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Cover – Inset: Bobby Pierce celebrates his World 100 win.
Cover - top: Local hero Devin Moran hsn’t had a lot of luck at the Big E.
Cover – bottom: Rusy Ballenger runs the Warrior in the late afternoon sunshine.
Below: Liitle known Daniel Hillsabeck emulates what the World 100 is all about – having a crack in the family owned #22H. Image Andy Ticehurst Media
Ask the average Aussie speedway fan what’s the biggest speedway event in the world, and most would say “it’s gotta be the Knoxville Nationals!”.
No doubt this is the biggest Sprintcar event in the world but, is it the biggest speedway event in the world?
Aussies have been brought up on the ideal that if it’s not a Sprintcar, it’s not important, and that Sprintcars are the biggest and greatest thing in world speedway.
In America, which is ironically the birthplace of Sprintcars, the biggest thing is actually Late Model Sedans.
Even most local speedways can boast a field of 20 or so purely local Late Model racers.
Imaging tracks like Nyora, Horsham, Laang, Renmark, Waikerie, Ellenbrook or Maryborough with two dozen Late Models that all lived in the local area and that’s what it’s like.
Have you ever heard of the Summer Nationals, aka the Hell tour? A five week-long gruelling program across six states where you only get one night per week off and you never visit the same track twice! Do Sprintcars do that? Hell no, it’s all Late Models! Speedweek! Pffft!
Across the Lucas Oil, DIRTcar and the World of Outlaws Late Models series’ the average winning purse is $10,000. The first ever Million dollar to win speedway race at Eldora incidentally was for Late Models, not Sprintcars.
The two biggest stand-alone Late Model events, the “World 100” and the “Dream” are both held at the famed Eldora Speedway and it’s no surprise as track founder Earl Baltes was also instrumental in establishing, developing and supporting the Late Model Category.
These events, like the Knoxville Nationals but with twice as many fans in town, are more of a “happening” than a race. The racing is important for sure, but the fans flock to the venue in their motorhomes, campervans and caravans in huge numbers for the fun and frivolity and annual catchups that go on all day long between the race nights. The hot summer days, warm nights and awesome speedway action make the corn fields around Eldora Speedway party central.
And get this, some of the people in the mobile “village” didn’t have and couldn’t buy tickets to the sold-out event so they sat in their vans watching it on FLO Racing while it happened just outside their own private Idaho’a or in this case, Ohio’s!
The only downer to this years World 100 was the unfortunate death of Eldora legend and Late Model innovator and “Black Hat Bad Boy” Scott Bloomquist just before the event. “Bloomer” was appropriately memorialised as part of the pre-event build-up adding a sombre touch to the high horsepower proceedings.
West Australian Kye Blight was the only Aussie competing in the World 100 and had a shocking event by his own standards being only around a second off the fastest qualify-
ing times each night but that was enough to make it a virtually insurmountable task to get through. There was however quite a few other Aussies in the huge crowd including Warrnambool’s own Fiona and Adam Verhoeven and a visa timing issue meant current Aussie Champ Joe Chalmers would have to leave just before the event, an event he would give his left you-know-what to compete in.
Highlines own Andy Ticehurst was stateside for various business and family commitments and was fortunate enough to have a very rare opportunity to visit with the legendary Scott Bloomquist at his race shop.
Tragically, Ticehurst was given a personal
tour of the Bloomquist family farm and race shop just days before his death.
Bloomquist’s death left Ticehurst totally deflated and questioning whether he would now even go to the Eldora event as it had now lost some of its significance with recent events.
A week or so of family time and rest in Florida with his American based daughter and at my insistence that “you don’t know what you’re going to miss if you don’t go to Eldora and you’ll regret it” convinced Ticehurst to stay, and boy was he glad he did.
Ticehurst was stunned at the size of everything – the venue and the crowd - and was
blown away by so many other aspects such as the cheap price of concession food, the number of product vendors, the whole facility, the way the media were treated and of course the speed and the racing.
