Hopefully that will be true. Unfortunately you only get one chance to make a first impression. Might be an uphill battle for a while.

People take it easy. Gas City could have very well not even opened this year were it not for this new team taking over. Give them a break and stay positive.

Are you at Brownstown or Bloomington ??? Lol

Everybody go home after the heats?

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DD transferred from the B!:8:
That's all I know! Sorry!

Chett Gerhrke wins the midget A main

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Thanks at least they are still racing, all be it at reduced speed...

Back at Gas City after the rework but thought I had time to get to Bloomington after the heats..bmain was great

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Bloomington is hammer down tonight., Brownstown was absolutely tacky with a foot high cushion for the Late Model points opener...id have killed to have Brownstowns track last saturday for the no way out 40

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Cottle wins in a thriller over stanbrough! Cockrum 3rd

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Feature much better then the heats

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Congrats to Shane Cockrum on a nice run 15th to 3rd!!

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Dd and cockrum very close at the line, official finish wasnt announced so 3rd and 4th may be different

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Congrats to the Don Moore Music Publications #10 on its feature win tonight at Gas City!!! Great job Chett Gerhke & crew!

Mike Cray

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For an opening night under new management I thought everything went pretty well. Sure I would have enjoyed more competitive heats but the semi & the feature were well worth it. The track apparently was to the drivers liking in the feature. I had the finish with Cottle-1st (up from 14th starting position); Stanbrough-2nd (up from 12th starting position); Cockrum-3rd (up from 15th starting position); Darland-4th (up from 19th starting position and Boespfug-5th (up from 8th starting position. Stanbrough and Clauson were battling it out early on and then Stanbrough pulled away to a big lead. The final caution flag came out with 10 to go and it was then Stanbrough and Cottle battling wheel to wheel for a bit, with Cottle eventually pulling out the win.

A shout out also to both Chet Gerhke and Issac Chapple for their midget drives. Chapple won the heat and finished second in the feature while Gerhke finished second in the heat and won the feature.

Also a shout out to Rob Goodman and Brett Bowman who are announcing at Gas City. They did an excellent job of getting lineups read prior to cars being on the track. Thank you very much on a job well done.

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I agree with mudpacker. Just wish they could have qualified. Really enjoyed the double file restarts even if it did take a couple laps to line em up. The feature was a great one. Too bad Ballou, Leary, Tmez, and the pink 41 left on the hook. Next weeks USAC show ought to be stellar.

Anyone care to share the mod results.

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Feature (Starting Position)

1. 27A – Shane Cottle (14)
2. 17RW – Jon Stanbrough (12)
3. 66C – Shane Cockrum (15)
4. 41D – Dave Darland (19)
5. 57 – Chad Boespflug (8)
6. 7 – Bryan Clauson (5)
7. 21- Justin Grant (18)
8. 20 – Jerry Coons, Jr (17)
9. 18S – Scotty Weir (20)
10. 12G – Chris Gurley (9)
11. 15F – Aaron Farney (11)
12. 18A – Jarett Andretti (2)
13. 17R – Kyle Robbins (4)
14. 29J – Logan Jarrett (7)
15. 41M – Thomas Meseraull (16)
16. 18L – Todd Keen (16)
17. 30 – CJ Leary (6)
18. 14H – AJ Hopkins (3)
19. 41K – Cole Ketcham (1)
20. 12B – Robert Ballou (13)

Midgets

1. 10 – Chett Gerke (2)
2. 52C – Issac Chappel (1)
3. 16 – Thomas Meseraull (5)
4. 6RR – Lyndsey Liguori (3)
5. 21X – Nick Speidel (4)
6. 21S – Justin Dickerson (6)
7. 17N – Duke Nalon (7)
8. 5 – Gary Gipson (8)


Modifieds

1. 21L – Derek Losh (8)
2. 4S – Rob Starkey (1)
3. 47 – Collin Thrilby (3)
4. 22T – Tony Anderson (4)
5. 65 – Todd Sherman (10)
6. X – Bill Lewis (16)
7. M14 – Scott Martin (5)
8. 24M – Zeke McKenzie (17)
9. 8 – Jim Mallory (8)
10. 77 – Bill Bradley (15)
11. 18L – Randy Lines (12)
12. 0 – Tim Wilbur (11)
13. 37 – JD Francis (9)
14. 7H – Aaron Orr (18)
15. T5X – Bub Roberts (14)
16. 01C – Andrew Clark (20)
17. 18N – Derick Noffsinger (2)
18. 95 – Jeremy Van Ness (23)
19. 36 – DJ Holt (22)
20. 10 – Eric Hunter (21)
21. 1 – Andy Bishop (7)
22. 23 – Ryan Cripe (13)
23. E85 – Jesse Strange (19)
24. 29 – Chad Rennaker (24)

