FOUR NEW FACES IN VICTORY LANE WITH TWO REPEAT WINNERS AT BLOOMFIELD
By: Tony Paris

BLOOMFIELD, Ia. (April 21, 2006) -  Racing action at the Mountain-Dew Bloomfield Speedway was held with six exciting classes in action for night number two. The Casey`s General Stores USRA Weekly Racing Series in action with drivers accumlating local and national points. Four out of the six classes had a new face in victory lane with two drivers picking up back-to-back feature wins. Mike Robinson of Moravia took the win in the Hougland Repair Shop USRA Stock Car Division with Jeff Waterman of Quincy, IL. taking his second straight and second ever feature win in the USRA B-Modified Division.

The Hougland Repair Shop USRA Stock Car feature was a thriller as always with Chris Hawkins of Drakesville and Matt Greiner of Washington leading the field to the green. Hawkins and Greiner would battle for the lead with Greiner taking the lead and lead till lap twelve of the eighteen lap event before Robinson would close in for the topspot. Phil McClure of Floris would also mix it up making it three wide racing for the lead but Robinson powered out to the front taking the win. Greiner would take the second spot McClure in third and Zack VanderBeek of New Sharon in fourth.

In the Kollision Korner Hornet division Larry Hopkins topped the field taking his first win of 2006 after starting in the nineth starting spot and battled to the front. Hopkins took the lead on lap four and never looked back. Tom Irwin of Bloomfield took the race lead but settled for second after Hopkins took the lead. Dale Porter of Floris took third in the Kollision Korner sponsored 31 machine with female racer Kristina Garrett of Ottumwa taking fourth after starting twelveth showing.

The USRA B-Modifieds took the green with Tony Dunker of Quincy, IL taking the early race lead with Jeff Waterman of Quincy, Il. and Chris Leathers of Macon, MO battling for the second spot. Waterman would take second with his sights set on Dunker for the top spot. The two Quincy drivers would battle for the lead with Waterman taking the lead with four laps to go and took his second ever feature win and second straight at the Mountain-Dew Bloomfield Speedway. Dunker took second with Leathers in third and Jeff Eddy of Milan, MO taking fourth.

Our fourth feature of the night was the Kirkland Auto USRA hobby stocks in action for fifteen laps of action with Steve Allen of Oskaloosa taking the early race lead with Mark Moore in second and Rocky Fosdyck of Selma and Nathan Wood of Sigourney battling for the third spot. The three and four wide racing made for some exciting action. Fosdyck would make his move to the front on lap four and never look back holding of challenges by Allen and Ben Jones of Williamsburg who battled from the twelveth starting spot and took the race lead on lap ten but Fosdyck would take the lead back and Jones night would end with a cut right rear tire. Fosdyck took his first win of the season with Allen in second followed by Wood in third and Jimmy Hayes of Moravia in fourth.

The fifth feature of the night was the Spilman Auto Parts USRA A-Modifieds taking the fast 3/8 mile speedway with a stellar field of cars checked in for action. Veteran driver Jerry Pilcher of Bloomfield and Casey Lancaster of Glenwood, MO paced the field to the green with Pilcher taking the early race lead with Zack VanderBeek of New Sharon and Tony Fraise of Donnellson closing in making for three wide racing for the topspot with Jim Lynch of Bloomfield running fourth. All four drivers would put on a show with Mark Burgtorf of Quincy,IL starting fifeteenth and was working his way forward. Fraise would take the lead and would start working lap traffic with VanderBeek in tow. The two drivers would work lap traffic with VanderBeek taking the lead but Fraise would use the lap traffic to his advantage splitting two cars and taking the lead and never looked back. Fraise took the checkers with VanderBeek in second with Burgtorf and Lynch battling for third with Burgtorf taking third and Lynch in fourth.

The first appearance of the Mid-America 305 Winged Sprints took the green with Ottumwa driver Brian Ridge taking the early race lead and would pace the field till lap nine. Ridges machine would get crossed up spinning in turn two. Steve Breazeale of Trenton, MO would take the race lead and lead the final eleven laps for his first win of 2006. Louis Lynch of Glenwood, MO took home the second spot in the always colorful 71 sprinter with Russell, Iowa driver Kevin Tanner back in the sprinter after taking a nasty crash in 2005.

Tanner took the third spot with Marty Stephenson of Mitchelville in fourth. The racing action was red flagged on lap seven when Mike Mayberry of Fremont spinning in turn two with Logan Trueblood of Memphis, MO having no place to go and got upside down in turn two stopping the action. The Haine Auto Supply Hard Charger was fourteen year old driver Josh Padeliford of Pleasentville taking seventh after starting eleventh.

The Lancaster Oil Company Hard Luck award went to Matt Stephenson of Des Moines who got upside down in hot laps ending his night. The First Choice Reality of Ottumwa Mystery spot went to Brain Ridge who`s finished in the sixth spot. The long distance award went to John Hillman of Jefferson City, MO. This week the Mid-America 305 Winged Sprints will venture to the Sprint Car Capital of the World the Knoxville Raceway in Knoxville, Iowa. The sprints will return for there second appearance at the Mountain-Dew Bloomfield Speedway on Friday night May 19th.

