Press Release From: www.redbud69racing.com

Coming Event: Tuesday, July 6, 2004

Where:  Delaware International Speedway

Immediate Release With Our Thanks

              This Tuesday The 32nd Annual Delaware State Police

                      Camp Barnes Benefit Race

Delmar, DE…..This coming Tuesday night, the Delaware State Police will hold the 32nd Annual Camp Barnes Benefit Races held at the fastest half-mile clay oval in Delaware, that of the Delaware International Speedway.  This year’s benefit will have some of the same prominent racing among drivers of DIS and other talented visiting drivers as each year succeeding before has entertained us. 

This year the famous “Special Event” Late Model vs. Modified in the clay dash shoot-out will be paying $1,000 for twelve laps of racing.  If you are not familiar with this sit up, and take note. 

The top five finishers from Big Block & Late Models feature winners qualify to run in this event. 

   At the end of lap 6 – the race will be Yellowed Flagged.

The last five cars in running order will be eliminated.

   The remaining 5 cars RE-Draw For Final Six Laps of Racing.

   1st - $1,000, 2nd - $500, 3rd - $200, 4th - $100, 5th - $75, 6th – 10th - $25.

 

It is not often you get to have the best of both racing worlds (LM vs. M) compete head to head or tail to tail for some good hard cash.  The track has been heavy lately with some really fast racing for all classes racing on the weekends.  Plus Tuesday night the 25 lap of Big Block Modified action with a chance to win $3200, the largest purse ever by Camp Barnes, Inc. will take to the track.   Then the 20 lap feature of some of the hottest Late Model action as well, to the tune of $1500 to win.

 

Other racing includes 15 lap Modified Lite feature, Little Lincoln 10 lap, Street Modified and the AC Delco TSS Modified 15 lap feature. Any tire rule 13/92 tire applies. 

 

I made another venture this past week to Bridgeport for the Big Show 5 for 5-25’s feature.  I made my way around the pits speaking to drivers to see who said they were planning to make it to DIS for the Camp Barnes Show.  Well, Horton will be one for sure with a new 901 car, Kenny Brightbill, Kevin Hirthler, Mike Isles, Ricky Elliott and Kyle Strickler all plan to show. Maybe Jimmy Chester, Doug Hoffman, Duane Howard, G. R. Smith, and Shawn Reimert possibly, Donny Radd, and maybe even Ron Roberts if he can get a big block ready in time. 

 

In the Late Model department I have not had much of an opportunity to talk to as many late drivers but I did speak to  Delaware’s Kenny Pettyjohn, Mark, Eddie Pettyjohn and Matt Hubbard will be there I am pretty sure.  Regular DIS Drivers like Rick Whaley, Ray Davis Jr., David Hill, Dave Hertz, Richard Jarvis Jr., David Pettyjohn, and the Lingo’s will all be up for the challenge.  Some drivers like Jerry Foster, Jimmy “Jamin” Jesmer, and Greg Hoffmaster along with many others may be coming to take a chance to take a crack at some of the cash.  Got the word Jim Bernheisel may get down here, Scott Cross, some of the Grandview drivers hopefully. 

 

The night should be a full night of action especially for a mid week fix of racing.  If you’re like me you can never have to much racing and sometimes a mid week fix does wonders for a girl. 

 

We’ve got that World of Outlaws Late Model show coming up Wednesday, July 21, 2004, so I am thinking maybe a few more drivers might want to get a feel for the track.  That will be another night of hot racing action.

 

Let’s not forget that the proceeds raised will all go toward Camp Barnes, which is owned and operated by Delaware State Police for Camp Barnes programs toward eligible youths between 10 & 13 years of age to attend the camp at no cost to the parent or guardian.  The camp provides numerous benefits to youths learning numerous tools to use in everyday trades.  For any information contact Det. Preston Lewis 302.856.5860 ext. 301.  Support the benefit and make sure to take in a family night of fun. 

 

The last couple of Saturday nights of racing produced several first time winners for 2004.  Tim Millman picked up two Modified wins back to back in his Bicknell Medford Speed, S&C Recon Auto, Sport Collectibles, Snookies, and T. J. Repair number four-ten.  Millman said, “We had a lot of trouble in the beginning of the year, and finally things turned around.  Just Saturday night Millman was in the backup car with a motor going sour right on the final lap of his heat and resorted to the regular car; Millman started dead last but finished tenth.  Robert Dutton won his first career victory last night with a 19.485 seconds and 92.379 MPH on lap seven.

 

In Late Model action Rick Whaley picked up back to back wins and his team mate won just two weeks before that.  The Rick Whaley Concrete and Construction Company, B & G Drywall, and Delmarva Concrete powered Rocket chassis with a J. Dickens engine has been working good on the track for the team;  but there has been plenty of close battling out on the track with all the guys.  I can’t wait to see the WoOLMS on the track with our boys.  I like both Modifieds and Late Models, along with all the other classes. 

 

The TSS Modified has proven to keep the field on a level playing field with new winners still each week.  Jack Mullins in the Bi-Rite Auto Sales, Gene’s Auto Sales and Limousines, T. J. Recovery and Fleet Sales numbered one was the last driver to be the second repeat win so far for the season, while Bobby Watkins in the number four Lindale Backhoe Services, KJM Milk Transport made the switch from the big block to this new class for economical reasons paid off.  While Rodney Cordrey in the Cordrey’s Custom Hauling, Gary Simpson Constructions and Grime Stoppers numbered twenty picked up his first career win ever and both first time winners in the last two weeks.  The racing has been really good with the class. 

 

First time winners’ rookie Steve Stamps, Kerry King, and Steve Bunting all have been first time winners in Street Modified features.  Stamps in the number eighty-three Pier Point Marina, Electric Banana, Fish On Five Points just to name a few sponsors, has had a rocky start.  Stamps said,”We put a round of bite in it and have a good set up now.  I would like to dedicate my win to my sister, Judy Frazier, who lost a battle to cancer a couple of years ago.”  King in the K&B Auto Sales, Mitchell’s Auto Truck Salvage said “It has been a long while coming since I have been here and it feels good to be here.  Thanks to Al White for a lot of help, the fans, my crew and family it all plays a part.”  Bunting in the nineteen C&D Plumbing, Preferred Power Washing, Bruce A. Rogers Attorney At Law, Kruger Trailers, J & S Fabrication, and Richard D. Whaley Construction sponsored car has missed several weeks of racing waiting to get his motor back running.  But it only took a few weeks before he was back in victory circle.

 

 

The Modified Lites have also been having new winners with Tim White in the Delmarva Inn Convention Center sixteen, Ryan Walls in the M&M, Noland Heating and Air conditioning and a regular on the Team USA drivers driving the fourteen-w. While Steve White won his one-hundred-thirtieth career win last night in the Durham Racing Engines, R&F Auto Sales, and Bill Wood General Contracting in the North East Modified Lite who picked up his first win of the year in just his second time out in a new car.  So the clay has been hot with oval action for all. 

 

This Tuesday night all the cars and support of the drivers and fans means the world to kids wanting to attend the camp.  You don’t want to miss out on this fine motor complex of supreme driving of stock cars.  See you at the track!

 

Bonnie Nibblett

 

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