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February 16, 2005 FSCR First Time at East Bay Kenny Gaddis Wins Open Wheel Modified Night One TAMPA, FL…- ”It’s my first time to East Bay and I love it here,” said Kenny Gaddis from Hallsville, Texas after winning night one of the 6th Annual Ramada Inn on Tampa Bay Open Wheel Winternationals at East Bay Raceway Park Tuesday night. He earned the $1,500 top prize over a record field of 126 cars. The winner thanked his crew headed by Lindsey Shields and sponsors Shields Recycled Auto Parts, Destiny Freight, Sonny Melton Self Storage, Transmission Unlimited, Panel Truss and Girls2wild.net. He also gave credit to engine builder, Phluggerville Machine out of Austin, Texas. Gaddis, who considers his home track to be Lone Star Speedway in Kilgore, Texas, had timed 20th and won the tenth heat, but a redraw for heat winners had him starting fifth on the grid of 24 cars for the 25 lap A-Main. Bill Howard and Bob Pohlman, Jr. made up the front row with Julie McDermid and David Cain in row two. Pohlman took charge immediately and led lap one. A five car skirmish on the back stretch set the field in single-file formation on lap two. Already up to second, Gaddis explained his winning move past Pohlman, “I just tried to be smooth on the bottom and that’s how I got by him on lap three.” Once in front, Gaddis put his brand new Hughes chassis to the test, holding off Pohlman, Howard, Kent Arment and Cain through a second yellow after six laps caused by the smoking car of Dave Hess. Building up a straight-away lead, before the final yellow on lap 17, Gaddis was not aware of the three-car battle being waged for second spot. Pohlman, Howard, Arment and 17th starting Shane Cottle had been in tight formation prior to that yellow and the following restarts showed Arment making the move in turn two that landed him solidly in second place. In the closing laps, Gaddis had to hold off the challenges of Arment and the leader made no mistakes and took the checkered flag by a one car length margin. Cottle was the hard charger of the night and finished third ahead of Pholman and Howard. Corey Conley, Joel Cryderman, Julie McDermid, Craig Thatcher and Jeff Leka rounded out the top ten. Chad Kinder was fast timer of the night with a time of 17.277. The D-Main sent the four cars of Craig Scott, Todd Bennett, Steve Arpin and Kelly Shryock to the back of the two C-Mains. Jimmy Owens and Corky Thomas transferred from the first C-Main whileDick Peterson and Zach VanderBeek advanced from the second C-Main. Two B-Mains were necessary and Jeff Matthews and Rob Fuqua moved on to the A-Main from the first B-Main, then Roger Crouse and Ron Jones advanced from the second B-Main. No Strawberry Dash was run tonight, in order to conserve time. Heats were won by Chad Kinder, Arment, Joel Cryderman, Howard, Pohlman, Cain, Denny Schwartz, McDermid, Hess and Gaddis. STATS – OPEN WHEEL MODIFIEDS - EAST BAY RACEWAY PARK – TUESDAY, 2/15/05 Qualifying Results: 1. 