LARGEST CAR COUNT IN HISTORY OF 115 CARS PACKED THE MOUNTAIN-DEW BLOOMFIELD SPEEDWAY FOR WEEK NUMBER FOUR OF FAST TRACK FRIDAY`S
By: Tony Paris

BLOOMFIELD, Ia (May 5, 2006) - The Mountain-Dew Bloomfield Speedway set history with one hundred and fifteen cars checking in for action on Community First Bank and Bloomfield Equipment night at the races, with the first ever appearance of the O`Reilly Auto Parts United States Modified Touring Series at Iowa`s fastest 3/8 mile speedway. The series had a total of fourty-five cars checked in with ten diffrent states being represented. The crowd also got there money`s worth with the other four support classes in action.

In the Kollision Korner Hornet feature Tom Irwin of Bloomfield took his first win of 2006 season breaking the win streak of David Probasco of Moulton who has won the last two feature in a row. Irwin held off Larry Hopkins of Ottumwa who took second with Curtis Barnes of Greentop,Mo taking third and Kevin Garrett of Bloomfield in fourth.

The Kirkland Auto USRA Hobby Stocks had a total of twenty-eight cars checked in for action with the first B-main event having to be run narrowing the field to twenty-four starters. The fifteen lap main event proved to be exciting with six diffrent lead changes with Todd Reitzler of Grinnell making his first ever apperance at Bloomfield a good one taking the $200 payday and first ever feature win in the hobby stock division. Reitzler held off several challenges from last years track champion Ben Jones of Williamsburg who tried several times to make the pass but settled for the runner-up spot after starting in the eleventh position. The third and fourth place finishers battled for the final five laps with Jim Walker of Mystic taking third and Steve Allen of Oskaloosa in fourth.

In the Hougland Repair Shop USRA Stock Car Feature Jason Cook of Mt. Pleasent topped a twenty-two car field for the second straight week after working his way from the tenth starting spot. Cook took the lead from Mike Robinson of Moravia who took the race lead from Eric Flander of Barnes City who lead the first seven laps before Robinson took the lead working the high side of the speedway. Cook and Bobby Greiner Jr. of Ottumwa worked there magic thru the field after starting in the middle of the pack.Greiner Jr. who started in the twelveth starting spot followed Jason Cook to the front with Cook making the pass on Robinson on lap thirteen with Greiner following right behind him the two drivers took the first and second spot with Robinson taking third and Flander taking fourth.

The USRA B-Modified feature went ffteen laps with Tony Dunker of Quincy,Il. taking the win holding off Chris Leathers of Macon,Mo. and Jeff Waterman of Quincy,Il. Leathers along with Kelly Smith of Kirksville,Mo. and Waterman made for a good battle for the second,third and fourth positions. Waterman took the second spot followed by Leathers in third and Smith in fourth.
The final feature of the night was the Cars and Stars of the O’Reilly United States Modified Touring Series with seven time national champ Kelly Shryock of Fertile,Iowa starting sixth on the grid of the 24-car field taking the green in the 35-lap Holley "A" main event. Using the low side of the 3/8-mile clay oval, Shryock methodically picked off competitors as he moved to the front of the field. On lap 12, Shryock caught race leader Mark Burgtorf and the two veterans raced side by side for three laps before Shryock secured the top spot on lap 15.A few laps later, Burgtorf suffered a flat left rear tire, causing him to tag the rear of the field after a visit to his pit area. The Quincy, Ill., pilot rebounded for a 14th-place finish at the end, while Shryock survived a late-race caution of Mike Steensma of Luverne,Mn. and Tommy Myer of Blooming Prairie,Mn. getting together bringing caution out for a four lap shootout. On the restart Shryock had to deal with the triple nickle machine of Ryan Ruter of Forest City, Iowa, who restarted behind the three machine of Shryock. The two drivers would bring the crowd to it`s feet with Shryock running the lowside and Ruter running the topside with the final lap and final corner deciding who would pocket the $2000.00 payday with the run off the topside Ruter made a run but Shryock took the checkers by a nose pocketing the big money after thirty-five laps of action. Dean Mahlstedt of Clear Lake piolted Tim Echevarria's No. 35 Bullet chassie to a third place finish, while O’Reilly USMTS current points leader Mark Noble took fourth -- the eighth top-5 finish in eight starts for the Blooming Prairie, Minn., ace. Clear Lake, Iowa's Al Hejna rounded out the top 5 finishers.

