Drew Brannon Leads Wire to Wire in Good Year Challenge Series
Darrin “Icewater” Ellis Dominates Outlaw Street Stock Race
By Rick Anges
Bradenton, Fl. - A twenty-car field rolled into DeSoto for the 100-lap Goodyear Challenge Series race and young Drew Brannon took the fast time with a 15.099. Following Brannon in qualifying were Justin Larson coming off his second place run in the AACS. Third fast was Joe Winchell, fourth point’s leader Doug Moff and fifth A.J.Curelli.
A zero pill was drawn in the pits leaving the field the way they qualified for the race. The drop of the green had Brannon and Larson going side by side for the first several laps. Larson would slip up and allow quite a few cars by before spinning in turn four. He came into the pits and returned starting from the rear of the field.
Brannon meanwhile was challenged several times for the lead by veteran racer Joe Winchell but was able to hold him off for the victory, Winchell was second, third went Curelli, fourth was Moff . Larson put on a show for the fans as he roared back to the front to take fifth.
1 Drew Brannon #8 R 2 Joe Winchell #57 3 A.J Curelli #2 4 Doug Moff #46 5 Justin Larson #88 6 George Morales #96 7 Rich Clouser #9 8 AJ Isbister #81x 9 Darren Brown #53 R 10 Dustin Chisolm #7 R 11 Steve Gill #5 12 Greg Kaouk #31 13 Patrick Starpolli #97 14 Jesse Dutilly #30 15 Raymond Folwell #'03 16 Guss Coorssen #41 17 Lonnie Miller #98 18 Cliff Bifaro #12 19 Alan McKinney #96x 20 Timothy Grogan #63
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Outlaw Street Stocks Robert Crisp took fast time for the first running of the Outlaw Street Stock race at DeSoto but it was Darrin “Icewater” Ellis who dominated the feature race. Crisp had to retire early in the race as smoke began billowing from the rear end of his machine.
Ellis checked out and never looked back as he cruised to the win, second went “Dynamite” Dave Davis, Ricky Ballard Jr. finished third, fourth went to James Crawford Jr. and fifth across the stripe was Andrea Jackson.
1 71 Darrin Ellis 2 6x David Davis 3 10 Ricky Ballard Jr 4 34 James Crawford 5 9x Andrea Jackson 6 28 Micheal Laplant (started 22nd) 7 09 Donnie Ollie Jr 8 67 Jimme Best 9 3 Duane Best 10 12 Jeff Lacey 11 6 Henry Ferguson 12 33 Gary Laplant 13 19x Ryan Meiser 14 18 Shane Leonard 15 21x Greg Bartamac 16 1 Jesse Gargus 17 92 Troy Lacey 18 11 Ken Smith 19 79 Rockey Reinhold 20 38 Robert Crisp 21 48 Cris Scott 22 1x Tyler Lau
International Contractors Street Stocks Pos Driver Car # 1. JOEY BARNES . . 19 2. DENNIS WILSON . . 42 3. GREGORY KROM . . 35 4. JAMES NANNEY . . 6 5. WAYNE DOVE . . 18 6. DEREK LUCAS . . 88 7. SHAWN MULLET . . 29 8. ALEX ABBOTT . . 17 9. IAN ROBB . . 23 10. CLAYTON MCCURRY . . 74 11. DAVE BLANCHARD . . 50 12. MAXX BENNETT-M-TKS. . 28X
Manatee Lumber Pure Stocks Pos Driver Car # 1. RANDY JOHNSON . . 73 2. ROBERT CRISP . . 38 3. GEORGE BARTIMAC . . 21X 4. JAMES CRAWFORD JR. . 34 5. DARRIN ELLIS . . 71 6. BLAIR PONTIOUS . . 39 7. DAVID DAVIS . . 6X 8. TYLER LAU . . 1 9. TROY MEREDITH . . 75 10. MARK PICKLESIMER. . 07
Q Auto and Injury OWM Pos Driver Car # 1. BOBBY BALDWIN . . 4 2. RICHARD SHEPHERD. . 30 3. MARK NELSON . . 11 4. BRUCE RIGGIO . . 75 5. THOMAS MALIN . . 65 6. JOHN SHIELDS . . 37 7. SAMMY COGHILL . . 22 8. BARRY CARLSON . . 3
Mod-Minis Pos Driver Car # 1. GLENN KELLEY . . 16 2. JEFF BARNES . . 5 3. MARTY NEIKENS . . 70 4. RICK PARTRIDGE . . 0 5. STEPHANIE MELLO . . 9X 6. CHRIS ZIMMERMAN . . 29 7. THOMAS ZIMMERMAN. . 29X
Bradenton, Fl. - A twenty-car field rolled into DeSoto
