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Hillman wins third straight at LPS. Christian also visits victory lane.
By CAREY FOX
Times Sports Editor
PUTNAMVILLE - Mooresville's Chris Hillman has found
Lincoln Park Speedway to his liking this year. Coming
in with back-to-back super stock feature wins at the
Putnamville oval, following Saturday's action you can
make three the magic number.
With a track that took rubber quickly during the
evening, Hillman's William's Precision Engine was more
than enough to power him to victory followed by Doug
McCullough and David Bumgardner.
Hillman, sponsored by Mooresville Welding, Kay's
Hardwood Floors and B.C. Chassis, won his heat race
and drew the pole for the feature event and never let
up from green flag to checkered.
Bumgardner made several charges at McCullough down the
stretch, but didn't quite have enough to make the pass
for second.
Much of the battle took place farther back in the
pack.
Curt Leonard and Kenny Carmichael Jr. duked it out for
several laps in a contest for fourth place that
eventually went to Leonard. Joe Whisler and Kris
Starks were also in the thick for the fourth place
hunt, but Starks spun late to drop back to 10th place
as Whisler placed sixth overall. Slick Griffin scored
a seventh spot with Travis Heramb and Elijah Himinger
in ninth.
Thirty-one sprint cars unloaded for Saturday's card at
Lincoln Park Speedway.
Terre Haute's Shawn Krockenberger won the opening heat
race with Ty Deckard and Troy Link also scoring
victories.
In the A-Main, Link powered his way out to a seemingly
comfortable early lead followed by Kent Christian and
Deckard. Krockenberger and Danny Holtsclaw kept the
front-runners in their sights and bided their time for
a shot.
As Link built a half straightaway lead near the
midpoint of the feature, Holtsclaw slipped off turn
two to lose a few spots and Blake Fitzpatrick moved up
to fifth place and Shane Hollingsworth advanced to
seventh ahead of Bill Rose.
With seven laps remaining, Jonathan Hendrick got into
the left rear tire of Kenny Carmichael Jr. in turn
four and got upside down and ended the night for both
drivers.
The red flag period seemed to give Christian just the
break he needed.
On the re-start, Christian began reeling in Link in a
hurry and eventually slipped past Link with four laps
remaining and wouldn't be caught in the MPHG
Promotions, BCI, Reds Reamers, RL Carter Trucking and
DD Performance sprinter.
Christian crossed the finish line ahead of Deckard,
Link, Krockenberger, Holtsclaw, Hollingsworth, Rose,
Dickie Gaines, Billy Puterbaugh and Shain Matthews.
One night after taking a 13th place in a WolfPack
Challenge event at Bloomington and breaking the
qualifying record on the red clay, Ray Humphrey found
victory lane.
The Bloomington driver registered himself as one of
the men to beat by winning his UMP Modified heat race
along with Paul Bumgardner and Mark Auler.
Starting up front, Humphrey grabbed the lead from the
green flag with Bumgardner, Travis Shoulders and Daryl
Herbert in pursuit.
All three are talented veterans and, though they raced
each other hard for that second place spot, still
raced a clean race while bringing the fans to the edge
of their seats.
Shoulders got a good, aggressive run into turn one
late in the feature to challenge Bumgardner and likely
could have spun him for the spot, but checked up to
avoid the contact that could have taken both drivers
out.
Humphrey's Reeves Logging, Williams Racing Engines,
Van Horn Graphics' Franklin-built racecar maintained
his lead for the feature victory. Bumgardner retained
second ahead of Shoulders, Herbert, Auler, Kenny
Carmichael Sr., Wes McClara, Jaymie Turner, Carlos
Bumgardner and Wayne Cooper in the top-10.
It's been a long while since C.J. Bryan cruised into
victory lane according to the Terre Haute-driver, who
took a while off from racing.
On Saturday, he re-visited the winners' area, holding
off a very determined Lloyd Walls, who came from the
back after winning the bomber feature last weekend.
Bryan chased down Kevin Kemp in the early laps to grab
the lead in the Specialty Graffix, Advance Auto Parts,
Potts Tax Service machine.
Bryan and Brazil's Ron Wallen Jr. put on a
side-by-side show with Kemp and Walls joining the
fray.
The group managed to avoid any real contact despite a
thrilling show for the crowd.
Bryan moved into the top spot and both Wallen and
Walls continued their side-by-side battle. Walls
eventually slipped past into second place and closed
on Bryan during the final laps, but couldn't quite
catch him in the waning laps.
Bryan took his first win of the year in the Joe's
Hobby Barn and Durabuilt racing bomber ahead of Walls,
Wallen, Kemp, Michael Thompson, Ryan Freeland, Marc
Yakel, Sean Yakel, David Daniels and Brad Neese.
Next week will be a regular card of sprints,
modifieds, super stocks and bombers and will also
feature a kids' bicycle race for several different age
groups.
Sprint car feature
1. Kent Christian, 2. Ty Deckard, 3. Troy Link, 4.
Shawn Krockenberger, 5. Danny Holtsclaw, 6. Shane
Hollingsworth, 7. Bill Rose, 8. Dickie Gaines, 9.
Billy Puterbaugh, 10. Shain Matthews, 11. Blake
Fitzpatrick, 12. Kenny Carmichael Sr., 13. Jason Holt,
14. Andrew Prather, 15. Rex Norris III, 16. Todd
Kimmell, 17. Kenny Carmichael Jr., 18. Jonathan
Hendrick, 19. Robbie Rice, 20. Aaron Mosley
B-main winner: Robbie Rice
Heat winners: Shawn Krockenberger, Ty Deckard, Troy
Link
UMP Modified feature
1. Ray Humphrey, 2. Paul Bumgardner, 3. Travis
Shoulders, 4. Daryl Herbert, 5. Mark Auler, 6. Kenny
Carmichael Sr., 7. Wes McClara, 8. Jaymie Turner, 9.
Carlos Bumgardner, 10. Wayne Cooper, 11. Harold
Grayless, 12. Brian Kempf, 13. Jared Hix, 14. Robert
Albright, 15. Tom Black, 16. Greg Amick, 17. Chris
Brewer, 18. Doug Bryant Jr., 19. David Kingery Jr.,
20. Michael Sterrett
B-main winner: Harold Grayless
Heat winners: Ray Humphrey, Paul Bumgardner, Mark
Auler
Super Stock feature
1. Chris Hillman, 2. Doug McCullough, 3. David
Bumgardner, 4. Curt Leonard, 5. Kenny Carmichael Jr.,
6. Joe Whisler, 7. Slick Griffin, 8. Travis Heramb, 9.
Elijah Himinger, 10. Kris Starks, 11. Joe Starks, 12.
Scott Carrington, 13. Tami Lawson, 14. Joe Jeffries,
15. Derk Doub
Heat winners: Chris Hillman, Doug McCullough
Bomber Feature
1. C.J. Bryan, 2. Lloyd Walls, 3. Ron Wallen Jr., 4.
Kevin Kemp, 5. Michael Thompson, 6. Ryan Freeland, 7.
Marc Yakel, 8. Sean Yakel, 9. David Daniels, 10. Brad
Neese, 11. Dustin Shoulders, 12. David Wallen, 13.
Gary Long
Heat winners: Kevin Kemp, Dustin Shoulders
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