Bluegrass
2009
Official Media Release #47 (For Immediate Distribution:
August 2, 2009)
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Victor
Lee Victorious in 11th Annual Bluegrass 50 at Bluegrass Speedway
Bardstown,
KY-August 1, 2009- The O’Reilly Battle of the Bluegrass DirtCar Series
presented by Graphic Impressions was in action on Saturday evening at Bluegrass
Speedway for the 11th Annual Bluegrass 50 and Victor Lee of Stanford,
KY would nip Terry English coming off turn four to the checkered flag to capture
the $5,000 payday. Other feature
winners included Pat Hagan of New Haven, KY in WBRT 1320-AM Sportsman and Jason
Wheatley of Loretto, KY in Modifieds.
After
one false start, action would get underway and Johnny Wheeler and David Webb
would duel for the lead, with Wheeler leading lap 1.
Webb would take the lead on lap 2 over Wheeler, followed by Jason Keltner,
Terry English, and Dustin Linville. English
would slide to the third spot on lap 3, with Keltner dogging him still for the
spot. Victor Lee would make his way
into the top five on lap four, while English began to pressure Wheeler for
second. English would gain the
runner-up slot on lap 6 as Lee began to challenge Keltner for fourth.
Lee would motor into the fourth position on lap 7, while Lee continued
his charge from his eighth starting spot by wheeling past Wheeler on lap 8 for
the third spot. Keltner and Wheeler
would then battle door-to-door for the fourth spot and Keltner would claim
fourth on lap 10 as Dustin Neat would join the fray and make it three wide at
one point. Race leader Webb would
begin to work slower traffic by lap 12 and English would slowly start to reel in
the race leader. The battle for
fourth continued with three-wide action between Keltner, Wheeler, and Neat as
the first caution waved on lap 15 when Jerry Rutherford looping his machine in
front of race leader Webb, who narrowly missed the spinning car.
The restart would see the caution wave as the field worked into turn one
when Duane Chamberlain spun his machine, collecting Justin Rattliff and Todd
Coffman in the tangle. Back
underway, English began to pressure Webb for the top spot, while Wheeler would
retake fourth in yet another three wide battle with Keltner and Neat.
The lead duo of Webb and English would be in dead heat at the line on lap
17 before English grabbed the top spot off turn two on lap 18.
Webb and Lee would then begin a spirited battle for the runner-up spot,
while Wheeler held on to fourth, with Neat taking fifth on lap 21 and grabbing
fourth on lap 22. As the field saw
the halfway signal, English was motoring away from the field, while Webb and Lee
dueled for the second position. English
would start working slower traffic on lap 29 as Lee would finally win the battle
for second over Webb one circuit later. The
front five would remain the same until the next caution flag waved on lap 37
when Jason Keltner would roll his mount to a stop at the top of the track at the
entrance to turn one. After action
resumed, Lee would dog English for the top spot, while Neat pressured Webb for
third when the final caution of the event waved on lap 39 for a spin by Todd
Coffman. When the green flag waved
for the final time, English and Lee resumed their battle, while Neat would drive
past Webb for third. Linville would
make his way back into the top five past Wheeler on lap 41.
The next few circuits would see Lee drop back a bit and then mount one
last charge on lap 46. As English
would change his line to protect the bottom of the race surface, Lee would pedal
his mount upstairs to the high side as the white flag was displayed.
Lee would pull alongside English off of turn two and the duo raced
side-by-side into turn three, with Lee able to pull past English exiting turn
four and taking the win by a half-car length, with Neat, Webb, and Linville
completing the top five. Lee
would take the win in the seat of the Steve West and Gary Craig owned Quality
Pawn/Advance Auto Parts/Kentucky’s Best Racing/ West Towing/Corder’s
Competition Engines/American Racer Tires sponsored #55 C.J. Rayburn Race Cars,
Corder’s Competition Engines powered machine.
The remainder of the top ten would be 17th starting Duane
Chamberlain, Tanner English, Johnny Wheeler, 18th starting Jeff
Watson, and Todd Coffman. In
preliminary action, David Webb was the Racing Optics Top Qualifier among 22
entries with a lap of 14.877 seconds. Heat
race checkered flags went to Webb in Wayne Bowen Racing Supply heat one, Wheeler
in Graphic Impressions heat two, and
Jason Keltner in C.J. Rayburn Race Cars heat three.
