Hines
by a Nose in Thursday Chili Bowl
Qualifier!
Lonnie
Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (January 15, 2009)
– For the second time in as many nights,
it was a past Chili Bowl champion reaching
victory lane at the QuikTrip Center's
Tulsa Expo Raceway.
This time, it was 2005 Chili Bowl
king Tracy Hines tracking down top honors
in Thursday's 25-lap Warren CAT Qualifying
night feature event at the 23rd
Annual Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals
presented by General Tire.
The triumph
before a standing-room-only crowd came by
the narrowest of margins though, as Hines
flashed across the finish line in the Tony
Stewart Racing Kistler Chevy-powered No.
21 Chevy/Bass Pro Shops Spike just
0.12-seconds ahead of fellow Hoosier State
hotshoe Dave Darland.
Also assured of
a starting slot in Saturday night's 50-lap
Chili Bowl championship main event along
with Hines and Darland is Illinois native
and 2008 ARCA champion Justin Allgaier,
who claimed the show position to lock into
his third career Chili Bowl finale.
Hines and Darland will both make
their eleventh career championship feature
starts on Saturday night.
Hines and
Darland earned the front row for
Thursday's feature through heat race and
qualifying action and then hinted at the
close finish to follow in the opening
handful of circuits, dueling for the lead
in wheel-to-wheel fashion with Hines
running the low line and Darland on the
top shelf.
After the
battle was interrupted five laps in due to
a Scott Hatton spin in turn two, Hines
established a grip on the lead and moved
to the upper portion of the racetrack,
building nearly a straightaway advantage
over the ensuing laps.
Hines pace was
only marginally slowed after reaching
lapped traffic at the midway point, with
Darland making up minimal ground as
Allgaier fought off Brent Beauchamp for
the third and final lock-in position.
Hines'
comfortable advantage went by the wayside
as the caution flag flew just three laps
short of the finish when Jason Meyers slid
to a stop in turn three, surrendering the
sixth position in the process.
After another
pair of quick cautions, Darland was on
Hines' tailtank for the
green-white-checkered run.
And, as Hines continued to work the
high line over the final two laps, Darland
got perhaps his best run of the race off
the bottom of turn four on the final lap.
Darland pulled alongside but fell
just inches short as Hines took the
checkered flag.
While Darland
settled for second in the Toyota-powered
Wilke-Pak Motorsports Speedway Motors No.
5 Spike, Allgaier slipped away from his
chasers in the final scramble to secure
third aboard Ebby Bergfield's Esslinger-powered
Ethanol No. 86 Spike.
After battling
each other throughout the night, including
some qualifying race contact, Shane Cottle
and Donnie Ray Crawford mixed it up for
position much of the way in the feature
event.
Trading positions several times in
the closing circuits, Cottle got the edge
on the final lap to claim fourth with
Crawford rounding out the top five.
Beauchamp got
shuffled back to sixth in the final
two-lap dash to the checkered flag, with
Glenn Carson in seventh.
After starting outside the second
row, Jesse Hockett lost a left front shock
in the early going and still managed an
eighth-place showing.
Nathan High
claimed ninth, with Jay Drake's first full
night of competition behind the wheel in
more than two years netted a tenth-place
finish after starting 17th.
Among
Thursday's heat race winners that also
included Frank Polimeda, Rob Russell,
Jimmy Light, Darland, Allgaier, Crawford,
Cottle and Beauchamp, Drake later posted
the night's second-narrowest victory when
he nipped Michelle Decker by 0.023-seconds
at the line in the first "B"
Main.
The night's
closest finish came in the third
"A" qualifier when Scott Hatton
edged Allgaier by just 0.009-seconds.
Other qualifying race winners
included Hockett, Wise and A.J. Fike, who
surrendered a fifth-row feature starting
position when he made a quick trip to the
work area prior to the start.
Billy Pauch,
Jr., and Garrett Hansen topped the
"C" Mains, with Scott Pierovich
joining Drake among the ranks of
"B" Main winners.
There were nine
tumbles over the course of the evening,
including fence-manglers by Channing
Zierolf and Nick Knepper in heat race
competition.
Jonathan Hendrick and Brad Sweet
also got upside down in heat race action
before returning for unsuccessful attempts
to climb from "C" to
"B" Main competition.
Scotty Weir and
Dylan Peterson both got upside down in
"C"Main action, with Eric
Sandage, Ricky Ehrgott and Derek Hagar all
flipping in the qualifiers.
