Thunderbird Raceway Winners: August 8th

101 Racecars were on hand to support the only West Michigan Race Track that stayed open to complete Saturday Night's race program.

Sportsman:
Heat 1: #00 Joe Cantu
Heat 2: #20 Chad Weinrick
Feature: 1st #42 Brian Williams 2nd #20 Chad Weinrick 3rd #0 Jamie Woodring 4th #2 Bean Falbe 5th # 96 Dean Barnhard

Late Models:
Heat: #99 Mike Wilbern
Feature: 1st #34 John McCaul, 2nd #07 Shawn Reed 3rd #99 Mike Wilbern 4th #10 Tom Dusen 5th #5 Wilson

Mini Stocks;
Heat: #28 CJ Rector
Feature: 1st #28 CJ Rector 2nd #6 Mark Farber

Warriors:
Heat 1: #1 Ryan Hamn
Heat 2: #1040 Brian Carson
Feature: 1st Hamn 2nd Carson

Factory Stock:
Heat 1: #72 Bill May
Heat 2: #67 Paul Vanderlaan
Feature: 1st #72 Bill May 2nd #22 Dean Rake 3rd #88 Mark Ransom 4th #67 Paul Vanderlaan 5th #21 Mike Lynn

Modifieds:
Heat 1: #78 Dean Wilkerson
Heat 2: #39 Mick Latch
Heat 3: #82 Jacob Poel
Feature: 1st #14 Rich Neiser (Weather Shortened: Lightening)

God Speed: Vinnie Homan

It comes with great sadness to inform the West Michigan Racing community of the passing of Sportsman Driver #20 Vinnie Homan on Friday after a short illness. Vinnie competed mostly at Winston and Thunderbird. He was well known for his willingness to help anyone in the pit area and his happy go lucky personality. He will be sorely missed. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Homan family and friends.

CRA Series at Berlin

The CRA Super Series will be back in town for the second time in 2009 to run the Radisson of Grand Rapids 125. Brian Campbell will be trying to win for his third time at Berlin in 2009. There are 23 cars signed up and ready to try and end the Campbell domination at Berlin! CRA point leader Johnny VanDoorn is coming to Berlin with hopes to extend his point lead in front of his hometown fans! The Young Guns will be back this weekend with Kelsey Steele looking to add to her 95 point lead over Dalton Haney. Dan Reimersma and Ben Kleis will battle it out for the #1 spot in the Burnips Equipment 4-Cylinder Points standings as Ryan Hamm and Jason Scheid look to jump over both of them to take the top spot. It should be an exciting weekend of racing at Berlin Raceway! Tickets are $15 for adults and $5 for kids.

Michigan Driver Rankings: August 5th

Steve Kaminiski
Grand Rapids Press

http://blog.mlive.com/finish_line/2009/08/driver_rankings_late_models_mi.html

MTS Sprints at Eldora Speedway

Robert Ballou set quick time, won his heat and the feature at Eldora Speedway Saturday night.

At the start of the feature Scotty Wier looked strong leading the fist half of the feature until the 81 car of ballou made contact with Wier wile the leaders were dicing through lapped traffic sending wier into a spin. After the restart Ballou took the lead and nevr looked back. Matt Westfall treid to mount a charge but could not catch The the leader. Ballou was followed by Matt Westfall, Corey Smith, Chase Stockon and Steve Ott.

Non-Wing Sprints - 36 cars
Fast Qualifier: Robert Ballou - 16.035

Heat 1 :
1. Robert Ballou 2. Steve Irwin 3. Landon Simon 4. Corey Smith 5. Kyle Simon 6. Keith Love 7. John Watson 8. David Gross 9. Craig Budde

Heat 2:
1. Matt Westfall 2. Steve Ott 3. Matt Goodnight 4. Dallas Hewitt 5. Todd Keen 6. Nick Landon 7. Patrick Budde 8. Bobby Jackson 9. Greg Baer

Heat 3:
1. Scotty Weir 2. Broc Burton 3. Mark Hery 4. Brandon Whited 5. Mike Galajda 6. Mike Burkin 7. Joe Irwin 8. Eric Gentry 9. John Memmer

Heat 4:
1. Chase Stockon 2. Dustin Smith 3. Luke Hall 4. Jason Holt 5. Travis Hery 6. Brandon Ferguson 7. Steve Thomas 8. Mark Strpko 9. Dave Pepperak

B Main 1:
1. Kyle Simon 2. Todd Keen 3. Nick Landon 4. John Watson 5. Bobby Jackson 6. Craig Budde 7. Patrick Budde 8. Keith Love 9. David Gross 10. Greg Baer

B Main 2:
1. Mike Galajda 2. Eric Gentry 3. Mike Burkin 4. Travis Hery 5. Brandon Ferguson 6. Dave Pepperak 7. Mark Strpko 8. Steve Thomas 9. Joe Irwin 10. John Memmer

A Main :
1. Robert Ballou 2. Matt Westfall 3. Corey Smith 4. Chase Stockon 5. Steve Ott 6. Luke Hall 7. Steve Irwin 8. Dallas Hewitt 9. Brandon Whited 10. Todd Keen 11. Jason Holt 12. Scotty Weir 13. Mark Hery 14. Dustin Smith 15. Kyle Simon 16. Matt Goodnight 17. Landon Simon 18. Mike Galajda 19. Broc Burton 20. Eric Gentry ”

Harold Curtis Funeral

Life Story Funeral Home on M-40 between Lawton and Paw Paw
Visitation Wednesday August 5th will be from 4-8 PM

Funeral 11:00 AM Thursday August 6th

Mike Blackmer Interview: Berlin Raceway

http://www.mlive.com/autoracing/index.ssf/2009/08/berlin_raceway_owner_mike_blac.html

God Speed: Harold Curtis

Harold Curtis, aged 36, and a Lt. with the Lawerence Fire Dept succumbed to his injuries today at Borgess Hospital in Kalamazoo. My thoughts and prayers go out to him and his family. Please keep the Curtis family, their friends, and Hartford Speedway in your thoughts and prayers.

I will post details of the funeral service when they become available.

Crystal Motor Speedway Rains Out As Features Start!

The rain had hit all around the track Saturday night at Crystal Motor Speedway but just as the first feature was about to start, the rains
began again and after a delay in the program, the event was called due to wet conditions. The Flinn Stocks had just taken the field for the first feature of the night, when the clouds opened. The event was sponsored by ASAP Sales and Service.

The rained off features will be run first thing next week before our normal show of all six divisions. Next week will be sponsored by by
Blake Hollenbeck Auto. Gates open at 4:30 and racing will start promptly at 7:30 PM. Adult admission to the grandstand will be $10 and kids 5-11 are $4. Pit passes are $25. Call the track at 989.235.5200 or visit the website at crystalmotorspeedway.com for more information.