{"id":217,"date":"2010-01-28T16:26:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T16:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/?p=217"},"modified":"2010-01-29T08:00:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T08:00:48","slug":"sprint-driver-brady-short-wins-night-two-of-east-bay%e2%80%99s-open-wheel-modified-winternationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/front-page-news\/sprint-driver-brady-short-wins-night-two-of-east-bay%e2%80%99s-open-wheel-modified-winternationals\/","title":{"rendered":"SPRINT DRIVER BRADY SHORT WINS NIGHT TWO OF EAST BAY\u2019S OPEN WHEEL MODIFIED WINTERNATIONALS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201dWe started on the pole, and we fell back a bit so I was fifth on lap 10, but I kept telling myself, it\u2019s all about Saturday night,\u201d said an excited Brady Short in his on track interview in victory lane with announcer Chris Stepan, after winning a $1,000 in the 25-lap feature on night two of the 11th<\/sup> Annual Open Wheel Modified Winternationals at East Bay Raceway Park, Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Normally behind the wheel of a sprint car, the Bedford, Indiana driver went on to\u00a0 explain, \u201cMy Dad had this Pierce car built for last year and this is the only time we run Modifieds.\u00a0 My only other Modified win was a preliminary night here in 2006.\u201d\u00a0 The car carried sponsorship from Indiana Stone Works and Short Trucking with a SPEC (Scott\u2019s Performance Engine Center) engine under the hood.<\/p>\n

Short\u2019s Father Don confessed they made changes all night long, mainly with weight distribution.\u00a0 He had high praise for East Bay saying, \u201cThe track was in good shape tonight.\u00a0 It was a little wet at the beginning, but that\u2019s what it takes to have a good track at the end of the night.\u201d<\/p>\n

After a spin before a lap was officially recorded, the 24-car field led by Short and Kevin Weaver settled into a fast rhythm and clocked off 18 green-flag laps with Weaver showing the way for the first five laps.\u00a0 But, sixth place starter Kyle Bronson (a local from Brandon FL) had other ideas and seriously challenged Weaver for five laps before grabbing the inside groove in turn three and his Loose Gruff chassis pulled ahead to lead lap six.<\/p>\n

By lap 10 Bronson\u2019s All Florida Real Estate No. 40 car powered by a Jimmy Cope engine, had a six-car length advantage over Weaver, Shorty Kincaid, Buzzie Reutimann and Short who nearly spun in between turns one and two.<\/p>\n

Short corrected himself and turned smooth, consistant laps that got him up to third by lap 15, which was big benefit when on lap 19, the leader Bronson spun in turn one as he was trying to maneuver through lapped traffic.\u00a0 Ironically, second place Weaver got caught up in the incident and had to pit to change a right front tire.<\/p>\n

Short inherited the lead and just one lap later, second running Reutimann and Jeff Mathews rubbed side panels going down the front stretch bringing out the second yellow, sending Mathews to the pits to change tires.\u00a0\u00a0 Next, a six-car pile up on the restart in turn one occurred when third place runner Perry Brown spun bringing out the only red flag of the Open Wheel Modified series so far.\u00a0 One more yellow for Alan Farley occurred on lap 22 setting the stage for a three lap shoot-out.<\/p>\n

Short made it to the finish line first, but last year\u2019s big winner in the finale, Rodney Wing was coming fast.\u00a0 Wing had started 19th<\/sup> and the Meridan MS driver brought his ride in the back-up\u00a0 Mathews car up to a second place finish.\u00a0 This car is a Larry Shaw chassis, whereas he was in a GRT car when he won here last year.\u00a0 \u201cThis deal came together about two months ago, with sponsors Jamie Slaton, Buddy\u2019s Home Furnishings, Night Hawk Towing\u00a0 & Recovery and Superior Plumbing. After falling out of last night\u2019s feature because of a broken shock, we were glad to get this finish.\u201d<\/p>\n

Third place finisher Reutimann\u2019s body had damage to all panels and the crew took it off and went back to the shop to straighten it and bring it back tomorrow.\u00a0 The crew guys, Terry Peters and Donnie Reed made changes on the shock and tires all night to make the car better.\u00a0 Reutimann had set fast time last night, but dropped from the feature with mechanical problems.<\/p>\n