The fourth and
final qualifying night of the 23rd
Annual Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals
presented by General Tires hits the track
at 6:00 p.m. on Friday night, setting the
stage for Saturday's slate of championship
feature events.
Thursday
Night's Warren CAT Qualifying Results from
the 23rd Annual Lucas Oil Chili
Bowl Midget Nationals presented by General
Tire
Heat
Races (8 Laps - Top 40 in passing points
to A Qualifiers; Balance to two C Mains)
Heat
1: 1. #44F Frank Polimeda, Fort Lee, NJ;
2. #37J Jeff Bland Jr., Bloomington, IN;
3. #7X Michelle Decker, Guthrie, OK; 4.
#21T Don Droud Jr., Lincoln, NE; 5. #26
Glenn Carson, Concord, CA; 6. #11B Scott
Weir, Marion, IN; 7. #10C Scott Allen,
Kansas City, KS; 8. #33A Stephen Arnold,
Seymour, IN; 9. #68 Jonathan Hendrick,
Fortville, IN
Heat
2: 1. #10R Rob Russell, Fremont, CA; 2.
#21 Tracy Hines, New Castle, IN; 3. #2D
Steve Davis, Norco, CA; 4. #11J Justin
Melton, Flower Mound, TX; 5. #44 Ryan
Pace, Brownsburg, IN; 6. 36X Dylan
Peterson, Sioux Falls, SD; 7. #75 David
Gough, Machesney Park, IL; 8. 331V Victor
Davis, Simi Valley, CA; 9. #76K Frank
Ikerd, Loma Linda, CA
Heat
3: 1. #4M Jimmy Light, Indianapolis, IN;
2. #27D Danny Jennings, Norman, OK; 3.
#14J Jason Meyers, Clovis, CA; 4. #1D
Dennis Rodriguez, Camarillo, CA; 5. #27
Ryan Kaplan, Chico, CA; 6. #0 Glenn Styres,
Ohsweken, Ont.; 7. #6Z Cody Kershaw, Oak,
Park, CA; 8. #0C Cameron Beard, Atwater,
CA
Heat
4: 1. #5 Dave Darland, Lincoln, IN; 2. #69
A.J. Fike, Galesburg, IL; 3. #25A Aaron
Ott, York Springs, PA; 4. #9JR Derek
Hagar, Marion, AR; 5. #07X Jennifer
Greenberg, Albuquerque, NM; 6. #58 Cole
Peard, Quincy, CA; 7. #2X Doug Day,
Winder, GA; 8. #49 Brad Sweet, Grass
Valley, CA
Heat
5: 1. #86 Justin Allgaier, Cornelius, NC;
2. #22 Brian Camarillo, Camarillo, CA; 3.
#60 Eric Sandage, Alexander, AR; 4. #57
Kevin Studley, Plainfield, IN; 5. #38G
Coleman Gulick, Binghamton, NY; 6. 10 Will
Pierce, Lees Summit, MO; 7. #21K Kurt
Mayhew, Demotte, IN; 8. #31L Chuck Knight,
Fort Smith, AR
Heat
6: 1. #55 Donnie Ray Crawford, Tulsa, OK;
2. #15H Scott Hatton, Roscoe, IL; 3. #35X
Scott Pierovich, Alamo, CA; 4. #49P Billy
Pauch Jr., Frenchtown, NJ; 5. #7C Chris
Burns, Bethany, OK; 6. #10B Brock Lemley,
Bellingham, WA; 7. #1M Garry Lee Maier,
Cimarron, KS; 8. #05X Channing Zierolf,
Houma, LA
Heat
7: 1. #67 Jay Drake, Brownsburg, IN; 2.
#18 Donnie Trent, Honey Brook, PA; 3. #8R
Ricky Ehrgott, Brownsburg, IN; 4. #57X
Jason Holt, Brownsville, IN; 5. #7J Eric
Todd, Falcon, MO; 6. #87C Tim Crawley,
Little Rock, AR; 7. #7E Blake Miller,
Yorba Linda, CA; 8. #24 Nick Foster Jr.,
San Jose, CA
Heat
8: 1. #1S Shane Cottle, Kokomo, IN; 2.
#75W Josh Wise, Columbus, IN; 3. #12JR
Nathan High, Goodyear, AZ; 4. #83 Kurt
Blackaby, Bentonville, AR; 5. #70 Garrett
Hansen, Manhattan Beach, CA; 6. #11A
Andrew Felker, Carl Junction, MO; 7. #3A
Bill Allen, Independence, MO; 8. #50T Tom
Everhart, El Cajon, CA
Heat
9: 1. #112 Brent Beauchamp, Fairland, IN;
2. #7B Austin Brown, Millstadt, IL; 3.
