For Immediate Release
East Bay Raceway Park
February 5, 2011

Final Night of Modifieds Cancelled at East Bay Raceway Park

EBRP/Jean Lynch
TAMPA, Fla. (February 5) - East Bay Raceway Park Officials have been forced to cancel Saturday night’s event due to rain showers in the area. The weather has lasted longer then expected and more will be moving in later tonight and will not allow the continuation of the 12th Annual Open Wheel Modified Winternationals.

Starting Sunday will be the Lucas Oil Dirt Late Model Series practice session from 6:00 – 9:00 pm. The Pit Stop Restaurant/Bar will open at 8:00 am and will be serving breakfast and will be showing the Super Bowl on 5 televisions later that night. So if you have nothing to do tomorrow night, come out and watch the Lucas Oil Dirt Model Series Stars, Grandstands are FREE and then come in and watch the Super Bowl.
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For Immediate Release
East Bay Raceway Park
February 4, 2011

Wallace Celebrates First Modified Feature Win at East Bay Raceway Park

EBRP/Jean Lynch
TAMPA, Fla. (February 4) - The excitement level in victory lane was off the charts as NASCAR driver Kenny Wallace celebrated a long-awaited win on a dirt track in his Open Wheel Modified Friday night at East Bay Raceway Park.

“When I was a kid growing up in St. Louis, I used to read about the guys that run here and I always wanted to accomplish a convincing win on dirt. This is just my sixth year of dirt track racing and I have been watching all the fun Kenny Schrader has doing this. I decided to get this Impressive Race Car chassis and have some of that fun, too,” Kenny told the crowd as he struck every possible victory pose with his trophy as the photographers captured every moment.

Track announcer, Chris Stepan reminded Wallace how his day had started at the qualifying pill draw when Kenny had pulled his own car number “36” out of the can of 100 pills and the driver immediately said, “That means I’m going to win the feature tonight!”

Equally lucky was the draw Wallace had after he won the third heat and drew pole position out of a possible one to eight starting spots in the feature.

Despite five yellow flags in the 25 lap distance and loosing the lead for five laps, Wallace had the perfect set-up on his UNOH (University of Northwestern Ohio) and Federated Auto Parts sponsored brand new Impressive chassis. Following each yellow flag, he managed to pull away from the field even though it was Rodney Wing and Jeff Mathews on his tail and Vic Vena and Dale Mathison not far behind.

Wallace was quick to credit chief mechanic Billy Smith with the success of his car on its maiden run. The crew had trouble in Wednesday night practice because of a miss and by process of elimination, they ran out of time after three sessions and parked that car and ran last year’s car on Thursday night.

Smith, who is a nine-time feature winner himself at Farmington MO, found the problem by replacing the battery this morning and the new car was “good to go” for tonight’s race using a fresh Mullins engine and equipped with PRO-shocks.

When fourth starting Dale Mathison passed Wallace for the lead on the second lap and held the lead through lap six, Wallace admitted, “I just couldn’t run the cushion like he could, but when I got back by him on the lap seven restart, I could run my groove.”

Second place finisher Wing confessed, “I tried everything to pressure him, but he never made a mistake.” Jeff Mathews was a solid third, but never was a challenge to Wallace.

Vic Vena had his best showing of the 12th Annual Open Wheel Modified Winternationals with his fourth place finish in his Malcuit powered BMS No. 01, while Mathison held on for fifth.

Rounding out the top ten it was Dave Hess, Jr., Roger Crouse, Devin Dixon, Jeff Bland and Stanley Donahoo.

Rick Hensley was fast timer over the 58 cars on hand with a time of 17.370 and the eight heat winners were Wing, Crouse, Wallace, Mathison, Vena, Dale Kelley, Mathews and 17-year old Adam Williams.

The B-Mains sent Austin Sanders, Rick Aukland, Todd Neiheiser and Dave McWilliams from the first one to the A-Main, while Dixon, Buzzie Reutimann, Donahoo and Perry Brown from the second B-Main.