Zack VanderBeek of New Sharon, Iowa, scored his best finish of the 2006 season with a sixth-place result, while Jon Tesch of Watertown, S.D., took seventh. Tesch, who started 19th, earned the Olympic Fire Protection Hard Charger honors.

This weeks racing action will feature six classes in action with the Keith`s Foods late Modles in action for a $1000.00 win show on Friday night along with the Kirkland Auto USRA Hobby Stocks,Hougland Repair Shop USRA Stock Cars,Spilman Auto Parts USRA Modifieds,USRA B-Modifieds and Kollision korner Hornets in action with hot laps at 7:00pm and racing action at 7:30pm.

KOLLISION KORNER HORNETS
Heat#1-1.Tom Iwrin,Bloomfield 2.David Probasco,Moulton 3.Gene Irwin,Bloomfield 4.Bill Young,Drakesville 5.Jim Garrett,Ottumwa 6.Jim Peterson,Bloomfield

Heat#2-1.Larry Hopkins 2.Dale Porter,Floris 3.Kevin Garrett,Bloomfield 4.Curtis Barnes,Greentop,Mo. 5.Kristina Garrett,Ottumwa 6.J.R. Randall,Ottumwa

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

KIRKLAND AUTO USRA HOBBY STOCKS
Heat#1-1.Ben Jones,Williamsburg 2.Derek Kirkland,Centerville 3.Mike Shelton,Ottumwa 4.Dustin Griffiths,Ottumwa 5.Dave Morrison,Bloomfield 6.Brad Prado Jr.,Ottumwa 7.Nathan Olinger,Floris

Heat#2-1.Rocky Fosdyck,Selma 2.Jason McDaniel,Eldon 3.Bill Gibson.Knoxville 4.Cory Brown,Ottumwa 5.Lance Meyer,Ottumwa 6.Shannon Sample,Milton 7.Mark Moore,Ottumwa

Heat#3-1.Jim Sulser,Centerville 2.Ray Lasser Jr.,Ottumwa 3.Gary Harward,Bloomfield 4.Paul Underwood,Ottumwa 5.Danny Thrasher,Agency 6.Nathan Wood,Sigourney 7.Rick Sands,Milan,Mo.

Heat#4-1.Todd Reitzler,Grinnell 2.Jim Walker,Mystic 3.Steve Allen,Oskaloosa 4.Shawn Smothers,Albia 5.Robby Sands,Centerville 6.Ricky Wilson,Ottumwa 7.Scott Alderson,Gibson

B-Main 1.Sample 2.Wood 3.Moore 4.Rick Sands

A-Feature 1.Reitzler 2.Jones 3.Walker 4.Allen 5.Gibson 6.Underwood 7.Sulser 8.Wood 9.McDaniel 10.Lasser 11.Griffiths 12.Thrasher 13.Harward 14.Brown 15.Kirkland 16.Rick Sands 17.Sample 18.Morrison 19.Meyer 20.Robby Sands 21.Fosdyck 22.Moore 23.Smothers 24.Shelton

HOUGLAND REAPIR SHOP USRA STOCK CARS
Heat#1-1.Jason Cook,Mt. Pleasent 2.Colt Mather,Webster 3.Bobby Greiner,Jr.,Ottumwa 4.Mike Harward,Floris 5.T.J. Bainbridge,Eldon 6.Lonnie Taylor,Bloomfield 7.Keith Kuder,Rose Hill 8.Brain Edel,Oskaloosa

Heat#2-1.Mike Robinson,Moravia 2.Matt Geiner,Washington 3.Ryan Cook,West Point 4.Howard Gordon,Jr.,Oskaloosa 5.Michael McClure,Floris 6.Brian Jackson,Moravia 7.Zack VanderBeek,New Sharon

Heat#3-1.Eric Flander,Barnes City 2.Chris Hawkins,Drakesville 3.Josh Newell,Oskaloosa 4.Tyler McClure,Floris 5.Chris Wibbell,Dallas City,Il. 6.Jared Miller,Pulaski 7.David Boas,Bloomfield