#05H Jesse Hockett, Warsaw, MO; 4. #7
Critter Malone, Speedway, IN; 5. #73T
Samantha Taylor, Bonney Lake, WA; 6. #4F
Chad Frewaldt, Kansas City, KS; 7. #64
Brett Miller, Chico, CA; 8. #55K Nick
Knepper, Belleville, IL
C
Mains (12 Laps - Top 4 in each transfer to
back of corresponding B Main)
C
Main 1: 1. #49P Billy Pauch Jr.,
Frenchtown, NJ; 2. #75 David Gough,
Machesney Park, IL; 3. #58 Cole Peard,
Quincy, CA; 4. #7C Chris Burns, Bethany,
OK; 5. #73T Samantha Taylor, Bonney Lake,
WA; 6. #68 Jonathan Hendrick, Fortville,
IN; 7. #2X Doug Day, Winder, GA; 8. #31L
Chuck Knight, Fort Smith, AR; 9. #10B
Brock Lemley, Bellingham, WA; 10. #50T Tom
Everhart, El Cajon, CA; 11. #3A Bill
Allen, Independence, MO; 12. #10C Scott
Allen, Kansas City, KS; 13. #11A Andrew
Felker, Carl Junction, MO; 14. #11B Scott
Weir, Marion, IN; 15. #1M Garry Lee Maier,
Cimarron, KS DNS – #05X Channing Zierolf,
Houma, LA; #55K Nick Knepper, Belleville,
IL
C
Main 2: 1. #70 Garrett Hansen, Manhattan
Beach, CA; 2. #7E Blake Miller, Yorba
Linda, CA; 3. #27 Ryan Kaplan, Chico, CA;
4. #24 Nick Foster Jr., San Jose, CA; 5.
#10 Will Pierce, Lees Summit, MO; 6. #0
Glenn Styres, Ohsweken, ONT; 7. #64 Brett
Miller, Chico, CA; 8. #33A Stephen Arnold,
Seymour, IN; 9. #31V Victor Davis, Simi
Valley, CA; 10. #21K Kurt Mayhew, Demotte,
IN; 11. #49 Brad Sweet, Grass Valley, CA;
12. #76K Frank Ikerd, Loma Linda, CA; 13.
#7J Eric Todd, Falcon, MO; 14. #6Z Cody
Kershaw, Oak Park, CA; 15. #0C Cameron
Beard, Atwater, CA; 16. #87C Tim Crawley,
Benton, AR; 17. #6X Dylan Peterson, Sioux
Falls, SD
A
Qualifiers (10 Laps - Top 16 in combined
passing points to A Main; Balance to twin
B Mains)
A
Qualifier 1: 1. #69 A.J. Fike, Galesburg,
IL; 2. #112 Brent Beauchamp, Fairland, IN;
3. #14J Jason Meyers, Clovis, CA; 4. #7B
Austin Brown, Millstadt, IL; 5. #35X Scott
Pierovich, Alamo, CA; 6. #10R Rob Russell,
Fremont, CA; 7. #25A Aaron Ott, York
Springs, PA; 8. #57X Jason Holt,
Brownsville, IN; 9. #07X Jennifer
Greenberg, Albuquerque, NM; 10. #60 Eric
Sandage, Alexander, AR
A
Qualifier 2: 1. #05H Jesse Hockett,
Warsaw, MO; 2. #12JR Nathan High,
Goodyear, AZ; 3. #26 Glenn Carson,
Concord, CA; 4. #22 Brian Camarillo,
Camarillo, CA; 5. #4M Jimmy Light,
Indianapolis, IN; 6. #44 Ryan Pace,
Brownsburg, IN; 7. #8G Coleman Gulick,
Binghamton, NY; 8. #83 Kurt Blackaby,
Bentonville, AR; 9. #9JR Derek Hagar,
Marion, AR; 10. #8R Rick Ehrgott,
Brownsburg, IN
A
Qualifier 3: 1. #15H Scott Hatton, Roscoe,
IL; 2. #86 Justin Allgaier, Cornelius, NC;
3. #5 Dave Darland, Lincoln, IN; 4. #21T
Don Droud Jr., Lincoln, NE; 5. #67 Jay
Drake, Brownsburg, IN; 6. #44F Frank
Polimeda, Fort Lee, NJ; 7. #11J Justin
Melton, Flower Mound, TX; 8. #7 Critter
Malone, Speedway, IN; 9. #57 Kevin Studley,
Plainfield, IN; 10. #27D Danny Jennings,
Norman, OK
A
Qualifier 4: 1. #75W Josh Wise, Columbus,
IN; 2. #21 Tracy Hines, Newcastle, IN; 3.
