May 5th - Lawrenceburg Speedway - $1,500 to win
 

MAY 5TH - KELSEY CHEVROLET SPRINTS - $1,500 TO WIN

The Kelsey Chevrolet Sprints return to the Lawrenceburg Speedway in Lawrenceburg, Ind., on Saturday night May 5th for another exciting night of racing. Dickie Gaines, the winner of last weekends "King of the Midwest Sprints" race, is the current point leader holding a 45-point advantage over Landon Simon. Garrett Abrams turned the fastest lap in that race and sits just 20-points behind Simon in third place, followed by Shawn Westerfeld and Michael Fischesser.

This event will feature the standard Lawrenceburg payout of $1,500 to win and $225 to start the 25-lap feature.

Kelsey Chevrolet Sprints Standard Feature Payout ($8,275 total)
1- $1,500, 2- $850, 3- $700, 4- $600, 5- $500, 6- $400, 7- $350, 8- $320, 9- $300, 10- $280, 11- $270, 12- $265, 13- $260, 14- $255, 15- $250, 16- $245, 17- $240, 18- $235, 19- $230, 20- $225.

As standard practice at all Lawrenceburg Speedway races, there will be $100 tow money paid to all sprint cars that do not start the feature.

Bobby Gompf and the Lawrenceburg Speedway Safety Crew presents a $63 Grasshopper Award each week to the sprint feature hard charger in memory of the late Bryan Clauson. Drivers earning the cash award this season include Garrett Abrams (4/21 +11) and Michael Fischesser (4/28 +10).

MAY 5, 2018 - Lawrenceburg Speedway

• Kelsey Chevrolet Sprints
• Budweiser UMP Modifieds
• Impact Sports Pure Stocks
• Bessler’s U Pull & Save Hornets

4:00 pm Pit Gate Opens
5:00 pm Front Gate Opens
6:00 pm Practice
7:00 pm Opening Ceremonies

General Admission:
Adult $15
Children (7-12) $7
Under 6 FREE

Pit Pass: $30 (all ages)

Special promotions, tickets, and Family Four Packs are only redeemable at the main front gate entrance.

Pit passes cannot be purchased as an upgrade from a promo ticket, Family Four Pack, or a theme night.

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For More Information – www.lawrenceburgspeedway.com

After gas city last night. We will be in the house tonight at the burg. Looking forward to seeing all of the great racing fans next weekend at Eldora. Have fun and enjoy all the great racing events this weekend. Thanks.

16 Sprinters

K.Swanson in the 3r
Fischesser
Bilbee
Moffatt
Owen
Hankins
Giddens
Gaines
Abrams
McVey
Tyler Kendell
Steve Thomas
McMurray
Braxton Cummings
Applegate
Cameron Olding


The sprints and modifieds are both doing wheel packing because of the light rain this afternoon.

1st Heat

Hankins
Thomas
Applegate
McVey
Abrams
Owen
Kendell
Moffatt

Finish

Thomas
McVey
Moffatt
Hankins
Abrams

Heat 2 of 2

Giddens
Cummings
Bilbee
Gaines
Fischesser
McMurray
Swanson
Olding


Finish


Cummings
Bilbee
Gaines
Giddens
Swanson
Fischesser
McMurray
Olding

Feature

McVey
Bilbee
Thomas
Cummings
Moffatt
Gaines
Hankins
Giddens
Abrams
Swanson
Owen
Fischesser
Applegate
McMurray
Kendall
Olding

Lap 12 Bilbee made an unbelievable move around traffic to open up a lead oner Swanson.

Bilbee wins and a free for all behind him. Lots of banging but no yellows.

Finish

Bilbee
Swanson - Hard charger
Gaines
Abrams
Cummings
Fischesser
Owen
McVey
Giddens
Hankins

The Bilbee move I mentioned was going outside of a lapped car then inside of another in the front stretch. Beautiful move that may have won it for him. Congrats on his win. He earned it. Swanson and company was there to keep him honest.

The track really came in for the feature.

Feature over at 9:30.

Originally Posted by Gregg:
Bilbee wins and a free for all behind him. Lots of banging but no yellows.

Sounds like I missed out on a good one. I was in the truck packed and ready to head north and looked at forecast and let it scare me off.

