[racegal]

Originally Posted by midgy You are welcome. Thanks to Rob too.

Yes!! By all means!! Thank you Rob!! I don't know what I would do with out you guys!!:respect::applaud:

[midgy]

Good night everyone. Those of you that are effected by the flooding, please be safe!

[gone_racin]

June 7, 2008


Hagerstown, Pennsylvania


Hagerstown Speedway





QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Tracy Hines, 21, Stewart-18.190; 2. Dave Darland, 44, Pace-18.196; 3. Cole Whitt, 67k, Kunz-18.216; 4. Brady Short, 36, Short-18.297; 5. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart-18.314; 6. Chad Boat, 30, Boat-18.328; 7. Jesse Hockett, 75, VKCC-18.360; 8. Darren Hagen, 67, Kunz-18.415; 9. Brad Sweet, 9, Kahne-18.449; 10. Damion Gardner, 71, Leffler-18.459; 11. Dustin Morgan, 93, M & M-18.479; 12. Jerry Coons Jr., 69, Dynamics-18.509; 13. Robert Ballou, 81, MPHG-18.541; 14. Shane Golobic, 2, Jones-18.567; 15. Josh Spencer, 66, Batcheldor-18.560; 16. Bill Rose, 6, Rose-18.593; 17. Shane Cottle, 4, Contos-18.600; 18. Brady Bacon, 99, Kahne-18.676; 19. Chris Windom, 1w, Triple Crown-18.810; 20. Chris Bonneau, 31, Buch-18.834; 21. Brad Kuhn, 2B, 2B Racing-19.149; 22. Bret Mellenberndt, 97x, Mellenberndt-19.262; 23. Bob Ream Jr., 13, Buch-19.301; 24. Richie Fitz, 1F, Fitz-19.514; 25. Daryl Stimeling, 18, Bolger-19.703; 26. Todd Zinn, 23, Zinn-20.603; 27. Chris Windom, 1H, Triple Crown-NT; 28. Bret Mellenberndt, 97, Mellenberndt-NT; 29. #20s, Stewart-NT; 30. #36x, Short-NT; 31. #67h, Kunz-NT; 32. #67x, Kunz-NT.





FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Windom (#1w), 2. Ballou, 3. Gardner, 4. Mellenberndt (#97x), 5. Rose, 6. Hines, 7. Short, 8. Stimeling, 9. Hockett. NT





SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Golobic, 2. Hagen, 3. Jones, 4. Morgan, 5. Darland, 6. Cottle, 7. Bonneau, 8. Ream, 9. Zinn. NT





THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Coons, 2. Whitt, 3. Sweet, 4. Kuhn, 5. Bacon, 6. Boat, 7. Spencer, 8. Fitz. NT





SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Hines, 2. Boat, 3. Ream, 4. Cottle, 5. Bonneau, 6. Fitz, 7. Short, 8. Stimeling, 9. Spencer, 10. Zinn. NT





FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Chad Boat, 2. Cole Whitt, 3. Jerry Coons Jr., 4. Robert Ballou, 5. Damion Gardner, 6. Brady Bacon, 7. Tracy Hines, 8. Brady Short, 9. Dave Darland, 10. Bob Ream Jr., 11. Brad Kuhn, 12. Dustin Morgan, 13. Shane Cottle, 14. Brad Sweet, 15. Chris Windom (#1w), 16. Bill Rose, 17. Richie Fitz, 18. Bret Mellenberndt (#97x), 19. Levi Jones, 20. Chris Bonneau, 21. Darren Hagen, 22. Shane Golobic, 23. Jesse Hockett. NT





**Mellenberndt flipped during qualifying. Hockett flipped during the first heat.





FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1 Boat, Laps 2-8 Whitt, Laps 9-30 Boat.





NEW NATIONAL SPRINT CAR STANDINGS: 1-Whitt-412; 2-Jones-398; 3-Coons-374; 4-Bacon-374; 5-Hagen-339; 6-Hines-338; 7-Darland-333; 8-Gardner-300; 9-Cottle-291; 10-Sweet-288.





NEXT NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE: – June 12 – Winchester (IN) Speedway

Originally Posted by Racerrob Text from track: Mellenberndt out of park in hot laps. Flew probably 75 yards. Unloaded the backup car. Track is pretty good.

That was one of the scariest things I have ever seen at a race track. Bret flipped and rolled down the steep embankment on the outside of the track, narrowly missed a bulldrozer down below and ended up in a construction ditch filled with mud probably 150 feet outside the track and 75 feed down. That could have ended up a lot worse that it ended up being.

Bret's car down in the mud in the construction ditch outside the track...



Hagerstown track worker fishing Bret's front clip out of the muck...

It's hard to imagine getting out of that car and getting right back in the backup.

[Tim Watson]

Great shots Gregg. How far did you have to run to take those pictures? Man looking at those pictures just puts a lump in your throat.

Since Bret is ok I hope Mills got this on video. It has to be spectacular.