So, on to the racing side of things which at times feels like a mere side show to everything else going on in “fanland” in the village. The 54th Annual World 100 for Late Model Sedans.
The passing of dirt track racer Scott Bloomquist was a shock for this author. I had been standing next to him chatting in his workshop in Mooresburg Tennessee just 30 hours prior to the news his plane had crashed and taken his life on take-off, from his property.
We openly chatted about the ups and downs of his career, trips to Australia, merch sales and the popularity of Late Model Racing globally. One thing that did stick in my mind was his enthusiasm for getting his chassis jig moved to the new organisation that was going to build the next generation of Team Zero cars.
Bloomer was planning for the future and was excited for what these opportunities would bring! He was also looking keenly forward to the upcoming World 100.
As you could appreciate, Bloomer was popular with other racers and on his passing many paid respects in the only way they know how with ultimate gratitude.
NASCAR titan Kenny “Herm” Wallace called Bloomquist “the greatest dirt racer to ever live.”
NASCAR & Dirt Legend Tony Stewart said Bloomquist was “probably the smartest guy I’ve ever been around when it comes to dirt racing.”
“What he could do behind the wheel of a racecar was matched by the ingenuity he put into building his racecars,” Stewart said. “He was a force on the track and off, with a personality as big as his list of accomplishments.”
The service held at Eldora on the Saturday morning for “Black Sunshine” was a full house. It was extremely emotional and raw. The single thing that got me was as the A rolled out on the final night of the World 100 the two lead cars were Bloomquist cars. A two seater with daughter Ariel in the passenger seat and the other driven by Smoke. Outstanding and incredibly emotional!
One thing everyone agrees on that I spoke with concurs…. Bloomquist’s accolades will never be exceeded.
He built his own cars, and marched to his own drum, the whole way through life.
RIP Bloomers.
BEST SEAT IN THE HOUSE
Isn’t
Eldora speedway an absolutely magical venue.
As you drive between the cornfields in Rossburg, Ohio the road opens up to a new city, the city of Eldora. It’s a motorcity, a city full of people enjoying motorsport. It’s a city where everyone is welcome. A city where merch is not optional, It’s compulsory. A city where corndogs and bud light is a staple diet.
Welcome to the Big E.
I arrived on Monday from Florida and was absolutely mesmerised by the number of motorhomes and tents, all living in the city of Eldora. Corrals full of food vendors, t-shirt and merch suppliers and then there’s the beer! The week started the night before with the Baltes Classic. An event that paid homage to the godfather of the venue
legendary promotor Earl Baltes. Built in 1954 it set the standard that some say is the ultimate speedway establishment.
A stand-alone mid-week show on Wednesday night, then it’s onto the biggest 3 nights of late model racing on the planet.
The quality of the nominations was outstanding, some were gutter rats, some ran the wall from hotlaps and some did a little bit of all above. I knew I was in for a great event and it’s The World 100.
We all know food at a speedway can a bit hit and miss and always expensive!
I was pleasantly surprised when I got a bit hungry, the infield canteen had a great variety of quality food served by some lovely elderly ladies that had been doing the same job since they were teenagers.
The freshly made Hunt Brothers pizza got a whirl as did quite a few other things on the menu. The kicker for me was the peanut M&M’s whilst editing images in the media centre till late into the night.
One thing that owner Tony Stewart said to me was “I want the experience the patron on the hill gets to be a memorable one when they visit the Big E”.
Smoke, you nailed it
Jonathon Davenport’s ride sits ready alongside Nick Hoffmans #9 amongst millions of dollars of trucks and racing equipment. Image Andy Ticehurst Media
While not an official part of the World 100, the FloRacing Night in America was a Wednesday warmup show with $20,000 on the line.
The modern day Bloomquist equivalent but without the Black Hat, Jonathan Davenport, continued his Eldora Speedway dominance taking the $20,000 Castrol® FloRacing Night in America presented by Kubota victory.