OPEN WHEEL MODIFIEDS
EAST BAY RACEWAY PARK
FRIDAY, 2/4/11

Qualifying Results:
1. 03 Rick Hensley – 17.370; 2. 22S Chad Kinder – 17.617; 3. 2A Rick Aukland – 17.729; 4. 33X Rodney Wing – 17.756; 5. 40B Kyle Bronson – 17.756; 6. 33 Jeff Mathews – 17.769; 7. 47 Bill Howard – 17.874; 8. 36 Kenny Wallace – 17.878; 9. 38 Jeff Bland, Jr. – 17.907; 10. 22 Dale Kelley – 17.908; 11. 44H Dave Hess, Jr. – 17.923; 12. 777 Jared Landers – 17.927; 13. 64 Austin Sanders – 17.967; 14. D00 Stanley Donahoo – 18.069; 15. 28M Frank Marshall – 18.113; 16. 9M Dale Mathison – 18.152; 17. 2 Devin Dixon – 18.256; 18. 01 Vic Vena – 18.283; 19. 14 Adam William – 18.284; 20. 11 Adam Colley – 18.334; 21. 6 Daryl Herbert – 18.355; 22. 00 Buzzie Reutimann – 18.355; 23. 21 Joey Jenson – 18.398; 24. 72 Todd Neiheiser – 18.441; 25. 14C Corey Conley – 18.479; 26. 8M Matt Miller – 18.490; 27. 129 Rob Penny – 18.572; 28. 144 Anthony Kinkade – 18.576; 29. 3F Rob Fuqua – 18.587; 30. 9C John Carpenter – 18.591; 31. 25W Allen Weisser – 18.625; 32. 155 Jimmy Payne – 18.657; 33. 58 Matt Fetterhoff – 18.697; 34. 96G Curt Gelling – 18.718; 35. 75E Elliott Despain – 18.753; 36. 5L Larry Lambert – 18.775; 37. 9 Roger Crouse – 18.782; 38. 88P David Pollen, Jr. – 18.789; 39. 18 Dave McWilliams – 18.801; 40. 55 David Orr – 18.883; 41. 26 Bobby Gierke – 18.886; 42. 6B Dave Baldwin – 18.901; 43. 100 Reed Storley – 18.904; 44. D4 Dave Jamison – 18.938; 45. 271 Dakotah Stephens – 18.943; 46. 01T Peyton Taylor – 18.985; 47. 83B Perry Brown – 18.989; 48. Z1 Zac Oedewaldt – 18.996; 49. 44P Tim Powers – 19.056; 50. 83 Joe Waba – 19.241; 51. 45 Bob Broking – 19.261; 52. 3K Jeremy Kerzman – 19.294; 53. 6M Terry McClintock – 19.295; 54. 45J Johnny Broking – 19.341; 55. 96H Dennis Haven – 19.361; 56. 44T Joe Turner – 19.616; 57. 23 Terry Haven – 19.943; 58. 05 Greg Johnson – 25.670

1st Heat – 1)Rodney Wing 2)Chad Kinder 3)Austin Sanders 4)Adam Colley 5)Elliott Despain 6)Reed Storley 7)Bobby Gierke
2nd Heat – 1)Roger Crouse 2)Anthony Kinkade 3)Todd Neiheiser 4)Bob Broking 5)Tim Powers 6)Dave Baldwin 7)Dennis Haven
3rd Heat – 1)Kenny Wallace 2)Joey Jenson 3)Rick Aukland 4)Rob Penny 5)Terry McClintock 6)David Orr 7)Johnny Broking
4th Heat – 1)Dale Mathison 2)Rob Fuqua 3)Dave McWilliams 4)Jared Landers 5)Peyton Taylor 6)Joe Turner 7)Terry Haven
5th Heat – 1)Vic Vena 2)Corey Conley 3)Bill Howard 4)Curt Gelling 5)Frank Marshall 6)Joe Waba 7)Zac Oedewaldt
6th Heat – 1)Dale Kelley 2)Jeff Bland, Jr. 3)Perry Brown 4)Matt Fetterhoff 5)John Carpenter 6)Jeremy Kerzman 7)Jimmy Payne
7th Heat – 1)Jeff Mathews 2)Rick Hensley 3)Stanley Donahoo 4)Daryl Herbert 5)Greg Johnson 6)Matt Miller 7)Larry Lambert 8)Kyle Bronson
8th Heat – 1)Adam William 2)Dave Hess, Jr. 3)Buzzie Reutimann 4)Devin Dixon 5)David Pollen, Jr. 6)Allen Weisser 7)Dakotah Stephens 8)Dave Jamison

