Bluegrass Speedway

2221 New Haven Road

Bardstown, Kentucky  40004

2008 Official Release #58 (For Immediate Release: September 20, 2008)

“The Jet” Flies to Kentucky’s Best Racing Bluegrass 50 Win at Bluegrass Speedway                       

Bardstown, KY-September 20, 2008- The O’Reilly Battle of the Bluegrass DirtCar Series presented by Graphic Impressions concluded its 2008 racing season on Saturday evening at Bluegrass Speedway and Jason Keltner of Campbellsville, KY would claim his biggest career win to date in the 10^th Annual Kentucky’s Best Racing Bluegrass 50.  In other action, Roger Cecil of Bardstown, KY would make it five straight wins in the WBRT 1320-AM Sportsman division and Justin Trinkle of Jeffersonville, IN would win his first Street Stock feature of the season.             

With the cameras of Outdoor Channel taping the action, Jason Keltner would take the lead at the start of the 50 lap, 25 mile chase, followed by Dustin Neat, Terry English, Tim Tungate, and Audie McWilliams.  Joey Kramer would take fifth on lap 2, with Mike Marlar taking fifth from Kramer one tour later on lap 3.  Marlar would driver past Tungate off of turn two on lap 4, while Neat and English battled for second.  Kramer would reclaim a spot in the top five on lap 6, with Neat and English still contesting second in side-by-side action.  With Neat and English continuing to battle for second, Keltner would begin the lapping process on lap 13, as Tungate and Tyrel Todd went at it for the fifth position.  Kramer would around Tungate and Todd in three-wide action on lap 15, with Marlar closing in on the second place battle between Neat and English.  Marlar would catch and pass English for third on lap 17 as Keltner continued his torrid pace at the point, working in and out of traffic.  Kramer would take fourth from English one circuit later as Keltner would make a split of Eric Wells and D.J. Wells in heavy traffic.  Lap 19 would Marlar continue his charge as he would score the runner-up slot from Neat, with Todd finally winning the battle for sixth from Tungate. As the front four remained the same, Todd inched his way forward into fourth on lap 28, but the first caution of the event would fly on lap 29 when second place running Marlar slowed in turn one with a flat right-rear tire, with fellow top five runner Terry English also pulling to the hot pit with a flat right rear tire.  The attempted restart would result in disaster in chaos as contact in turn two resulted in a six car pileup that would later turn into a red flag as Tungate would get sideways and bounced around, with Larry Gray’s mount also being contacted, resulting in a small fire, with the mounts of David Webb, English, Marlar, and Royce McGowan also involved and all six drivers would be finished for the evening.  The next attempted restart would see Aaron Hatton go into the spin cycle and Bryant Woodcock would impact Hatton, with Hatton pulling pitside with a flat left rear tire and not returning.  The next restart would also be for naught as contact in turn one would result in Tyrel Todd spinning his unit and being contacted by Audie McWilliams and Woodcock, with Todd and McWilliams done for the night.  Series officials would go to a single-file restart and action would resume, with Keltner still on the point, followed now by Dustin Neat, Brad Neat, Joey Kramer, and Eddie Carrier, Jr.  Carrier, Jr. would grab the fourth spot from Kramer on lap 31 while Keltner again began to pull away from the field, with the battle for second heating up between brothers Dustin Neat and Brad Neat.  Jordan Bland would move into top five past Kramer on lap 36 as the Neat brothers continued to battle for second. 

By lap 40, Keltner was again in traffic, but had opened almost a full straightaway lead over second, as Dustin Neat had secured the runner-up slot at this point.  As the field saw the five lap to go signal, Keltner would have opened almost a half-track lead over Dustin Neat, while Bland attempted to fend off the challenges of Victor Lee for fifth.  The front five would remain the same over the final five trips, with Keltner scoring the victory aboard the Jeff and Eddie Harrod owned Harrod Brothers Farms/Perry’s Auto Sales/Colston Paving/Central Painting sponsored Rocket Chassis, powered by a Jay Dickens Race Engine over Dustin Neat, Brad Neat, Eddie Carrier, Jr., and Jordan Bland.  The remainder of the top ten at the finish of the 10^th Annual Kentucky’s Best Racing Bluegrass 50 would be Victor Lee, Dustin Linville, Joey Kramer, Zach Carney, and Eric Wells.  The remainder of the top ten at the finish would be Victor Lee, Dustin Linville, Joey Kramer, Zach Carney, and Eric Wells.  In preliminary action, Brad Neat was the Racing Optics Top Qualifier among 32 entries with a lap of 13.666 seconds.  Heat race checkered flags went to Keltner in Wayne Bowen Racing Supply heat one, Dustin Neat in K&N Performance Engineering heat two, Audie McWilliams in Graphic Impressions heat three, and Tim Tungate in Real Racing Wheels heat four.  Victor Lee and Dustin Linville would win the B-Main events, while Zach Carney and Shannon Thornsberry earned series provisional starts, with the track provisional going to Bryant Woodcock.           