Davenport led all 50 laps from the outside-front-row starting spot taking the chequered flag 7.211 seconds in front of Devin Moran with Ricky Thornton Jr., Hudson O’Neal, and Bobby Pierce next.
“It may have looked easy, but I didn’t feel as comfortable in the car as I would’ve
Jordan Koehler (114) and Cory Hedgecock (23) line up for scrutineering. Image Andy Ticehurst Media
liked, and somehow I managed to hit the wall again,” Davenport said in FloRacing Victory Lane. “This car (his specific Eldora car) is so good, and I love it and worry about it even sitting in the show because I never want anything to happen to it. I know the end of the feature that the groove got a little narrow, but man this track crew did a great job getting it from where it was on Sunday to where we had it tonight. I know they’ll keep grinding on it, and we’ll have a great track for the World 100 weekend.” Davenport’s comment was a reference to the previous weekends less than ideal track surface but track owner Tony Stewart had made it a personal point to come down
and supervise and get hands on with track preparation to try and ensure there would be no such issues for one of his prime events.
Blight’s night was a bad omen for the rest of the weekend with a 7th place finish in his heat putting him in one of three, yes three B-Mains where he started 8th but finished 14th.
World 100 Night 1
Opening night of the 54th World 100 at Eldora Speedway Thursday night featured dominant performances from stars Ryan Gustin and Hudson O’Neal as they broke through to Victory Lane on the biggest
stage in all of dirt track racing.
Gustin, led all 25 laps of the Group A Twin 25 Feature to secure his first career win at the historic half-mile oval while O’Neal, the defending World 100 winner took the lead on Lap 14 of the Group B Twin 25 Feature and drove away to collect his $12,000 grand prize.
A grand total of 107 DIRTcar Late Models were present in the pit areas for the night’s program which featured an all-new event format of Group Qualifying, six Shootout Races, no Last Chance races and two 25-lap Feature events. Drivers earned points for th eir Feature finishes (Shootout finishes for non-transfers) and will repeat the program Friday night to help set the Heat Race lineups for the finale on Saturday.
Group A Feature
Lining up for the main event beside Eldora’s most dominant Late Model driver of the past decade Davenport didn’t intimidate Gustin.
Gustin made quick work of getting by the five-time World 100 winner at the drop of the green flag, taking the lead away before they exited Turn 2. While Davenport stayed close and tried to retake the spot in the following corners, Gustin’s high side momentum prevailed and he began to open up a gap between the two.
When Davenport slipped up the track in Turn 2 on Lap 3, two-time World 100 winner Brandon Overton went by underneath
to take the runner-up spot. Over the next 20 laps, Overton gave chase in hot pursuit of Gustin and nearly closed the gap completely in traffic as the race moved into the closing laps but was unable to get close enough in the end.
“I feel like we beat two of the best here in Davenport and Overton, so we definitely didn’t beat no slugs tonight,” Gustin said. “We’ve got a really good racecar right now; this Infinity Chassis is on rails.”
This was a big result as at the start of the year this new team didn’t have a hauler or anything.
Further back in the field was Brandon Sheppard. The former DIRTcar Summer Nationals champion saw his night turn sour in the third Shootout Race when he blew a right-rear tire and hit the outside wall, damaging his Longhorn Chassis No. B5. “I think it was going down for a few laps and it started laying on the right-rear,” Sheppard said. “It blew-out getting into (Turn) 3 and I got in the wall, and [Zack Mitchell] come in there and hit me; nowhere for him to go.”
However, armed with a provisional, Sheppard started the Feature 25th on the grid and drove up to a 17th-place finish.
“At one point when I pulled off the track, I thought, ‘Alright, we’re gonna get the backup car out and we’re gonna stick with that the rest of the weekend,’” Sheppard said.
“I got out and looked at it and I thought, ‘You know what, let’s put some wheels on this thing and push it back on the lift and let’s fix it and go again,’ because this car’s treated us really well here at the Dream. And last night was decent too.”
