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BRINDLE
EARNS POLE FOR STORMPAY.COM DLMS
NORTH VERNON, IN – Chip Brindle of Chatsworth, GA will be
looking for his third “clean sweep” of the 2007 StormPay.com Dirt
Late Model Series season on Saturday night in the $5,000-to-win 75-lap
main event at Joining Brindle on the front row for the
big show will be StormPay.com DLMS championship contender and second
12-lap heat race winner Derrick Rainey of Powder Springs, GA in the
Hays Racing/Barto Enterprises Warrior. Jay Blair of Angie, LA, another title
contender, won the third 12-lap heat race in the All-Star Graphics
Mastersbilt to grab the inside second row starting spot on the
Saturday night main event. The defending StormPay.com DLMS National
Champion and current point leader David Gentry of Lewisburg, TN won
the fourth 12-lap heat race in the Dixon Plumbing Mastersbilt to get a
seat for the big show from the outside of the second row.
Rainey is second in the points, 24 points behind Gentry, and
Blair is third, 28 points behind the point leader. The top four finishers from Friday
night’s four 12-lap heat races transferred into Saturday night’s
$5,000-to-win 75-lap main event. Following Brindle under the checkered
flag in the first heat race were Patrick Sheltra of Indiantown, FL in
the Sheltra and Sons Construction Rayburn, Bryan Bernhardt of
Versailles, IN in the B&B Precision Moving Rocket, and Steve
Godsey of Bedford, IN in the Indiana Stone Works Rayburn. Second through fourth respectively in the
second heat race behind Rainey were Jeff Fields of Aragon, GA in the
Summerville Junkyard Mastersbilt, Mark Barber of North Vernon, IN in
the Biehle Electric Mastersbilt, and Brad Barrow of Bloomington, IN in
the King Distributors Rayburn. Trailing Blair in the third heat race
were Steve Barnett of Franklin, IN in the J.D. Byrider/Tony Stewart
Racing Rayburn, Jim Till of Greenville, AL in the Dafor Heavy Timber
Fabricators Trak-Star, and Chris Tays of Corinth, MS in the Bud Coley
Trucking Rocket. Rounding out the “Sweet 16” behind
Gentry in the fourth heat race were the second through fourth-place
finishers Brandon Keeton of Toomsuba, MS in the Charlotte’s Boy GRT,
Robert Stutts of Murfreesboro, TN in the Bob Parks Realty Rocket, and
Rusty Hoge of Ooltewah, TN in the H&H Powersports GRT. Drivers that finished fifth on back in
the four heat races on Friday night will have an opportunity to make
the big show in one of two 15-lap B-Mains on Saturday night.
The top finishers in the B-Mains will fill in starting
positions 17 through 24. One driver still on the outside looking
in his 11-year-old Tyler Allen of Indianapolis, IN, who is trying to
become the youngest driver to start a national touring dirt late model
series race. The
fifth-grader turned heads during time trials by turning a lap in 15.75
seconds in the Allen held the second spot in the opening
laps of the race, but a miscue dropped back to fifth, and then two
spins on a tricky racing surface while challenging for a transfer spot
ended his evening. Despite
his misfortunes, the youngster said he would be back on Saturday night
to try and race his way into the main event. PRELIMINARY
RESULTS OF ROUND 19 AT TWIN CITIES RACEWAY PARK IN QUALIFYING:
HEAT
RACES (10 Laps – Top 4 Finishers Transfer To Main Event):
1ST HEAT: 1.
Brindle (R); 2. Sheltra; 3. Bernhardt; 4. Godsey; 5. Mosley (R); 6.
Stitsworth; 7. Fisher; 8. Bechelli.
2ND HEAT: 1.
Rainey; 2. Fields; 3. Barber; 4. Barrow; 5.
3RD HEAT: 1.
Blair; 2. Barnett; 3. Till (R); 4. Tays; 5. Turner; 6. Moon; 7. Ruble
DNS.
4TH HEAT: 1.
Gentry; 2. Keeton; 3. Stutts (R); 4. Hoge; 5. Ellison; 6. Walker; 7.
Allen. FEATURE
RACE “SWEET 16” STARTING LINE-UP: ROW
1: ROW
2: ROW
ROW
ROW
5: ROW
6: ROW
ROW
8: B-MAIN
STARTING LINE UPS (12 Laps – Top 3 Finishers Transfer To Main
Event): 1ST
B-MAIN: 2ND
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