East Bay Winter Nationals Modifieds

TAMPA, FL…..2/16/05…..”We changed the car a bunch with body panels, spoilers and rear springs and I quit making the driver errors that hurt me last night, “ said Jimmy Owens, clearly excited about his win on night two of the 6th Annual Ramada Inn on Tampa Bay worth $l,500 on Wednesday night.

“I could get a great run off the bottom and I knew it would take a good car to get around us,” the New Port, Tennessee driver explained. The race turned out just that way as Owens started on the pole and despite four yellow flags over the 25-lap distance no one had anything to match his speed. Sponsors on the winning car include H-1 Auto Parts, Hovis Racing Engines, Moser Engineering, VP Racing Fuel and Red Line Oil.

At various times during the feature Shane Cottle, Corey Conley, Bill Howard and Joel Cryderman had opportunities to be on the leader’s bumper, but not one of them could match his speed. Owens, who drives and builds the ‘Loose Gruff’ chassis for other competitors also, was pleased with the changes his crew had made as far as sheet metal.

Owens races Late Models also, but tonight the crew working on his open wheel modified included Chris Fox and Chad Brown. Another crew member Kenny Holt was resting in the truck because of a broken leg suffered here last night when he drove another car.

Time trials for the 119 cars on hand showed Chad Ohnstadt fastest with a time of 17.149. The format called for 10 heat races with the winners redrawing for starting positions in the A-Main, thus luck-of-the-draw put Owens on the pole with Dean Vickers outside. Bill Howard and Cottle were in row two ahead of Conley and Cryderman.

Owens led from the drop of the green flag, but last night’s feature winner, Kenny Gaddis spun in turn three and brought out the first yellow after just one lap. Vickers was the cause of the lap five caution and it was Gaddis and Brad Rohloff who tangled in turn two for a caution on lap nine.

The next five laps of green flag racing showed Owens driving away from the field by one-half a straightaway before the final caution for David Schmauss. The battle was for second spot from that point on as Cottle tried to hold off Conley, but an outside move coming off turn four gave the spot to Conley. Cottle ranked third ahead of Cryderman and Howard who finished fifth. Kent Arment, Chad Kinder, Brady Short, Schmauss and Dick Peterson made up the top ten.

The first B-Main advanced Dave Hess and Dan Hamstra to the A-Main, while the second B-Main sent Steve Arpin and Blake Jegtvig into the A-Main also. The two C-Mains were won by Craig Christainsen and Shawn Peterson with Brent Glastetter winning the D-Main. No Gulf Coast Produce Strawberry Dash was run due to time restraints.

Thanks, Jean Lynch for East Bay Raceway Park





STATS – OPEN WHEEL MODIFIEDS - EAST BAY RACEWAY PARK – WEDNESDAY, 2/16/05


Qualifying Results:



