IT'S TIME TO RACE!!

February 18, 2005 FSCR Jason Hughes is Third Modified Winner in Three Nights at East Bay TAMPA, FL….2/17/05…..”Last night we ran decent, but we put drive back into the car tonight and that’s what it took to get this win,” explained chassis builder and driver Jason Hughes after collecting $1,500in night three of the 6th Annual Ramada Inn on Tampa Bay Open Wheel Modified Winternationals at East Bay Raceway Park Thursday night. He became the third different driver to win over a record field of Modifieds which was down from 126 to 115 tonight. “I’ve always wanted to come to East Bay and finally this year, I have enough good help in my chassis-building shop back in Watts, Oklahoma, so I could finally get here,” stated Hughes who brought only Steve Kiver along to be his pit crew. It was the second time this week his chassis design won a feature here, because Tuesday, Kenny Gaddis drove his Hughes to a victory, also. Running mostly the USMTS touring series last year, Hughes finished in the top five and had a total of 29 feature wins counting three at his home track, the high banked Salina, Oklahoma speedway. “We usually run American Racer tires, so I struggled here with Hoosier tires, but I guess we got it figured out,” he said later in his pit area. Sponsors on the winning car include DeLeon’s Racing Engines out of McAllen, Texas, Afco Shocks, Aero Race Wheels, Pro Blend and Aero Rods. After starting on the pole for the 25-lap A-Main through luck-of-the-draw among the ten heat winners, Hughes had plenty of pressure in the early laps from outside pole sitter Shane Cottle. Brady Short and Julie McDermid made up row two, but it was Short who stayed close to Cottle and by lap four, fast timer, Chad Kinder had joined the tight formation of the front four. Cottle got a nose under Hughes in a serious challenge for the lead coming off turn four, but Hughes made a perfect line and was still ahead as they completed lap eight. A yellow came out for a tangle in turn four with ten laps in the books. The restart lineup showed Hughes, then Cottle, Short, Kinder, Jimmy Owens up from seventh, and Dan Hamstra. Just one lap later, Kinder had passed Short for third spot then fourth-running Hamstra spun to the inside in turn one to bring out another yellow. By lap 13, with Hughes still leading Cottle, Kinder made an inside move to take over second spot. The two front cars of Hughes and Kinder were pulling away from third place Short and fourth place Kent Arment when the final yellow flew on lap 20. With the five-to-go signal from flagman Julian Mullis, Hughes made sure he turned perfect laps to keep Kinder behind him. Last night’s winner Owens left his low groove and went high with three laps remaining and blew by Arment to take over fourth spot. Coming for the white flag, Owens continued to build his momentum on the top groove and took third away from Short. It appeared that he had the same move planned to