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IHRA Points Awards, Final Mega 10 Race & Season's End

Hi Everyone-

Well, it's time for the season to finish off, and I would like to say that when I took this job back in April of this year I was real uncertain of what I was getting into. Could I do it? Would I like it? Would I stay with it?

Now that I look back through out this year, I can honestly say I love my job and all the great new friends I have made and cannot imagine doing anything else at this point in my life. This year has flew by, and I am already looking ahead to new things for next year. I would truly like to thank each and everyone of you for all the help and patience I have been given. Racing truly is a family of it's own.

Now- to the more serious stuff.

Dec 13 will be our final race for this season, and we have alot going on that day. It will be our final Mega 10 Race for 08. Drawings will be held and all awards presented this day. Anyone that participated in at least 7 races, will be in the drawing to win. (If you not sure how many you attended, let me know and I will look it up)

IHRA Points Awards will also be given out this day. We need the top 10 winners for Pro & Footbrake present at 1:00 this day to recieve their award. 

 

The schedule for next season is in the works, but I don't have the date yet of the first race. As soon as I know, I will let everyone know.

If anyone has any questions, please contact me.

 

I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday season.

Winners Circle for Nov 22

Ok everyone- We had a really Great Day today!!!  We had a pretty good turn out. Would've been much better if it had been warmer, I'm sure.
 
Donald Holder out of Baytown Texas won the $100 gas money for coming the longest distance to race with us.
 
Jared Pennington (7.0) won the $350 gift certificate from Bendall Racing Components for #1 qualifier.
 
Johnny Phelps (6.0) won the $250 gift certificate from Fun Carts of Opelika for #1 qualifier.
 
Mike "The Hitman" Osbourn (5.70 SS) won $100 from Bi Rite Auto Parts for #1 qualifier.
 
6.0
winner- Luke Bogacki
r/u- George Bolton
semi- Ken Johnson
   Patrick Grigsby
1/4-  Johnny Phelps
   Kevin Pruett
   Joseph Patilla
 
7.0
winner- Jared Pennington
r/u- Cole Cousins
semi-    Jared Mackey
      Josh Mackey
1/4-     Jared Pennington
     Matt Woodall
     Henry Hamner
     Scott Taylor
 
5.70 SS
winner- Louie Stoudmire
r/u- Pete Zubler
semi-    Ashley Pouncey
     Mike Osbourn
 
Top Eliminator
 
Pro-  
winner- TJ Pruitt
r/u- Danny Johnson
 
Footbrake-
winner- George Richardson
r/u- Allen Reno
 
We got down to the Pro VS Footbrake final and Bucky announced -- we've got our fastest car of the down against our slowest car of the day.
 
Well- George Richardson- Footbrake- won Top Eliminator...... A surprising, but very well earned finalie for the night.
 
We had racers coming from all over several states.Santa came by for a visit for a couple of hours. Several people got birthday cake. Ben pulled off everything he promised and we had an all around GREAT DAY........  
 
GREAT JOB EVERYONE!!!!!!

Winners Circle Nov 8

Hi everyone-
 
We ran a Top Eliminator Race Saturday night and the results were:
 
Run 4 $$$-
Pro- Bobby Hall
Footbrake- John Wooten
 
Pro-
Win- Harley Miller
R/U- Trey Todd
Semi- Chris Casey
    Trey Mims
 
Footbrake-
Win- Dale Driver
R/U- Jimmy Meachem
Semi- Kris Reno
    John Wooten
 
and the Pro VS Footbrake Final Winner was Harley Miller.
 
We will be closed next weekend - Nov 15. We will return the following weekend Nov 22 for our First Annual Heads Up Party. Gates will open @ 8:00 am.

Winners Circle Nov 1

WOW!!  I don't know where to begin to describe yesterdays event. We opened the gates @ 9:00 yesterday morning and closed  @ 2 this morning.  
 
The NOS Shoot out was put on by Rod Hatch and Kenny Scott and they showed they knew how to pack the house. We also had extra announcing skills of Eugene from Dallas County Dragway. (Sorry I didn't get your last name Eugene)
It was nice meeting you guys, and I look forward to working with you again!  
 
We had a couple of pretty bad oil spills- and we thank the Dallas County guys for kicking in and helping on cleaning. But other than those spills, the track never stopped all day.  
 
We had 13 Pro Mods show up.
 