Mounted and wrapped ready for use. Enough for a heat race or two - maybe. Image Andy Ticehurst Media
Group B Feature
Hudson O’Neal’s first globe trophy came in the event one year ago, and Thursday night he returned to Victory Lane in the Group B preliminary Feature.
Starting on the pole, O’Neal originally gave up the lead to outside polesitter Joseph Joiner but was able to battle back and retake the top spot on Lap 14. After a few restarts, O’Neal held off all challengers to bag the chequered flag, but not without some company behind him.
Defending World of Outlaws champion Bobby Pierce had made his way up to
second on a Lap 19 restart after starting sixth. The 2016 World 100 winner put pressure on O’Neal for the remaining laps but was unable to get close enough to make a bid for the lead in the end and settled for second.
“I’m not really feeling the most comfortable in this car this weekend; kind of a mixture of things we need to get a little better,” Pierce said. “We’ll just keep working at it. Tomorrow’s another test day, in a sense. We didn’t really need to come out here and win tonight. Everyone knows the better you do on the prelim nights, sometimes the worse you start in the Heats on Saturday.”
Crossing the line in seventh was the 2024 DIRTcar UMP Modified Florida Speedweeks champion, Kyle Strickler. Strickler’s Late Model was adorned with a special tribute to former car owner Scott Bloomquist, who he drove for during the 2021 season, and shared some insight on his decision to honour the late Hallof-Famer.
“I wanted to honour the personal connection that he and I had,” Strickler said. “When I drove for him, that’s exactly how my cars looked, so I wanted to do something like that.
“It definitely sucks not having him here for talks on tires and making tire decisions and things like that. He’ll definitely be missed, and hopefully we can honour him with this wrap. It’d be really great to honour him with a World 100 victory Saturday night.”
Thursday-A – Qualifying
1. 11-Brandon Overton, 15.421; - 46. 31AUS-Kye Blight, 16.429
Shootout #1 – (12)Laps – Top 8 Transfer 1. 49-Jonathan Davenport[2]; 2. 11-Brandon Overton[6]; 3. 44-Chris Madden[5]; - 11. 31AUS-Kye Blight[16]
After Thursday Nights action Blight was languishing in 82nd position 166 points behind top qualifier Overton.
Night 2
The second night of preliminary action featured a 21st career Eldora Speedway Feature win for Davenport and a second-
straight Twin 25 Feature win for defending event winner Hudson O’Neal.
Davenport, the five-time World 100 globe trophy winner drove from ninth on the starting grid and took the lead on Lap 21
to win the Group A Twin 25 main event. O’Neal, who also won his Feature on Thursday night, made it back-to-back wins at the historic half-mile oval by leading every lap of the Group B Twin 25.
verteran Dale McDowell had a great shot at winning but camer up just a little
too short to a much younger victor. Image Andy Ticehurst Media
High-points driver Tim McCreadie — the 2018 World 100 winner finished fourth in the Group A Feature, earning him the high-points driver honors. As the top event points getter over the two-day stretch, McCreadie earned the right to spin the inversion wheel to determine the invert for Saturday’s Heat Races, which landed on a ‘3.’ This means the top-three starters in each Heat Race will be inverted, giving McCreadie an inside Row 2 starting spot in Heat 1.
Group A Feature
Starting ninth on the grid following a third place run in the third Shootout Race, Jonathan Davenport was not going to let the lack of a top starting spot slow his pursuit of victory. He worked his way through the top-10, and by the halfway point, trailed only leader Devin Moran. As Moran entered lapped traffic, Davenport was able to reel him in. With the slower cars working in his favour, Davenport threw a slide-job on Moran in Turns 1-2 to take the lead, and then used the caution flag the following lap to get in clean air and drive away with his 21st career Feature win of any kind at Eldora.
