This years field is one of the strongest in recent years. They had over 40 cars at the track today for the 33 car field.


61st Pay Less Little 500
1st Round Qualifying Results
Anderson Speedway
Thursday, May 21, 2009

Note: Top 15 Locked into Starting Field

POS # DRIVER HOMETOWN TIME DIFF
1 5 Tony Elliott Warsaw 45.271 -
2 91 Dave Steele Tampa, FL 45.394 0.123
3 20 Shane Hollingsworth Lafayette 45.503 0.232
4 56 Tony Hunt Lincoln, CA 45.569 0.298
5 07 Jacob Wilson Crawfordsville 45.584 0.313
6 44 Brian Tyler Mt. Pleasant, NC 45.616 0.345
7 26 Aaron Pierce Daleville 45.763 0.492
8 4 Shane Cottle Kokomo 45.772 0.501
9 17 Chris Windom Canton, IL 45.908 0.637
10 88 Jimmy McCune Toledo, OH 45.975 0.704
11 14 Nick Green San Jose, CA 46.058 0.787
12 97 Donnie Adams, Jr. Alexandria 46.076 0.805
13 2 Eric Gordan Indianapolis 46.125 0.854
14 7 JoJo Helberg Rohnert Park, CA 46.220 0.949
15 81 Troy Decaire New Palestine 46.288 1.017
16 07 Ryan Litt London Ont Canada 46.447 1.176
17 5H Brandon Whited Richmond 46.604 1.333
18 42 Jason Blonde Litchfield, MI 46.659 1.388
19 91L Shane Butler Bushnell, FL 46.695 1.424
20 26 Jeff Bloom Bangor, MI 47.124 1.853
21 63 Rex Norris, III Knightstown 47.144 1.873
22 7 Tim Cox Park City, IL 47.229 1.958
23 7 Chet Fillip Indianapolis 47.271 2.000
24 46 Rus Gamester Peru 47.273 2.002
25 37 Mike Koss Port Charlotte, FL 47.480 2.209
26 27 Brian Gerster Fishers 47.610 2.339
27 59 Ryan Hamilton Indianapolis 47.678 2.407
28 51 Brent Berry Fountaintown 47.723 2.452
29 99 Sondi Eden Crawfordsville 47.805 2.534
30 24 Bill Tyler Parma, MI 47.992 2.721
31 18 Jim Sheets Anderson 48.155 2.884
32 99 Kevin Feeney Oxford, MI 48.161 2.890
33 07 Jeffrey Banyas North Olmsted, OH 48.257 2.986
34 42h Adam Schuyler Yorktown 48.958 3.687
35 46 Jim Swain Union City, MI 49.234 3.963
36 71k Geoff Kaiser Ft. Wayne 49.266 3.995
37 2t Tom Tolbert Columbus, OH 49.825 4.554
38 11 Tom Paterson Argos 50.313 5.042
39 10 Ron Koehler South Bend 50.652 5.381
40 1 Ed Lute Columbus, OH 54.039 8.768

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Thanks for the update. This girl is rooting for Jacob Wilson, Eric Gordon and Chet Fillip to have good Little 500 runs. I was hoping Doug Heveron would change his mind and give it one more try, not to be.

Safe race to all,

Patti

Not sure what the fastest field in history is, but this should be the most competitive. Tony elliot adveraged 11.31275 seconds per lap. 33rd place Jeff Banyas adveraged 12.06425. Thats just flat out impressive!

It really looks like to make the field today, you need 4 laps under 12 seconds. There are a few good drivers entered that did not show yesterday. Today should be interesting to say the least. Now for all of you sprint car teams, why did so many cars show up this year? The last couple of years there have only been a few cars not make the field, and some coaster cars. Right now the tail end of the field is very impressive. that 07 car ran very strong wed. night. It does not look like the purse has changed much, we are in the big econimic slow down, and there are more cars tring to get into this race than in the last several years. I'm stumped.