22S Chad Kinder – 17.277; 2. 3F Rob Fuqua – 17.492; 3. 96X Joel Cryderman – 17.635; 4. 78 Shane Cottle – 17.671; 5. 1P Bob Pohlman, Jr. – 17.724; 6. Q Joey Jensen – 17.763; 7. 7 Ron Jones – 17.795; 8. 1M Julie McDermid – 17.801; 9. 44H David Hess – 17.843; 10. 4C Craig Christiansen – 17.853; 11. 91 Craig Thatcher – 17.863; 12. 20 Jimmy Owens – 17.906; 13. 00M Jason Miller – 17.907; 14. 2B Devin Dixon – 17.958; 15. 00A Steve Arpin – 17.965; 16. 2C David Cain – 17.998; 17. 03B Rick Hensley – 18.006; 18. 16 Justin Rattliff – 18.018; 19. 19T Todd Gilpin – 18.032; 20. 2 Kenny Gaddis – 18.033; 21. 2J Blake Jegtvig – 18.033; 22. 9 Kent Arment – 18.066; 23. 182 Randle Sweeney – 18.086; 24. 61M Shawn Peterson – 18.087; 25. 12H Jason Hughes – 18.097; 26. 54P Dick Peterson – 18.121; 27. 33Z Zach Vander Beek – 18.141; 28. 29 Kenny Holt – 18.144; 29. 3L Jeff Leka – 18.168; 30. 21M BJ McCammon – 18.176; 31. X Mike Wedelstadt – 18.182; 32. 18 Brent Glastetter – 18.188; 33. 24 Brad Waits – 18.192; 34. 21C Kenny Carlson – 18.194; 35. 12S Ed Shamhart – 18.213; 36. 707 Corey Conley – 18.232; 37. 21S Denny Schwartz – 18.237; 38. 44 Michael Hess – 18.242; 39. 88 Chris Smith – 18.275; 40. 03 Brad Rohloff – 18.280; 41. 22 Rob McLanghlin – 18.281; 42. 0 Craig Scott – 18.287; 43. HC1 – Paul Wilmoth, Jr. – 18.306; 44. 48 Bill Howard – 18.310; 45. 14C Brian Cockrum – 18.311; 46. 99B Perry Brown – 18.312; 47. 85D Mark Dotson – 18.321; 48. 36 Brady Short – 18.323; 49. 33M Roger Crouse – 18.332; 50. 23H Dan Hamstra – 18.338; 51. 112 Todd Bennett – 18.349; 52. 17 Scott Duvall – 18.377; 53. 2T Corky Thomas – 18.377; 54. 155 Richard Harlow – 18.395; 55. 97 Rusty Dixon – 18.409; 56. 11G Matt Goulden – 18.434; 57. 28M Frank Marshall – 18.436; 58. 98 Shon Flanary – 18.439; 59. 01K Don Kiger – 18.444; 60. 70 MJ Hintz – 18.458; 61. 007 David Schmauss – 18.460; 62. 00 Greg Reutimann – 18.480; 63. 26 Chris Butler – 18.537; 64. 12 Russell Childress – 18.542; 65. 55 Tom Moore – 18.587; 66. 63 Scotty Williams – 18.596; 67. 23 Terry Haven – 18.600; 68. 1A Chad Ohnstad – 18.624; 69. 45 Dean Vickers – 18.676; 70. 22C Terry Cox – 18.689; 71. 33 Jeff Mathews – 18.697; 72. 19 Joe Fowler – 18.740; 73. 00B Buzzie Reutimann – 18.759; 74. 08 Shawn Simpson – 18.773; 75. 12M Ken Myracle – 18.781; 76. 130 Chad Osterhoff – 18.788; 77. 20K Keith Sansom – 18.804; 78. 44J Jared Kneemiller – 18.818; 79. 11B Jamie Burrows – 18.830; 80. 1B Jason Barnhill – 18.838; 81. 205 Bobby Dixon – 18.852; 82. 85 Ryan Corbett – 18.883; 83. 31 Brian Hollifield – 18.892; 84. 8W William Hampton – 18.894; 85. 18M David McWilliams – 18.907; 86. 99 Corey Partin – 18.939; 87. 11W Wess Weinman – 19.007; 88. 8M Matt Miller – 19.016; 89. 