Behind Davenport and Moran was multitime DIRTcar Late Model national points champion, Bobby Pierce. The 27-year-old started 12th on the grid and by the halfway point had reached the top-five.
When a caution flag forced another restart on Lap 21, Pierce advanced from fourth into a battle with Moran for the runner-up spot. After trading slide-jobs back-and-forth multiple times, Moran made the final pass on Pierce on Lap 24 to seal his place in second while Pierce settled for third.
Though the 2016 World 100 winner was shut out of Victory Lane for the secondstraight night, Pierce gained valuable points with his runner-up effort Thursday and third-place finish Friday, which will set him up front in a Heat Race on Saturday.
Group B Feature
Hudson O’Neal has shown his highbanked, half-mile prowess over the past several years, winning three preliminary Features and a World 100 from 2022 through 2023. Now, he’s won back-to-back World 100 prelim Features and will be among the favourites to repeat as event champion.
One night after cashing in for $12,000 in the Group B prelim Thursday, he dominated again Friday, leading all 25 laps of the Group B Twin 25 lap nearly unchallenged.
Friday-A – Qualifying
1. 1-Tim McCreadie, 14.879; - 46. 31AUSKye Blight, 15.909
Shootout #1 – (12)Laps – Top 8 Transfer 1. 30-Ryan Gustin[5]; - 13. 31AUS-Kye Blight[16]
World 100 Qualifying points
Above: West Aussie Kye Blight seems to be foreshadowing how his World 100 campaign was about to unfold – not happy. Image Andy Ticehurst Media
backs the Collins Racing
in hard, about as hard as you can without
Brandon Overton
#11
spinning. Image Andy Ticehurst Media
Another Brandon, Brandon Shepperd (B5), smokes both rear tyres in his efforts Image Andy Ticehurst Media
efforts to go fast despite the car being in an almost straight line.
three laps to go. The race saw eight lead changes at the line among four different drivers and it all happened in front of the largest crowd in Eldora Speedway history. 108 total drivers participated in the event.
Bobby Pierce earned his second globed trophy in dramatic fashion as he took the lead for the fourth and final time with just
Pierce became the ninth driver to win two globe trophies as Sheppard rose from the BMain to finish 12th
Eight years ago, a then-19-year-old Pierce came to historic Eldora Speedway and drove from 22nd on the starting grid to win his first globe trophy, becoming the youngest driver in history to win the prestigious event. While leading in the closing laps of Saturday’s main event, the now-27-yearold was beginning to wonder if he really did have it in him to hold on and win the race a second time.
“I was starting to think y’know, maybe when [Davenport] retires, maybe I’ll win again,” Pierce said with a smile.
But his Low Voltage Solutions, Vic Hill/Longhorn Chassis No. 32 did have enough. Though Davenport — Eldora’s winningest Late Model driver of the past decade — and 2005 World 100 winner Dale McDowell gave him a great fight, Pierce drove by them both in the end to hoist the iconic globe once again and pocket the $57,000 grand prize.
“I saw red there when I got passed,” he said. “No matter what it took, I was getting it done up there.”
After coming up one spot short of victory in his Thursday preliminary Feature and two spots short on Friday, Pierce knew he would have a great chance at getting a good spot on the starting grid for Saturday’s 100-lap main event — a crucial point in his drive for victory.
“We started third tonight — it’s what I was saying I wanted all week long was track position,” Pierce said. “I wanted that first couple rows starting spot. I think I’ve been midpack for the last several years now. It’s not bad to get there, you just burn your stuff up to get there. It’s just easier starting up front;
you have way more control.”
From third on the grid, Pierce got his first taste of the lead on Lap 23 when outside polesitter Garrett Alberson stumbled in lapped traffic. Pierce had top-side momentum after a sharp run off Turn 2 and moved past Alberson to take the top spot down the backstretch.
Though Pierce began to open a gap on the field, he was quickly shut down when Davenport reeled in Pierce from over a second behind in traffic. When Pierce shifted to the bottom lane in Turns 1 and 2 on Lap 35, Davenport unleashed his high-side momentum and dived underneath Pierce in Turn 3, then slid up in front of him in Turn 4 to seal the pass.