Roger Crouse and Dale Mathison cracked the top five while Rick Aukland, Stanley Donahoo, Devin Dixon, Jason Schill and Mike Potosky ranked in the top ten.\u00a0 The first B-Main sent Dixon, Wing, Potosky and Rob Fuqua to the A-Main while Aukland, J.R. Hotovy, Scotty Kincaid and Denny Schwartz made it through the second B-Main.\u00a0 Wayne Hammond set fast time of the 55 cars and won the Strawberry Dash.<\/p>\n

Qualifying Results:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

1. 48 Wayne Hammond \u2013 17.568; 2. 00D Stanley Donahoo \u2013 17.633; 3. 01 Vic Vena \u2013 17.643; 4. 2A Rick Aukland \u2013 17.673; 5. 44 Dave Hess, Jr. \u2013 17.715; 6. 9M Dale Mathison \u2013 17.760; 7. 36 Brady Short \u2013 17.865; 8. K12 Scotty Kincaid \u2013 17.875; 9. 22 Dale Kelley \u2013 17.901; 10. 33 Jeff Mathews \u2013 17.967; 11. 11X Jason Schill \u2013 17.978; 12. 21S Denny Schwartz \u2013 17.993; 13. 00G Greg Reutimann \u2013 18.060; 14. 29 Alan Farley \u2013 18.124; 15. 83B Perry Brown \u2013 18.134; 16. 71 Don O\u2019Neal \u2013 18.168; 17. 00 Buzzie Reutimann \u2013 18.188; 18. 27 John Bradley \u2013 18.190; 19. 4 Stormy Scott \u2013 18.359; 20. 2H Brian Hayden \u2013 18.374; 21. 40 Kyle Bronson \u2013 18.396; 22. 3F Rob Fuqua \u2013 18.402; 23. 0 Les Duellman \u2013 18.417; 24. 2 Devin Dixon \u2013 18.434; 25. 112 Steve Lance \u2013 18.471; 26. M20 Mike Potosky \u2013 18.487; 27. 13 J.R. Hotovy \u2013 18.505; 28. 33X Rodney Wing \u2013 18.545; 29. 27M John McCaul \u2013 18.554; 30. 07P Tim Peterson \u2013 18.628; 31. 7A Shane Sabraski \u2013 18.680; 32. B12 Kevin Weaver \u2013 18.701; 33. 02 Glen Underwood \u2013 18.712; 34. 96 Curt Gelling \u2013 18.760; 35. 58 Matt Fetterhoff \u2013 18.788; 36. 1 Tommie Seets, Jr. \u2013 18.794; 37. 8 Wesley Summers \u2013 18.841; 38. 10 Tyson Turnbull \u2013 18.846; 39. 9 Roger Crouse \u2013 19.061; 40. C00L Chris Littrell \u2013 19.136; 41. 19 Thomas Sigler \u2013 19.139; 42. 6B Dave Baldwin \u2013 19.305; 43. 38 Rick Cannata \u2013 19.624; 44. 23 Terry Haven \u2013 19.656; 45. 11 Steven Pfeifer \u2013 19.827; 46. 27N Nate Bregenzer \u2013 19.886; 47. 6M Terry McClintock \u2013 19.965; 48. 999 Duanne Dale \u2013 20.156; 49. 96X Dennis Haven \u2013 20.744; 50. 62 Jeremy Newberry \u2013 21.264; 51. Z1 Zac Oedewaldt \u2013 23.164; 52. 03 Jason Combs \u2013 23.353; 53. 77 Bruce Bregenzer \u2013 33.877; 54. 25W Allen Weisser \u2013 N\/T; 55. 89 Mike Spatola \u2013 N\/T<\/p>\n

