[Jerry Shaw]

After the winged feature, the track looked pretty battered. But, it goes to show you that sometimes it just doesn't matter. If you have to right drivers, on a certain night, a hell of a race is going to break out! And that it did. Until the very end of this one, you had at least the top six competitors (or more) just all over one another. Gurley and Sunshine going at in the beginning. Then Gurley took the lead, as Cottle, Courtney and Billbee went to war. McGhee was aggressive and on the move, as was Brady Short, from his 17th starting position. Then, about half way in, Courtney, who had gotten shuffled back a few spots, started working the very bottom and lap by lap, was inching toward the lead. With about 10 to go, he would do just that. But the bottom was starting to go away and he had an obvious problem, in Nick Billbee who was getting faster and looking like he decided he was not going to be denied, on this night. Short had made his way all the way up to sixth, at this point and would engage with Dave Darland in one of the best battles of this race, which is saying a lot, because this one was one big battle royale! Billbee would pull away in the end and Sunshine would have second taken away by Shane Cottle after Rusty had given the 2 to go signal and then fall to the hard charging Max McGhee. This ended up being a race that deserved being named after the great Sheldon Kinser and nobody embodied that spirit more than Nick Billbee, on this night. It was a well deserved and hard earned win.

Jerry