1. 1A Chad Ohnstad – 17.399; 2. 22S Chad Kinder – 17.584; 3. 12S Ed Shamhart – 17.718; 4. 21S Denny Schwartz – 17.775; 5. 2B Devin Dixon – 17.779; 6. 96X Joel Cryderman – 17.786; 7. 3F Rob Fuqua – 17.791; 8. Q Joey Jensen – 17.798; 9. 182 Randle Sweeney – 17.830; 10. 20 Jimmy Owens – 17.831; 11. 54P Dick Peterson – 17.852; 12. 78 Shane Cottle – 17.913; 13. X Mike Wedelstadt – 17.916; 14. 28M Frank Marshall – 17.917; 15. 48 Bill Howard – 17.991; 16. 3L Jeff Leka – 18.001; 17. 03 Brad Rohloff – 18.010; 18. 00A Steve Arpin – 18.052; 19. 1P Bob Pohlman, Jr. – 18.052; 20. 69 Tim Moore – 18.056; 21. 45 Dean Vickers – 18.057; 22. 12H Jason Hughes – 18.068; 23. 18 Brent Glastetter – 18.081; 24. 23H Dan Hamstra – 18.096; 25. 2 Kenny Gaddis – 18.119; 26. 9 Kent Arment – 18.120; 27. 7 Ron Jones – 18.120; 28. 91 Craig Thatcher – 18.131; 29. 21M BJ McCammon – 18.132; 30. 3 Kelly Shryock – 18.143; 31. 44H David Hess – 18.152; 32. 85 Ryan Corbett – 18.170; 33. 11G Matt Goulden – 18.179; 34. 36 Brady Short – 18.197; 35. 22C Terry Cox – 18.203; 36. 97 Rusty Dixon – 18.227; 37. 2J Blake Jegtvig – 18.233; 38. 007 David Schmauss – 18.258; 39. 98 Shon Flanary – 18.272; 40. 33M Roger Crouse – 18.274; 41. 4C Craig Christiansen – 18.280; 42. 00 Greg Reutimann – 18.285; 43. 707 Corey Conley – 18.295; 44. 22X Greg Oakes – 18.300; 45. 55 Tom Moore – 18.311; 46. 130 Chad Osterhoff – 18.320; 47. 33Z Zach Vander Beek – 18.322; 48. 12M Ken Myracle – 18.332; 49. 85D Mark Dotson – 18.334; 50. 1M Julie McDermid – 18.339; 51. 19T Todd Gilpin – 18.345; 52. 70 MJ Hintz – 18.350; 53. 2C David Cain – 18.361; 54. M12 Jason Miller – 18.387; 55. 17 Scott Duvall – 18.401; 56. 18M David McWilliams – 18.407; 57. 112 Todd Bennett – 18.421; 58. 24 Brad Waits – 18.422; 59. 16C Scott Clippinger – 18.455; 60. 61M Shawn Peterson – 18.460; 61. 88 Chris Smith – 18.473; 62. 47T Carlton Jackson – 18.489; 63. J5 Jess Hartman – 18.497; 64. 2T Corky Thomas – 18.501; 65. 00B Buzzie Reutimann – 18.506; 66. 20X Steve Hughes – 18.510; 67. 08 Shawn Simpson – 18.511; 68. M5 Bob McQuaig – 18.517; 69. 75S Eric Scribner – 18.518; 70. 47H Terry Hayes – 18.520; 71. B12 Kevin Weaver – 18.533; 72. 19 Joe Fowler – 18.540; 73. 10X Rob Pendergrass – 18.540; 74. 20K Keith Sansom – 18.555; 75. 12 Russell Childress – 18.561; 76. 34 Dustin Cates – 18.572; 77. 11W Wess Weinman – 18.577; 78. HC1 Paul Wilmoth, Jr. – 18.583; 79. 21L Ivodent Lloyd, Jr. – 18.590; 80. 21C Kenny Carlson – 18.598; 81. 14C Brian Cockrum – 18.612; 82. 3X David Boerner – 18.627; 83. 03B Rick Hensley – 18.636; 84. 6M Terry J. McClintock – 18.641; 85. 2M Steve Mueller – 18.681; 86. CV7 Chris Veech – 18.690; 87. 44 Michael Hess – 18.691; 88. 4S Thomas Sigler – 18.691; 89. 30 Wade Schutt – 18.730; 90. 13 Kevin DeYoung – 18.782; 91. 22 Rob McLanghlin – 18.794; 92. 16 Justin Rattliff – 18.833; 93. 27 John Bradley – 18.854; 94. 44J Jared Kneemiller – 18.860; 95. 26 Chris Butler – 18.896; 96. Z28 Mark Trautner – 18.923; 97. 63 Scotty Williams – 18.967; 98. 23 Terry Haven – 18.996; 99. 33 Jeff Mathews – 19.014; 100. 32B Robby Barris – 19.014; 101. L88 Mark Herbert – 19.060; 102. 1B Jason Barnhill – 19.068; 103. B12X Bruce Watkins – 19.088; 104. 8W William Hampton – 19.133; 105. 27X Joe Pendergrass – 19.134; 106. 01K Don Kiger – 19.199; 107. 11 Mike Phillips – 19.297; 108. 96 Mark Rigdon – 19.335; 109. 01 Trevor Merrell – 19.345; 110. 7X Alan Sharpensteen – 19.396; 111. 86 Mike Oldenberg – 19.490; 112. 31 Brian Hollifield – 19.530; 113. 06 Jarrett Rendel – 19.625; 114. 25T Paul Thorpe – 19.712; 115. 2F Todd Ferber – 20.056; 116. 21W Dano Ostrander – 29.188; 117. 83C Brian Taft – N/T; 118. 155 Richard Harlow – N/T; 119. 99 Corey Partin – N/T