Roger Cecil would take the lead from his outside front row starting position and lead all 15 laps of the WBRT 1320-AM Sportsman feature event, making it five straight wins and six in the last seven tries.  Cecil would score the victory aboard his 44 Auto Mart/First Financial Credit/El Jimador Restaurant/M&M Get-N-Go/Cecil Trucking/RER Concrete sponsored Powerhouse Race Cars, Dale Meers powered Chevy Monte Carlo.  Rob Jones would take runner-up honors for the evening, followed by Elton Martin, Vernon Soeder, and Sam Mull in the top five.  Rounding out the field would be Paul Lewis, Jr., Joe Dunbar, Avral Thompson, Lois Campbell, and Sam Huffer.  Cecil would set quick time and Jones won the dash, with Mull winning the heat.

The Street Stock feature event would see Willie Edelen lead 11 of the first 12 laps, but Justin Trinkle would work beneath Edelen in turn three on the final lap, with contact between the pair resulting in Trinkle taking the checkered flag first aboard the Rob Jones owned, Bob Jones Motorsports/Rapid Fire Motorsports/Bryan’s Locksmith/JMS Racing Services sponsored #7 Chevy Impala.  Edelen would hang for second with a flat right rear tire, while the remainder of the top five would be Jason Priddy, Shane Lafollette, and Terry Greenwell.  Completing the top ten were Juwana Haycraft, Freddy Mercer, Brad Leake, Bryan Derringer, and Nick Wallace.  Heat race wins fell to Trinkle and Edelen.

SUMMARY-Bluegrass Speedway-Bardstown, Kentucky-September 20, 2008

O’Reilly Battle of the Bluegrass DirtCar Series Super Late Models- 32 entries

Racing Optics Top Qualifier- Brad Neat 14.757     

Wayne Bowen Racing Supply Heat #1(Top 4 Advance)- Jason Keltner, Terry English, D.J. Wells, Tyrel Todd, Brandon Fouts, Bryant Woodcock, Jesse Lay, Brad Neat  

K&N Peformance Engineering Heat #2 (Top 4 Advance)- Dustin Neat, Mike Marlar, Joey Kramer, David Webb, Victor Lee, Dusty Carver, Doodle Farris (DNS- Bob Lanter)          

Graphic Impressions Heat #3 (Top 4 Advance)- Audie McWilliams, Aaron Hatton, Larry Gray, Royce McGowan, Shannon Thornsberry, Chris Combs, Rick Combs, Larry Greer                                 

Real Racing Wheels Heat #4 (Top 4 Advance)- Tim Tungate, Jordan Bland, Eric Wells, Eddie Carrier, Jr., Dustin Linville, Lee Devasier, Zach Carney, Tim Brown                   

B-Main #1 (Top 2 Advance)- Victor Lee, Brad Neat, Jesse Lay, Dusty Carver, Brandon Fouts, Doodle Farris, Bryant Woodcock (DNS-Bob Lanter)

B-Main #2 (Top 2 Advance)- Dustin Linville, Chris Combs, Zach Carney, Tim Brown, Rick Combs, Lee Devasier, Shannon Thornsberry (DNS-Larry Greer)  

Series Provisionals- Zach Carney, Shannon Thornsberry

Track Provisional- Bryant Woodcock

10^th Annual Kentucky’s Best Racing Bluegrass 50 O’Reilly A-Main- Jason Keltner, Dustin Neat, Brad Neat, Eddie Carrier, Jr., Jordan Bland, Victor Lee, Dustin Linville, Joey Kramer, Zach Carney, Eric Wells, D.J. Wells, Bryant Woodcock, Audie McWilliams, Tyrel Todd, Aaron Hatton, Terry English, Tim Tungate, David Webb, Royce McGowan, Larry Gray, Mike Marlar, Chris Combs, Shannon Thornsberry

WBRT 1320-AM Sportsman- 10 entries

Top Qualifier- Roger Cecil

Dash- Rob Jones, Roger Cecil, Vernon Soeder, Elton Martin, Sam Huffer, Lois Campbell

Heat- Sam Mull, Paul Lewis, Jr., Joe Dunbar (DNS-Avral Thompson)

Feature- Roger Cecil, Rob Jones, Elton Martin, Vernon Soeder, Sam Mull, Paul Lewis, Jr., Joe Dunbar, Avral Thompson, Lois Campbell, Sam Huffer

Street Stocks- 13 entries

1^st Heat- Justin Trinkle, Shane Lafollette, Brad Leake, Juwana Haycraft

2^nd Heat- Willie Edelen, Robbie Settles, Jason Priddy, Freddy Mercer

Feature- Justin Trinkle, Willie Edelen, Jason Priddy, Shane Lafollette, Terry Greenwell, Juwana Haycraft, Freddy Mercer, Brad Leake, Bryan Derringer, Nick Wallace, Jason Bartley, Robbie Settles (DNS-Joe Walker)