A-Feature 1.Jason Cook 2.Bobby Greiner Jr. 3.Robinson 4.Flander 5.Mather 6.Gordon 7.Tyler McClure 8.Newell 9.Ryan Cook 10.Wibbell 11.Matt Greiner 12.Hawkins 13.Michael McClure 14.Bainbridge 15.Harward 16.Miller 17.Boas 18.Taylor 19.Jackson 20.Kuder 21.Edel 22.VanderBeek

USRA B-MODIFIEDS
Heat#1-1.Tony Dunker,Quincy,Il. 2.Jeff Waterman,Quincy,Il. 3.Chris Leathers,Macon,Mo. 4.Kelly Smith,Kirksville,Mo. 5.Joe Hooper,Mendon,Il. 6.Jesse Garrett,Batavia 7.Jerry Shoemaker,Kirksville,Mo. 8.Kelly O`Haver,Kirksville,Mo.

A-Feature 1.Dunker 2.Waterman 3.Leathers 4.Smith 5.Hooper 6.Shoemaker 7.Garrett 8.O`Haver

O`REILLY AUTO PARTS USMTS MODIFIEDS
ISKY RACING CAMS HEAT #1 (10 laps):
1. 33z - Zack VanderBeek -- New Sharon, IA (1) 2. 7 - Al Hejna -- Clear Lake, IA (3) 3. 25 - Scott Roberts -- Columbia, MO (2) 4. 7r - Jerry Pilcher -- Bloomfield, IA (5) 5. 20 - Dustin Boney -- Shawnee, KS (4) 6. 99 - Ted Allen -- Canton, MO (6) 7. 17p - Brad Pinkerton -- New Sharon, IA (7) 8. 17 - Steve Stewart -- Washington, IA (9) 9. 49x - Jay Poidinger -- Somerset, WI (8)

HEAT #2 (10 laps):
1. 3 - Kelly Shryock -- Fertile, IA (1) 2. 74 - Mark Noble -- Blooming Prairie, MN (3) 3. 5m - John VanDenBerg -- Oskaloosa, IA (2) 4. 65 - Tommy Myer -- Blooming Prairie, MN (9) 5. 4 - Brantlee Gotschall -- Nevada, MO (8) 6. 23 - Matt Gilbertson -- Montevideo, MN (4) 7. 7x - Tommy Elston -- Keokuk, IA (6) 8. 4r - Ron Ver Beek -- Oskaloosa, IA (5) DNF 9. 40 - Scott Dickey -- Packwood, IA (7) DNF

HEAT #3 (10 laps):
1. 1f - Jason Friesen -- Sutton, NE (1) 2. 69m - Mark Burgtorf -- Quincy, IL (5) 3. 14j - Jake Neal -- Omaha, NE (2) 4. 26 - Brad McEwan -- Storm Lake, IA (3) 5. 71 - David Holder -- Clarence, MO (7) 6. 82m - Ryan Meyer -- Liberty, IL (6) 7. 32 - Michael Bennett -- Des Moines, IA (9) 8. 105 - Kevin Peters -- Monmouth, IL (8) 9. 35 - Jeff Schluetter -- New Hampton, IA (4) DNF

HEAT #4 (10 laps):
1. 45 - Tony Fraise -- Donnellson, IA (2) 2. 35 - Dean Mahlstedt -- Clear Lake, IA (5) 3. 7ii - Mike Hejna -- Clear Lake, IA (8) 4. 10 - Mike Steensma -- Luverne, MN (9) 5. 31 - Corey Dripps -- Waterloo, IA (7) 6. 55 - Alan Mondus -- Lakeville, MN (1) 7. 14 - Jon Tesch -- Watertown, SD (3) DNF 8. 11 - Brandon Morton -- Coweta, OK (6) DNF 9. X - Mike Wedelstadt -- Hortonville, WI (4) DNF

HEAT #5 (10 laps):
1. 555 - Ryan Ruter -- Forest City, IA (7) 2. 12 - Mark Elliott -- Webster City,, IA (5) 3. 13 - David Mitchell -- Ashdown, AR (4) 4. 50 - Doug Buzzard -- Nevada, MO (2) 5. 36 - Ben McVinua -- Storm Lake, IA (6) 6. 5s - David Snyder -- Greentop, MO (9) 7. 77 - Jim Lynch -- Bloomfield, IA (8) DNF
8. 0 - Ron Gough -- Monroe City, MO (1) DNF 9. 18 - Michael Long -- Quincy, IL (3) DNS

