This summons is being served to let it be known to all the people across the land. Including the Kings, Queens and their Courts, The Emperors, Dukes, Nobles, Knights, Marquis', Earls, Counts and Pages, when the checkered flag falls and the dust settles on July 14th, in the year of our Lord 2007, a man will have conquered what only 12 other men have accomplished. After he has been crowned by the High Priest, history will have been made and from that day forth, he shall be known as the Racing King of all Kings!
A reserved seat was $26.
Defending King-Donnie Kreitz Jr. was testing the waters in NASCAR North Stock Car Series.
Haudenschild will drive the Gary Stanton No. 40, as Haud's regular ride, the Ted Lee No. 2 Sprint is sitting idle with only aluminum engine blocks. Per King's Royal rules, cast iron engine only.
Ron Shuman will step into Indiana’s Gary Runyon No. 7 Sprint Car, as the Casey Luna No. 10 team is also without a cast iron engine. Shuman would also take the Runyon wheel at Knoxville a few weeks later.
Corrections and additional information is necessary for historical accuracy, so please let me know what needs to be righted.
1987 King’s Royal IV
Eldora Speedway, Rossburg, Ohio
Saturday, July 25th
Previous King’s Royal Winners:
1984-Steve Kinser 1985-Doug Wolfgang 1986-Donnie Kreitz Jr.
Qualifications:
1. Brad Doty, Marks-Kepler 18, 15.164; 2. Bobby Allen, Allen 1A, 15.172; 3. Kenny Jacobs, Hammond 56, 15.193; 4. Steve Kinser, Kinser 11, 15.217; 5. Doug Wolfgang, Weikert 29, 15.286; 6. Jac Haudenschild, Stanton 40, 15.296; 7. Bobby Davis Jr., Morgan 6, 15.373; 8. Jack Hewitt, Hampshire 63, 15.401; 9. Keith Kauffman, Morral 880, 15.413; 10. Jim Wohlfiel, Wohlfiel 3W, 15.454; 11. Mark Kinser, Nott 48, 15.472; 12. Danny Smith, Rule 5X, 15.497; 13. Rick Hood, Rone 5, 15.531; 14. Frankie Kerr, Lawrence K54, 15.538; 15. Fred Linder, Chupp 7C, 15.586; 16. Steve Butler, Poor 1B, 15.611; 17. Ron Shuman, Runyon 7R, 15.649; 18. Sammy Swindell, Beadle 1, 15.790; 19. Ed Lynch Jr., Lynch 2, 15.840; 20. Ron Milton, Milton 8, 15.863; 21. Joe Gaerte, Gaerte 3G, 15.884; 22. Cris Eash, Eash 17E, 15.894, 23. Rick Ungar, Wimmer 7TW, 15.927; 24. Tim Gee, Gee 88, 15.951; 25. Steve Smith Jr., Creasy 19, 16.003; 26. Rodney Duncan, Duncan 22, 16.033; 27. Art Wendt, Wendt 77, 16.073; 28. Kelly Kinser, Strohpaul 20, 16.099; 29. Tim Allison, Nott 48A, 16.158; 30. Tray House, Murphy 3T, 16.164; 31. Tony Weyant, Weyant 38, 16.175; 32. Johnny Mackison Jr., Barshinger 65, 16.180; 33. Terry Shepherd, Arnold 40, 16.231; 34. Mike Zeiter, Zeiter 4Z, 16.273; 35. Steve Siegel, Siegel 2S, 16.279; 36. Sheldon Kinser, Kirtley 12, 16.298; 37. Harry Garrett, Ashworth-Garrett 92, 16.327; 38. Mark Slade, Slade 10S, 16.340; 39. Gary Lusk, Lusk 2L, 16.344; 40. Andy Hillenburg (IN), Hoffman 69, 16.362; 41. Jerry Caryer, Caryer 75C, 16.447; 42. Richard Lupo, Rothe 1R, 16.508; 43. Al Schmidt, Schmidt 25S, 16.580; 44. Rod George, Stockdale 4, 16.586; 45. Ron Mullen, Mullen 4X, 16.591; 46. Rich Babcock, Trailblazer 21, 16.651; 47. Robbie Stanley, Stanley 44, 16.665; 48. Mark Christman, Christman 34, 16.720; 49. Robbie Nervo, Nervo 21N, 16.848; 50. Jeff Donelson, Donelson 2D, 16.906; 51. Terry Pletch, Pletch 14, 17.197; 52. George Streaker, Streaker 86, 17.312.
First Heat Race (8 Laps)
1. Rodney Duncan, 2. Johnny Mackison Jr., 3. Rick Hood, 4. Bobby Davis Jr., 5. Brad Doty, 6. Ron Milton, 7. Rod George, 8. Mark Slade, 9. Jeff Donelson
Second Heat Race
1. Joe Gaerte, 2. Frankie Kerr, 3. Terry Shepherd, 4. Jack Hewitt, 5. Art Wendt, 6. Bobby Allen, 7. Gary Lusk, 8. Ron Mullen, 9. Terry Pletch
Third Heat Race
1. Keith Kauffman, 2. Kenny Jacobs, 3. Kelly Kinser, 4. Mike Zeiter, 5. Steve Butler, 6. Cris Eash, 7. George Streaker, DNF-8. Rich Babcock, DNF-9. Andy Hillenburg
Babcock flips.
Fourth Heat Race
1. Ron Shuman, 2. Steve Kinser, 3. Steve Siegel, 4. Rick Ungar, 5. Tim Allison, 6. Jim Wohlfiel, 7. Jerry Caryer, 8. Robbie Stanley. DNS-Fred Linder $100.