overtake both front-runners when a bobble by those two caused Owens to hesitate in turn two. He tried to make the high groove in turns three and four his surprise winning move, but he fell short. Hughes pulled off a narrow win over Kinder, and Owens settled for third ahead of Short and Arment. Denny Schwartz, Cottle, David Hess, McDermid and Joel Cryderman ranked in the top ten. Bob Pohlman, Jr, Mark Dotson, Jason Miller and Jeff Leka moved from the two B-Mains into the back of the A-Main. The two C-Mains sent Brad Waits, Corey Conley, Brad Rohloff and Kevin Weaver to the B-Mains. Advancing from the D-Main, it was Don Kiger, Terry McClintock, Terry Hayes and Mike Oldenberg. The Gulf Coast Produce Strawberry Dash was won by Roger Crouse. The ten heats winners were Kinder, Hughes, Owens, Schwartz, McDermid, Cryderman, Short, Hamstra, Craig Thatcher and Cottle. STATS – OPEN WHEEL MODIFIEDS - EAST BAY RACEWAY PARK – THURSDAY, 2/17/05 Qualifying Results: 1. 22S Chad Kinder – 17.395; 2. 12H Jason Hughes – 17.403; 3. 20 Jimmy Owens – 17.588; 4. 00A Steve Arpin – 17.591; 5. 1M Julie McDermid – 17.600; 6. 96X Joel Cryderman – 17.617; 7. 36 Brady Short – 17.624; 8. 1A Chad Ohnstad – 17.647; 9. 91 Craig Thatcher – 17.673; 10. 78 Shane Cottle – 17.674; 11. 45 Dean Vickers – 17.716; 12. 2B Devin Dixon – 17.724; 13. M12 Jason Miller – 17.747; 14. 21S Denny Schwartz – 17.766; 15. 44H David Hess – 17.776; 16. 12S Ed Shamhart – 17.817; 17. 21C Kenny Carlson – 17.835; 18. 23H Dan Hamstra – 17.850; 19. 2 Kenny Gaddis – 17.851; 20. Q Joey Jensen – 17.870; 21. 9 Kent Arment – 17.877; 22. 182 Randle Sweeney – 17.881; 23. 03 Brad Rohloff – 17.886; 24. X Mike Wedelstadt – 17.888; 25. HC1 Paul Wilmoth, Jr. – 17.896; 26. 24 Brad Waits – 17.898; 27. 21M BJ McCammon – 17.920; 28. 44 Michael Hess – 17.937; 29. 2C David Cain – 17.948; 30. 85D Mark Dotson – 17.950; 31. 61M Shawn Peterson – 17.964; 32. 3L Jeff Leka – 17.993; 33. 18 Brent Glastetter – 18.000; 34. 48 Bill Howard – 18.027; 35. 33Z Zach Vander Beek – 18.033; 36. 707 Corey Conley – 18.034; 37. 98 Shon Flanary – 18.048; 38. 1B Jason Barnhill – 18.049; 39. 16 Justin Rattliff – 18.052; 40. 155 Richard Harlow – 18.053; 41. 007 David Schmauss – 18.067; 42. B12 Kevin Weaver – 18.088; 43. 16C Scott Clippinger – 18.114; 44. 33M Roger Crouse – 18.127; 45. 3F Rob Fuqua – 18.128; 46. 12 Russell Childress – 18.134; 47. 4C Craig Christiansen – 18.135; 48. 1P Bob Pohlman, Jr. – 18.161; 49. 00B Buzzie Reutimann – 18.162; 50. 55 Tom Moore – 18.187; 51. 03B Rick Hensley – 18.193; 52. 17 Scott Duvall – 18.199; 53. 3X David Boerner – 18.224; 54. 2M Steve Mueller – 18.234; 55. 7 Ron Jones – 18.243; 56. J5 Jess Hartman – 18.259; 57. 83C Brian Taft – 18.273; 58. 0 Craig Scott – 18.275; 59. 01 Trevor Merrell – 18.282; 60. 11W Wess Weinman – 18.311; 61. 00 Greg Reutimann – 18.313; 62. 112 Todd Bennett – 18.314; 63. 14C Brian Cockrum – 18.318; 64. Z28 Mark Trautner – 18.328; 65. M5 Bob McQuaig – 18.346; 66. 