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410s (14 Cars)

Welcome Mat
Scott Winters and Justin Henderson back in the DeWall 16

MIA
Marlon Jones, Bronson Maeschen, Billy Alley, Ryan Bickett

VIP
Turn 1 again with the usual suspects in LDA24's family.

Time Trials (1 lap each)
Jake Peters (9^th out) set quick time for the 2^nd time of the year with a time of 10.751. Scott Winters was 2^nd quick with a 10.866 lap. The top 6 cars broke into the teens. All cars made the heat inversion as well. The rest of the order: Mark Dobmeier, Justin Henderson, Gregg Bakker, Chad Meyer, Johnn Cressman, John Lambertz, Wade Nygaard, Gordy Vogelaar, Mitch Runge, Chuck McGillivray, Jody Rosenboom, and Dusty Ballenger.

Time Trials Grade: A-; qualifications are actually starting to be pretty entertaining to watch with about 6-8 cars that can go out and drop quick time on any night.

Heats (Top 7 Inverted from TT, All to the A, Top 5 Inverted to the A)
Heat 1 Starting Order: 8 Laps

Heat 1 Finish: 13 57x 28 6 11x/ 4 56

Heat 1 Notes: Rosenboom was very tardy on the start giving the lead to Runge on the get go. The outside row was able to move up nicely due to the bad start of the #6 and Cressman was coming after Runge. He would take the lead on the third lap but a caution would come out a lap later for the 56 as he came to a stop with ignition woes. Dobmeier would dispose of Runge, who had the restart lead, and check out for his 2^nd heat win of the year. Peters moved up very nicely as well coming from last to 2^nd.

Heat 2 Starting Order: Laps

Heat 2 Finish: 2D D1 12L 101 23w/ 33 1w

Heat 2 Notes: Ballenger took off with the initial lead as Henderson moved up to 2^nd three laps into the heat. A good battle between Winters and Vogelaar ensued for the feature inversion spot with Winters taking it early on and holding on with limited brakes. Ballenger would hold on for his 4^th heat win of the year ahead of Henderson.

Heat Grades: B; the first heat may have been one of the best, if not the best on the year with Dobmeier and Peters moving up very nicely on a narrow track. The 2^nd heat lacked that excitement and that's why the heat grade is where it is.

B Feature (Top 4 Tag the A, 12 Laps)
Starting Order: No B Feature as all cars started the A.

B Feature Grade: N/A

A Feature (25 Laps)
Starting Order: 6 Pill was drawn

Initial start was good with Bakker taking off with the lead ahead of Longhair. Dobmeier quickly moved his way up to 2^nd on the third lap with Peters following him step-and-step. A caution on lap 7 was thrown for Henderson, who was getting passed for 5^th, when a fuel line broke on the car and he was done for the night.

The restart saw Bakker leading Dobmeier, Lambertz, Peters, and Winters to the green. Bakker would go high into turn 1 leaving the door open for Dobmeier coming off the bottom in turn 2. Dobs would give Bakker a patented slidejob in turn 3 while Bakker came roaring off the bottom with a crossover move. Bakker tried to slide Dobs back on the next lap in turn 1 but just came up a little bit short, handing the race over to the Lunstra/Dobmeier 13 team.

A caution occurred on lap 8 for Runge and Nygaard getting together down the backstretch. Winters would get not one, but two, flat tires due to bleeder issues under the yellow leaving his crew and others a lot of work to do in the work area. It looked like the 23w was going to get back out for the race but was never pushed off by the push truck in time and they'd be done for the night along with Nygaard and Runge.

A hot laps session occurred for the top 3 the rest of the way for those 15 laps with the outcome never in doubt. Dobmeier would sail to win his 7^th feature of the year at Huset's and sweeping the weekend with a win last night at Knoxville. It was his 27^th career 410 win at the track and also his 18^th 410 win of the year. There's no doubt he'll break 20 before the years over. Bakker led laps 1-6 with Dobmeier leading the rest of the way 7-25.

Finish: 13 11x 57x 12L 1w 2D 33 6 101 23w/ 4 28 D1 56

A Feature Grade: C; it could have been a dandy had Bakker landed the returned slider on Dobmeier, but it wasn't going to be that way. Pretty boring feature after that as only 8 cars crossed the line at the checkers.

360s (21 Cars, 18 Laps)
Dustin Evink took off with the lead early on, but was run down by Eric McGillivray on the 5^th lap in the nonstop 18 lap affair. Robby Wolfgang moved up to 2^nd with 4 laps to and was able to hold off Casey Abbas for the position for a very solid runner-up finish. Jody Rosenboom would finish 4^th with a pass coming off of turn 4 at the checker on Trisha Underberg. Abbas and Rosenboom both came from the 6^th row. Evink led laps 1-4 while McGillivray led 5-18.

360 Finish: 35 1 17v 27 11 21v 12 10 76 24/ 4 17 17B 11K 3D E85 21 1z

FOAW: We might as well just name the whole award after Dobmeier, but we'd have to re-arrange the lettering as he is a "Current Outlaw Ass Whipper" with that one win under his belt. Robby Wolfgang also looked impressive this week with that runner-up finish.

Crowd Pleasing Moment #1: Having Hot Rod and Huset's put on a fundraiser for Jeff Shepard. Hot Rod gave all the profits from the Hoseheads Radio shirts that were sold tonight to the Shepard fund for the transportation of him back to Balitmore. I haven't seen a final number yet but I'm guessing it was close to a grand. Thanks to Hot Rod for doing this for Shepard family, very classy move.