Over the next 25 laps, Davenport opened and maintained a gap in traffic of over three seconds as the race crossed into the second half. In Pierce’s mind, it looked like the race was over, and Davenport would go on for a sixth win in the event. And that’s when the momentum began to swing the other way.
“When [Davenport] took off, that was it — that’s about all she wrote most of the time,” Pierce said. “I started not catching him, but I saw he was in my view again. There was only about one lapper in between us at the time; this was about a little after halfway. I was like, ‘It’s early to start beating the wall down, but I’m gonna start doing it.’”
Pierce charged his momentum on the high line around the half-mile oval, and by Lap 60, he had dwindled Davenport’s lead down to under a second. Three laps later, Pierce zoomed past Davenport out of Turn 4 on the top side to retake the lead — his car still on the ragged edge.
“You’re gonna set your car up for the middle or you’re gonna set it up for the top,” Pierce said. “We were kinda trying to set it up for both, but I said, ‘Y’know, there’s a decent amount of cushion off of Turn 4.’ That was about the only spot where there was a little curb.
“There was some in (Turns) 1 and 2 and I was like, ‘If I’m gonna win the race, I’m probably gonna do it on the top.’ We got the car balanced for the top.”
When the caution flag flew with 68 laps complete to break the action, Pierce was able to win the race into Turns 1 and 2 on the restart, barely as he threw a slide-job on Davenport to keep him at bay.
“That was the one thing I was probably worried about the most was that restart,” Pierce said. “I think I kinda snookered him; I fired more in Turn 3 than Turn 4. Had a pretty good restart, was able to slide him and then when we drove off from him there on that restart, I was like, ‘Okay, we can win this thing.’”
As the race dipped under 20 laps-to-go, McDowell was beginning to mount his charge, using his preferred bottom lane. He moved past Davenport for the runner-up spot on Lap 81 but remained a full second behind Pierce but was bringing the crowd alive in the process.
But in only nine laps, McDowell had erased that gap and sat one pass away from the lead and his first globe trophy in 19 years. On Lap 91, he made his move for the lead out of Turn 2.
“I looked at the board, but I thought it was
Josh Rice behind me because I had just lapped him,” Pierce said. “I saw a black car, he passes me, and I saw the 17 on the car and I’m like, ‘Oh, he’s in the lead now.’
“I thought I was screwed because Dale passes you on the bottom like that, you’re normally done. When he caught the back end of that lapped traffic there, he slowed up just a little bit and I was like, ‘This is my shot to do it.’ And I luckily nailed my corners.”
But Pierce wasn’t done. Though it appeared as if McDowell’s Team Zero Race Car was going to run away with a storybook victory, Pierce found more speed one last time right against Eldora’s outside wall and drove back by McDowell as he stumbled in lapped traffic to retake the lead on Lap 96.
“I just sent it off in there,” Pierce said. “It was kinda more of a wreckers-or-chequers type thing. If I hit the wall, knock the frontend out, so be it. I’m here to win the race, not finish second.”
McDowell tried to rally once more in the final laps but came up short. Pierce crossed under the chequered flag to take the win, becoming the ninth driver in history to win the World 100 more than once.
