Griffiths, Dale, Kirkland and Kirkpatrick pick up wins at Bloomfield

| April 13, 2014

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By: Tony Paris

BLOOMFIELD, IA (April 12, 2014) – The season opener at the Mountain-Dew Bloomfield saw picture perfect weather for Saturday night racing action with temps in the lower 80’s and the rain holding off made for some great racing. Mother-nature forced a cancellation last week forcing a week delay.

The first feature of the night was Mike’s Tire & Alignment sport mod feature with seventeen cars checked in for competition. The eighteen lap event would see a couple cautions that would close the field up and make for some good side-by-side action. The early race leader Bobby Six of Keokuk would take the lead and try to hold off Jason McDaniel of Eldon who would take the lead on the four circuit. Both Six and McDaniel would swap the lead several time with each driver working the high and low side of the racing surface. McDaniel looked to have his 85 machine headed to victory lane but his machine would drift high off turn two giving Gorin, Missouri driver Brandon Dale the chance to secure the lead. A late race restart would see Carter Vandenberg of Oskaloosa try to put pressure on Dale but would come up in the runner-up spot. This was Brandon’s second career win his previous win can in the 2012 season. McDaniel raced his way from fifth to third after the falling back after leading earlier in the race. Ryan Fullenkamp of Bloomfield was fourth and Six was fifth.

In the Taylor Automotive Stock Car feature big money was on the line after being carried over from last season a $1200 top prize for the Budweiser six pack shootout and a lucky fan for a chance to win $50,000 after the race. The early race leader was Nathan Wood of Sigourney who earned the pole starting spot after winning the quick six dash. Wood would take the lead before motor problems would end his night at a chance at the top prize and would turn the lead over to Derrick Agee of Huntsville, Missouri but his night would end with a flat tire. This would setup a pair of 2’s battling for the lead with Derek Kirkland in the 2K from Centerville and Don Nunnikhoven in his 2N machine from Sully battling for the top spot. Kirkland would hold on to score the victory and get an almost 6 foot tall trophy and $1200 dollars. Nunnikhoven took second with Mt Union driver Corey Strothman in third and Cody Agee of Moberly, Missouri taking fourth. Mt. Pleasants Jason Cook raced his was from sixteenth starting spot to take fifth.

The Kirkland Auto Hobby Stock feature Nick Ulin of Agency and Mike Kincade of Cincinnati would battle for the lead and Ulin looked to have a nice size lead but Doug Gorden Jr. of Drakesville who was running in the second position before a flat right rear tire ended his night causing a caution. This would setup a three car battle with Dustin Griffiths of Ottumwa joining in for a nice three car battle with Unlin, Kincade and Griffiths battling with Griffiths taking the lead on the low line of the racing surface. Griffiths would take the win over Kincade who took the runner-up spot. The third spot went to Ben Grove who spun his machine on the first lap but raced his way from the back to take third and Ulin in fourth. Dan Blozivich of Exline taking the fifth spot.

Our final feature of the night was the Kollision Korner 4 cylinders with Tim Bevins of Eldon looking to have his 95 machine headed to victory lane but Kassidy Kirkpatrick of Ottumwa would run down Bevins to take the win. Bevins taking the runner-up spot and Aaron Bridgeman of Bloomfield would pass Trent Orwig of Blakesburg for the third spot and Orwig taking fourth.

Next week will feature the second night of racing at the Mountain-Dew Bloomfield Speedway with hot laps at 6:30PM and racing action at 7PM on Saturday April 19th with our sponsor Mountain-Dew KICKSTART night at the races with sport mods running for $500 to win along with  Stock Cars, Sport Compacts and Hobby Stocks in action. For more information visit www.racedirtbloomfield.com

Hobby Stock – A-Main
Finish    Start    Car    Driver    Hometown    Points
1    6    10G       Dustin Griffiths        Ottumwa , Ia    40.00
2    3    12       Mike Kincaid        Cincinnati , Ia    39.00
3    5    03       Ben Grove        Eldon , Ia    38.00
4    2    21       Nick Ulin        Agency , Ia    37.00
5    7    5B       Dane Blozovich        Exline , Ia    36.00
6    11    01       Brandon Potts         –    35.00
7    1    79S       Jason See        Albia , Ia    34.00
8    10    33J       Justin Millhouse        Batavia , Ia    33.00
9    8    26       Brian Schafer        Ottumwa , Ia    32.00
10    4    73       Aaron Martin        Ottumwa , Ia    31.00
11    12    53D       Ron Downing, Jr       Ottumwa , Ia    30.00    DNF
12    9    77       Doug Gorden, Jr       Drakesvillee , Ia    29.00    DNF
13    14    15A       Anthony Cassat        Bloomfield , Ia    28.00    DNF
14    13    35       Eric Glass        Memphis , Mo    27.00    DNS

