Bluegrass
Speedway
2221
New Haven Road
Bardstown,
Kentucky 40004
2008
Official Media Release #32 (For Immediate Distribution: July 5, 2008)
Prince
and Stith Tops on 5th Annual Topless Terror Night at Bluegrass
Speedway
Bardstown,
KY-July 5, 2008- It was 5th Annual Topless Terror Night at Bluegrass
Speedway on Saturday night, with the 44 Auto Mart Super Late Models and Kentucky
Cooperage Modifieds racing with the roofs removed from the cars and Tim Prince
of Heltonville, IN would pick his first ever 44 Auto Mart Super Late Model
feature win at Bluegrass Speedway and Jeff Stith of Louisville, KY would score
his first event Kentucky Cooperage Modified feature victory.
Other feature winners included Pat Hagan of New Haven, KY in WBRT 1320-AM
Sportsman action and Jason Priddy of Weasetown, KY in Street Stock action.
Johnny
Wheeler would jump to the lead at the start of the 44 Auto Mart Super Late Model
feature, followed by Dustin Neat, Bryant Woodcock, Tim Prince, and Greg Johnson.
Prince would take third on lap 3, with Jacob Webber coming to fourth.
Johnson would take fourth on lap 4, moving Webber back a spot.
As Wheeler began to stretch his lead, Lee Devasier would charge into the
top five on lap 6. By lap 10, Neat
would begin to close in on Wheeler, but Wheeler would pull away again by the
halfway mark of the race. Things
would get hairy beginning on lap 16 when Devasier would explode a right rear
tire exiting turn four and Jeff Watson would get crossed up and jump over the
barrier tires on the inside of the frontchute and go airborne momentarily, with
caution flying for Devasier’s shredded tire.
Both Devasier, Watson, and Webber would pit with flat tires and return.
The restart would be called back when Watson hit the restart cone in turn
four, with Watson then pulling to the infield with smoke coming from his
machine. Wheeler would lead one
more circuit, but would be the cause of the next caution when his mount slowed
in turn two and would be pushed back to the pit area.
This would put Dustin Neat on the point and the restart would go only one
more circuit when mechanical gremlins would strike Devasier, who would stop in
turn one and after getting crossed up and would be pushed pitside.
Neat would then lead until lap 22 when his mount suffered a flat tire to
draw the final caution of the race, with Neat getting fresh rubber and
returning. Prince would now assume
the top spot and would lead the final four circuits to pick up the feature
victory in his Brad’s Brass Flamingo/Andis Logging/Lineal Contracting/Sell 4
Free/Prince’s Excavating/Vanhorn Graphics/Late Nites sponsored #P1 C.J.
Rayburn Race Cars, Spec Race Engines powered mount.
Johnson would take runner-up honors, with recovering for third, while
Webber would finish fourth, with Devasier being credited with fifth.
The
Kentucky Cooperage Modified main event would see Joe Gray lead the first five
laps before suffering suspension damage and contacting the frontchute concrete
wall, ending his night. This would
put Josh Lucas on the point of the race and he, Jeff Stith, and Benji Lee would
settle into an outstanding battle for the race lead, only to stopped by a slowed
Robbie Gullion on the backchute on lap 13.
The restart would definitely see business pick back up at the point and
Lucas, Lee, and Stith would battle three-wide for the top spot, with Stith
coming out of the middle of that battle in turn two on lap 14 to claim the top
spot. The final caution of this
event flew on lap 18 when Jason Wheatley rolled his unit to a stop in turn
three. The restart would see Stith
hold off the charges of Lee over the final three laps to score his first-ever
dirt victory as the former asphalt specialist drove his Pain Management/KY
Clutch/Stith Motorsports sponsored #94 Dirt Works Chassis, Stith Race Engines
powered machine to victory lane. Lee
would finish second, while Lucas would nip Randy Turpin for the third position,
with Freddy Garmon completing the top five.
In
the WBRT 1320-AM Sportsman feature event, it would be the Pat Hagan and Roger
Cecil show as this pair would run away from the rest of the field and settle the
issue among themselves. Cecil would
show Hagan the nose beneath Hagan on several occasions, but it would be Hagan
holding Cecil at bay to capture his third Sportsman feature victory of the
season at Bluegrass Speedway in the Billy Holbert owned, Century 21/New Haven
Car Wash/New Haven NAPA/New Haven Quik Stop/Holbert Record Setters sponsored #88
Chevy Monte Carlo. Cecil would
claim second, with Rob Jones taking third, with Avral Thompson fourth, and Elton
Martin rounding out the top five.
The
Street Stock feature would see Brad Leake lead lap one, only to surrender the
position to Willie Edelen on lap 2, with Edelen holding the top spot until lap
7, when Jason Priddy would drive past Edelen for the lead.
The pass by Priddy would turn out to be the winning move in the race as
Priddy would drive away from the field to pick up his second Street Stock win of
the season. Priddy’s #11 Chevy
Impala is sponsored by the Wells Family and Wease Logging.
Robbie Settles would take a runner-up finish, with Johnny Cecil coming
home third. The remainder of the
top five would be Jason Bartley and Shane Lafollette.
SUMMARY-Bluegrass
Speedway-Bardstown, Kentucky-July 5, 2008
44
Auto Mart Super Late Models
(9 entries)
Top
Qualifier- Tim Prince
Dash-
Bryant Woodcock, Johnny Wheeler, Tim Prince, Dustin Neat, Lee Devasier, Greg
Johnson
Heat-
Jeff Watson, Jacob Webber, Kevin Colston
Feature-
Tim Prince, Greg Johnson, Dustin Neat, Jacob Webber, Lee Devasier, Johnny
Wheeler, Jeff Watson, Kevin Colston, Bryant Woodcock
Kentucky
Cooperage Modifieds
(13 entries)
Top
Qualifier- Benji Lee
Dash-
Joe Gray, Josh Lucas, Benji Lee, Jeff Stith, Randy Turpin, Dion Benningfield
Heat-
Freddy Garmon, Jason Wheatley, Robbie Gullion, Timmy Glazer
Feature-
Jeff Stith, Benji Lee, Josh Lucas, Randy Turpin, Freddy Garmon, Robbie Gullion,
Johnny Lee, Timmy Glazer, Jason Wheatley, Joe Gray (DNS- Dion Benningfield,
Trent Green, Andy Mefford)
WBRT
1320-AM Sportsman
(11 entries)
1st
Heat- Pat Hagan, Rob Jones, Roger Cecil, Paul Lewis, Sr.
2nd
Heat- Daroyl Samples, Grady Moore, Jr., Lois Campbell, Avral Thompson
Feature-
Pat Hagan, Roger Cecil, Rob Jones, Avral Thompson, Elton Martin, Lois Campbell,
Matt Lewis, Paul Lewis, Sr., Grady Moore, Jr., Daroyl Samples (DNS- Eric Pollard)
Street
Stocks
(11 entries)
1st
Heat- Brad Leake, Willie Edelen, Terry Greenwell, Jason Bartley
2nd
Heat- Jason Priddy, Robbie Settles, Shane Lafollette, Johnny Cecil