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Since Monteplier was another washout for tomorrow night I took a break from getting ready to check things out at Gas City. For what it's worth, my thoughts (in no particular order of importance):
From hotlaps through the heats, the track was horrible; given how dusty the track was for hotlaps I was surprised that they only watered down the exit lane before the heats.
I actually thought the midgets looked pretty good on the dry-slick; they may have been turning quicker laps that the sprinters at that point in the night. It was a little disappointing to see only 8 midgets turn up. I hope the count improves, but not to the detrement of Montpelier. If Mel decides to let the chain-drives in, that could only help. If I had gotten my trailer registered in time I would've considered taking my car tonight; I'd have gotten a top-ten my first time out!
To their credit, the track crew did a great job bringing the surface back from the dead for the Semi and features.
I've only been to G.C. a couple of times; it's tough for me to get off work in time most Fridays, but what's all the whining about the stands? Sure, they aren't the most comfortable, but I've seen worse, and there were plenty of decent spots that weren't taped off.
I thought Jerry Coons Jr. was going to put it to everybody from the back; he was flying early but faded when the track started to go away, then Stanbrough hit his stride and came to the front as Dave methodically worked his way forward too, but the Throttle had too much for everybody. His car looked like it was jumping out of the corners, he had so much more bite than everybody. Nice job in a new ride.
All in all, not a bad first night; not perfect, but there's plenty of nights to get better.

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If you want to see fast and tacky come to Bloomington, between the new clay, and the track re-configuration , it ain't what it used to be. Huggy pole won't win any races there. You gotta stand on it.

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NOT starting position but Finish position

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The numbers in parenthesis ARE the starting positions for the feature.

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For what its worth, the track promoter told us last week at Kokomo and again last night at Gas city that he IS going to allow chain drives. You might want to call him to make sure. Don't go by what the world wide web says...

Hopefully they get the mess at the payoff window straightened out ASAP or the car counts will dwindle quickly! Teams shouldn't have to go back twice to get your pay correct or have to bring up the payout that was posted on the website to the window because they have NO CLUE! Granted it was 1st night, I get that n I don't like to talk negative about tracks because we need every single one we have racing to stay racing!!!! But that's a MAJOR problem that needs addressed ASAP!! I've been around enough to know 1 incident like that can ruin you quickly, especially when you got drivers from other tracks there n just not your locals. A Main in sprints was excellent after the lap 15 caution n good before that point. Midget A was alright.

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Congrats to Chett, "The one man driving machine" as I call him. Luckily I was there to watch him win last night,and also the last time he won there in his Focus midget back in 2007. Back then he was a full time Focus midget driver. If I understand it correctly,now he has an "agent" that helped arrange for this ride last night.

Congrats again,Chett, from your only fan......

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I had heard that from someone who asked me not to share at the time, possibly because Mel hadn't made up his mind 100%yet. I had called Mel myself some time ago to discuss it with him and said he was going to call me back with a decision, but I understand that he's pretty busy; it's good to hear confirmation, and I'll have to give it a try on an off-weekend for Montpelier.
And no, I don't believe anything I read on the Internet; even stuff I write myself!:6:

Wow!!! I did not expect you would need to spell that one out. :3:

Thanks for results Barb!!

A quick look at starting position compared to finishing position and the track was perfect for racing.

As a new IOW member, I read it the EXACT way Mr Gatten read it thank you for the clarification. Also, thank you Barb for the results.

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It was, for the Semi and Features. Nobody moved forward much in the heats, except for the Silent Gasser.
That made for a stacked B though, and an at-the-line win by J.C. jnr over Justin Grant.
I forgot one comment this morning @ 1:30; my opinion of the Delaware Double-file restarts is that they're unneccesarily gimmicky for open-wheel racing. Single-file and hammer-down at the cone is plenty exciting. But that's just one person's opinion, and a minor gripe. Kudos to Mel for his first effort.

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Drawing for starting position eliminates the opportunity for a team to use their own skills to enhance their position. Not much skill involved in drawing for a position and even if one gets a bad draw for qualifying you still are afforded a chance to use skill as opposed to pure chance. Qualifying also allows that occasional fan to match driver name with cars before the actual racing begins.

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I hate the luck of the draw!! :15::21::26::(:19::42:::43::