Edmund Hall - Win
Lynne Milner Baxley- R/U
Doug Roberts
Jeremy Noah
Ronnie Baxley
Dickson Kidd
Gerry Dawkins
Frank Jackson
Derek Anthony
Chris Patrick
T-Man
Jason Thomas
Eddie Hallman
 
We had 4 classes of Heads Up Racing-
 
5.0
Jeremy Ellis- Win
Randy Griswald- R/U
Kenny Acre- Semi
Brad Lackley- Semi
 
6.0
Derek Sanford- Win
Kevin Pruett-R/U
Andy Findley- Semi
Ken Johnson- Semi
 
7.0
George Bolton-Win
Matt Woodall- R/U
Louis Lathan- Semi
Billy Stamps- Semi
 
8.0
Jeremy Noah- Win
Gary Bullock- R/U
 
 
Dial N 4 $$$-
 
Pro- Donnie Rowell
Footbrake- Jeff Cleckler
 
Top Eliminator
Pro-
Win- Will Findley
R/U- Chris Casey
 
Footbrake-
Win- Allen Reno
R/U- Terry Pendley
 
and the Pro VS Footbrake Final winner was
 
 
Will Findley..
 
Great Job Everyone. This was a GREAT Race Event and talking with Rod Hatch last night, everyone can expect to see more events from him on our schedule next season.


Mike Norwood won a FREE ENTRY into our Nov 22 Heads Up Party. Congratulations Mike. We look forward to seeing that VW on Steroids back in 3 weeks!!

Oct 25 Winner Circle

Hi everyone- last night was a Top Eliminator Race. We met many new racers that came to visit. Hope to see you all back with us real soon.
 
Here's tonights results-
 
Dial N 4 $$
Pro- Bubba Wright
Footbrake- Allen Reno
 
 
Pro-  
Win- Butch Bell
R/U- Lewis Cunningham
Semi- Carl Watts
   Colby Rowley
 
 
Footbrake-
Win- Allen Reno
R/U- Lynn Coggins
Semi- Dale Driver
 
 
And in the Pro VS Footbrake Final our Top Eliminator was  
Allen Reno!
 
Great Job Everyone!!!
 
See you next week.

2008 IHRA Div 2 Bracket Final Champions................

Results as can be found at http://www.ihra.com/article/3459.html


It was a picture perfect event for Chilton County Dragway this past weekend as they won the Division 2 West Summit Team Finals at Alabama International Raceway. Winning the Top Class was Charles Todd from Chilton County winning over Knoxville Dragway’s Chris Barker. The Super Class was won by Mickey Stephens of Middle Tennessee and   William Kapke of Immokalee was the runner up. Chilton County’s Junior competitor, Zach Burfrord brought home an Ironman beating out Dylan Kiser in the finals.

 

Knoxville Dragway finished in second place with Immokalee Regional Raceway and Middle Tennessee finishing third and fourth.

 

Complete results from the event:

 
2008 IHRA DIVISION 2 SUMMIT "HEAT WAVE" TEAM FINALS - FINAL STANDINGS
   
PLACE TRACK
1 CHILTON COUNTY DRAGWAY
2 KNOXVILLE DRAGWAY
3 IMMOKALEE REGIONAL RACEWAY
4 MIDDLE TENNESSEE
5 ALABAMA INTERNATIONAL DRAGWAY
6 MOUNT PARK DRAGWAY
7 I 40 DRAGWAY
FINISH NAME
WEDNESDAY GAMBLERS - TOP
WIN Trevor Beard
RU Randy Rice
WEDNESDAY GAMBLERS - SUPER
WIN Michael Stephens
RU Gerald Boone
THURSDAY EARLY BIRD GAMBLERS- TOP
WIN Jim Shehan
RU Claude DeBonis
THURSDAY EARLY BIRD GAMBLERS- SUPER
WIN David Easterly
RU Doyle Kay
SUMMIT SUPER SERIES RUNOFF - TOP
WIN Ken Laboe
RU Doug Harper
SUMMIT SUPER SERIES RUNOFF - SUPER
WIN Robert Wallace
RU Doyle Kay
THURSDAY GAMBLER - JUNIORS
WIN Nick Phillips
RU Devin Grace
SATURDAY LAST CHANCE RACE-TOP
WIN Claude DeBonis
RU Gene Steele
FRIDAY GAMBLERS RACE - TOP
WIN Richard Larimore---Chilton
RU Trenton Ferrell
FRIDAY GAMBLERS RACE #2 - TOP
WIN David Bledsoe
RU D Farley
FRIDAY GAMBLERS RACE #2 -SUPER
WIN W.G. Miller
RU S Kay
FRIDAY GAMBLERS RACE #2 - JUNIORS
WIN Ian Woods
RU Joshua Reed
THURSDAY 1ST 32 COMBO
WIN Brandon Taylor---Chilton
RU George Simpson
TEAM CAPTAINS RACE
WIN Jeff Whitt  Mt. PARK DRAGWAY
RU ALABAMA INTERNATIONAL DRAGWAY
MAIN EVENT - TOP
WIN Charles Todd---Chilton
RU Chris Barker
MAIN EVENT - SUPER
WIN Mickey Stephens
RU William Kapke
MAIN EVENT - JUNIORS
WIN Zach Burford---- Chilton
RU Dylan Kiser