Race Results
Heat #5 – (15) Laps – Top 3 Transfer 1. 58-Garrett Alberson[1]; 2. 71-Hudson O’Neal[3]; 3. 9-Nick Hoffman[4]; - 7. 31AUS-Kye Blight[15]
B-Feature #2 – (20) Laps – Top 4 Transfer
1. 96-Tanner English[1]; 2. B5-Brandon Sheppard[7]; 3. 87-Ross Bailes[2]; 4. 7-Ricky Weiss[5]; - 16. 31AUS-Kye Blight[10]
A-Feature – (100) Laps
1. 32-Bobby Pierce [3]
2. 17M-Dale McDowell [1]
3. 49-Jonathan Davenport [4]
4. 1-Tim McCreadie [7]
5. 99-Devin Moran [5]
6. 23V-Cory Hedgecock [10]
7. 58-Garrett Alberson [2]
8. 10S-Garrett Smith [20]
9. 30-Ryan Gustin [14]
10. 25-Shane Clanton [8]
11. 71-Hudson O’Neal [11]
12. B5-Brandon Sheppard [24]
13. 96-Tanner English [22]
14. 11R-Josh Rice [13]
15. 79-Donald McIntosh [23]
16. 87-Ross Bailes [26]
17. 18D-Daulton Wilson [15]
18. 11-Brandon Overton [12]
19. 44-Chris Madden [16]
20. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr [6]
21. 8S-Brian Shirley [18]
22. 8-Kyle Strickler [19]
23. 20-Jimmy Owens [21]
24. 74X-Ethan Dotson [9]
25. 93-Carson Ferguson [25]
26. 40B-Kyle Bronson [27]
27. 7-Ricky Weiss [28]
28. 9-Nick Hoffman [17]
Kye Blight is on the afterbuner in the 31AUS Rocket, but even being just a second off the pace means you are virtually out of contention. Image Andy Ticehurst Media
Devin Gilpin has the rear steer working on the 1G. Image Andy Ticehurst Media
Kiwi Driver Jackson Lovelady in the Warrier house car. He junked a car at the straight to Eldora for Wendesday night. Image Andy Ticehurst Media
the Baltes Classic and the team rallied and put together a new car and shipped it
Ricky Weiss in the #7 shows just how far the left rear climbs unde rthe bodywork
The Newport Nightmare – Jimmy Owens has everything lifting as the chassis technology
technology does it’s thing. Image Andy Ticehurst Media
Tristan Chamberlain presented a neat looking 20TC. Image Andy Ticehurst Media
Ohio’s Devin Moran, the son of the first ever Eldora Million Dollar winner Donnie son. Image Andy Ticehurst Media
Donnie Moran, is always out of luck at the Big Dollar Eldora shows for some rea-
Chris Madden in the #44 is nicely ballnced as he looks ahead while leaving a combination
combination of dust and tyre smoke behind. Image Andy Ticehurst Media
Luke Morey’s #49 lifts its skirt for all to see its rear end technology. Image Andy
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Brandon Moore sends the sparks flying as he makes an unexpected visit to the
the turn four concrete wall. Image Andy Ticehurst Media
Another great veteran Late Model Racer is Shannon Babb who still wins more Media
than his fair share of features around the country. Image Andy Ticehurst
Jensen Ford gives us a good view of the shocks and bar work and even the inside
inside of the right rear tyre of his #83. Image Andy Ticehurst Media
Slid ‘er in there boy! Image Andy Ticehurst Media
The Stacey Boles Category5 Late Model was captured well in this speed shot.
Image Andy Ticehurst Media
Tanner English carrys the front as well as the hopes of Austism and Special Needs
Needs kids in his #96. Image Andy Ticehurst Media
Jason Feger’s US Airforce inspired #25 looks a treat and is unusually, not on the
the highline, as his knickname suggests. Image Andy Ticehurst Media
Jarod Landers has the head tilted to the left for that extra ounce of left side weiht
weiht bias in the Mark Martin owned #777 Image Andy Ticehurst Media
A nice angle of one of the best across multiple disciplines – Tim McCreadie in the
the 31 Rocket Chassis house car. Image Andy Ticehurst Media
The Art of Speedway would go wild over this shot which captures a gaggle of cars
cars at all sorts of angles at speed. Image Andy Ticehurst Media
Bobby Pierce’s #32 shows the battle scars of a tough World 100 but Bobby couldn’t of any panel damage ensued along the path to victory. Image Andy Ticehurst
couldn’t car less as the number son all those Big E, Big Cheques, will take care
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