Brownstown Speedway has the rescheduled Indiana Icebreaker getting the green light tonight featuring the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series with a $12,000-to-win feature event. Also racing will be modifieds and super stocks.
Gates will open at noon, with hot laps at 6 p.m. For more information, visit brownstownspeedway.com.
Don and Hudson O’Neal return to their home track at Brownstown looking for their first series wins of the season. Hudson nearly won the opening Lucas Oil race of the season in February at Golden Isles Speedway in Georgia when his late-race pass for the lead on Josh Richards was negated by a caution. Don, who is tied with John Gill as the second all-time winningest late models driver in Brownstown Speedway history, is coming off of a third-place finish in the series’ most recent event last month at East Alabama Motor Speedway in Phenix City, Alabama.
Don is the 2014 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series National Champion and drives for NASCAR’s Clint Bowyer, and is the third all-time winningest driver in series history behind only Scott Bloomquist and Jimmy Owens. Hudson was last year’s LOLMDS Rookie of the Year driver for Todd Burns of Morgantown.
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Among those from the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series expected to be on hand include Jonathan Davenport, Josh Richards, Earl Pearson Jr., Kyle Bronson, Hudson O’Neal, Bloomquist, Jimmy Owens, Don O’Neal, Bobby Pierce, Darrell Lanigan, Tim McCreadie, Gregg Satterlee, Dennis Erb Jr., Boom Briggs and Mason Zeigler.
The Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series has several events that are broadcast live or on a tape-delayed basis on LucasOIlRacingTV, MAVTV, NBCSN, CBSSN and the CBS television network. The series will have a live broadcast from Tri-City Speedway in Granite City, Illinois, on April 27 on LucasOilRacingTV.com and from Macon Speedway in Macon, Illinois, on April 28 on www.dirtondirt.com.
Friday night, Brownstown will host the twice-postponed 10th annual “No-Way Out 40” featuring a $10,000-to-win feature race for 410 non-wing sprint cars. Chad Boespflug is the defending race winner. Also on the card will be a $2,000 to win super late model feature plus a $1,000-to-win modified main event.
Lawrenceburg to start
Lawrenceburg Speedway will try for the third time to begin its season tonight. The race program will see a full-schedule of events for 410 non-wing sprints, modifieds, pure stocks and hornets. For more info, visit lawrenceburgspeedway.com.
Twin Cities opens tonight
Twin Cities Raceway Park in Vernon will have its first race of the season tonight with a full-slate of 410 non-wing sprints, crate late models, pure stocks and hornets. For more info, visit twincitiestrack.com.
Putnamville set to go
Lincoln Park Speedway in Putnamville is racing tonight with a special $2,500-to-win event for 410 non-wing sprint cars. Also racing will be modifieds, super stocks and bombers. For more information, visit lincolnparkspeedway.com.
Bloomington goes next week
Bloomington Speedway will be in action April 20 with a program consisting of RaceSaver sprints, modifieds, hornets, and the first race of the season the UMRA TQ Midgets. For more information, visit bloomingtonspeedway.com.
Stewart races in Texas
Tony Stewart ran with the USCS Sprint Car Series again last weekend in Texas. The two events were conducted at the Texas Motor Speedway Dirt Track in Fort Worth.
Stewart started sixth in the April 6 event and wound up fourth at the finish. On April 7, he started on the outside of the front row and finished 15th in the main event.
ARCA races at Salem
Salem Speedway will kick off it’s 2018 racing season next weekend with the ARCA Racing Series and the Lucas Oil Great American Stocks. For more info, visit salemspeedway.com.
Santos wins Silver Crown opener
For the second consecutive year, Bobby Santos won the season-opening race for the USAC Silver Crown cars at ISM Raceway in Phoenix, Arizona. The event was held on April 7.
Santos and second-place finisher Kody Swanson repeated their 1-2 finish from a year ago in the 100-lap main event.
The next USAC Silver Crown race will be April 29 at Terre Haute Action Track. For more info, visit usacracing.com.
Feature: (100 laps) 1. Bobby Santos; 2. Kody Swanson; 3. Justin Grant; 4. Eric Gordon; 5. Cody Gerhardt; 6. Travis Welpott; 7. David Byrne; 8. Chris Windom; 9. Matt Goodnight; 10. Aaron Pierce; 11. Kyle Hamilton; 12. Bill Rose, 13. Jesse Dunham; 14. Toni Breidinger; 15. Austin Nemire; 16. A.J. Russell; 17. Jerry Coons Jr.; 18. Kyle Robbins.
This week in racing history
This weekend 40 years ago in 1978 at Brownstown Speedway, Terrence Johnson won the late model feature race over Ira Bastin, Don Hobbs, Roger Absher and Dennis Boknecht. Bobby Carrier Sr. won the hobby stock feature event over Russ Petro, Ed Covey, Tiny Noble and Russ Smiley.
From 30 years ago in 1988 at Twin Cities, Mike Gibbs won the late model feature over Doug Ault, Jim Ruddick, Robert Brison and Greg Ault. Randy Petro took top honors in the street stock class over Mark Clark, Phil Fultz, Taulby Donnell and Jeff Daugherty.
At Brownstown from 1988, Jack Boggs won the late model special over Jim Curry, Bob Pierce, Ray Guss Jr. and Ray Godsey. Earl Plessinger won the street stock main at Brownstown the same night over Mark Barber, Larry Harris, Mark Arthur and Terry Arthur. Rick Graham won the bomber feature over Ray Hughes and Ed Woodard.
From 20 years ago in 1998, Wendell Wallace won the rain-shortened Hav-A-Tampa late model feature at Brownstown. Dan Schlieper was second with Donnie Moran, Terry Phillips and Bart Hartman trailing. Randy Petro won the modified main over Jimmy Owens, Don Dow, Brad Thrasher and Lee Hobbs.
