[Jerry Shaw]

It's been a real good year at Bloomington Speedway! Other than the weeks that Mother Nature KO'd, each feature has been dominated by a group of drivers running up towards the front, that have been all over each other for the better part of the race. This one started out with Brady Short opening up a decent size lead, all while the secondary pack of Jeff Bland, Jon Sciscoe, Bobby East and Jon Stanbrough just participated in a Battle Royale for the middle part of this race. Then, when this pack reeled in Short, and Stanbrough and Sciscoe got around him (when Stanbrough had caught up to and was bearing down on Brady, I just kept hearing the theme to "Jaws" playing, in my head), it looked like JS would check out, but the bottom runner in the #7 car started slowly chipping away at his lead. And while this scenario was playing it's self out, B-Main transfer Shane Cottle had rifled through the field and was up to 5th! Totally under the radar for the majority of the run, because the other battles were so riviting. And then it was stopped for a lengthy yellow when Cottle was entangled with a lapped car. Then finally, when they went back green and Stanbrough checked out, headed for the clear victory and it seemed like the finish was going to be anti-climactic, Sciscoe and Short came to the flagstand leaving everybody wondering who had gotten the runner up spot. And even though I like both drivers, I'm glad that Sciscoe ended up with 2nd, because he was the catalyst, the one that stirred the pot in most of this race's really good battles. This was a race that featured non-stop action and was green most of the way, with very few yellows and no bad crashes the whole night. It honored the memory of Sheldon Kinser very well.

Now, on to Round 2 of this Southern Indiana doubleheader at Tri-State Speedway!!!

Jerry