1st Heat – 1)Dean Vickers 2)Dick Peterson 3)David Hess 4)Kevin Weaver 5)Brian Cockrum 6)Rob McLanghlin 7)Craig Christiansen 8)Mark Herbert 9)Mike Oldenberg 10)Todd Gilpin 11)Chad Ohnstad 12)Chris Smith

2nd Heat – 1)Shane Cottle 2)Chad Kinder 3)Greg Reutimann 4)Jason Hughes 5)Ryan Corbett 6)MJ Hintz 7)Justin Rattliff 8)Brian Hollifield 9)Jason Barnhill 10)Carlton Jackson 11)Rob Pendergrass 12)David Boerner

3rd Heat – 1)Corey Conley 2)Ed Shamhart 3)Mike Wedelstadt 4)Jess Hartman 5)Joe Fowler 6)Bruce Watkins 7)Rick Hensley 8)John Bradley 9)David Cain 10)Jarrett Rendel 11)Brent Glastetter 12)Matt Goulden

4th Heat – 1)Brady Short 2)Frank Marshall 3)Dan Hamstra 4)Jason Miller 5)Denny Schwartz 6)Greg Oakes 7)Keith Sansom 8)Jared Kneemiller 9)Terry J. McClintock 10)Corky Thomas 11)William Hampton 12)Paul Thorpe

5th Heat – 1)Bill Howard 2)Kenny Gaddis 3)Terry Cox 4)Tom Moore 5)Scott Duvall 6)Steve Mueller 7)Chris Butler 8)Joe Pendergrass 9)Devin Dixon 10)Buzzie Reutimann 11)Russell Childress 12)Todd Ferber

6th Heat – 1)Joel Cryderman 2)Ron Jones 3)Jeff Leka 4)Steve Hughes 5)David McWilliams 6)Chad Osterhoff 7)Don Kiger 8)Mark Trautner 9)Chris Veech 10)Dustin Cates 11)Dano Ostrander 12)Rusty Dixon

7th Heat – 1)Kent Arment 2)Brad Rohloff 3)Blake Jegtvig 4)Todd Bennett 5)Rob Fuqua 6)Shawn Simpson 7)Thomas Sigler 8)Scotty Williams 9)Zach Vander Beek 10)Wess Weinman 11)Mike Phillips

8th Heat – 1)David Schmauss 2)Brad Waits 3)Steve Arpin 4)Craig Thatcher 5)Joey Jensen 6)Paul Wilmoth, Jr. 7)Terry Haven 8)Ken Myracle 9)Michael Hess 10)Bob McQuaig 11)Mark Rigdon 12)Richard Harlow DNS

9th Heat – 1)Bob Pohlman, Jr. 2)Randle Sweeney 3)BJ McCammon 4)Ivodent Lloyd, Jr. 5)Wade Schutt 6)Trevor Merrell 7)Eric Scribner 8)Robby Barris 9)Shon Flanary 10)Scott Clippinger 11)Mark Dotson 12)Corey Partin DNS

