The number 13 wasn’t bad luck to Jeff Gordon as the Cup stars returned to racing on the 8 lane Super Speedway at Randy’s Raceway. The Dupont # 24 was strong in the early going winning his 1st 6 segments on way to his 2nd win in this class. Less than 1 lap behind Ricky Craven piloted the Budweiser # 50 to 3 segment wins for a runner up finish. Dale Earnhardt Jr. made a rare appearance in his Busch car # 81 running steady all night winning 1 segment. Craven and Earnhardt Jr. did finish in a tie but give the spot to Craven because of more segment wins. Brian Vickers ran the Red Bull # 83 entry to 2 segment wins, on way to a good 4th place finish. Veteran Sterlin Marlin turned in a 5th place finish winning 1 segment.
6th Rusty Wallace (2wins) / 7th Aric Almirola / 8thTrevor Bayne / 9th Cold Trickel (1win) / 10th Dale Jarrett.
Hiester’s 1 -2 in Sprint Main
Sheldon Hiester turned in a sweep as Sprint racing returned to action. Sheldon scored his 2nd win of the year holding off brother Shane by only 24 pieces of track to complete the 1 – 2 finish. Only 2 pieces of track off the pace Jim Levan was very strong in his bright orange # 1 or ( # 7 ) ?, scoring 5 segment wins to notch a 3rd place finish. Randy Haydt was steady all night coming home with a 4th place finish. Scott Bender scored his 3rd top 5 finish of the year to close out the top 5.
6th Billy Decker / 7th Mark Williams / 8th Bob Amore / 9th Cory Reinhardt / 10 th Brian Sponagle.
Stats and Stuff
Congrats to Cory Reinhardt as he claimed his 1st Cup segment win, along with 9th place finishes in both Cup and Sprint. Good to see new comer Brian Sponagle in both fields, and looking pretty good scoring a 10th place finish in Sprints. Randy Haydt credits his 4th place finish in Sprints to his new wing ??. Close action in both Cup and Sprints. Cup had a tie for 2nd, and top 4 separated by 1 lap and 7 pieces of track. Sprints had the top 3 separated by only 26 pieces of track and the next 3 were separated by only 24. Finally with the season winding down reports going around say Mark Williams will not run his beautiful purple Cup body this year.
NEXT WEEK Modified return to the 8 lane.