1st<\/sup><\/span> Heat<\/span> \u2013 1)Shane Sabraski 2)Roger Crouse 3)Mike Potosky 4)Brian Hayden 5)Allen Weisser 6)Steven Pfeifer 7)Dave Baldwin<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> Heat<\/span> \u2013 1)Kyle Bronson 2)Perry Brown 3)Devin Dixon 4)John Bradley 5)Rodney Wing 6)Terry McClintock 7)Bruce Bregenzer<\/p>\n

3rd<\/sup> Heat<\/span> \u2013 1)Buzzie Reutimann 2)Dale Kelley 3)Rob Fuqua 4)Vic Vena 5)Tommie Seets, Jr. 6)Terry Haven 7)Rick Cannata<\/p>\n

4th<\/sup> Heat<\/span> \u2013 1)Kevin Weaver 2)Thomas Sigler 3)Jeremy Newberry 4)Les Duellman 5)Zac Oedewaldt 6)Dennis Haven 7)John McCaul<\/p>\n

5th<\/sup> Heat<\/span> \u2013 1)Brady Short 2)Stanley Donahoo 3)Rick Aukland 4)Steve Lance 5)Mike Spatola 6)Greg Reutimann 7)Tyson Turnbull<\/p>\n

6th<\/sup> Heat<\/span> \u2013 1)Alan Farley 2)Glen Underwood 3)J.R. Hotovy 4)Nate Bregenzer 5)Wesley Summers 6)Wayne Hammond 7)Denny Schwartz<\/p>\n

7th<\/sup> Heat<\/span> \u2013 1)Stormy Scott 2)Dale Mathison 3)Duanne Dale 4)Matt Fetterhoff 5)Chris Littrell 6)Dave Hess, Jr. 7)Curt Gelling<\/p>\n

8th<\/sup> Heat<\/span> \u2013 1)Jeff Mathews 2)Jason Schill 3)Don O\u2019Neal 4)Scotty Kincaid 5)Tim Peterson 6)Jason Combs DNS<\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> B \u2013 Main<\/span> (Top 4 go to back of A inside row) \u2013 1)Devin Dixon 2)Rodney Wing 3)Mike Potosky 4)Rob Fuqua 5)John Bradley 6)Tommie Seets, Jr. 7)Brian Hayden 8)Steven Pfeifer 9)John McCaul 10)Les Duellman 11)Jeremy Newberry 12)Terry Haven 13)Terry McClintock 14)Bruce Bregenzer 15)Dave Baldwin 16)Rick Cannata 17)Zac Oedewaldt 18)Allen Weisser 19)Dennis Haven 20)Vic Vena<\/p>\n

2nd<\/sup> B \u2013 Main<\/span> (Top 4 go to back of A outside row) \u2013 1)Rick Aukland 2)J.R. Hotovy 3)Scotty Kincaid 4)Denny Schwartz 5)Don O\u2019Neal 6)Mike Spatola 7)Greg Reutimann 8)Nate Bregenzer 9)Chris Littrell 10)Tim Peterson 11)Curt Gelling 12)Wayne Hammond 13)Tyson Turnbull 14)Wesley Summers 15)Matt Fetterhoff 16)Dave Hess, Jr. 17)Duanne Dale 18)Steve Lance 19)Jason Combs DNS<\/p>\n

A \u2013 Main<\/span> (25 Laps) \u2013 1)Brady Short 2)Rodney Wing 3)Buzzie Reutimann 4)Roger Crouse 5)Dale Mathison 6)Rick Aukland 7)Stanley Donahoo 8)Devin Dixon 9)Jason Schill 10)Mike Potosky 11)Kyle Bronson 12)Thomas Sigler 13)Rob Fuqua 14)Kevin Weaver 15)Jeff Mathews 16)Denny Schwartz 17)Shane Sabraski 18)Glen Underwood 19)Alan Farley 20)Perry Brown 21)Dale Kelley 22)Scotty Kincaid 23)J.R. Hotovy 24)Stormy Scott<\/p>\n

Strawberry Dash<\/span> \u2013 1)Wayne Hammond 2)Les Duellman 3)Greg Reutimann 4)Tyson Turnbull 5)Curt Gelling 6)Zac Oedewaldt 7)Bruce Bregenzer<\/p>\n

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