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410s (17 Cars)

Welcome Mat
Billy Alley, Bronson Maeschen, Robert Bell

MIA
Justin Henderson, Scott Winters, John Miller, Ryan Bickett

VIP
Back over to the turn 1 stands to join LDA24, his family, and his new fiancée.

Time Trials (1 lap each)
Johnn Cressman (12^th out) set quick time on a tacky track with a 10.873 lap with an average speed of 124.161 MPH. The top 6 drivers eclipsed the 11 second barrier and snuck into the 10s. Rounding out the invert of the top 12 were: Jake Peters, Mark Dobmeier, Gary DeWall, Bronson Maeschen, Billy Alley, Chad Meyer, Gregg Bakker, Wade Nygaard, Dusty Ballenger, Marlon Jones, and Gordy Vogelaar

Time Trials Grade: B; good track to qualify on with high speeds but it was a sign of a bad track to come for the heats.

Heats (Top 6 Inverted from TT, All to the A, Top 5 Inverted to the A)
Heat 1 Starting Order: 8 Laps

Heat 1 Finish: 4 9M 96 13 1w/ 12L 101 28 56

Heat 1 Notes: Nygaard took off with the lead from Jones on a very rough and narrow track. Something broke for Cressman on the 4^th lap resulting in him going head on into the turn 1 wall. Pretty solid lick for the 56, but they would make repairs in order to start the feature. Nygaard walked away with another heat win for the #4 machine.

Heat 2 Starting Order: Laps

Heat 2 Finish: 2D 33 57x 22 11x/ 16 D1 71

Heat 2 Notes: Ballenger took the lead and coasted with his 4^th heat win of the year. Peters was the only guy to make a move and did that by coming from 6^th to 3^rd in a hurry. Alley would challenge him the rest of the way on the bottom but couldn't complete a pass. Follow the leader elsewhere throughout.

Heat Grades: D-; it would have been an F if it wasn't for Peters moving up and Alley challenging him for 3^rd. Typical Huset's heats on the year.

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: 10 Pill was drawn

Initial start was actually good with Jones blowing off the old-time rust. The lead he had was short-lived as there was a caution for Ballenger on the 2^nd circuit. After the restart Bakker quickly moved up to 3^rd with his sights set on Jones and Vogelaar. Dobmeier also moved up quickly, disposing of Alley early on.

A lap 4 red flag came out when Lambertz hit the inside berm in turn 1 and lazily turned her on her side. He was done for the night, but not injured. The restart saw Jones leading

Vogelaar, Bakker, Nygaard, and Meyer. Bakker moved into 2^nd on the 8^th lap, trying to catch up to Jones who had a sizeable lead ahead of him. At this juncture there was a good battle going on for 4^th with Maeschen, Meyer, and Dobmeier duking it out on a tight, but racy track.

With 11 laps to go Bakker took the lead from Jones on the bottom coming off of 4. Jones would actually slide him back going into turn 1 and have the lead coming off of 2. Great back and forth battle between the two and Bakker would end that by taking the lead for good in turns 3 and 4. Maeschen sneaked his way up to 2^nd with 5 laps to go, but would lose that position a lap later to an ever-coming Dobmeier. But Bakker's lead was too big as the race stayed green, and Bakker picked up his 1^st victory of the year, and 9^th career 410 victory. Dobmeier held on for 2^nd, Maeschen 3^rd, Jones 4^th, and Nygaard 5^th. Jones led laps 1-14, Bakker 15-25 & he also picked up a $1,000 bonus from a sponsor to make it a $3,500 win.

Finish: 11x 13 96 9M 4 1w 22 16 33 28/ D1 71 57x 101 56 12L 2D

A Feature Grade: B; good racing throughout as the good drivers made their moves up through the field while the others faded or stayed where they started. Had there been another 5 laps or a late caution, it was going to be Dobmeier in victory lane.

360s (19 Cars)
Jody Rosenboom picked up his 10^th win of the year after starting on the pole and leading all 18 laps. That coming after they denied a $500 and $750 bounty to start last on the field in order to win. They complained about a heavy track and wanting to have 7 more laps in order to start last. Yah, that's real fair to the rest of the field, you getting an extra 7 laps in order to come up through the field. Pretty comical watching the #27 making fools of themselves, but that wasn't all!

Another sponsor put up another $500 bonus to make it $1,250 bounty total if Jody would come from last to win. The owner accepted it over the microphone so the crowd thought Jody would be starting last… until they rolled out about 20 minutes later and Jody still sat on the pole. Boos rain down on the 27 for not holding onto their word, as they claimed the track didn't warrant enough passing in order to come from the back. Brent Vonk, with a much smaller budget than the 27's, went 16^th to 3^rd on that 'narrow' track.

FOAW: Bronson Maeschen was very impressive coming up from 8^th to finish 3^rd while he held down the 2^nd spot until Dobmeier got him late. Career best finish for him at the track in only his 6^th start of the year up here. Hope to see him up here a few more times and hopefully that first career win comes soon.