1st B – Main (Top 4 go to back of A inside row) – 1)Austin Sanders 2)Rick Aukland 3)Todd Neiheiser 4)Dave McWilliams 5)Adam Colley 6)Jared Landers 7)Peyton Taylor 8)Bob Broking 9)Elliott Despain 10)Dave Baldwin 11)Reed Storley 12)Bobby Gierke 13)Joe Turner 14)Johnny Broking 15)Terry McClintock 16)Rob Penny 17)David Orr 18)Tim Powers 19)Dennis Haven 20)Terry Haven

2nd B – Main (Top 4 go to back of A outside row) – 1)Devin Dixon 2)Buzzie Reutimann 3)Stanley Donahoo 4)Perry Brown 5)Bill Howard 6)Frank Marshall 7)Greg Johnson 8)Matt Fetterhoff 9)Allen Weisser 10)Curt Gelling 11)Jimmy Payne 12)Dakotah Stephens 13)John Carpenter 14)David Pollen, Jr. 15)Jeremy Kerzman 16)Joe Waba 17)Dave Jamison 18)Larry Lambert 19)Daryl Herbert 20)Zac Oedewaldt 21)Matt Miller 22)Kyle Bronson DNS

A – Main (25 Laps) – 1)Kenny Wallace 2)Rodney Wing 3)Jeff Mathews 4)Vic Vena 5)Dale Mathison 6)Dave Hess, Jr. 7)Roger Crouse 8)Devin Dixon 9)Jeff Bland, Jr. 10)Stanley Donahoo 11)Adam William 12)Corey Conley 13)Chad Kinder 14)Rick Aukland 15)Joey Jenson 16)Rick Hensley 17)Anthony Kinkade 18)Dale Kelley 19)Austin Sanders 20)Rob Fuqua 21)Dave McWilliams 22)Perry Brown 23)Buzzie Reutimann 24)Todd Neiheiser
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For Immediate Release
East Bay Raceway Park
February 3, 2011

Landers Win Kicks off 35th Winternationals At East Bay Raceway Park

EBRP/Jean Lynch
TAMPA, Fla. (February 3) - Jared Landers, of Clemmons NC, kicked off the 35th Anniversary Winternationals at East Bay Raceway Park Thursday night in convincing fashion by finally earning his first checkered flag here after coming close several times in the past in Open Wheel Modified competition.

This time he was not to be denied the 25-lap victory by a margin of four seconds on opening night of the 12th Annual Open Wheel Modified series was worth $1,500 and served as the first of two preliminary nights leading up to Saturday’s 75-lap $5,000 to win finale.

The race got off to a shakey start when Jeff Mathews got in trouble on the front stretch and brought out the yellow before a lap was completed. Then on the next attempt, Landers got into pole-sitter Chad Kinder in turn four before a lap was completed bringing out another yellow. Landers squeeked through and Kinder was done for the night.

Piloting his own Shaw chassis sponsored by Mark Martin Chevrolet/Ford, Mullins Race Engines and Clint Boyer Racing, that he has raced here before, Landers admitted, “I couldn’t find my guy that was to give me signals, so I just kept searching the race track for the fastest groove and figured I was doing OK until somebody poked me.”

“I was kind of rusty because I hadn’t driven in two months, but my guys Matt Cooper, Donnie and Ben Ledgerwood made a bunch of changes and we got better through the night. We are using Integra Shocks and Springs this year and they did their job.”

“This is the first year my son Madden and my wife Jessica couldn’t make the trip. I wish they could have been here for my win.”

A lot of passing made for exciting three-wide racing at times as drivers came from deep in the pack to crack the top ten. Corey Conley nailed down second spot after a red flag on lap 15 and he used the inside lane in turn three to pass Rick Hensley for the runner-up spot. Conley proudly explains that his engine is built by his daddy Ed in the basement of his house and that his Shaw is last year’s version. Eric, “Big” Vinny and his girl friend Carrie are the main helpers on his car. He mentioned Wheeling Auto Body as a main sponsor and thanked Jeff Mathews for all his help locally. He gave credit to Hoosier Tires and Shaw “Two Brother Motorsports Dealer”.

Equally impressive was the drive by Rodney Wing who came from 20th to third in Jeff Mathews brand new Shaw car. Wing feels that Mathews “holds the key to the whole deal” because he has his own car set up just the way he likes it and felt that Wing should be in the new car. Sponsors on the car are Night Hawk Towing, CURS (Credit Union Remarketing Solutions) and Buddy’s Home Furnishing. Wing was a Regional Promoter of the year last year for his efforts at Whynot Motorsports Park in Meridian MS.

