Unless I missed a press release or post somewhere, I found this to be interesting........

STATS – OPEN WHEEL MODIFIEDS – EAST BAY RACEWAY PARK – FRIDAY, 2/10/12

Qualifying Results:
1. 40B Kyle Bronson – 16.812; 2. 75 Bart Hartman – 16.819; 3. 28 Paul Miles – 16.824; 4. 01 Vic Vena – 16.868; 5. 36 Kenny Wallace – 16.955; 6. 2 Devin Dixon – 16.983; 7. 18 Matt Cooper – 17.050; 8. 33W Rodney Wing – 17.174; 9. 40 Kevin Adams – 17.175; 10. 33 Jeff Mathews – 17.176; 11. 7 Brad DeYoung – 17.251; 12. 36L Jamie Lomax – 17.254; 13. 64JR Gary Cook, Jr. – 17.265; 14. 98 Shon Flanary – 17.288; 15. 00 Buzzie Reutimann – 17.336; 16. 22 Dale Kelley – 17.355; 17. D4 Dave Jamison – 17.364; 18. 64 Austin Sanders – 17.373; 19. 99 Nick Allen – 17.386; 20. 9M Dale Mathison – 17.441; 21. 3F Rob Fuqua – 17.466; 22. 64X Shane Cottle – 17.471; 23. 17X Rich Michael, Jr. – 17.474; 24. 47H Bill Howard – 17.496; 25. 96G David Schmauss – 17.515; 26. 66H Wayne Hammond – 17.584; 27. 10C Chad Olsen – 17.585; 28. 13C Troy Clark – 17.604; 29. 47 Colin Thirlby – 17.645; 30. 15S Don Scheffler – 17.666; 31. 8M Matt Miller – 17.710; 32. 72 Todd Neiheiser – 17.786; 33. 92 Kenny Carmichael – 17.802; 34. 29 Preston Seratt – 17.863; 35. 07S Scott Harper – 17.890; 36. 5L Larry Lambert – 18.093; 37. 76 Shelby Miles – 18.103; 38. 55 Scott Hansen – 18.214; 39. 6B Dave Baldwin – 18.253; 40. 19 Thomas Siegler – 18.300; 41. 71E Pat Ehlert – 18.490; 42. 4UW Bobby Regot – 18.847; 43. 96 Dennis Haven – 19.686; 44. 27N Nate Bregenzer – 19.978; 45. 85S Jacob Shafer – 20.031; 46. D00 Stanley Donahoo – 45.873

1st Heat – 1)Kyle Bronson 2)Gary Cook, Jr. 3)Shon Flanary 4)Nate Bregenzer 5)Stanley Donahoo 6)Rich Michael, Jr. 7)Dale Mathison 8)Buzzie Reutimann

2nd Heat – 1)Jeff Mathews 2)Austin Sanders 3)Dave Baldwin 4)Colin Thirlby 5)Scott Hansen 6)Bobby Regot 7)Jacob Shafer 8)Todd Neiheiser DNS

3rd Heat – 1)Kenny Wallace 2)Brad DeYoung 3)David Schmauss 4)Nick Allen 5)Preston Seratt 6)Thomas Siegler 7)Matt Miller 8)Scott Harper

4th Heat – 1)Devin Dixon 2)Vic Vena 3)Shane Cottle 4)Rob Fuqua 5)Chad Olsen 6)Pat Ehlert 7)5L Larry Lambert 8)Dennis Haven

5th Heat – 1)Bart Hartman 2)Paul Miles 3)KKevin Adams 4)Jamie Lomax 5)Kenny Carmichael 6)Troy Clark 7)Dale Kelley

6th Heat – 1)Rodney Wing 2)Matt Cooper 3)Don Scheffler 4)Wayne Hammond 5)Shelby Miles 6)Bill Howard 7)Dave Jamison

1st B – Main (Top 6 go to back of A inside row) – 1)Stanley Donahoo 2)Shon Flanary 3)Dave Baldwin 4)Colin Thirlby 5)Scott Hansen 6)Dale Mathison 7)Rich Michael, Jr. 8)Todd Neiheiser 9)Nick Allen 10)Preston Seratt 11)Bobby Regot 12)Buzzie Reutimann 13)David Schmauss 14)Matt Miller 15)Thomas Siegler 16)Nate Bregenzer 17)Scott Harper 18)Jacob Shafer

