Derby

[Don Nerone]

I was checking out the Snow Ball Derby and saw that there wer 51 total cars there for the derby.
That is not a big car count for the biggest race of the year.
There were not many cars from around here in the hunt.







1 9 Chase Elliott 16.547
2 96 Ben Kennedy 16.554
3 98 Mason Mingus 16.563
4 77 David Ragan 16.621
5 67 Jeff Fultz 16.646
6 52 Chris Wimmer 16.680
7 12 Derek Thorn 16.692
8 98 Daniel Hemric 16.693
9 2 Donnie Wilson 16.702
10 8 John Hunter Nemechek 16.714
11 51 Erik Jones 16.730
12 51 Stephen Nasse 16.732
13 71 Kyle Benjamin 16.760
14 42 Chad Finley 16.776
15 15 Mason Massey 16.779
16 36 Alex Labbe 16.784
17 9 Mark Kraus 16.793
18 25 Ross Kenseth 16.805
19 90 Grant Enfinger 16.818
20 7 Paul Shafer, Jr. 16.826
21 22 Jeremy Pate 16.828
22 29 Austin Theriault 16.831
23 74 Preston Peltier 16.850
24 91 Zak Hausler 16.853
25 29 Anderson Bowen 16.855
26 26 Bubba Pollard 16.855
27 5 Dakoda Armstrong 16.860
28 29 Landon Cassill 16.864
29 99 Wayne Niedecken, Jr. 16.873
30 49 Josh Hamner 16.877
31 11 David Rogers 16.879
32 14 Chris Davidson 16.888
33 1 Mike Garvey 16.895
34 41 T.J. Reaid 16.896
35 10 Johanna Long 16.909
36 99 Casey Smith 16.925
37 53 Boris Jurkovic 16.930
38 45 Clay Rogers 16.944
39 21 Cale Gale 16.954
40 18 Hunter Robbins 16.964
41 60 D.J. Shaw 16.971
42 2 Brady Boswell 16.976
43 112 Augie Grill 17.009
44 79 Kyle Bryant 17.009
45 31 Kyle Grissom 17.025
46 47 Allen Karnes 17.070
47 129 Spencer Davis 17.154
48 19 Lonnie Sommerville 17.200
49 5 Jerry Artuso 17.202
50 11 Logan Boyett 17.250
51 51 Tim Martin 18.059
Posting this for those of you that want to know


Don 62

[Don Nerone]

Qulifing are starting now

don62

[Don Nerone]

lineup for the Derby Last Chance race:






1 98 Mason Mingus
2 11 David Rogers
3 79 Kyle Bryant
4 2 Brady Boswell
5 36 Alex Labbe
6 9 Mark Kraus
7 49 Josh Hamner
8 31 Kyle Grissom
9 52 Chris Wimmer
10 19 Lonnie Sommerville
11 60 D.J. Shaw
12 67 Jeff Fultz
13 99 Junior Niedecken
14 21 Cale Gale
15 5a Jerry Artuso
16 5 Dakoda Armstrong
17 47 Allen Karnes

[Frasson118]

While Don is knocking the car count, he failed to mention that there were several other cars in the pits that wrecked or blew motors in practice. The actual number is/was higher than 51. Pro LM's are close to 60.

Also, the Trucks, Super Stocks and Bombers had counts close to 30 each. Never did see a rundown on the Mods, so no clue on the car count there.

[Elkoldtimer]

yea I saw where they had 65 pre-entries, but only 51 attempted qualifying runs. I agree with you, that is not a whole lot of cars for the biggest SLM race of the year.
In my opinion when you've got Kyle Busch Racing, Brad Keselowski Racing, Hendrick Driver Development, plus a bunch of other high$$$ teams running now- the average Joe late model guy isn't going to even bother to try against all that.
I'm curious as to why the Anderson's do not race it anymore- or did I answer my own question already?

[Frasson118]

Anderson doesn't even run the Gov. Cup anymore. Actually doesn't race much of anything now that he and the FUPS had their fall out.

[Don Nerone]

While Don is knocking the car count, he failed to mention that there were several other cars in the pits that wrecked or blew motors in practice. The actual number is/was higher than 51. Pro LM's are close to 60.

Also, the Trucks, Super Stocks and Bombers had counts close to 30 each. Never did see a rundown on the Mods, so no clue on the car count there.

Im not knoking anything just wonderd warethe cars were.
I rember doing that race and the north south and my first hooters race and having 90 or better cars.
The big dirt races...are they still haviub over 100 cars ??

O and Jerry im nocking u not the car count ....smoke that..!! lol

28 trucks took time trials.
Rember parts pro trucks with 80 trucks..went to crate engines and the trucks were gone forever.

don62

[Elkoldtimer]

they had a good field of mods- must've been a big wreck around lap 22 as a bunch went out then.

Modifieds Feature Results (Unofficial) Presented by Racecar Engineering
1 8 Donnie Hamrac 50
2 145 Billy Melvin 50
3 5 Donald Crocker 50
4 79 Joe Aramendia 50
5 131 Jeff Letson 50
6 07 Bubba Pollard 50
7 80 Brandon Morris 50
8 96 John Heil 50
9 46 Doug Moff 50
10 66 Heath Mills 50
11 17 Chris Cotto 50
12 72 Johnny Walker 50
13 8 D.J. Hoelzle 50
14 10 Nathan Ingersoll 50
15 131 Parker Pugh 49
16 01 Darrell Bryson 49
17 33 Jason Morman 47
18 00 Brandon Curran 39
19 13 Ian Webster 34
20 117 Michael House 25
21 71 Scooter Grice 22
22 51 Zachary Knowles 22
23 14 Mike Maddox 22
24 18 Kevin Peel 22
25 71 L.B. Skaggs 22
26 88 John Sarppraicone Jr. 22
27 91 Jim Walls 22
28 10 Danny Bagwell 22
29 13 Jake Moore 21
30 112 Rocky Rogers 19
31 77 Jason Stanley 10
32 83 Bubba Gale 5

[Old Sunshine Fan]

Who took the 88 out this time....I'm sure it wasn't John Jr's fault....lol....OSF

[owm61]

Who took the 88 out this time....I'm sure it wasn't John Jr's fault....lol....OSF

Now that was funny, you're KILLING ME OSF, I would say he just ran out of talent on lap 22 , just like he did at the ebr race on lap 1, OUCH THAT'S GOING TO HURT

[owm61]

BTW Congrats to BRANDON MORRIS, 7TH place finish,not bad for someone who's never seen the place, good job young man.

[8modified]

DJ Hoelzle was 19th, the top 23 cars qualified fast enough this year to be in the top 5 cars last year.

Finishing positions

Johnny and LB were involved in the big one.

Brandon 7th
Doug 9th
DJ 13th No radio and lost the nose sheet metal