28M Frank Marshall – 18.354; 67. 8W William Hampton – 18.357; 68. 63 Scotty Williams – 18.361; 69. 96 Mark Rigdon – 18.362; 70. 22C Terry Cox – 18.366; 71. 22X Greg Oakes – 18.377; 72. 44J Jared Kneemiller – 18.382; 73. 30 Wade Schutt – 18.383; 74. 75S Eric Scribner – 18.399; 75. 4S Thomas Sigler – 18.415; 76. 11G Matt Goulden – 18.415; 77. 33 Jeff Mathews – 18.427; 78. 130 Chad Osterhoff – 18.429; 79. 21W Dano Ostrander – 18.434; 80. 3 Kelly Shryock – 18.446; 81. 99 Corey Partin – 18.458; 82. B12X Bruce Watkins – 18.458; 83. 27 John Bradley – 18.470; 84. 88 Chris Smith – 18.487; 85. 21L Ivodent Lloyd, Jr. – 18.489; 86. 54P Dick Peterson – 18.500; 87. 97 Rusty Dixon – 18.504; 88. 20X Steve Hughes – 18.507; 89. 19 Joe Fowler – 18.508; 90. 12M Ken Myracle – 18.520; 91. 01K Don Kiger – 18.532; 92. 13 Kevin DeYoung – 18.539; 93. 47H Terry Hayes – 18.579; 94. 85 Ryan Corbett – 18.607; 95. 22 Rob McLanghlin – 18.628; 96. 6M Terry J. McClintock – 18.650; 97. 69 Tim Moore – 18.656; 98. 2J Blake Jegtvig – 18.657; 99. 11B Jamie Burrows – 18.665; 100. 70 MJ Hintz – 18.673; 101. 32B Robby Barris – 18.682; 102. 2T Corky Thomas – 18.766; 103. 27X Joe Pendergrass – 18.793; 104. 47T Carlton Jackson – 18.816; 105. 31 Brian Hollifield – 18.852; 106. 23 Terry Haven – 18.889; 107. 18M David McWilliams – 18.901; 108. CV7 Chris Veech – 18.944; 109. 10X Rob Pendergrass – 18.997; 110. 08 Shawn Simpson – 19.063; 111. 2F Todd Ferber – 19.217; 112. 25T Paul Thorpe – 20.009; 113. 86 Mike Oldenberg – 20.169; 114. L88 Mark Herbert – N/T; 115. 26 Chris Butler – N/T 1st Heat – 1)Chad Kinder 2)Kent Arment 3)David Schmauss 4)Shawn Peterson 5)Rick Hensley 6)Dean Vickers 7)Greg Oakes 8)Bruce Watkins 9)Greg Reutimann 10)Todd Ferber 11)Don Kiger 12)Robby Barris 2nd Heat – 1)Jason Hughes 2)Devin Dixon 3)Jeff Leka 4)Randle Sweeney 5)Scott Duvall 6)Todd Bennett 7)Kevin Weaver 8)Corey Partin 9)Jared Kneemiller 10)Paul Thorpe 11)Kevin DeYoung 12)Corky Thomas DNS 3rd Heat – 1)Jimmy Owens 2)Brent Glastetter 3)Jason Miller 4)David Boerner 5)John Bradley 6)Scott Clippinger 7)Brad Rohloff 8)Joe Pendergrass 9)Brian Cockrum 10)Wade Schutt 11)Terry Hayes 12)Mike Oldenberg 4th Heat – 1)Denny Schwartz 2)Bill Howard 3)Mark Trautner 4)Roger Crouse 5)Eric Scribner 6)Ryan Corbett 7)Steve Mueller 8)Carlton Jackson 9)Chris Smith 10)Mike Wedelstadt 11)Mark Herbert 12)Steve Arpin 5th Heat – 1)Julie McDermid 2)David Hess 3)Ron Jones 4)Zach Vander Beek 5)Paul Wilmoth, Jr. 6)Bob McQuaig 7)Matt Goulden 8)Brian Hollifield 9)Chris Butler 10)Rob Fuqua 11)Ivodent Lloyd, Jr. 12)Rob McLanghlin DNS 6th Heat – 1)Joel Cryderman 2)Ed Shamhart 3)Jess Hartman 4)Dick Peterson 5)Frank Marshall 6)Russell Childress 7)Brad Waits 8)Thomas Sigler 9)Corey Conley 10)Terry Haven 11)Terry J. McClintock 7th Heat – 1)Brady Short 2)Jeff Mathews 3)Tim Moore 4)Brian Taft 5)Rusty Dixon 6)Kenny Carlson 7)David McWilliams 8)William Hampton 9)Shon Flanary 10)BJ McCammon 11)Craig Christiansen DNS 