Crowd Pleasing Moment #2: Starting the night off with the fast national anthem singer. I remember from the Super Bowl the over/under from Vegas of how long it would take was 1 minute 50 seconds. So The Report decides to time this guy and he finishes her up in just over 52 seconds. That guy knows how to put smile on people's faces even though there was no scream at the end this time.

WTF: What in the hell was going on with Henderson hopping in the 16 car of DeWall's tonight. I'm just going to say it was very suspicious to see two drivers in one pit stall with driver suits on deciding on whose going to drive the car. VIP had quite the chuckle as to reasonable explanations as to what was really going on.

"Home of the Professionals" Moment of the Night: C'mon, no mention of the "buddy boy" quote from a week ago. No way that it shouldn't be said at least once a night for the remainder of the year.

Mulligan Moment: Its going to myself again. The Report has come to the conclusion that when the 23w has had bad luck this season that it isn't because of the infamous Wertz Designs jinx of when he sponsors a car. It comes when I'm in attendance, there's a 75% chance of something going wrong with the car. I'm sorry Scott and the entire 23w team, but there's not much I can do!

Head Scratcher: Cressman's just having horrible luck on the year. He was checked out in the heat until ignition issues came to bring his night to an end. He would have been on the pole for the feature as well had he been able to hang on in the heat.

Thumbs Up: To the races being over at 9:20 tonight. No cars would get upside down tonight and that is always a plus. The only downside to the races being over so early were…

Thumbs Down: .. the lowest car count of the year with 14 cars. When the count is that low, there aren't that many races resulting in races getting over very early. The dog days of summer must really be hitting the local racers as this was the 19^th 410 event of the year at the track.

Prime Mover: Meyer was the hard charger passing 8 cars by moving from 13^th to 5^th, even though that came as a result of attrition of the cars that DNF'd.

Trophy Queen Grade: Hey here we go, something positive to talk about. Two new girls in victory lane and nothing to complain about either with how good they looked. I won't mind having these two back in the future.

Closing Stat of the Night: Still can't get over the fact that Dobmeier has 18 410 feature wins on the year. I don't know if there's anything official on it, but I'm guessing that's up in the top 2 in the nation for wins. The guy is the real deal, but lets see him do it from 5+ rows back like McCarl always had to do!

Final Thought: The Report will likely be off next week as school is kicking off and there will be a "few activities" going on down there. The next Report will probably come at the WoO show at Spencer, followed by the Season Championship that Sunday at Huset's. Until then, you stay classy San Diego.

BIG J

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

Thanks for the report! Just curious about Henderson, you posted he was in the DeWall 16 at first but the results say D1, wondering which car he was in? Also nice to see Dobmeier won K'ville Saturday. Keep up the great reports, look forward to reading them every Sunday! (Monday morning...)

Fenders are like vacuums... they both suck.

Henderson was in Gary Dewalls #16 car but they put tape over it and ran it as number D1...it was a very very last minute thing...

I saw Gary DeWall in the pits in his racing suit prior to the heat races. It definitely looked like a last minute deal.

Henderson and his dad must have been going car to car begging people to let him drive the way it sounds...that is sad.

ya i feel bad for him he was actually having a really good year too...

yea what kind of deal would you have to make to drive another guys car

Big J: I like the thumbs up / thumbs down addition-nice touch.

I thought that was pretty weird last night seeing both Henderson and DeWall in the same pit wearing their suits. It looked like neither one of them knew who was driving. Did I miss something, what happened to the D1 and Dan Dan The Sonic Man?

Wing Slider

Justin was in the pit area helping Jody with his car. Gary asked Justin if he would like to drive his car, being a racer of course Justin said he would love to. He didn't have a suit at the track so Gary got dressed in case his suit didn't come in time for hot laps. It was very nice of him to let us run his car and Justin thanks him kindly. There was no "begging" involved and anyone that knows anything would know why Gary let Justin drive. As far as the rest of the season, he will finish Knoxville in the 17G car next saturday night and he is flying out of Sioux Falls on Sunday morning to race the Steve Miller owned 22z car in PA for at least the next month. He looks forward to racing against some of the toughest local drivers in the country. There is talk going on regarding finishing the season at the WoO finale at Lowes in November, however nothing has been set in stone. Please visit Justinhenderson.com for all the updates.

Thanks,

Heather

Heather

A roving VIP section of 4 ......... Only at Husets...

The push truck wasnt the reason that the 23W didnt get back out.

Thanks for the inside scoop Mrs H. Its nice to know the real story instead of speculation and innuendo

. My guess is Justin is approachable about answering

questions about how things came about, but "the report" chose the low road.

Good luck out East.

"the report" chose the low road.........Gee, what are the chances of that happening??

14 cars. Yeesh......

C'mon Mrs. H, why the facts when these clowns can speculate in their reports from the cheap seats?

LOL

Good luck in the 22z Justin...

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So Justin is posse now? Cool.

News Flash, Posse finishes top ten at Knoxville Nationals!! I can see it now! LOL

going on the word of a popular announcer (top 5 driver in the country)...we should see podium finishes every night on posse soil...unless of course...the myth remains a myth.

we can always use another car out there, just keep it off the fence this time - racing the 22z this weekend?

Lincoln 1845 ft/.35 mile T1=118MPH 
Eldora 2287 ft/.43mile T3=135MPH
Port 2716 ft/.51 mile T3=TBD
Grove 2792 ft/.53 mile T3=135MPH
Selinsgrove 2847 ft/.54 mile T1=136MPH
"I didn't move to PA from El Paso in search of better 
weather." Van May

I love the report just for the fact it brings out the BABIES of the board... Seriously, if it pisses you off so much dont read it(BILL), or for that matter you are ALWAYS welcome to the VIP to express your opinions...