10th Heat – 1)Jimmy Owens 2)Roger Crouse 3)Tim Moore 4)Julie McDermid 5)Jeff Mathews 6)Kelly Shryock 7)Shawn Peterson 8)Kenny Carlson 9)Terry Hayes 10)Alan Sharpensteen 11)Kevin DeYoung 12)Brian Taft



D – Main 1)Brent Glastetter 2)Russell Childress 3)Rob Pendergrass 4)William Hampton 5)Matt Goulden 6)Todd Ferber 7)David Boerner 8)Dano Ostrander 9)Kevin DeYoung 10)Mark Dotson 11)Brian Taft 12)Mark Rigdon 13)Paul Thorpe 14)Mike Phillips 15)Chad Ohnstad DNS 16)Chris Smith DNS 17)Rusty Dixon DNS 18)Richard Harlow DNS 19)Corey Partin DNS



1st C – Main – 1)Craig Christiansen 2)Keith Sansom 3)David Cain 4)Justin Rattliff 5)John Bradley 6)Buzzie Reutimann 7)Brent Glastetter 8)Jason Barnhill 9)Rick Hensley 10)Chris Butler 11)Brian Hollifield 12)Jared Kneemiller 13)Terry J. McClintock 14)Rob Pendergrass 15)Jarrett Rendel 16)Mark Herbert 17)Carlton Jackson 18)Todd Gilpin 19)Joe Pendergrass 20)Mike Oldenberg 21)Devin Dixon DNS 22)Corky Thomas DNS



2nd C - Main – 1)Shawn Peterson 2)Terry Haven 3)Don Kiger 4)Mark Trautner 5)Shon Flanary 6)Ken Myracle 7)Thomas Sigler 8)Chris Veech 9)Michael Hess 10)Kenny Carlson 11)Alan Sharpensteen 12)Dustin Cates 13)Robby Barris 14)Wess Weinman 15)William Hampton 16)Terry Hayes 17)Bob McQuaig 18)Scott Clippinger 19)Eric Scribner 20)Scotty Williams 21)Zach Vander Beek 22)Russell Childress



1st B – Main – 1)David Hess 2)Dan Hamstra 3)Greg Reutimann 4)Jason Hughes 5)Kevin Weaver 6)Ryan Corbett 7)Jess Hartman 8)Bruce Watkins 9)Tom Moore 10)Scott Duvall 11)Joe Fowler 12)Mike Wedelstadt 13)Denny Schwartz 14)Craig Christiansen 15)Brian Cockrum 16)Steve Mueller 17)Rob McLanghlin 18)MJ Hintz 19)Terry Cox 20)Jason Miller 21)Greg Oakes 22)Keith Sansom



2nd B - Main – 1)Steve Arpin 2)Blake Jegtvig 3)Jeff Leka 4)Steve Hughes 5)Todd Bennett 6)Tim Moore 7)Craig Thatcher 8)BJ McCammon 9)Julie McDermid 10)Rob Fuqua 11)Jeff Mathews 12)Kelly Shryock 13)Joey Jensen 14)Trevor Merrell 15)Chad Osterhoff 16)Terry Haven 17)David McWilliams 18)Ivodent Lloyd, Jr. 19)Wade Schutt 20)Shawn Simpson 21)Paul Wilmoth, Jr. 22)Shawn Peterson



A – Main (25 Laps) – 1)Jimmy Owens 2)Corey Conley 3)Shane Cottle 4)Joel Cryderman 5)Bill Howard 6)Kent Arment 7)Chad Kinder 8)Brady Short 9)David Schmauss 10)Dick Peterson 11)Dan Hamstra 12)Bob Pohlman, Jr. 13)David Hess 14)Frank Marshall 15)Brad Rohloff 16)Blake Jegtvig 17)Ron Jones 18)Randle Sweeney 19)Kenny Gaddis 20)Steve Arpin 21)Roger Crouse 22)Brad Waits 23)Ed Shamhart 24)Dean Vickers