POSTED 8-2-09 KEN-TEN PRO LATE MODEL RACE #6 AT CORBIN SPEEDWAY RECAP

Ken-Ten Series Race #6 Corbin Speedway 8-1-09 American Mortgage Lenders 100 We had 18 cars on hand for our first race at Corbin, it was a wild ending to say the least!! Mike Bargo set fast time with a 13:702 and won the AR Bodies fast time award which was a carb airbox.This new airbox from Jerry is the stuff, it makes more hp than the other ones on the market!!!Top six fastest redraw for their starting spots. Mike Masters making his first start with the series qualified 5th and drew the pole, Davey Coble qualified 3rd and drew 2nd,Mike Bargo drew 3rd starting spot. Josh Byrns qualified 6th and drew 4th,Brian Royalty started 5th after qualifying 4th and Robbie Brown started 6th after qualifying 2nd. The 12 car of Sammy Sanders and the 5x of Russell Smith where too low, we have a 3” inch ride height rule that has been enforced all year. We have thrown out several guys during the year but more on that later in the week. The 12 and 5x had to start on the tail. Chad Willis broke a trailing arm mount during practice and jumped into the #9 car of Hunter Willis. The race start was set for 9:00 and at 9:05 they started their warm up laps, one of the local racers got into the 17 car of DBV Properties Rookie of the Year leader Josh Brock. That pretty much set the tone for the rest of the night!!!At 9:30 and 3 complete restarts we finally got to run 6 green flag laps!!At the caution Mike Masters was leading, Mike Bargo 2nd,Davey Coble 3rd,Brian Royalty 4th and Robbie Brown rounded out the top 5.On the restart next time by Mike Bargo grabs the lead going down the front stretch with Mike Masters in 2nd.Lap 8 caution for the spinning car of Robbie Brown down the front stretch. Mike Bargo still leads followed by Mike Masters in 2nd,Davey Coble 3rd,Brian Royalty 4th and Josh Brock in 5th. Lap 9 Davey Coble takes over 2nd place with Mike Masters slowly backing up down the running order and on lap10 he spun in 3 and 4.Lap 16 Mike Bargo is leading and clicking off some 13:80’s and on lap 19 contact between Robbie Brown and Eric Centers on the backstretch brings out yet another caution!!Mike Bargo is leading, Davey 2nd,Brian 3rd,rookie Mason Mingus up to 4th,Josh Brock 5th,Marty Taylor 6th,Chad Willis 7th ,Sammy Sanders 8th,Jason Jones 9th and Josh Byrns rounding out the top 10. On the restart Davey Coble is the new leader, lap 23 Davey was running 14:00’s while leading, lap 30 caution flys for the spinning car of Robbie Brown on the backstretch. The top 5 are Davey Coble, Mike Bargo, Mason Mingus, Josh Brock and Sammy Sanders in 5th.Around lap 39 it started to drizzle, Davey is leading with a lot of pressure from Mason Mingus and on lap 44 caution flew for Mason getting into Davey in turn 1 and 2 collecting Mike Bargo and Sammy Sanders. Mike headed to the pits and Sammy had to be towed off the track!!Davey and Mason where sent to the tail for the restart. In the meantime it starting raining heavier, we elected to keep the cars out on the track to help keep the track dry in their running order. The radar showed a slim chance of getting the race to lap 50 which would have been official! In the Ken-Ten Series we don’t count caution laps, we’re on lap 44 with the expectations of getting the race in!!Some of the racers got their cars fixed and some on the tail chose to pit for fuel! We stopped the cars on the backstretch to allow them to add fuel, we lost the track to the rain and pulled them to the infield. After asking some of the racers their thoughts on the race, come back in September to finish this race on the 5th and then run our other scheduled 100 lapper. Come back next weekend and finish it, all 17 cars divide the purse equally. It was going to rain Sunday so that wasn’t going to work. John and I both agreed to call the race the way they where lined up on the track, we had every intention to go back green. John didn’t have to do that, his fans in the stands and his sponsor got the short end of that stick!! Rookie Josh Brock wins his first Ken-Ten Series race, Jason Jones 2nd,Josh Byrns 3rd,Robbie Brown 4th and Chad Willis rounding out the top 5.Somebody had to make a decision guys, there where several things that went wrong and shouldn’t have that effected this outcome, more on that later in the week!!

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