Sport Mod – A-Main
Finish    Start    Car    Driver    Hometown    Points
1    8    12       Brandon Dale        Gorin , Mo    40.00
2    7    7       Carter Vandenberg        Oskaloosa , Ia    39.00
3    3    85       Jason Mcdaniel        Eldon , Ia    38.00
4    5    10R       Ryan Fullenkamp        Bloomfield , Ia    37.00
5    1    6       Bobby Six        Keokuk , Ia    36.00
6    11    10       Kelly Buckallew        Memphis , Mo    35.00
7    10    27L       Casey Lancaster         –    34.00
8    15    17A       Austin Howes         –    33.00
9    2    A5       Austin Paul        Monroe , Ia    32.00
10    4    1       Roger Dresden         –    31.00
11    9    17M       Jared Miller        Bloomfield , Ia    30.00
12    14    4G       Michael Guthrie        Ottumwa , Ia    29.00
13    12    21       Jamie Pribyl        Unionville , Mo    28.00
14    13    03M       Mike Mundell        Ottumwa , Ia    27.00    DNF
15    6    67L       Chris Larson        Keokuk , Ia    26.00    DNF
16    16    40       Dakota Simmons        Libertyville , Ia    25.00    DNF
17    17    03       Rob Wilsey        Keokuk , Ia    24.00    DNS

Stock Car – A-Main
Finish    Start    Car    Driver    Hometown    Points
1    3    2K       Derek Kirkland        Centerville , Ia    40.00
2    4    2N       Donovan Nunnikoven        Sully , Ia    39.00
3    5    C4       Corey Strothman        Mt Union, Ia    38.00
4    7    25       Cody Agee        Huntsville , Mo    37.00
5    16    27J       Jason Cook        Mt Pleasant, Ia    36.00
6    13    10CC       Cayden Carter         –    35.00
7    8    3M       Phil Mcclure        Floris , Ia    34.00
8    21    01I       Mike Harward        Floris , Ia    33.00    DNF
9    14    07       Riley Newton        Bloomfield , Ia    32.00    DNF
10    20    05       John Oliver        Danville , Ia    31.00    DNF
11    11    72E       Brad Egbert        Bloomfield , Ia    30.00    DNF
12    6    14       Derrick Agee        Huntsville , Mo    29.00    DNF
13    18    71       Louis Lynch        Glenwood , Mo    28.00    DNF
14    17    30C       Abe Huls        Carthage , Il    27.00    DNF
15    1    52       Nathan Wood        Sigourney , Ia    26.00    DNF
16    10    47S       Brandon Savage        Canton , Mo    25.00    DNF
17    19    X9       Brad Whitney        Trenton , Mo    24.00    DNF
18    12    72       Jerry Pilcher        Ottumwa , Ia    23.00    DNF
19    2    14B       Tom Bowling Jr       Danville , Ia    22.00    DNS
20    9    93       Michael Jaennette        Newton , Ia    21.00    DNS
21    22    8M       Sam Mcclure        Floris , Ia    20.00    DNS
22    23    22H       Tim Hoselton        Galt , Mo    19.00    DNS
23    24    7K       Tim Kraber        Ottumwa , Ia    18.00    DNS
24    15    52H       Mike Hughes         –    17.00    DNS

Sport Compacts – A-Main
Finish    Start    Car    Driver    Hometown    Points
1    7    27       Kassidy Kirkpatrick        Ottumwa , Ia    40.00
2    1    95       Tim Bevins        Eldon , Ia    39.00
3    9    22B       Aaron Bridgeman        Bloomfield , Ia    38.00
4    4    04       Trent Orwig        Blakesburg , Ia    37.00
5    3    52       Billy Cain        Floris , Ia    36.00
6    6    2M       Matt Moore        Ottumwa , Ia    35.00
7    5    52X       Steve Williams, Jr.       Hedrick , Ia    34.00
8    8    29       Kevin Garrett        Bloomfield , Ia    33.00    DNF
9    2    28A       Chris Archer        Queen City, Mo    32.00    DNF
10    11    213       Brandon Housley        Ottumwa , Ia    31.00    DNF
11    10    92       Kevin Kirkpatrick         , Ia    30.00    DNS
12    12    26A       Tyson Archer        Queen City, Mo    29.00    DNS

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