83C Brian Taft – 19.029; 90. 69 Tim Moore – 19.053; 91. J5 Jess Hartman – 19.061; 92. M5 Bob McQuaig – 19.069; 93. B12 Kevin Weaver – 19.078; 94. 34 Dustin Cates – 19.078; 95. 27X Joe Pendergrass – 19.080; 96. B12X Bruce Watkins – 19.081; 97. 20X Steve Hughes – 19.088; 98. 16C Scott Clippinger – 19.103; 99. 75S Eric Scribner – 19.132; 100. L88 Mark Herbert – 19.147; 101. 2F Todd Ferber – 19.166; 102. 22X Greg Oakes – 19.180; 103. 2M St4eve Mueller – 19.183; 104. 96 Mark Rigdon – 19.197; 105. 01 Trevor Merrell – 19.240; 106. 30 Wade Schutt – 19.245; 107. 86 Mike Oldenberg – 19.246; 108. 10X Rob Pendergrass – 19.261; 109. 47T Carlton Jackson – 19.265; 110. 7X Alan Sharpensteen – 19.266; 111. CV7 Chris Veech – 19.321; 112. 3X David Boerner – 19.389; 113. 32B Robby Barris – 19.396. 114. 11 Mike Phillips – 19.535; 115. 47H Terry Hayes – 19.609; 116. 27 John Bradley – 19.620; 117. 6M Terry J. McClintock – 19.813; 118. 13 Kevin DeYoung – 20.070; 119. 06 Jarrett Rendel – 20.184; 120. 25T Paul Thorpe – 20.516; 121. Z28 Mark Trautner – N/T; 122. 4S Thomas Sigler – N/T; 123. 3 Kelly Shryock – N/T; 124. R3 Rick Martin – N/T; 125. 88G Darrell George – N/T; 126. 21L Ivodent Lloyd – N/T 1st Heat – 1)Chad Kinder 2)Craig Thatcher 3)Jeff Mathews 4)Rob McLanghlin 5)David Schmauss 6)Mike Wedelstadt 7)Blake Jegtvig 8)Bobby Dixon 9)Todd Ferber 10)Jess Hartman 11)Todd Bennett 12)Chris Veech 13)Mark Trautner DNS 2nd Heat – 1)Kent Arment 2)Brent Glastetter 3)Rob Fuqua 4)Scott Duvall 5)Ryan Corbett 6)Greg Reutimann 7)Joe Fowler 8)Jimmy Owens 9)Greg Oakes 10)David Boerner 11)Craig Scott 12)Bob McQuaig 13)Thomas Sigler 3rd Heat – 1)Joel Cryderman 2)Jason Miller 3)Paul Wilmoth, Jr. 4)Buzzie Reutimann 5)Randle Sweeney 6)Brad Waits 7)Corky Thomas 8)Kevin Weaver 9)Brian Hollifield 10)Robby Barris 11)Steve Mueller 12)Kelly Shryock 13)Chris Butler 4th Heat – 1)Bill Howard 2)Shane Cottle 3)Devin Dixon 4)Shawn Peterson 5)Kenny Carlson 6)William Hampton 7)Russell Childress 8)Shawn Simpson 9)Richard Harlow 10)Mark Rigdon 11)Mike Phillips 12)Dustin Cates 13)Rick Martin 5th Heat – 1)Bob Pohlman, Jr. 2)Ed Shamhart 3)Jason Hughes 4)Tom Moore 5)Rusty Dixon 6)Ken Myracle 7)David McWilliams 8)Terry Hayes 9)Joe Pendergrass 10)Trevor Merrell 11)Brian Cockrum 12)Steve Arpin 13)Darrell George DNS 6th Heat – 1)David Cain 2)Corey Conley 3)Corey Partin 4)Joey Jensen 5)John Bradley 6)Bruce Watkins 7)Dick Peterson 8)Wade Schutt 9)Scotty Williams 10)Perry Brown 11)Ivodent Lloyd, Jr. 12)Matt Goulden 13)Chad Osterhoff 7th Heat – 1)Denny Schwartz 2)Mark Dotson 3)Rick Hensley 4)Ron Jones 5)Steve Hughes 6)Frank Marshall 7)Zach Vander Beek 8)Terry Haven 9)Wess Weinman 10)Keith Sansom 11)Mike Oldenberg 12)Terry J. McClintock DNS 8th Heat – 1)Julie McDermid 2)Justin Rattliff 3)Chad Ohnstad 4)Brady Short 5)Michael Hess 6)Rob Pendergrass 7)Scott Clippinger 8)Jared Kneemiller 9)Kevin DeYoung 