Hensley started sixth and finished fourth while Devin Dixon came from 12th to cross the finish line in fifth as his rear-end locked up and he had to be towed to the pits. Another hard-charger was Dave Hess. who started 18th and finished sixth in his Shaw chassis powered by Craiger Race Engines. In addition to his Mom and Dad, the Hess Garage and Salvage is a main sponsor. With help from his crew of Mike, Mark and Jimmy Rumba, changes were made after winning the B-Main and they went back to the heat race set up using Genesis Shocks. Other credit on his car goes to Beacon Lubricants, Plyler Overhead Doors, Brozell Construction and Matt Tenbery Flooring.

Rounding out the top ten it was Rick Aukland, Kenny Wallace, Todd Neiheiser and Kyle Bronson.

Heat race winners were Allen Weisser,Chad Kinder, Wayne Hammond, Hensley, Neiheiser, Landers, Aukland and Joey Jenson. The B Mains advanced Conley, Austin Sanders, Curt Gelling and Peyton Taylor from the first one, then Hess, Wing, Elliott Despain and Daryl Herbert from the second.

A field of 62 drivers showed up from as far away as Minnesota to battle in warm, sunny Florida on a record-setting East Bay surface that local driver Kyle Bronson used to break a track record set by Dave Cain on 2/14/08. Bronson’s time of 16.692 will now be the new mark.

There were two flips during the night. Buzzie Reutimann flipped at the flagstand while running sixth on lap three of the second B-Main and Wayne Hammond flipped in turn one in a four-car incident on lap 15 of the A-Main.. Both drivers were OK, but their cars were severly damaged.

Thanks, Jean Lynch for East Bay Raceway Park


OPEN WHEEL MODIFIEDS
EAST BAY RACEWAY PARK
THURSDAY, 2/3/11

Qualifying Results:
1. 40B Kyle Bronson – 16.692; 2. 22S Chad Kinder – 16.753; 3. 14C Corey Conley – 16.911; 4. 33 Jeff Mathews – 17.043; 5. 777 Jared Landers – 17.092; 6. 3F Rob Fuqua – 17.116; 7. 36 Kenny Wallace – 17.232; 8. 2 Devin Dixon – 17.311; 9. 33X Rodney Wing – 17.326; 10. 66H Wayne Hammond – 17.347; 11. 47 Bill Howard – 17.361; 12. 38 Jeff Bland, Jr. – 17.362; 13. 14 Adam William – 17.363; 14. 64 Austin Sanders – 17.386; 15. 01 Vic Vena – 17.389; 16. 22 Dale Kelley – 17.401; 17. 9M Dale Mathison – 17.410; 18. 03 Rick Hensley – 17.410; 19. 25 Butch Weisser – 17.448; 20. 00 Buzzie Reutimann – 17.480; 21. 2A Rick Aukland – 17.484; 22. 72 Todd Neiheiser – 17.501; 23. 83B Perry Brown – 17.502; 24. 44H Dave Hess, Jr. – 17.533; 25. Z1 Zac Oedewaldt – 17.543; 26. 6 Daryl Herbert – 17.564; 27. 9 Roger Crouse – 17.574; 28. 01T Peyton Taylor – 17.584; 29. D00 Stanley Donahoo – 17.584; 30. 18 Dave McWilliams – 17.616; 31. 28M Frank Marshall – 17.672; 32. 26 Bobby Gierke – 17.720; 33. 8M Matt Miller – 17.763; 34. 25W Allen Weisser – 17.805; 35. 75E Elliott Despain – 17.840; 36. 144 Anthony Kinkade – 17.847; 37. 155 Jimmy Payne – 17.878; 38. 129 Rob Penny – 17.889; 39. 21 Joey Jenson – 17.955; 40. 05 Greg Johnson – 17.993; 41. 96G Curt Gelling – 18.009; 42. 11 Adam Colley – 18.031; 43. 271 Dakotah Stephens – 18.063; 44. 83 Joe Waba – 18.085; 45. 100 Reed Storley – 18.097; 46. 6B Dave Baldwin – 18.183; 47. 45 Bob Broking – 18.202; 48. D4 Dave Jamison – 18.408; 49. 5L Larry Lambert – 18.409; 50. 3K Jeremy Kerzman – 18.456; 51. 44P Tim Powers – 18.516; 52. 9C John Carpenter – 18.648; 53. 55 David Orr – 18.791; 54. 45J Johnny Broking – 18.883; 55. 44T Joe Turner – 18.981; 56. 96H Dennis Haven – 18.993; 57. 6M Terry McClintock – 19.095; 58. 23 Terry Haven – 19.448; 59. 88 Thomas Braswell – 19.609; 60. 3X Kenny Abney – 20.159; 61. 58 Matt Fetterhoff – 36.759; 62. 4W Rick Weekly – NT

