top_shelf_12 Posted September 7, 2015 Report Share Posted September 7, 2015 Labor Day Blowout at Shady Oaks Speedway Night One Recap: by Jon Hutchinson Goliad, TX - We have concluded two nights of racing at the wonderful facilities of Shady Oaks Speedway as the South Texas Street Stock Shootout came in with their first two night event of the season. Saturday night was chalk full of racing as the SOS Pure Stocks, Classics, Limited Modifieds, and Modifieds joined the program. Here's how Saturday night went down. STXSSS ran two rounds of qualifying heats on Saturday night to lock in 12 for the A Main on Sunday with 15 of the top Street Stock drivers around in attendance. The first heat featured points contenders Heath Stewart and Brian Rye and also the return of the early point leader, Marcus Mikulencak and the hottest driver lately, Craig Oakes. Oakes got his BD1 machine out front and cruised to the heat race win as Stewart, Mikulencak, Kyle Carter, Rye, Michale Pesek, and Mike Moseley followed. Second heat of round 1 featured the new points leader coming in, Wade Jones as well as Anthony Gordon, Steven Doty, Jason Fitch, Justin Whitehead and some drivers that are very familiar with SOS, Jason Zarbock, Kenneth Densman, and Joe Boop. Jones would claim the win with Fitch in second, Gordon third after a good battle with Doty, Densman, Zarbock, Boop, and Whitehead rounded out the field as round 1 concluded. A 50-50 split of 10" tire cars and Hot Stock Trucks made up the 6 car/truck field for the Classics entered the racing surface to kick off the Features for the SOS classes. Chris Shafer would take advantage of getting to the front quickly and drive away with an easy win. Kevin Willms with a solid second followed by the Truck Trio of James Jennings, Justin Airheart, and Travis Schmidt. Will Chomitzky spun late and couldn't get his machine re-fired. Twenty Pure Stocks came out to put on the best race of the weekend even though it got off to an auspicious start. John Ramirez was leaking fluid and was black flagged before the start of the race, false starts and when they did get started you can hear a tire blow from the stands as Nathan Corpus lost a tire early and went into the hot pits followed by Caitlyn Leonard and a few others. Through the chaos the early top 3 tried to separate of Martin Koehne, Lonnie Koehne and Chase Sanchez but Sanchez spun and tightened the field back up. Sixth place seemed to be a dangerous place to be as several cars spun running in that position and while Jamie Dear was running sixth, Chris Holle bounced off of him and both slammed into the front straightaway wall. Holle was able to continue but Dear's night was done with a broken spindle. On the ensuing restart, Logan Schunka found something on the exit of two and looked like he was shot out of a cannon as he split the two Koehne brothers and captured the lead. M. Koehne and Schunka swapped the lead in 3-4 but Schunka emerged and went on to win the race in impressive fashion. M. Koehne, Travis Weatherford, Cheryl Gray and Mason Castaneda rounded out the top 5 with all of those positions well earned. Race ended under caution as the curse of the P6 hit Shannon Maurer as he spun exiting fourth and somehow kept it on all four wheels as the car bounced all the way across the track but unfortunately for him, was plowed pretty hard by Holle and Sanchez. Leaders had already taken the white flag so race officials locked the field and called it a night for the Pure Stocks. Limited Modified were next main event as 13 came over the hill and onto the track. Craig Oakes and Johnny Torres led the field to green. The top four of Oakes, Lawrence Mikulencak, Torres and Cody Leonard put a little gap on the field as Mickey Helms, Don Krahn, Chris Shafer locked up in a good battle. Helms was on the outside of a three wide entering turn 3, hops the wheel of the Krahn machine and went flying off the back of 3 in a wild ride. Helms was fine and re-fired to finish 8th. Mikulencak couldn't capitalize on the restart as Oakes claimed another victory at SOS. Leonard, Torres, and Tom Grothues rounded up the top 5. Concluding the SOS features were the Modified class, as five took the green, Jamie Campbell unfortunately not able to make the call. Track starting getting real slick as these high powered machines struggled to find grip except for Mike Morris, he got out front and hit his marks all night driving smooth and claiming the victory. Matt Fox could get to him but not around him. Jeff Moore recovered from an early spin to join the fray but no one had anything for Morris as he claimed his first win and a very popular one in the pits and stands. He's done a lot for the class and track, always nice to see one of the good guys win. Unfortunately for Fox and Moore, tech rearranged the finishing order as Speednet has the top 3 of Morris, Chase Sanchez, and Jake Rollins. Round Two of the STXSSS heat races came out to conclude the night with Heat 1, Round 2 had Jones, Stewart, Doty, Gordon. Car count may have been down for STXSSS but some heavy hitters in attendance. The heat would belong to Stewart with Doty in second, Gordon, Jones and Kyle Carter the top 5. Heat 2, Round 2 wasn't for slouches either as Oakes, Mikulencak, Rye led Densman, Pesek, and Zarbock to the checkers. Oakes won every race he was in on Saturday night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigone47 Posted September 8, 2015 Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 Top, thanks for the kind words and I appreciate everybody's support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooter48c Posted September 8, 2015 Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 was a great night of racing, wish I could've held on to that top spot. Thanks for the coverage Top-Shelf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arob Posted September 8, 2015 Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 Loved Oakes' post race interviews about picking flowers. Big Dog Racing had an impressive weekend as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
top_shelf_12 Posted September 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2015 Oakes had a clean sweep and won every race he entered, good weekend for him for sure. I bet he was fastest during hot laps too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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