One Big Show Left In Delaware Racing Action

October 23, 2005

By Bonnie Nibblett

Delmar, DE…..Just one more big show for the Delaware Motorsports Complex’s Delaware International Speedway on the half mile clay oval speedway to end the racing season.  November 5^th & 6^th will mark the thirty-second Delaware State Dirt Track Championship.  The U. S. 13 Dragway has one more event to attend with the Halloween Shoot Out on October 30, 2005 as well as the U. S. 13 Kart Club one more race.  The kart track will have the 2^nd Annual Money Race & Halloween Party on October 28, 2005; previous attempts for this event had been canceled with weather woes. 

The speedway has always drawn in a large amount of racers to compete with one another and face off with the tracks regular drivers.  Fans set up for the 2-day event and cheer their favorite driver to end the year.   The year end show has 50 lap races for the Big Block Modifieds, Small Block Modified, and Super Late Models.  The other features endure a 25 lap for A/C Delco TSS Modified (crate class), Street Modified, and Modified Lite.  Special race with Vintage Little Lincoln’s running on Saturday and also on Sunday the Slide for Five to end the day and year. 

Can last year’s contenders Frank Cozze, Booper Bare, Tim Hindley, Tom Curtis, Mike Wilson, Tracey Fritter and Jon Callaway claim victory again at the speedway?  $65,000 in total purse lies in wait for the winners.  Tickets are on sale now with Gen Adm. for one day is $20, Pits is $25.  Two day passes are $35 Gen Adm. and $45 for Pits.  Contact the race office at 302-875-1911 or view the track web for info at www.delawareracing.com  

All three tracks on the complex have finalized the points October 1, had the dragway ending the points for the year with the Champions being:

• Super – Ben Parks
• Heavy – Kevin Parks
• Pro Bike – John Bartkovich
• Street Eliminator – Humphrey Maddox, Jr.
• Dragster I – Jordon Dill
• Dragster II – Marshall Fowler

Delaware International Speedway Champions were named September 24:

• Big Block Modified – H. J. Bunting, III
• Late Model – Richard Jarvis, Jr.
• AC Delco TSS Modified – Bobby Watkins
• Street Modified – Steve Bunting
• Modified Lite – Jon Callaway

The U. S. 13 Kart Club Track Champions are:

• Cody Hitchens - JR I
• Dylan Evans - JR I Rookie
• Clint Chalabala - JR II
• Brandon Beale - JR III
• Chad Larimore - Stock Lite
• John Macklin - Stock Medium
• Erika Hearn - Stock Heavy
• Jeff Bushaw - Stock Xtra-heavy
• Rick Argo - Senior Stock
• John Davis, Jr. -  Limited
• Donnie Tingle - Pee-Wee had the most wins with Zach Bullis 2nd most wins
• Paul Williams, Jr. - Pee-Wee II had the most wins with Ryan Dryden & Jasmine McCane tied with 2nd most wins

The season is really over and withdrawals are starting to grow more each Saturday night with no events at the speedway all during October; NASCAR is almost over, too.  Before we know it we’ll be craving the race action and no place to go until spring.  Many of us look forward to the new paint schemes and peeks of some of the cars at the Centre of Salisbury in February.  This year there will not be a Motorsports show as far as we know, so hopefully there will be plenty of preview shots on www.redbud69racing.com.   But, the yearning to get the season going will truly miss this  pre-season event. 

The Dragway banquet will be Friday, January 20, 2005 and the speedways will be on January 21, 2005.  Both banquets will be held at Dover Downs, in Dover, Delaware.  The go-karts banquet is Saturday, January 21, 2005 at the Laurel Fire Dept.  view the web for contact at www.dekarting.net.  For all your news and updates view www.redbud69racing.com  for more on hours for the Champ show or the tracks web at www.delawareracing.com  See you at the track!