1st Heat – 1)Allen Weisser 2)Bill Howard 3)Austin Sanders 4)Dave McWilliams 5)Jimmy Payne 6)Reed Storley 7)Tim Powers 8)Rick Weekly
2nd Heat – 1)Chad Kinder 2)Kyle Bronson 3)Peyton Taylor 4)Dale Mathison 5)Frank Marshall 6)Bobby Gierke 7)Thomas Braswell 8)Dennis Haven
3rd Heat – 1)Wayne Hammond 2)Zac Oedewaldt 3)Adam William 4)Matt Miller 5)Curt Gelling 6)Dave Baldwin 7)Dakotah Stephens 8)Jeremy Kerzman
4th Heat – 1)Rick Hensley 2)Devin Dixon 3)Butch Weisser 4)Corey Conley 5)Anthony Kinkade 6)Roger Crouse
7)Stanley Donahoo 8)Dave Jamison
5th Heat – 1)Todd Neiheiser 2)Jeff Mathews 3)Dave Hess, Jr. 4)Rodney Wing 5)Daryl Herbert 6)Perry Brown 7)Bob Broking 8)Matt Fetterhoff
6th Heat – 1)Jared Landers 2)Kenny Wallace 3)Elliott Despain 4)Buzzie Reutimann 5)Larry Lambert 6)Terry Haven 7)Terry McClintock
7th Heat – 1)Rick Aukland 2)Dale Kelley 3)Adam Colley 4)Jeff Bland, Jr. 5)Johnny Broking 6)Joe Turner 7)John Carpenter
8th Heat – 1)Joey Jenson 2)Rob Fuqua 3)Rob Penny 4)Vic Vena 5)Greg Johnson 6)Joe Waba 7)David Orr 8 Kenny Abney

1st B – Main (Top 4 go to back of A inside row) – 1)Corey Conley 2)Austin Sanders 3)Curt Gelling 4)Peyton Taylor 5)Dave McWilliams 6)Butch Weisser 7)Frank Marshall 8)Roger Crouse 9)Stanley Donahoo 10)Jimmy Payne 11)Matt Miller 12)Adam William 13)Anthony Kinkade 14)Dave Baldwin 15)Dakotah Stephens 16)Reed Storley 17)Tim Powers 18)Bobby Gierke 19)Dave Jamison 20)Thomas Braswell 21)Jeremy Kerzman 22)Dale Mathison 23)Dennis Haven 24)Rick Weekly DNS

2nd B – Main (Top 4 go to back of A outside row) – 1)Dave Hess, Jr. 2)Rodney Wing 3)Elliott Despain 4)Daryl Herbert 5)Adam Colley 6)Vic Vena 7)Rob Penny 8)Bob Broking 9)Perry Brown 10)Johnny Broking 11)Larry Lambert 12)Joe Waba 13)Joe Turner 14)Terry Haven 15)John Carpenter 16)Matt Fetterhoff 17)Terry McClintock 18)David Orr 19)Greg Johnson 20)Jeff Bland, Jr. 21)Buzzie Reutimann 22)Kenny Abney

A – Main (25 Laps) – 1)Jared Landers 2)Corey Conley 3)Rodney Wing 4)Rick Hensley 5)Devin Dixon 6)Dave Hess, Jr. 7)Rick Aukland 8)Kenny Wallace 9)Todd Neiheiser 10)Kyle Bronson 11)Joey Jenson 12)Austin Sanders 13)Chad Kinder 14)Dale Kelley 15)Bill Howard 16)Elliott Despain 17)Curt Gelling 18)Rob Fuqua 19)Zac Oedewaldt 20)Jeff Mathews 21)Allen Weisser 22)Wayne Hammond 23)Daryl Herbert 24)Peyton Taylor