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Originally Posted by bni69 (Post 371699)

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)

NOT starting position but Finish position

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

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Originally Posted by jjones752 (Post 371701)

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.

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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Originally Posted by mtcray (Post 371691)

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

Mike Cray

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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Originally Posted by Geoff Kaiser (Post 371718)

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:

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Originally Posted by bni69 (Post 371712)

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

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.

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Originally Posted by Bill Gardner (Post 371729)

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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Originally Posted by Bill Gardner (Post 371729)

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.

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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Originally Posted by johnnythunderhead (Post 371543)

a bad draw for starting position is no worse than a bad draw for timetrialing position, I'm sorry folks, but for the most part I see it as a waste of time, a track prep determ:8:ent and a set up for follow the leader racing/ aside from that, which I see as a miniscule issue, I wish the new promoter well and hope the midgets take off right out of the box and do nothing but continue to grow from there!

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.