APRIL 29,
2006
DJ TROUTMAN SNAGS BEDFORD OPENER
By Dave Harclerode
BEDFORD, PA - A good field of cars welcomed Bedford race fans to great
night of racing for the season opener Friday night. DJ Troutman started
the season off right in the family owned number 7j, picking up the win in the
NAPA Super Late Models. Matt Sponaugle earned career win number 3 in the
Limited Late Models, and Patrick McDonough got his first career Bedford win in
the TC Race Cars Street Stock division. Last year's division champ Chuck Weyant
won the special 30 lap Cruiser Hobby Stock feature.
DJ Troutman grabbed the lead immediately in the NAPA Super Late Model main, but
it wasn't easy for the second generation driver. Pole sitter Nick Dickson
dogged Troutman lap after lap, taking the lead momentarily at one point mid way
through the race. Troutman held on to pick up his 4th career Bedford late
model win, with Dickson a close second. Jason Covert finished a strong
third, with Chris Harr and Bo Feathers completing the top five. Scott Haus,
Andy Martz, Wayne Johnson, Jeff Rine, and Chuck LaSalle rounded out the top ten. Notable
Speedway racers Rodney Sweitzer, Bob Salathe, Jack Pencil, and Scott Rhodes provided
the best action of the race, battling all race long. Sweitzer faired the
best of the group, finishing twelfth.
Heat winners were Haus, DJ Troutman, and Dickson.
Matt Sponaugle led flag to flag in the Limited Late Model feature event. A
lap one crash in turn two sent 2005 track champ Matt Parks, heat winner Shawn
Bilger, perennial front runner John Hedge, and Eddie Cornett pitside. A
pair of eights paced the field the entire distance, with Sponaugle taking the
win ahead of Mike Shoemaker, Donnie Farlling, Rance Garlock, and Steve Bard. Sixth
through tenth went to Al Shawver, Craig Perigo, George Beckett, Justin Kann,
and Tyler Hershey.
Bilger, Shawver, and Parks won the heat events.
Patrick McDonough held back a mob of TC Race Cars Street Stock drivers to win
his first ever main event at Bedford Speedway. Travis Brown finished a
career best second, and Willie Ling nabbed a Bedford career best third. Ashley
Barrett took home fourth, and Jerry Merritts earned a career high fifth. Sixth
through tenth was Dave Korlewitz, who ran in the top five much of the night before
being plagued with a tire problem, rookie driver Brandon Hoover, Scott Grubb,
Daniel Cornman, and Terry Wyles.
Heats went to McDonough and Barrett.
Last year's Cruiser Hobby Stock champion Chuck Weyant started the season off
on the right foot, winning a special 30 lap main event for the division from
his seventh starting position. A wild race at the front saw two and three
wide racing for nearly all 30 laps, with Weyant stealing the lead with two to
go from second generation driver Brandon LaSalle. LaSalle held on for second,
and was followed by Travis Stickley, James Best, and Shawn Wyles. Derrick
Hinish, David Reaugh, Kevin Hinish, Racin' Ray Shepherd, and Lincoln Ritchey
completed the top ten.
Best and Wyles won the heat races.
Friday, May 5th will be a regular 4 division show consisting of Super Lates,
Limited Lates, Street Stocks and Cruiser-Hobby Stocks. Hot laps start at
7, with racing at 7:30. The first "Kid's race car rides" of the season
will take place that evening, beginning at 6:30. Coming Friday, May 12th
is the Bob Sweitzer Memorial race for the Super Late Models.
SUPER LATE MODELS
FEATURE: 1. DJ TROUTMAN 7j 2. Nick Dickson 17D 3. Jason Covert
43a 4. Chris Harr w1 5. Bo Feathers 00 6. Scott Haus 33 7. Andy
Martz M1 8. Wayne Johnson 17j 9. Jeff Rine 92 10. Chuck LaSalle
37 11. Steve Campbell 55 12. Rodney Sweitzer 84 13. Bob Salathe
RG3 14. Jack Pencil 14 15. Scott Rhodes 83R 16. Chuck Clise 5
17. Shane Beegle 15 18. TJ Wright 31j (DNF) 19. Waylon Wagner 5w
(DNF) 20. Coleby Frye F1 (DNF) 21. Rick Singleton 99 (DNF) 22.
Dave
Troutman 7 (DNF) 23. Larry Wright 31 (DNF) 24. Ron Delano, Jr.
0
(DNF) 25. Eric Zembower 49 (DNF) 26. Doug Ishler 03 (DNF)
HEAT 1: Haus, Dave Troutman, Martz
HEAT 2: DJ Troutman, Feathers, Harr
HEAT 3: Dickson, Covert, Delano, Jr.
LIMITED LATE MODELS
FEATURE: 1. MATT SPONAUGLE 8 2. Mike Shoemaker 8 3. Donnie Farlling
48 4. Rance Garlock 19 5. Steve Bard 72 6. Justin Kann 66k 7. Craig
Perigo 1a 8. George Beckett 58 9. Al Shawver 66 10. Tyler Hershey
74 11. Andy Fries 82 12. Shawn Claar 20 13. Jim Sayler 96 14.
Tim Smith, Jr. 39 15. Coleby Frye F1 16. Travis Calhoun 36 17.
Robbie Black 01 18. Kevin Weyandt 88 19. Mike Altobelli, Jr.
79 20. John Hedge 80e 21. Matt Parks 15p 22. Andy Teno 48m 23.
Shawn Bilger 24. Eddie Cornett 81
HEAT 1: Bilger, Beckett, Teno
HEAT 2: Shawver, Sponaugle, Farlling
HEAT 3: Parks, Shoemaker, Hedge
STREET STOCKS
FEATURE: 1. PATRICK McDONOUGH 96h 2. Travis Brown 29 3. Willie
Ling
31 4. Ashley Barrett 75x 5. Jerry Merritts 8 6. Dave Korlewitz
24k
7. Brandon Hoover 45b 8. Scott Grubb 55x (DNF) 9. Daniel Cornman
3
(DNF) 10. Terry Wyles 98 (DNF) 11. Michael Stiffler 17s (DNF) 12.
Donald Wyles 10 (DNS)
HEAT 1: McDonough, Ling, Stiffler
HEAT 2: Barrett, Cornman, Terry Wyles
CRUISER-HOBBY STOCKS
FEATURE (30 laps): 1. CHUCK WEYANT 88c 2. Brandon LaSalle 37 3.
Travis Stickley 32 4. James Best 17 5. Shawn Wyles 21 6. Derrick
Hinish 12 7. David Reaugh 9r 8. Kevin Hinish 6r 9. Ray Shepherd
10.
Lincoln Ritchey 3 (DNF) 11. Mike Siegele 007 12. Mark Shope 53
(DNF)
13. Todd Price 7p (DNF) 14. Kevin Johnson 97 (DNF) 15. Greg Imler
6 (DNS)
HEAT 1: Best, LaSalle, Weyant
HEAT 2: Wyles, Ritchey, Derrick Hinis
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