REAL WHEELS “B” MAIN #1 (15 laps, top 5 advance):
1. 25 - Scott Roberts -- Columbia, MO (2) 2. 14j - Jake Neal -- Omaha, NE (3) 3. 31 - Corey Dripps -- Waterloo, IA (6) 4. 14 - Jon Tesch -- Watertown, SD (12) 5. 18 - Michael Long -- Quincy, IL (17) 6. 4 - Brantlee Gotschall -- Nevada, MO (4) 7. 99 - Ted Allen -- Canton, MO (8) 8. 17p - Brad Pinkerton -- New Sharon, IA (11) 9. 11 - Brandon Morton -- Coweta, OK (14) 10. 82m - Ryan Meyer -- Liberty, IL (9) 11. 32 - Michael Bennett -- Des Moines, IA (10) 12. 49x - Jay Poidinger -- Somerset, WI (15) 13. 50 - Doug Buzzard -- Nevada, MO (5) DNF 14. 10 - Mike Steensma -- Luverne, MN (1) DNF 15. 35 - Jeff Schluetter -- New Hampton, IA (16) DNF 16. 5s - David Snyder -- Greentop, MO (7) DNF 17. 4r - Ron Ver Beek -- Oskaloosa, IA (13) DNS

REAL WHEELS “B” MAIN #2 (15 laps, top 5 advance):
1. 26 - Brad McEwan -- Storm Lake, IA (4) 2. 5m - John VanDenBerg -- Oskaloosa, IA (2) 3. 7r - Jerry Pilcher -- Bloomfield, IA (3) 4. 7x - Tommy Elston -- Keokuk, IA (11) 5. 71 - David Holder -- Clarence, MO (5) 6. 23 - Matt Gilbertson -- Montevideo, MN (8) 7. 77 - Jim Lynch -- Bloomfield, IA (10) 8. 20 - Dustin Boney -- Shawnee, KS (7) 9. X - Mike Wedelstadt -- Hortonville, WI (16) 10. 13 - David Mitchell -- Ashdown, AR (1) 11. 55 - Alan Mondus -- Lakeville, MN (9) 12. 0 - Ron Gough -- Monroe City, MO (14) 13. 36 - Ben McVinua -- Storm Lake, IA (6) 14. 105 - Kevin Peters -- Monmouth, IL (13) DNF 15. 17 - Steve Stewart -- Washington, IA (12) DNF 16. 40 - Scott Dickey -- Packwood, IA (15) DNF

HOLLEY “A” MAIN (35 laps):
1. 3 - Kelly Shryock -- Fertile, IA (6)2. 555 - Ryan Ruter -- Forest City, IA (1) 3. 35 - Dean Mahlstedt -- Clear Lake, IA (4) 4. 74 - Mark Noble -- Blooming Prairie, MN (11) 5. 7 - Al Hejna -- Clear Lake, IA (10) 6. 33z - Zack VanderBeek -- New Sharon, IA (2) 7. 14 - Jon Tesch -- Watertown, SD (19) 8. 12 - Mark Elliott -- Webster City,, IA (5) 9. 1f - Jason Friesen -- Sutton, NE (8) 10. 7ii - Mike Hejna -- Clear Lake, IA (9) 11. 25 - Scott Roberts -- Columbia, MO (13)
12. 26 - Brad McEwan -- Storm Lake, IA (14) 13. 65 - Tommy Myer -- Blooming Prairie, MN (12)
14. 69m - Mark Burgtorf -- Quincy, IL (3) 15. 10 - Mike Steensma -- Luverne, MN (23) 16. 7r - Jerry Pilcher -- Bloomfield, IA (18) 17. 45 - Tony Fraise -- Donnellson, IA (7) 18. 71 - David Holder -- Clarence, MO (22) 19. 35 - Jeff Schluetter -- New Hampton, IA (24) 20. 31 - Corey Dripps -- Waterloo, IA (17) DNF 21. 18 - Michael Long -- Quincy, IL (21) DNF 22. 7x - Tommy Elston -- Keokuk, IA (20) DNF 23. 14j - Jake Neal -- Omaha, NE (15) DNF 24. 5m - John VanDenBerg -- Oskaloosa, IA (16) DNF