2nd B – Main (Top 6 go to back of A outside row) – 1)Kevin Adams 2)Shane Cottle 3)Wayne Hammond 4)Kenny Carmichael 5)Jamie Lomax 6)Dale Kelley 7)Don Scheffler 8)Bill Howard 9)Larry Lambert 10)Chad Olsen 11)Dave Jamison 12)Pat Ehlert 13)Rob Fuqua 14)Troy Clark 15)Shelby Miles DNS 16)Dennis Haven DNS

A – Main (25 Laps) – 1)Kenny Wallace 2)Bart Hartman 3)Rodney Wing 4)Jeff Mathews 5)Devin Dixon 6)Kyle Bronson 7)Austin Sanders 8)Matt Cooper 9)Gary Cook, Jr. 10)Wayne Hammond 11)Kevin Adams 12)Vic Vena 13)Kenny Carmichael 14)Brad DeYoung 15)Shane Cottle 16)Jamie Lomax 17)Paul Miles 18)Colin Thirlby 19)Dale Mathison 20)Shon Flanary 21)Dave Baldwin 22)Stanley Donahoo 23)Scott Hansen 24)Dale Kelley

Here is a Link from Saturday's Kokomo newspaper
http://kokomotribune.com/sportscolum...nge-for-Cottle

Here is sat results
Heat 1: Kyle Bronson making it look easy, he'll be the only car to advance from this group, Nick Allen 2nd and Jeff Matthews 3rd

Heat 2: Brad DeYoung takes it without much of a challenge, Paul Miles and Jamie Lomax finish 2nd and 3rd

Heat 3: Matt Cooper leads the way and will advance, Kenny Carmichael and Gary Cook Jr. make up the top 3


Heat 4: Vic Vena seals his spot in the feature tonight, so with those 4 heats plus the upcoming B-Mains and we'll be set for the 75-lapper!

So after the re-draw, the top 6 for the feature will be: Dixon, Wing, Hammond, Hartman, Wallace, and Adams
B-Main 1: Paul Miles wins it, Matthews, Cottle, Allen, Lomax, and Thirlby will advance to the feature

B-Main 2: Kenny Carmichael wins it no problem, Flanary, Reutimann, Cook Jr, Seratt, and Miller advance

Devin Dixon Wins the Saturday Feature which paid $5,000 for the Open Wheel Modifieds at the East Bay Raceway Park in Tampa, FL
Full Rundown:

A-Main Finish:
1)Devin Dixon
2)Kevin Adams
3)Bart Hartman
4)Shane Cottle
5)Kenny Wallace
6)Vic Vena
7)Rodney Wing
8)Brad DeYoung
9)Jeff Mathews
10)Gary Cook, Jr.
11)Matt Cooper
12)Jamie Lomax
13)Austin Sanders
14)Buzzie Reutimann
15)Shon Flanary
16)Preston Seratt
17)Matt Miller
18)Paul Miles
19)Dennis Haven
20)Kyle Bronson
21)Kenny Carmichael
22)Wayne Hammond
23)Colin Thirlby
24)Nick Allen

So who is he driving the Modified For? CJ Rayburn?

Thanx in advance.

Shane was driving a backup car for Gary Cook Jr.

He Is driving a late model for Rayburn though

Yes he is. Saw an article that says he just wasn't having fun in a Sprint Car any more and was looling for a new challenge. He's driving a new C.J. Rayburn race car Red #11. I was watching Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series practice from Eastbay a couple hours ago and he looked pretty darn good running low 15 second laps. I've had the privilege of having seen him in a late model before and have to say he did quite well the one time I saw him.

Check out the "Shane Cottle Fans" Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/groups/79572602313

Read Bowman's article from the Kokomo paper -- Shane is pursuing sprint car deals and a dirt Champ Car ride in addition to the late model ride which he now has. He thinks he can win another Kokomo track sprint car championship. That does not sound like a guy who is not "having fun in a Sprint Car any more" as is stated above.

I'm sure Shane could drive anything when he put his mind to it.Sunny skies for 2012.