Texana Raceway Park

Results for 5/9/09

 

On a Mother’s Day Weekend along with a Full Moon, it was time to put on some dirt track racing action.  With the mini-stocks scheduled off, the raceway carried in 75 teams ready to get the job done along with nine spectator racers.  With a healthy car count, an equally healthy fan count, which we discovered included a visitor from Florida, one from Utah, and one from Washington State; it was a great show well worth the price of admission.

 

Joseph Snow was the featured driver, who had his car on display in the general admission section prior to the races.  Joseph signed pictures, and met a lot of fans.  As he went to the track for his heat race, he gave those same fans something to remember, as he was collected in a turn 3 incident placing him on his side.  The crew rolled him back over, the car was checked out, he was back underway.

 

After completing the annual spectator races, it was time for feature action.  The Texana Classic Dwarfs were the first group out and the crowd provided them with a standing ovation as they carried in the largest car count of the night.  The point’s leader prior to the night was Andrew Cline by five points who was followed by Willie Veach Jr.  Due to a heat race incident, Cline started at the end of the field and Veach started at the front.  Veach led the event from start to finish and Cline moved all the way from the back to a  third place finish, getting recognition as the “hard charger” of the night.  The Texana Classic Dwarfs are always good for spectacular competition and this night was no exception.  The group ran with one caution and the crowd roared with excitement. 

41 Willie Veach

65 Buck McFarland

19 Andrew Cline

1   Brad Wright

13 Mike Christians

24 Victor Vargas

54 Gary Hanson

79 Doug Schmidt

8   Donnie Hunt

36 Greg Sexton Sr.

4   Karl Veach

99 Brice Baros

2ez Easy Casey

01 Joseph Snow

82 Brandon Dorsey

5   Jack Linney

 

When the Bombers rolled out, it was the three lady drivers to the front in recognition of Mothers Day.  Jackie Burnett and the birthday girl Janet Perks were on the front with Sandra Hudgeons on the inside of Row 2.  Interestingly enough Perks didn’t need the additional graces as she won her heat race and had already earned her starting position.  As the green dropped, it was Perks to the early lead with Nic Priem in hot pursuit.  Priem eventually passed Perks and Priem would go on to win the feature with Perks in 2nd.

71 Nic Priem

12 Janet Perks

77 Chris Shafer

36 Randy Kacir

76 Gary Wright

31 Brian King

11 Shawn Kline

58 Scott Hagan

05 Jackie Burnett

81 Aaron Ivory

88 Sandra Hudgeons

21 Jason Fox

 

Following the Bombers it was time for Limited Modifieds.  Of special interest coming into the night was that Paul White had won three straight features.  Track owner, Bruce Tesch placed a bounty on White with White’s permission which would start with an extra $100 for the winner if they could beat White, fair and square, with White finishing the feature.  If it couldn’t be done this week, it would go up by another $100 at the next event and continue forward after that.  Well, the founder of the “Last Minute Racing” team decided he didn’t want to let the bounty build up as he blistered the Texana oval and cruised to victory collecting the bounty in the first week.

175 Mickey Helms

216 Paul White

6 Vince Louden

888 Aaron Lunsford

221 Dwayne Norvell**

4p Joseph Penney**

36 Cody Hildebrandt

42 Ricky Konvicka

00 Derrick Flora

20 Daniel Norvell**

66 Hunt Harrison

04 Jacob Burnett

15 Andy Van Blarcum

**welcome Dwayne Norvell and Daniel Norvell with their first run at Texana and welcome back to Joseph Penney with his first run at Texana in 2009. 

 

Then it was time for some Hot Stock Truck action.  10 of the trucks rolled out to the take the feature and just as the fans did for the Texana Classic Dwarfs, the crowd roared with excitement and gave a standing ovation.  In possibly a first it was three members of the same family running in the same race with Russell Bloom, Justin Bloom, and Penny Bloom who is mom to Justin and wife to Russell.  Penny started on the pole in recognition of Mothers Day.  Unfortunately a pile up in turn 2 collected Penny and a few other competitors to sideline them for the event.  Back underway it would be Greg Turner leading the majority of the event.  Late in the event, John Leita attempted to pass and the two collided.  This opened the door for Chris Shafer who had been waiting patiently and Shafer would take the win.

38 Chris Shafer

24 John Leita

55 Russell Bloom

84 Justin Bloom

39 Nathan Kildair

13 Greg Turner

8  Larry Paris

49 Penny Bloom

43 Bob Ort

76 Johnny Thomas

 

As the super stocks took the green it was AJ Dancer to the early lead.  As the event progressed, GW Hessong was carefully working his way through the field and took the lead coming out of turn 4 on the last lap just edging out Dancer with Hessong getting the win by half a car length.

47 GW Hessong

52 AJ Dancer

67 Sonny Hammond

26f Eric Floyd

5-0 Jerry Neal

5  Scott Stubbs

70 Mike Davenport

 

With the modifieds, it was part 2 for the bounty hunters.  But, this time it was not to be claimed as Paul White would win his fourth straight modified feature.  The bounty will go up by another $100 next event on May 16th with someone having the chance to pocket a total of $1,000.  Paul White and Josh Majek led the field to green and White would head to the lead with young Majek in pursuit.  There were several drivers hanging it out on the outside cushion up against the wall providing a spectacular show for the fans.  

2w Paul White

82 Josh Majek

8  Steve Miller

1a Adan Arambula

76 Jesse Manning

57 Dale Flanagan

26 Darin Leonard

174 Max Helms

155 Vince Kacir

54 Gary Hanson

12 David McBride

96 Foster Ellison III

22 Art Rodriguez

87 Lawrence Mikulencak

 

Texana Raceway Park will be back in action next week on May 16th and then taking a couple of weeks off.  On the 16th, it will be Kids Foot Races at intermission.  Darin Leonard, driver of the #26 Modified will be the featured driver before the races.  Also, the mini-stocks will be back in action and each mini-stock driver that enters to race on that night will get an extra $20 sponsored by Cabin Creek Design.