Crowd Pleasing Moment #1: Walking into the grandstand and seeing that Henderson officially flew the white flag on the points race as Rosenboom was carrying the D1 number. With 5 races left and 26 points back of Dobmeier, it was great seeing them quit on the points title. Let the excuses begin to fly..

Crowd Pleasing Moment #2: Great hearing Hot Rod and Shawn taking shots at the Jackson Speedway infield announcer from the weekend when he kept saying "buddy boy" in victory lane to all of the drivers. Great cracks at him and it had a very select few in the stands laughing pretty hard.

WTF: Cressman wadding up another car, but this time it came from nothing he could do when something broke on the car. But that's still another junked car on the year. The 56 goes through cars like theres no end in sight.

"Home of the Professionals" Moment of the Night: Having a rough track all night that had to cause a couple of the parts breaking on cars resulting in the accidents. The 56 of Cressman and the 13 of Jordan Martens in the 360s could have a legitimate gripe against the Rubins for the crappy, rough track causing them to junk their cars.

Mulligan Moment: Having a couple people comment on the whereabouts of the Report from the week before. Jeez people, I didn't know it was that big of a deal if I took a week off. The hits will continue to come.

Head Scratcher: Billy Alley starting 7^th and finishing right there in 7^th. This coming from a guy who was on the podium at the 360 Nationals, made the A for the 410 Nationals, and coming off a $5,000 win at Jackson the night before. He was also nowhere to be found after the races, leaving a dozen or so fans wandering around to another stall or to their cars. Bullring racing, it brings out the best the drivers baby!

Thumbs Up: Getting to see Team Crown make a complete mockery of themselves throughout the night. Great entertainment watching them make complete asses of themselves when they said they'd take the challenge, only in order to see them back out come feature time. It'd be great if those bounty sponsors decided not to do it next week or even put the money up for another team to come from the back.

Thumbs Down: Track conditions leading up to the 410 Feature were pretty rough. Even though Vonk put on a show passing 13 cars in the 360s it was still pretty rough then. But come the 410 feature, the elbows were definitely up for the drivers!

Prime Mover: Dobmeier moving up 7 spots coming from 9^th to 2^nd, while Maeschen flew from 8^th to 3^rd.

Trophy Queen Grade: Same girls as a couple weeks ago. Lets get a few new ones out in victory lane dammit.

Closing Stat of the Night: Dobmeier now has a 40 point lead over Peters in the standings with 4 races to go. You can write that $10,000 check out to Lunstra/Dobmeier Motorsports after the D1 decides to no-show on the night!

Final Thought: Sorry for the no-show on the Report from Jackson, but after getting home at 1AM from there, it was best to head to bed instead of writing one up. Next report: Huset's August 24^th.

BIG J

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

I was about to put a MIA on you, until I seen your thread a few minutes ago!!

Don't know where Winters was but they did wad a car up at Jackson Friday night, Buddy boy. I did see that he did run Saturday night, tho.......

As for Henderson, one of the rumors floating around in the pits was that he's lost his ride......haven't heard officially, tho.........

Didn't ask him to make sure, but I'll bet Billy Alley was still running a 360 last night.

Jody Rosenboom and Team Crown were ready and willing to accept the challenge. It was the track officials on the infield that didn't allow it.

Billy Alley had a 410 in last night.

Why would the track officials make that decision?

Why are a lot of the decisions made the way they are at Huset's? This could be one of the great puzzlers of our time. And, thanks for the clarification on Alley.

Todd is correct. We were made fools of by the track, and the only announcement about it not happening was "from the pits". Well "from the pits" was the pit officials.....not my pit stall. Not only were we made to look like fools.....Hot Rod was as well. It's unfortunate. Thank you for the correction Todd.

I was hoping to see the Fagulator, around like he said, also a no show... If Todd is correct that is BS if a driver declares to start in the rear its his choice, kinda fishy..

another excellent report

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

Everything that happens at Huset's is fishy...

Once again Big J makes himself look like a fool by automatically assuming what has happened instead of knowing the truth. ( with the whole 27 car deal ) In your eyes Henderson and Jody are pretty much the same person to you, and you couldn't wait to jump on his ( Jodys ) case huh?

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Big J.. i shoulda taken u up on the bet that Alley wouldn't come to Huset's after Jackson! I don't think we'll have to worry about him coming anymore this year.

Wish i coulda been there to hear the "buddy boy" comments, hilarious i bet!

Ya I forgot you know everything that goes on and has possibly ever happened in racing since you "work on a car." Get over yourself. I, along with the thousands in attendence, had a right to assume what happened because nothing was ever announced up top or in victory lane by Jody when given the chance.

The 27 made a mockery of themselves before Huset's officials put an end to the debacle. Asking for 7 more laps just so they could possibly come from the back had to be one of the funniest things heard at the track. Enjoy taking over McCarl's record even though the real fans know who deserves it since he came back from 5+ rows weekly.

Didn't see you over in the VIP area at all as your "alter ego" said they would this week..

BIG J

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."