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Originally Posted by brsteg:
Sounds like I missed out on a good one. I was in the truck packed and ready to head north and looked at forecast and let it scare me off.

It was indeed a good one. I don't blame you for being scared off. I was at the track about 4:20 and it was wet enough that I had some doubts I'd see a wheel turn.

Hope to see you at the 'burg sometime soon.

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Cinco De'Burg-O Review.

I can't say it was a GREAT show but it was SURE AS HECK WORTH going too and was darn good.

I started the day in the am by going to a private collection antique tractor open house in which the guy has several over 100 year old tractors, one of a kinda and one of three or four existing. He restores them and for this open house runs as many as he can for his guest.

Anyway, that started good with one of the massive tractors taking a lap and a old piper airplane straiffng us as the tractor shook the ground. Low and behold everyone breaks for lunch as he really has a parade planned for after lunch. Starts raining, starts raining harder, keeps raining. Look at the radar, Rain everywhere but Burg. Burg's right on the edge, this is NOON. I hang around and friend also racing buddy leaves and I ask him to tell me if Burg or Florence cancels. 1:30 i get the call Florence cancelled. Ok, I stay till three until the tractor owner decides he's going to get them back to the pole barns just so i can see em run.

Still no call about Lawrencburg. This is bethel Ohio 30mi east of Cincy so I go the south route on 275 across the river, past the airport, Passed the Creation Museum and it's raining hard as I cross the Ohio river on the Lawrencburg side, Pull into greendale and its just sprinkling but the roads are dry. Pull into track, few sprinkles. run the wiper once every minute or two but nothing hard. 5pm, gates open, rain stops, never to start again.

As Gregg said, track was heavy, so heavy hot laps were rooster tails and actually a full secons slower than normal. So heavy they packed between races the rest of the night but features were great.

Bilbee grabbed the lead early but since they packed the track real nice Swanson went topside for the first two laps and passed 9 cars from his tenth starting spot in a lap and a half. He dogged Bilbee a couple times but in open track Bilbee opened up a gap. Gregg mentioned the traffic move he made that maybe sealed the deal but Swanson was close up until then.

Early in the race Dickie was up to third or fourth and in one of Gregg's described clashes but no cautions, Dickie all but spun, fell back to sixth or seventh and started fighting back. Abrams was a madman/showman again coming all the way up to third and was challenging Swanson for second on the last corner of the last lap and two cars got together inside him, He went ourside and Dickie went inside and Dickie got third and Abrams fourth.

If it wasn't for traffic at times. It would probably been the fastest 25 lap feature ever on the track, Congrats to Bilbee and team, well done! Swanson's proving he can be as good in a dirt sprinter as he is on pavement. That or he knows 10th don't pay the bills :) Dickie, the JSR team is no big $$ team by a long shot, it's a solid car and a driver who's made a ton of laps. I've said it a couple times before. But when Abrams ends up winning, it won't be a surprise for me, Im sure he'll be elated.

Modified race was on a bit of a wider track and was great, Josh Rice came in and put on a show and he is awesome fun to watch. But he got up to second from a mid pack start and ran into leader Skipton on the 19th lap. tearing off his right side and flattening Skiptons LF. It brought out a debris caution but both continued in their positions and Skipton was able to hold on the final lap for his first mod win.

Say a prayer for Katie Smith (Hornet Driver) who was taken to the hospital for injuries or sorness sustained in a accident. Said she was alert and communicating as they left.

Other than that is was a pretty GREAT Night, I didn't even use the club discount as I figured if they run this thing, they deserve the extra $$$ and they did! 16 sprints 21 mods 33 hornets and 11 Streets, Put on a good show. Sprint and Mod done by 10:05 Temp dropped to about 60 and stayed there, No wind, no dust and only the slightest sliver of Rubber in 3/4 on a very fast track.

Chuck

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Always appreciate your great recaps Chuck.Thanks again.:8::9:

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From Burg Facebook page
Katie Smith Update: Katie, who was involved in an on track incident last night while racing our Hornet division was transported to Highpoint Health hospital in Lawrenceburg and later transported by ambulance to UC in Cincinnati. She has been treated and is set to be released this evening. Let's all send her well wishes for a speedy recovery.