Florida's Don Heckman and Doug Heveron on the pole at the Little 500

[Boneman]

Anderson Speedway....Car owner Don Heckman and driver Doug Heveron have set fast time and will start from the pole in Saturday's Little 500 in Anderson IN. Both Don and Doug will be retiring after this event, and want to go out with one more checkered flag.

I gotta brag a little....our family business, Rex Engineering, is one of Don's sponsors. Remember my brother "Tweety 16"? They have the motor from his Super Modified in the car this weekend. I am heading north tomorrow for the race.

[HaudFan]

That would be awesome to have both of them go out on top! Let's hope it happens. Good Luck!

[Dana Barlow]

The best!

That's great,I'm pulling from here as much as can be,go team go!

[ancrdave]

60th Pay Less Little 500
1st Round Qualifying Results
Anderson Speedway
Thursday, May 22, 2008

Note: Top 15 Locked into Starting Field

POS # DRIVER LAPS
1 22 Doug Heveron 45.184
2 19 Jimmy McCune 45.699
3 5 Tony Elliott 45.703
4 91 Dave Steele 45.862
5 2 Eric Gordon 45.863
6 44 Mat Neely 45.926
7 26 Jeff Bloom 45.934
8 23 Billy Puterbaugh 45.997
9 32 Tate Martz 46.044
10 66 Troy DeCaire 46.088
11 50 Brian Gerster 46.119
12 10 Brian Tyler 46.178
13 4 Shane Cottle 46.253
14 14 Johnny Rodriguez 46.416
15 81 Brad Armstrong 46.475
16 46 Russ Gamester 46.616
17 42 Jason Blonde 46.623
18 29 Aaron Pierce 46.691
19 22 Kenny Biro 46.762
20 5 Brandon Whited 46.842
21 63 Rex Norris III 46.842
22 07 Jeff Banyas 46.943
23 99 Ike Beasley 47.084
24 27 Sonny Hartley 47.427
25 51 Brent Berry 47.598
26 99 Kevin Feeney 47.745
27 46 Jim Swain 48.226
28 11 Tom Paterson 50.519
29 07 Ryan Litt Time Disallowed
30 07 Jacob Wilson Time Disallowed
31 4 Tyler Underwood Time Disallowed

[carolwicks]

Yahooooooooooooooo!!!!

Go DOUG!!!! hope you and Don have the best weekend of your lives!!!!!
Carolwicks aka OZ

[JackTripper]

If Don and Doug can pull this off, you're looking at the story of the year, regardless of series.

[OLD STYLE RACER 2]

Don't Know

The times are high. How do they go about qualifying for this race??

[ancrdave]

They do it just like Indy... Four laps total time... means you have to put four good laps together rather than getting the best one of two like usual time trials... They also start 33 cars, 11 rows of 3 (just like Indy) on a quarter mile track.... It is something to see, although it appears they may not have a full field this year...

Photo 1 - The start of the 2007 race...
Photo 2 - Doug Heveron during qualifying Thursday...

[HaudFan]

It will be interesting to see how "The Throttle" Shane Cottle does...Go Doug & Don!

[HaudFan]

I called it..."The Throttle" Shane Cottle with the Little 500 win.

[Boneman]

Yep, that kid is a driver. He was fast and smooth, but exactly clean. He pounded on some of the competition to get them out of the way.

Too bad we don't have a race like that in Florida. Anderson was a perfect track for it too.

[Frasson118]

Shane comes to Florida each year with a Dirt UMP Mod. I believe he just started running Sprints and Asphalt a few short years ago. Big win for him.

Rex... sorry to hear about the bad luck with the "Dream Team". Four of Florida's best racin' folk teaming up for the biggest race in Indiana... you all had a lot of us pulling for you guys!

[Boneman]

Frass, I had no luck finding a Davey Hamilton shirt. At a NAPCAR race, every driver has their own souvenier trailer. You can get stuff from all the stars like Buckshot Jones and Brett Bodine. At Indy, you could buy a Danica shirt about every 10 feet, but other than a few other name drivers like Kanaan and Helio, there was very little in the way of driver souveniers.