Fifth Heat Race
1. Doug Wolfgang, 2. Sammy Swindell, 3. Sheldon Kinser, 4. Mark Kinser, 5. Tim Gee, 6. Richard Lupo, 7. Mark Christman, 8. Tray House $100.
House tagged the wall and flipped. He was done for the night.
Sixth Heat Race
1. Jac Haudenschild, 2. Danny Smith, 3. Harry Garrett, 4. Tony Weyant, 5. Steve Smith Jr., 6. Ed Lynch Jr., 7. Robbie Nervo, 8. Al Schmidt
C Feature (8 Laps)
1. Andy Hillenburg $40; 2. Jerry Caryer $35; 3. Mark Slade $30; 4. Robbie Nervo $30; 5. Rod George $100; 6. Gary Lusk $100; 7. Al Schmidt $100; 8. Jeff Donelson $100; 9. Mark Christman $100; 10. Terry Pletch $100; 11. George Streaker $100; 12. Ron Mullen $100; 13. Rich Babcock $100; 14. Robbie Stanley $100. DNS-Fred Linder, DNS-Tray House
B Feature (15 Laps)
1. Jack Hewitt $50; 2. Steve Butler $40; 3. Bobby Davis Jr. $35, 4. Bobby Allen $30; 5. Rick Ungar $400; 6. Brad Doty $300; 7. Mark Kinser $250; 8. Tim Allison $225, 9. Tim Gee $200; 10. Jim Wohlfiel $200; 11. Cris Eash $200; 12. Steve Smith Jr. $200; 13. Mike Zeiter $200; 14. Robbie Nervo $200; 15. Art Wendt $200; 16. Richard Lupo $200; 17. Ron Milton $200; 18. Mark Slade $200; 19. Tony Weyant $200; 20. Ed Lynch Jr. $200; 21. Andy Hillenburg $200; 22. Jerry Caryer $200.
Doty suffers form a flat tire, the Kepler crew was able to change it for him to restart and miss the automatic transfer by 2 spots.
Jac Haudenschild wins his 1st King’s Royal.
4th King’s Royal (40 Laps)
1. Jac Haudenschild [1] $53,180.30; 2. Doug Wolfgang [2] $8,030, 3. Steve Kinser [3] $5,000; 4. Steve Butler [10] $4,000; 5. Brad Doty [23] $3,000; 6. Bobby Allen [5] $2,500, 7. Kelly Kinser [16] $2,000; 8. Joe Gaerte [14] $1,500, 9. Sammy Swindell [13] $1,200; 10. Keith Kauffman [8] $1,000; 11. Johnny Mackison Jr. [18] $1,000; 12. Jim Wohlfiel [22] $1,000; 13. Frankie Kerr [11] $1,000; DNF-14. Ron Shuman [12] $1,000; DNF-15. Steve Siegel [20] $1,000; DNF-16. Rick Hood [10] $1,000; DNF-17. Jack Hewitt [7] $1,000; DNF-18. Kenny Jacobs [4] $1,000; DNF-19. Danny Smith [9] $1,000; DNF-20. Sheldon Kinser [21] $1,000; DNF-21. Bobby Davis Jr. [6] $1,000; DNF-22. Terry Shepherd [19] $1,000; DNF-23. Harry Garrett [22] $1,000; DNF-24. Rodney Duncan [15] $1,000.
Lap leader: Jac Haudenschild 1-40.
Haudenschild takes the lead from the drop of the green holding off S. Kinser for the first 23 laps, at times Kinser had passed him for the lead, but not at the stripe. Lap-1: Duncan ducks pit side with mechanical issue. Lap-7: Garrett is done. Lap-8: Jacobs had been running 4th until a broken wheel ends his night. Lap-11: Shepard is pit side. Lap-16: Davis is done. Lap-22: D. Smith and Sheldon Kinser call it a night. Lap-23: Hewitt and K. Jacobs are done. After restart about Lap-24, Wolfgang takes 2nd from Kinser on that restart. Lap-31: Hood is done. Lap-32: Siegel is out. Lap-33: Shuman done. Lap-38: Kerr and Wohlfiel have gone 2 laps down. Haudenschild held off challenges from S. Kinser and Wolfgang to lead all laps at the line. Lap-40: Kauffman was running 6th when he suffers from a flat tire and slows. Haudenschild puts him a lap down before the checkers. Haudenschild holds off Wolfgang and a slowing Kinser who suffered from late race wheel issues. J.W. Hunt added $3,000 to the winners share as $130.30 was gathered by fans, business folks and others for the richest to-date winners prize in Sprint Car Racing. Haud was earning about $1,330 per lap.
Random post race quotes:
Jac Haudenschild-“I knew if I didn’t run it for all it had, with those guys behind me I could have ended up third on the last lap. I got a little close to the wall a few times, but I was comfortable. The car was just perfect.
Gary Stanton-“I knew a couple of days ago when I got the car done that it was a pretty good car…I’ve wanted to win this for a couple of years and last year I thought we had it in the bag. This kind of makes up for that.”
Steve Kinser-“I caved in the hub cap up there in turn 1 and packed the wheel full of mud.”
Steve Butler-“The longer the race went, the faster we went….I wish we had 10 more laps.”
Brad Doty-“I packed the right rear wheel full of mud and it was vibrating so badly at the end of the straightaways that my vision was blurred.”
Les Kepler-“Boy was she fast…That flat tire cost me a lot of money.”