KOLLISION KORNER HORNETS
Heat#1-1.David Probasco,Moulton 2.Aaron Robinson,Moravia 3.Kevin Garrett,Bloomfield 4.Jim Garrett,Ottumwa 5.Bill Young,Drakesville 6.Gene Irwin,Bloomfield 7.Dale Porter,Floris

Heat#2-1.Larry Hopkins,Ottumwa 2.Ron Kibbe,Mt. Pleasent 3.Tom Irwin,Bloomfield 4.Kristina Garrett,Ottumwa 5.Jim Peterson,Bloomfield 6.Curtis Barnes,Greentop,MO 7.Matt Moore,Ottumwa

A-Feature 1.Hopkins 2.Irwin 3.Porter 4.Kristina Garrett 5.Barnes 6.Jim Garrett 7.Gene Irwin 8.Moore 9.Young 10.Probasco 11.Kevin Garrett 12.Peterson 13.Kibbe 14.Robinson

KIRKLAND AUTO USRA HOBBY STOCKS
Heat#1-1.Mark Moore,Ottumwa 2.Dave Morrison,Bloomfield 3.Bill Gibson,Knoxville 4.Shawn Smothers,Centerville 5.Lance Meyer,Ottumwa 6.Chad Dehne,Ottumwa 7.Scott Alderson,Gibson

Heat#2-1.Rusty Sands,Unionville,MO 2.Jeff Griffiths,Ottumwa 3.Nathan Wood,Sigourney 4.Jim Walker,Mystic 5.Robby Sands,Centerville 6.Paul Underwood,Ottumwa 7.Jason McDaniel,Eldon

Heat#3-1.Ben Jones,Williamsburg 2.Rocky Fosdyck,Selma 3.Jimmy Hayes,Moravai 4.Jim Sulser,Centerville 5.Dsutin Griffiths,Ottumwa 6.Mike Shelton,Ottumwa 7.Shannon Sample,Milton

Heat#4-1.Gary Harward,Bloomfield 2.Dan Thrasher,Agency 3.Steve Allen,Oskaloosa 4.Brad Prado Jr.,Ottumwa 5.Derek Kirkland,Centerville 6.Ricky wilson,Ottumwa

A-Feature 1.Fosdyck 2.Allen 3.Wood 4.Hayes 5.Gibson 6.Rusty Sands 7.Sulser 8.Walker 9.McDaniel 10.Moore 11.Morrison 12.Kirkland 13.Prado 14.Shelton 15.Smothers 16.Jones 17.Harward 18.Thrasher 19.Sample 20.Jeff Griffiths 21.Robby Sands 22.Dehne 23.Dustin Griffiths 24.Meyer 25.Wilson 26.Alderson 27.Underwood

HOUGLAND REPAIR SHOP USRA STOCK CARS
Heat#1-1.Chris Hawkins,Drakesville 2.Matt Greiner,Washington 3.Mike Harward,Bloomfield 4.Lonnie Taylor,Bloomfield 5.Phil McClure,Floris 6.Ryan Cook,West Point 7.Tyler McClure,Floris 8.Keith Kuder,Rose Hill

Heat#2-1.Zack VanderBeek,New Sharon 2.Jason Cook,Mt. Pleasant 3.Jared Miller,Pulaski 4.Mike Robinson,Moravia 5.T.J. Bainbridge,Eldon 6.Brian Jackson,Moravia 7.Mike McClure,Floris

A-Feature 1.Robinson 2.Greiner 3.P.McClure 4.VanderBeek 5.R.Cook 6.J.Cook 7.Bainbridge 8.T.Mcclure 9.M.Mcclure 10.Harward 11.Taylor 12.Jackson 13.Kuder 14.Hawkins 15.Miller

USRA B-MODIFIEDS
Heat#1-1.Tony Dunker,Quincy,IL 2.Chris Leather,Macon,MO 3.Jeff Waterman,Quincy,IL 4.Brandon Savage,Keokuk 5.Jeff Eddy,Milan,MO 6.Kelly O`Haver,Kirksville,MO 7.Hugh Eddy,Milan,MO

A-Feature 1.Waterman 2.Dunker 3.Leathers 4.J.Eddy 5.Savage 6.H.Eddy 7.O`Haver

SPILMAN AUTO PARTS USRA A-MODIFIEDS
Heat#1-1.Brad Pinkerton,New Sharon 2.Jim Lynch,Bloomfeld 3.Tony Fraise,Donnellson 4.Casey Lancaster,Glenwood,MO 5.Brandon Banks,Washington 6.Kyle Harwood,Oskaloosa 7.Jeremy Townsend,Bloomfield

Heat#2-1.Dennis Elliott,Mt. Ayer 2.Jerry Pilcher,Bloomfield 3.Zack VanderBeek,New Sharon 4.Scott Dickey,Packwood 5.Jared Durbin,Ft. Madision 6.Todd Holman,Ottumwa 7.Jim Fuller,Memphis,MO 8.Mark Burgtorf,Quincy,IL

A-Feature 1.Fraise 2.VanderBeek 3.Burgtorf 4.Lynch 5.Pilcher 6.Dickey 7.Elliott 8.Durbin 9.Lancaster 10.Harwood 11.Townsend 12.Fuller 13.Banks 14.Pinkerton 15.Holman

MID-AMERICA 305 WINGED SPRINTS
Heat#1-1.Steve Breazeale,Trenton,Mo. 2.Mark Widmar,Ottumwa 3.Louis Lynch,Glenwood,MO 4.Marty Stephenson,Mitchelville 5.Mike Mayberry,Fremont 6.Josh Padeliford,Pleasentville 7.Matt Stephenson,Des Moines

Heat#2-1.Brian Ridge,Ottumwa 2.Kevin Tanner,Russell 3.Logan Trueblood,Memphis,MO 4.John Hillman,Jefferson City,MO. 5.Jerry Flanders,Lucas 6.Rob Kubli,Milo

A-Feature 1.Breazeale 2.Lynch 3.Tanner 4.Stephenson 5.Widmar 6.Ridge 7.Padeliford 8.Flanders 9.Mayberry 10.Trueblood 11.Hillman 12.Matt Stephneson 13.Kubli