 We also was:
 2nd place in special olympic races,
2nd place in best appearing team,
TJ Pruitt won Best Engineered Dragster
Matt Wright won Race of Champions Jrs.

I will start posting pictures real soon. We have all taken so many that we are trying to organize them some. Great Job Everyone!!!!!

Winner's Circle 9/27

Hi everyone-  
 
Last night was our Final Points Race for the season. This winners looked like this:
 
Dial N 4 $$$-
 
Pro- Gearold Thompson
FB- Channing Cleckler
 
Pro-
Win- Rodney Byrd
R/U- Mickle Terry
Semi- Mike Barrett
    Clarence Woodham
1/4-   Brandon Taylor
   Ben Willis
    Will Findley
   TJ Coleman
 
Footbrake-
Win- Allen Reno
R/U- Ray Harrell
Semi- Allen Reno
1/4-  David Thorne
  Channing Cleckler
 
Junior Dragster-
Win- Matt Wright
R/U- Zach Burford
 
 
Great Job Everyone, but I would like to say a special congratulations to Channing Cleckler. I think this is the first time I've posted him as a winner this season and he got 2 spots. Way to move up with the big guns, Channing.
 
UNOFFICIALLY PENDING FINAL VERIFICATION---  
the track points champions for the year are:
 
Pro- Rodney Byrd
Footbrake- Allen Reno
Junior- Matt Wright
 
 
Excellent work everyone for a year of hard work. I will have the official points listing completed and posted at www.chiltondragway.com within a few days.
 
But the year IS NOT OVER YET------ keep check on our schedule for much more racing over the next couple of months. We've got some big Heads Up events, Pro Mods, Mega 10 finale, and more.

Are you planning on going to Bracket Finals with us?

Anyone planning on attending Bracket Finals in Steele with needs to make sure they talk to me by the race this Saturday Oct 20th, if you haven't already. I have to turn in tshirts orders on the 22.

Also, for any spouses of racers attending- if you would like to volunteer to help or have any ideas for Finals- we will be holding a meeting at the race this weekend. Please contribute any ideas you may have.

And, as always, you are welcome to email me anytime with ideas or suggestions for ANY event.



Thanks,
Amanda


Winners Circle 9/13

Hi everyone- Here's the winners from last nights Mega 10 Top Eliminator Race-
 
Dial N 4 $$-
 
Pro- Bruce Hutchinson Sr
FB- Dewey Parson
 
Pro                      
R/U- Craig Ruff                  
Semi- Harley Miller              
                                      
1/4    Charles Fouts          
        Brandon Taylor          
                                      
 
Footbrake
R/U   Stevie Prince
Semi  Allen Reno
    Krystal Harrell
1/4    Gerorge Richardson
   Dewey Parsons
   Harvey Duke
Our Winners for each class ran for Final Top Eliminator
 
Pro- Brandon Taylor
FB-  Allen Reno
 
Do I even need to say who the Top Eliminator wasHuh?
 
Allen Reno
 
 
Great Job Everyone!!!
 
Our $100 cash Specatator Winner was Haley Sadler...

Winner's Circle 9/6

Hi Everyone -
 
Here's our winners from last night.
 
Footbrake-
Dial N 4 $$- Ray Harrell
Win-     Barnie Malcom
R/U-     Jimmy Meachem
Semi-   Ben Willis
1/4-     George Richardson
     Lynn Coggins
      Rick Justice
 
Pro-
Dial N 4 $$- Patrick Lawley
Win-     Brian Funderburk
R/U-     Lee Hyde
Semi-    Chris Casey
      Jerry Palmer
1/4-     Rodney Byrd
      Kevin Pruett
      Doyle Davis
 
Juniors-
Win- Zach Burford
R/U- Kayt Dempsey
 
 
Great Job Everyone!!!
 
Anyone in the Points that did not talk to me last night, please make sure to get with me during the next week. We are getting ready for finals, and I need to know who wants to go.