8th Heat – 1)Dan Hamstra 2)Chad Ohnstad 3)Bob Pohlman, Jr. 4)Michael Hess 5)Jason Barnhill 6)Craig Scott 7)Steve Hughes 8)Chad Osterhoff 9)Blake Jegtvig 10)Chris Veech 11)Scotty Williams 9th Heat – 1)Craig Thatcher 2)Kenny Gaddis 3)Justin Ratliff 4)David Cain 5)Buzzie Reutimann 6)Joe Fowler 7)Trevor Merrell 8)Jamie Burrows 9)Dano Ostrander 10)Mark Rigdon 11)Rob Pendergrass 10th Heat – 1)Shane Cottle 2)Joey Jensen 3)Mark Dotson 4)Kelly Shryock 5)Wess Weinman 6)Tom Moore 7)Richard Harlow 8)Shawn Simpson 9)MJ Hintz 10)Ken Myracle 11)Terry Cox D – Main 1)Don Kiger 2)Terry J. McClintock 3)Terry Hayes 4)Mike Oldenberg 5)Rob Pendergrass 6)Ivodent Lloyd, Jr. 7)Robby Barris 8)Steve Arpin 9)Kevin DeYoung DNS 10)Mark Herbert DNS 11)Scotty Williams DNS 12)Terry Cox DNS 13)Craig Christiansen DNS 14)Corky Thomas DNS 15)Rob McLanghlin DNS 1st C – Main – 1)Brad Rohloff 2)Kevin Weaver 3)Corey Partin 4)Greg Oakes 5)Jared Kneemiller 6)Matt Goulden 7)Steve Mueller 8)Rob Fuqua 9)Greg Reutimann 10)Bruce Watkins 11)Mike Wedelstadt 12)Carlton Jackson 13)Paul Thorpe 14)Wade Schutt 15)Brian Cockrum 16)Todd Ferber 17)Brian Hollifield 18)Joe Pendergrass 19)Don Kiger 20)Terry Hayes 21)Chris Smith 22)Chris Butler 2nd C - Main – 1)Brad Waits 2)Corey Conley 3)David McWilliams 4)Steve Hughes 5)Blake Jegtvig 6)Richard Harlow 7)Chad Osterhoff 8)Thomas Sigler 9)MJ Hintz 10)Terry J. McClintock 11)Trevor Merrell 12)Shawn Simpson 13)Terry Haven 14)Chris Veech 15)Ken Myracle 16)Mike Oldenberg 17)Dano Ostrander 18)William Hampton 19)Jamie Burrows 20)Shon Flanary 21)BJ McCammon 22)Mark Rigdon 1st B – Main – 1)Jason Miller 2)Jeff Leka 3)Ron Jones 4)Mark Trautner 5)Roger Crouse 6)Shawn Peterson 7)Zach Vander Beek 8)Scott Duvall 9)Paul Wilmoth, Jr. 10)Todd Bennett 11)Eric Scribner 12)David Boerner 13)Randle Sweeney 14)Rick Hensley 15)Ryan Corbett 16)Kevin Weaver 17)Brad Rohloff 18)John Bradley 19)Dean Vickers 20)Bob McQuaig 21)David Schmauss 22)Scott Clippinger DNS 2nd B - Main – 1)Bob Pohlman, Jr. 2)Mark Dotson 3)David Cain 4)Kelly Shryock 5)Tim Moore 6)Jason Barnhill 7)Brad Waits 8)Frank Marshall 9)Corey Conley 10)Michael Hess 11)Brian Taft 12)Wess Weinman 13)Craig Scott 14)Justin Rattliff 15)Tom Moore 16)Russell Childress 17)Buzzie Reutimann 18)Kenny Carlson 19)Joe Fowler 20)Jess Hartman 21)Dick Peterson 22)Rusty Dixon A – Main (25 Laps) – 1)Jason Hughes 2)Chad Kinder 3)Jimmy Owens 4)Brady Short 5)Kent Arment 6)Denny Schwartz 7)Shane Cottle 8)David Hess 9)Julie McDermid 10)Joel Cryderman 11)Brent Glastetter 12)Craig Thatcher 13)Chad Ohnstad 14)Bill Howard 15)Kenny Gaddis 16)Devin Dixon 17)Mark Dotson 18)Jeff Mathews 19)Jeff Leka 20)Dan Hamstra 21)Joey Jensen 22)Ed Shamhart 23)Jason Miller 24)Bob Pohlman, Jr. Gulfcoast Produce Strawberry Dash – 1)Roger Crouse 2)Kevin Weaver 3)Richard Harlow 4)Ryan Corbett 5)Wes Weinmann 6)Jared Kneemiller 7)Dean Vickers 8)Don Kiger Have an opinion on this story? 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