The
15 lap WBRT 1320-AM Sportsman main event would see Pat Hagan outduel Avral
Thompson and the start of the event and ride on to grab his sixth feature event
win in the division for the season. Hagan’s
win came aboard the Billy Holbert owned Willard’s Heating and Air/New Haven
NAPA/New Haven Car Wash/New Haven Quick Stop/Holbert Auto Recovery sponsored #88
Chevy Monte Carlo. Thompson would
finish in second, with third through fifth being scored by Robbie Settles, Barry
Chesser, and Rob Jones. The
remainder of the finishing order would be Sam Mull, Joe Dunbar, Jimmy Bryan, and
Tim Cummings. Thompson would be top
qualifier among 10 entries, with Hagan also winning the dash, while Mull would
claim the heat win.
In
the Modified main event, it would be the Jason Wheatley show as Wheatley would
take the lead at the onset of the 20 lap open-wheel feature event would never be
headed in scoring his fourth feature win of the season at Bluegrass in the
Kaylee and Tommy Wheatley owned B&W Metals/VFM Manufacturing/Wheatley Tile
Flooring/Wheatley Seamless Gutters/Wheatley Auto Sales/Brian Wheatley
Landscaping/Cozy Corner/Rosewood Golf Course/Gootee and Mattingly Heat and
Air/Central Kentucky Electric and Plumbing/Brady Excavating/St. Joe Garage/Wayne
Bowen Racing Supply/Knopp Siding sponsored #7 Larry Shaw Race Cars, Mullins Race
Engines powered mount. Dion
Benningfield would win a battle with Benji Lee over the final few laps for the
second spot, with Randy Turpin and Joe Gray completing the top five.
Rounding out the top ten would be Adam Cole, Rocky Wilson, Brad Schlosser,
Tommy Carlton, and Sam Huffer.
SUMMARY-Bluegrass
Speedway-Bardstown, KY-August 1, 2009
O’Reilly
Battle of the Bluegrass Super Late Models (22 entries)
Racing
Optics Top Qualifier- David Webb 14.877
Wayne
Bowen Racing Supply Heat #1- David Webb, Dustin Linville, Mike Marlar, Aaron
Hatton, Lee Devasier, Bobby Wolter, Jr., Jerry Rutherford, Terry Keltner
Graphic
Impressions Heat #2- Johnny Wheeler, Terry English, Victor Lee, Tanner English,
Justin Rattliff, Duane Chamberlain, Michael Chilton
C.J.
Rayburn Race Cars Heat #3- Jason Keltner, Tim Tungate, Dustin Neat, Todd Coffman,
Larry Greer, Jeff Watson, Ed Behn
11th
Annual Bluegrass 50 REAL Racing Wheels A-Main- Victor Lee, Terry English, Dustin
Neat, David Webb, Dustin Linville, Duane Chamberlain, Tanner English, Johnny
Wheeler, Jeff Watson, Todd Coffman, Lee Devasier, Tim Tungate, Ed Behn, Mike
Marlar, Jason Keltner, Jerry Rutherford, Michael Chilton, Justin Rattliff, Aaron
Hatton, Bobby Wolter, Jr., Larry Greer (DQ-Terry Keltner)
WBRT
1320-AM Sportsman (10 entries)
Top
Qualifier- Avral Thompson
Dash-
Pat Hagan, Avral Thompson, Rob Jones, Robbie Settles, Jimmy Bryan, Barry Chesser
Heat-
Sam Mull, Joe Dunbar, Tim Cummings, Elton Martin
Feature-
Pat Hagan, Avral Thompson, Robbie Settles, Barry Chesser, Rob Jones, Sam Mull,
Joe Dunbar, Jimmy Bryan, Tim Cummings (DNS- Elton Martin)
Modifieds
(14 entries)
1st
Heat- Jason Wheatley, Randy Turpin, Dion Benningfield, Benji Lee
2nd
Heat- Joe Gray, Brad Schlosser, Randall Basham, Sam Huffer
Feature-
Jason Wheatley, Dion Benningfield, Benji Lee, Randy Turpin, Joe Gray, Adam Cole,
Rocky Wilson, Brad Schlosser, Tommy Carlton, Sam Huffer, Matt Watkins (DNS- Gary
Parks, Michael England, Randall Basham)