#1S Shane Cottle, Kokomo, IN; 4. #55
Donnie Ray Crawford, Tulsa, OK; 5. #37J
Jeff Bland Jr., Bloomington, IN; 6. #7X
Michelle Decker, Guthrie, OK; 7. #1D
Dennis Rodriguez, Camarillo, CA; 8. #18
Donnie Trent, Honey Brook, PA; 9. #2D
Steve Davis, Norco, CA; 10. #4F Chad
Frewaldt, Kansas City, KS
B
Mains (15 Laps - Top 4 advance to A Main)
B
Main 1: 1. #67 Jay Drake, Brownsburg, IN;
2. #7X Michelle Decker, Guthrie, OK; 3.
#44F Frank Polimeda, Fort Lee, NJ; 4. #21T
Don Droud Jr., Lincoln, NE; 5. #49 Billy
Pauch Jr., Frenchtown, NJ; 6. #75 David
Gough, Machesney Park, IL; 7. #18 Donnie
Trent, Honey Brook, PA; 8. #7 Critter
Malone, Speedway, IN; 9. #25A Aaron Ott,
York Springs, PA; 10. #57X Jason Holt,
Brownsville, IN; 11. #11J Justin Melton,
Flower Mound, TX; 12. #7C Chris Burns,
Bethany, OK; 13. #58 Cole Peard, Quincy,
CA; 14. #07X Jennifer Greenberg,
Albuquerque, NM; 15. #27D Danny Jennings,
Norman, OK; DNS - #60 Eric Sandage,
Alexander, AR
B
Main 2: 1. #35X Scott Pierovich, Alamo,
CA; 2. #44 Ryan Pace, Brownsburg, IN; 3.
#22 Brian Camarillo, Camarillo, CA; 4. #8G
Coleman Gulick, Binghamton, NY; 5. #37J
Jeff Bland Jr., Bloomington, IN; 6. #7E
Blake Miller, Yorba Linda, CA; 7. #9JR
Derek Hagar, Marion, PA; 8. #70 Garrett
Hansen, Manhattan Beach, CA; 9. #27 Ryan
Kaplan, Chico, CA; 10. #1D Dennis
Rodriguez, Camarillo, CA; 11. #2D Steve
Davis, Norco, CA; 12. #83 Kurt Blackaby,
Bentonville, AR; 13. #57 Kevin Studley,
Plainfield, IN; 14. #8R Rick Ehrgott,
Brownsburg, IN; 15. #4F Chad Frewaldt,
Kansas City, KS; 16. #24 Nick Foster Jr.,
San Jose, CA
A
Main (25 laps – Top 3 advance to
Saturday Night's Main Event)
1.
#21 Tracy Hines, Newcastle, IN; 2. #5 Dave
Darland, Lincoln, IN; 3. #86 Justin
Allgaier, Cornelius, NC; 4. #1S Shane
Cottle, Kokomo, IN; 5. #55 Donnie Ray
Crawford, Tulsa, OK; 6. #112 Brent
Beauchamp, Fairland, IN; 7. #26 Glen
Carson, Concord, CA; 8. #05H Jesse Hockett,
Warsaw, MO; 9. #12JR Nathan High,
Goodyear, AZ; 10. #67 Jay Drake,
Brownsburg, IN; 11. #7B Austin Brown,
Millstadt, IL; 12. #44F Frank Polimeda,
Fort Lee, NJ; 13. #75W Josh Wise,
Columbus, IN; 14. #35X Scott Pierovich,
Alamo, CA; 15. #21T Don Droud Jr.,
Lincoln, NE; 16. #15H Scott Hatton,
Roscoe, IL; 17. #44 Ryan Pace, Brownsburg,
IN; 18. #14J Jason Meyers, Clovis, CA; 19.
#22 Brian Camarillo, Camarillo, CA; 20.
#69 A.J. Fike, Galesburg, IL; 21. #7X
Michelle Decker, Guthrie, OK; 22. #8G
Coleman Gulick, Binghamton, NY; 23. #4M
Jimmy Light, Indianapolis, IN; 24. #10R
Rob Russell, Fremont, CA
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