I-35 Starts Season With A Bang

With beautiful weather, jam packed pits and a fast racy track fans filed in for the 2010 opener at I-35 Speedway

The IMCA Northern Sport Mods were first on the track tonight and with four young drivers starting in the top four spots it looked like youth would play a huge factor in the finishing order. JJ Baumli took the early lead and started to check out until something mechanically went south on his #46 machine. That allowed Mike Tanner to come from the inside of row four and he would hold off young Clay Hale to capture the first feature of 2010. Hale would finish second with third going to Chris Wright. Blake Peeler would hold off Brett Shields who had a great run in his first career race rounding out the top 5. Dale Hess started seventeenth and finished sixth to win the hard charger award.

The IMCA Hobby Stocks were next to hit the track. Cody Cleghorn jumped to an early lead but would be pressured all race long by eventual winner and newcomer Shannon Anderson, the two time defending IMCA National Champion. Anderson would have a great battle with Cleghorn and 2009 track champ Eric Stanton. Stanton would finish second, Cleghorn third, Matthew Lance crossed the line in fourth and Greg Kuehn fifth. Eric Stanton gained four spots to win the hard charger award.

The Border War Grand Nationals started out this season like they started out last season and thats with Mike Jones in victory lane. Jones last years points champ would hold off Travis Walker, Chad Shaw was third, Chad Clancy fourth and Gene Claxton fifth. Chad Clancy gained four spots to win the hard charger award.

Next up were the Border War Stock Cars. The Stock Cars put on a great show for the crowd tonight. Door to door, bumper to bumper, three to four wide action every lap. When the dust cleared Thomas Roberts back in his familiar 65x would hold off Brad Whitney who put on a late charge after a good move to pass two cars. Not far behind was Jake Cameron who finished third, Jason Ryun was fourth in a Lakeside Speedway Factory Stock and Gene Stigall from ninteenth finished fifth to grab the hard charger award.

Last on the track for this evenings event was the IMCA Modifieds. Junction City KS native Tim Echevarria made his third trip to I-35 Speedway a successful one as he worked his way around Cory Wray on about lap 15. Echevarria used the top side and Wray broke a front end to capture the checkered flag. Todd Wilson had a good run finishing second, right on Echevarrias back bumper for most of the last run. P.J. Conger rebounded from a starting postion of twenty-first and an early problem to finish third, Steve Starmer was fourth and Cory Wray, broken front end and all held on to fifth. Conger gained seventeen spots to win the hard charger.

You can now follow I-35 Speedway on both Twitter and Facebook, but one things for sure... You don't want to miss out on any of the action of the 2010 racing season at I-35 Speedway!

Results:

IMCA Sport Mod:
1st #20t Mike Tanner
2nd #22H Clay Hale
3rd #66 Chris Wright
4th #92 Blake Peeler
5th #8s Brett Shields
6th #35 Dale Hess
7th #44H Huey Jacobs
8th #B00K Dylan Book
9th #54 Lynn Starry
10th X4 Jason Purvis
11th #52M Dustin Miller
12th #4c Curtis Paste
13th #37 Anthony Asher
14th #15B Wes Bestgen
15th #46 JJ Baumli
16th #12 Jeff Stotts
17th #1w Spencer Wilson
18th #20w Shay Woods
19th #8 Paige Leppin
20th #22B Mitch Booher
21st #14G Gabe DeShon
22nd #42 Gene Claxton
23rd #28 John Fugett

IMCA Hobby Stocks:
1st #78 Shannon Anderson
2nd #7B Eric Stanton
3rd #21zc Cody Cleghorn
4th #12x Matthew Lance
5th #7 Greg Kuehn
6th #59 Mike Youngs
7th #x9a Alexis Whitney
8th #77 Bruce Lewis Jr.
9th #25 Paul Grenier
10th #27 Mike Quinley
11th #34 Mich Ross
12th #74R Adam Reeter

Border War Grand Nationals:
1st #5 Mike Jones
2nd #71 Travis Walker
3rd #97 Chad Shaw
4th #04 Chad Clancy
5th #98 Gene Claxton
6th #11T Mike Taylor Jr.
7th #77 Dean Wray
8th #74 Chris Biggerstaff
9th #29s Jeff Smith

Border War Stock Cars:
1st #65x Thomas Roberts
2nd #x9 Brad Whitney
3rd #86c Jake Cameron
4th #08 Jason Ryun
5th #20 Gene Stigall
6th #19 Jay Barnes
7th #02x Brad Dittemore
8th #05x Gary St. Clair
9th #30G Dennis Gann
10th #20x Jon Boller Jr.
11th #88 Jeff Dixon
12th #14x Jon Boller III
13th #2 John Hanson
14th #18 Frank Littrell
15th #53m Brian Miller
16th #13 Brian Houghton
17th #97 Travis Taylor
18th #77 Danny Bemis
19th #94c Tyler Corkins

IMCA Modifieds:
1st #35 Tim Echevarria
2nd #1w Todd Wilson
3rd #19 PJ Conger
4th #11s Steve Starmer
5th #69n Cory Wray
6th #81 Rick Spriggs
7th #92 Jim Peeler
8th #7 Doug Keller
9th #37 Alison Quick
10th #997 Jason Estes
11th #10 Johnny McGinnis
12th #20x Jeremiah Asher
13th #13 Jeff Streeter
14th #21d Colby Dixon
15th #11 Darren Shaw
16th #71 Jim Hopkins
17th #26s Steven Glenn
18th #25v Pat Neely
19th #81T Levi Trimble
20th #17x Clint Baker
21st #62 Hunter Marriott
22nd #69 Zach Sanders
23rd #26 Bud Wilson