THUNDERHILL RACEWAY
Summertown, TN
“The Family Track”
www.thunderhillracing.com
August 22, 2009
With PERFECT race weather and 104 cars we were set for some great racing action as we hosted the SMP series this week.

 
The top three qualifiers in the Super Late Model division were:
(1) Jerry Owens 12.842 (2) Jaybird Marlin 13.041 (3) Ray McElhiney 13.153

Top three qualifiers for the Modified Street special were:
(1) Steve Yocom 15.377 (2) Brian Vandygriff 15.525 (3) Jimmy Woodard 15.594

SMP Open Wheel qualifying
Group #1
(1) Jason Hughes 13.858 (2) Hunter Rasdon 14.012 (3) Eddie Rhinehart 14.126
Group #2
(1) Eric Hickerson 13.985 (2) Randy Todd 14.023 (3) Jeff Weaver 14.043

Heat Races:
Crate/Limited Late Model #1
(1) Donald Johns (2) Brad Skinner (3) David Young
Crate/Limited Late Model #2
(1) Ben Davis (2) Shannon Ardry (3) Grant Helms
Open Wheel #1
(1)Tony Simmons (2)David Seibers (3) Jason Clayton
Open Wheel #2
(1) Steven Holcomb (2) T.J. Herndon (3) Bob Jarrett
Street Stock #1
(1) Shawn Johnson (2) Randall Himes (3) Cheryl Shrader
Street Stock #2
(1) Daniel Kelley (2) Joshua Himes (3) Ben Gillespie
Mini Stock #1
(1) Cody Martin (2) Justin Odom (3) John Smartt
Mini Stock #2
(1) Joe Burns (2) Tommy Wallace (3) Michael Cates
Open Wheel Mini
(1) Burton Graham (2) Timmy Woodard (3) Dustin Stutts

Feature Time!
In the Limited Late Model division Donald Johns led the full twenty laps of the race for his first win of the season. (1)Donald Johns (2) Ben Davis (3) Brad Skinner (4) Shannon Ardry (5) Shawn Mooneyhan (6) Robert Ardry (7) Jeff Echols (8) David Young (9) Donald Estes (10) William Wade (11) Grant Helms (12) Lewis Blocker (13) Mycal Newton (14) Joey Scott

The Modified Street class drivers got a LITTLE bit confused when it was time to line up. After qualifying, three cars did NOT cross the scales, therefore they had to take up the rear and they got rows crossed up (the track apologizes for this error and already has a new method ready for this next week concerning lineup and being race ready when they hit the track). Well, with the race finally underway and what a race it was … the drama was only beginning. After two restart and three cautions the finishing order was still up for grabs. Michael Kennedy (K3) who led the first ten laps and crossed the line in second … was DQ’ed when he refused a protest. Steve Yocom led the final ten laps to take the checkered but was also DQ’ed at the scales for being too light. This moved Jimmy Woodard up to the top spot but before he could be declared the winner he got protested. After doing a complete tear down Woodard was found legal and declared the final winner. (1) Jimmy Woodard (2) Shawn Workman (3) Cale Finley (4) Brian Vandygriff (5)) Tim Hobby (6) Robert Ashworth (7)Rodney Himes (8) Jason Maurer (9) Michael Estes (10) Kenneth Martin
DNS-Lance Robertson, Greg Love
DQ’ed-Steve Yocom, Michael Kennedy

With the SMP Open Wheel series up next and a field of twenty-two cars … what a race these guys put on. Jason Hughes led the first nine laps but it would be Hunter Rasdon that led laps ten thru thirty to pick up his second win at Thunderhill this season.
(1) Hunter Rasdon (2) Jason Hughes (3)Jeff Weaver (4)Randy Todd (5) T.J. Herndon (6) Tony Simmons (7) Eric Hickerson (8) Jason Clayton (9)Jacob Cooper (10) Robert Cogdill (11)Darrin Cameron (12)David Seibers (13)Shane White (14) Jamie Williams (15) Steven Holcomb (16) Greg Hughes (17) Jamie Land (18)Kevin Hannah (19) Bob Jarrett (20) Brad Qualls (21) Kevin Daniels (22)Eddie Rhinehart

The Super Late Model division also saw two of your top qualifiers taking up the rear for this event as Jerry Owens was too light at the scales and Ray McEhliney did not cross the scales. Jaybird Marlin led the full twenty-five laps to take win number five in the two caution race. Both came on lap nineteen … first for Daniel West as he spun in turn four then the second when Ryan King took a trip off turn two (1) Jaybird Marlin (2) Eric Hickerson (3) Seth McCormack (4) Jerry Jackson (5)Jerry Owens (6) Donald Johns (7) Jason Clayton (8) Ray McElhiney (9)Ryan King (10) Daniel West

From a field of thirteen Street Stocks, Daniel Kelley led the full fifteen laps to pick up win number four for the season.
(1) Daniel Kelley (2) Shawn Johnson (3) Ben Gillespie (4) Bubba Green (5) Randall Himes (6) David Lewis (7) John Tosh (8) Rickey Cheatham (9) Cheryl Shrader (10) Jason Hubbell aka “catman” Brian Russ (11) Joshua Himes (12)Jim Floyd
DNS-Brandon Holt

The Mini Stock class saw Joe Burns go green to checkered for his first win of the season in a race with one restart (John Smartt spun in four) and one caution race that come on lap one when Matthew Turner got into the wall. (1) Joe Burns (2)Tommy Wallace (3) Dillon Scott (4) John Smartt (5) Michael Cates (6) Michael Boatman (7) T.J. Wallace (8) Jr. Roland (9) Gary Rhiele (10) Justin Odom (11) Joe Wall (12)Matthew Turner
DNS-Eddie Runions, Craig Pedrick
DNF-Steve Nave, Cody Martin, B.B. Tarpley

Outlaw Mini class saw Robert McCormack take the first lap but it would be Clyde Petty two thru fifteen in a five-minute caution free race to take his first win at Thunderhill. (1) Clyde Petty
(2) Scott Cooper (3) Robert McCormack (4) Junior Cates (5) Steve Nave

What a race in the Open Wheel Mini class as we had three different leader in this fifteen lap race. Timmy Woodard led from the drop of the green thru lap eight but the contact he made with Dustin Stutts as Stutts was making the pass cost him a black flag for rough driving. Stutts led the next two laps but apparently had enough damage to cause him problems; as he started slowing it opened up the door for Burton Graham who was waiting patiently and took the lead and held it for the final five laps to take his third win of the season.
(1) Burton Graham (2) Dustin Stutts (3) Trevor Woodard (4) Kyle Rochelle (5) Jeff Dunn
(6) Michael Nave (7) Brandon Woodard (8) Tony Huskey (9) Timmy Woodard

Racing every Saturday night.
Gates open @ 4:00, racing at 7:00pm.
Submitted by:
Doris Cherry