on hand. cars from Abilene, joined the fun since Abilene Speedway was under water. #5 Billy Johnson and #101 Butch Reid were on the front row for the start, but on lap two, #44 Trent Crawford tapped #5 Johnson and sent him around , and brought out a restart with #44 Crawford sent to the back.

 

The restart was clean , the track was tacky and fast, on lap five #21 Jimmy Breeding powered from fourth to first on the back straight going three wide into turn three, #101 Butch Reid was caught in the middle and backed out to allow #21 Breeding and #5 Johnson to run into 4 hard with #21 Breeding coming out in the lead , and thundered down the front straight leaving #101 Reid and #5 Johnson to battle for second.

 

#16 Bob Sikes and #53 J.D. White tangled on lap 10 sending #53 White off with damaged wheel and tire, the restart had #21 Breeding, #5 Johnson , #101 Butch Reid in the top three spots. While #21 Breeding was smoking the track. #101 Reid had moved into second and #5 Johnson spun again and limped off the track, and #8 Ken Couch had kept his car at the front and moved into third. Back in the pack #44 Trent Crawford had charged from the back up to seventh, but a swarm of fast cars #16 Bob Sikes, #49 Vince Ogle, #10 Shane Gray, and #85 Neal Flowers were bunched up racing for fourth through sixth positions.

 

#101 Reid gave #21 Breeding a challenge in the final laps , but Breeding would hold on for the win, and third place, back to seventh came down to who was best out of turn four to the flag.

 

IMCA MODIFIED

1.#21 Jimmy Breeding (Odessa, Tx.)

2.#101 Butch Reid ( Carlsbad, N.M.)

3.#8 Ken Couch ( Midland, Tx.)

4.#85 Neal Flowers ( Hobbs, N.M.)

5.#16 Bob Sikes ( Eunice, N.M.)

6.#10 Shane Gray ( Artesia, N.M.)

 

Sixteen IMCA Stock Cars rolled onto the track with #6 Lynard Barrera and #007 Chris Myers leading the pack to green, #007 Chris Myers taking the lead, only to have tire problems on the second lap bring out a red flag and restart.

 

#65 Eric Jarrel had taken the lead and brought the pack down to the restart. On lap five, #8 Bubba Locke cut a tire and limped off the track, while #9 Justin Graves was hard into turn one and spun bringing out another red flag and a restart. #55 Trey Jarrel had moved to the front and took the lead on lap seven, but yet another red flag would fly when #2 Chad Warren would hit the wall head on coming of turn two bringing out the red and the wreckers, and a scramble by emergency crews to check on him. #2 Warren was just fine, and the wreck cleared and the restart saw brothers #55 Trey Jarrel , and #65 Eric Jarrel leading the pack.

 

The racing for fourth got intense when #71 Phillip Houston and #16 Bubba Sikes got together in turn four, and tore up the fender on #16 Sikes, and sending #71 Houston off the track with a tire cut. and just after that in turn one #16 Sikes and #6 Barrera were banging on each other cutting a tire on the #16 Sikes car and sending him to the trailer.

 

#55 Trey Jarrel continued to lead, and #65 Eric Jarrel running second, #34 Tim Pyle was moving his way to the front but ran out of laps , and #55 Jarrel takes the win.

 

 

IMCA Stock Cars

1.#55 Trey Jarrel ( Hobbs, N.M.)

2.#65 Eric Jarrel ( Hobbs, N.M.)

3.#20 Cody Kays (Eunice, N.M.)

4.#34 Tim Pyle ( Midland, Tx.)

5.#6 Lynard Barrera ( Seminole, Tx.)

6.#9 Justin Graves ( Odessa, Tx.)

 

 

IMCA Hobby Stock

1.#15 Timothy Kent

2.#71 James Newton

3.#61 Justin Robertson

4.#4 Josh Pickerel

5.#64 Doug Cox

6.#14 Jerry Harper

 

 

Street Stock

 

1.#08 Kenneth Seay

2.#24 Scott Pyle

3.#37 Mack Seay

4.#7 Chris Dosher

5.#41 Eddie Traywick

6.#83 ?

 

Pro-4

 

1.#46 John Anderson

2.#68 Jason Allen

3.# James White

4.#53 Danny Lam

5.#3 Steve Huse

6.#75 Bob Eshelman

 

Stock-4

1.#7 Ashley Myers

2.#49 Brandon Gage

3.#0 James Cathey

4.#17 Zachary Mason

5.#99 Blakley Jenkins

6.#55 Justin Shaw