Woodhull Raceway Results 8/17/02
The gates at Woodhull Raceway opened to a typical hot August night Saturday the 17th. The stands were full of fans looking forward to watching the S & W Imaging sponsored regular five star show and the R & M Home and Auto Amsoil sponsored Late Model Reunion.
Now for the heat heat wins we will start with the results for the 358 Modifieds: 1) #12 Billy VanPelt, 2) #17 Lyle Sherwood, and 3) #15 Stacy Jackson.
The Late Model heat wins went to 1) #Z1 Mike Wonderling and 2) #83 Tim Hoffman.
The Super Stock heat winners were 1) #11 Mike Hilfiger and 2) #5K Kenny Peoples, Sr.
Heat wins in the IMCA class went to 1) #X Larry Robbins and 2) #11 John Waters.
Heat winners in the Street Stock class were 1) #52 Todd Burgess, 2) #35 David Gee, and 3) #6 Lyle Smith.
And heat winners for the Mini Stocks were 1) #0 Kevin Erdmann, 2) #43 Kris Kester, and 3) #28 Todd Stone.
The Late Models did an eight lap Race of Champions which #32 Jeff Hoffman won. This was not an easy win for Jeff though. On lap number seven the caution flag came out. With one lap left Jeff had to fight it out with the #04 Bob Close. It was a battle all the way to the checkered flag.
The excitement kept rising as the 358 Modifieds and the Late Models had a Dash for Cash. The race consisted of six cars, the top three cars in points for each class. Racing for the 358 Modifieds #17 Lyle Sherwood, #12 Billy VanPelt, and #Z8 Steve Hartman. Racing for the Late Models #32 Jeff Hoffman, #61T Kenny Trevitz, and #04 Bob Close.
It was a close race all the way to the finish as #12 Billy VanPelt crossed the line first.
Things seemed to move along quickly through the night, even with all of the extra races as there were not a lot of cautions in the features. Most of the features finished with only one or two cautions, not bad.
So, we’ll wrap things up for this week with our feature winners.
The 358 Modified 25 lap feature results were #17 Lyle Sherwood; #12 Billy VanPelt; #15 Stacy Jackson; #Z8 Steve Hartman; #61 Steve Kio; #7 Larry Doolittle; #18L Donny Lawson, Jr; #7H Alex Hoag; #1A Fred Amann; #37 Tom Kio; #88M Mike Jackson; #28 Dylan Dewert; #18 Don Lawson; #1 John Moravec; #19 Dave Yehl; #13 Kevin Chilson; #18X Steve Mullen; #12B ?; #9 Steve Kirk; #2 Frank Dunning; and #08 Larry Heffner.
The 30 lap Late Model feature winner was #Z1 Mike Wonderling. Mike is a first time winner at Woodhull Raceway!
In the 20 lap Super Stock feature the results were #77M Mike Smith; #61 Bill Williams; #2 Mark Costa; #41 Chris Hancock; #14 ?; #87 Scott Brown; #39 Mike Carapella; #67 Rich Marlatt; #11 Mike Hilfiger; #77 Bob Luberts; #04 Joe Buck; #31 Mick Seeley; #4 Larry Knowles; #25 Scott Dennison; #99 ?; #22 Kyle Lefelhoc; #5K Kenny Peoples, Sr.; #13 Brett Flint; #96 Darren Horton; #11J Jay Demming; and #9Joe Duell.
The 20 lap IMCA feature winner was #2 Bobby Davis taking his fifth win this year. The rest of the field was as follows: #11 Greg Galligan; #X Larry Robbins; #59 Earl Harp; #91 Steve Williams; #31 Geg Crooker; #13 Ray Brol; #3 Clayton McLean; #5 Jeff Johnson; #22 Willie Rice; and 11W ?.
The Street Stocks were racing four wide in their 20 feature. The results were #55 Ken Thomas; #35 Dave Gee; #23 Cliff Moss; #52 Todd Burgess; #40 Jeff Smith; #29 Chuck Pruden; #94 Dave Davis; #66 Dan Gordan; #59 Geoff McNally; #72 Joe Nobriga; #96 ?; #1H Randy Hilfiger; #6 Lyle Smith; #53 Butch Diblle; #13 Gene Galligan; #48 Gary Archer; #5 Henry Miracle; #2 ?; #3 Bob Clark; #8 Bill Shea; #32 Dennis Root; #7 Jerry Buckley; #15 Lance Baker; #91 Mike Williams; #30 Dave Morter; and #38 ?.
Finishing up the night with their 20 lap feature were the Mini Stocks. Taking his second win in a row was #57 Chad Dickerson holding off a late race charge by #1 Joe Povoski; #28 Todd Stone; #43 Kris Kester; #21 ?; #46 Brian Grant; #5K Kenny Peoples, Jr.; #21X Ray Hyer; #38 Chuck Leasure; #31 ?; #27 Ryan Davenport; #86 Kevin Young; #0 Kevin Erdmann; #8 Ed Crawford; #84 Josh Mills; #5 Josh Dibble; #11 ?; # 17 Dave Kurtz; #47 Dave Burdick; #84X Donnie Potter; #67 Rich Loucks; #52 ?; and #3 Derrick Nichols.
That does it for this week. Next Saturday will be the NAPA sponsored season championship.