10)Shon Flanary 11)Kenny Holt 12)Matt Miller 9th Heat – 1)David Hess 2)Jeff Leka 3)Roger Crouse 4)Jamie Burrows 5)Carlton Jackson 6)Brian Taft 7)Jarrett Rendel 8)Eric Scribner 9)Don Kiger 10)Todd Gilpin 11)Chris Smith 12)Dean Vickers 10th Heat – 1)Kenny Gaddis 2)Craig Christiansen 3)Brad Rohloff 4)BJ McCammon 5)Dan Hamstra 6)Tim Moore 7)Jason Barnhill 8)Terry Cox 9)MJ Hintz 10)Alan Sharpensteen 11)Mark Herbert 12)Paul Thorpe D – Main 1)Craig Scott 2)Todd Bennett 3)Steve Arpin 4)Kelly Shryock 5)Matt Goulden 6)Steve Miller 7)Mark Trautner 8)Bob McQuaig 9)Darren George 10)Chris Veech 11)Dean Vickers 12)Chad Osterhoff 13)Mark Herbert 14)Paul Thorpe 15)Mike Oldenberg 16)Mike Phillips 17)Chris Butler 18)Dustin Cates 19)Thomas Sigler 20)Ivodent Lloyd 21)Brian Cockrum DNS 22)Kenny Holt DNS 23)Chris Smith DNS 24)Matt Miller DNS 25)Rick Martin DNS 26)Terry J. McClintock 1st C – Main – 1)Jimmy Owens 2)Corky Thomas 3)Blake Jegtvig 4)Jon Fowler 5)Steve Arpin 6)Russell Childress 7)David McWilliams 8)Robby Barris 9)Jess Hartman 10)Trevor Merrell 11)Greg Oakes 12)Richard Harlow 13)Joe Pendergrass 14)Bobby Dixon 15)Kevin Weaver 16)Shawn Simpson 17)Terry Hayes 18)Brian Hollifield 19)Todd Ferber DNS 20)David Boerner DNS 21)Mark Rigdon DNS 22)Craig Scott DNS 2nd C - Main – 1)Dick Peterson 2)Zach Vander Beek 3)Jared Kneemiller 4)Scott Clippinger 5)Don Kiger 6)Kelly Shryock 7)Scotty Williams 8)Wess Weinman 9)Terry Haven 10)MJ Hintz 11)Terry Cox 12)Kevin DeYoung 13)Wade Schutt 14)Shon Flanary 15)Perry Brown 16)Todd Bennett 17)Keith Sansom 18)Eric Scribner 19)Jarrett Rendel 20)Jason Barnhill 21)Todd Gilpin DNS 22)Alan Sharpensteen DNS 1st B – Main – 1)Jeff Mathews 2)Rob Fuqua 3)Jason Hughes 4)Shawn Peterson 5)Scott Duvall 6)Buzzie Reutimann 7)Ken Myracle 8)Mike Weidelstadt 9)David Schmauss 10)Jimmy Owens 11)Kenny Carlson 12)Randle Sweeney 13)Rusty Dixon 14)Rob McLanglin 15)Devin Dixon 16)Paul Wilmoth, Jr. 17)Brad Waits 18)William Hampton 19)Ryan Corbett 20)Tom Moore 21)Greg Reutimann 22)Corky Thomas DNS 2nd B - Main – 1)Roger Crouse 2)Ron Jones 3)Corey Partin 4)Chad Ohnstad 5)Brady Short 6)Joey Jensen 7)Rick Hensley 8)Jamie Burrows 9)Brad Rohloff 10)Michael Hess 11)Dan Hamstra 12)Steve Hughes 13)John Bradley 14)Bruce Watkins 15)Dick Peterson 16)Carlton Jackson 17)Brian Taft 18)Tim Moore 19)Frank Marshall 20)Zack Vander Beek 21)Rob Pendergrass 22)BJ McCammon A – Main (25 Laps) – 1)Kenny Gaddis 2)Kent Arment 3)Shane Cottle 4)Bob Pohlman, Jr. 5)Bill Howard 6)Corey Conley 7)Joel Cryderman 8)Julie McDermid 9)Craig Thatcher 10)Jeff Leka 11)Craig Christensen 12)David Cain 13)Brent Glasstetter 14)Ed Shamhart 15)Denny Schwartz 16)Jeff Mathews 17)Mark Dotson 18)Roger Crouse 19)Justin Ratliff 20)Chad Kinder 21)Rob Fuqua 22)Jason Miller 23)Dave Hess 24)Ron Jones Have an opinion on this story? 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