Lamastus wrecks hard at the SoKY Fairground Front Wheel Drive Figure-8

 Photos Courtesy of Jason Turner

Story by Jason Turner - Kevin Lamastus was very lucky tonight. He was leading the $800 feature figure 8 at the fair tonight, when he flipped coming out of turn two. The Second place car hit him right in the roof on his way to the ground and right on the driver side of the car. It happened right in front of me and it looked like the car hit Kevin and I was really worried that he may have been hurt bad. But he walked away, after several minutes to get him out.

STOCK CAR DRIVER HITS THE WALL HARD.....

Photos Courtesy of PBO Media Productions

After several weeks of no stock car racing, it turned out wild.  Monday evening 5-31-10 car owner Lee Alford of Edmonson County saw his car hit the wall coming out of turn four then flips it around and hits the outside wall driver side.  Driver David Jessie James also of Edmonson, County was knock out while the throttle was hung wide open.  James was taken by Medical Center EMS to the Medical Center of Bowling Green.  A source did tell me today that James is home and very sore.  He was going back to the doctor today for more check ups.  James lost a tooth or two, hurt his leg and has pain in his rib cage area.  Get well soon David, from all the racers and fans.

RACER HAS ACCIDENT AT BEECH BEND TONIGHT

Drag racer Shawna Burnett of Indiana, driving for Burnett Racing wrecks.  Shawna lost control of her chevy near the 330 mark. ( I think it was 330)  Shawna was checked out by the safety works.  I heard that they took her to the hospital to be checked out further.  I will post more on her condition as I get it.

POSTED 9-14-09 CLINE BREAKS HER FOOT IN WRECK

Photo by Odell

Friday night at Beech Bend Raceway Park during the Modified Street race Matt Melton #11, Tony Rothe #44 and Rita Cline #69 crash in the middle of turns one and two. Rita Cline went to the doctor and has a broken bone in the top of her left foot. Pictured above was Rita being looked at by her husband (Robert) and the EMT's. Get well soon Rita!

POSTED 7-6-09 RICHARD "DOODLE" DICKENS WRECKED IN THE X OF THE IOFS RACE AT ANDERSON SPEEDWAY IN INDIANA

Hey Odell, here are some pics from Anderson. These pics were not taken by me. I actually stole them from Race8.com members that had them posted. My pics are still on the camera with a dead battery and it is taking forever to charge. I figured you can use these. I know they aren't going to mind. The damage here does not look that bad but it is bad enough that Doodle and Billy Williams (BG Billy Williams) are putting a car together right now so we can make Plymouth this Saturday. I am not 100% sure on this but I think that Doodle still finished 15 even after the wreck. At this point, I do not know where he sits on the overall points but he is still leading the "stocker" points. Going into the Anderson race, he was 7th in overall points. So, still not bad for what he is running against. He has a 4th, 10th and now 15th. Hopefully at Plymouth we can grab another top 10...top 5 would be nice though, lol. Well, as always, I want to thank everyone that helped make this trip possible: Cohron's Mechanical & B&R Racer's Supply....a very special, huge thanks goes out to them!!! C&P Racing, Jerry's Tires & Mufflers, Photos by Odell, Pro Machine. Billy Williams, Jay Parrish and Jerry Cohron have helped tremendously! Doodle or I could never say thank you enough!! I hope everyone that has helped knows that we certainly do appreciate it and hope that one day we can return all the favors! I also want to say thanks to everyone that called, emailed and texted to check on Doodle and for giving/offering their support while he is attempting to finish these next 6 races. Hopefully all the hard work put out by everyone will pay off in the end and Doodle will win that chassis! Only time will tell. Sure do wish y'all could make it to some of these races. It is by far some of the best figure 8 racing I have seen. Not to mention the racing that is taking place in the other classes that run at these tracks. All I can say is "WOW"! The crossover action resulted on or around lap 25 or so. Doodle had made the decision to go behind Magee once Magee had made his way through the "X". The leader, Van Meter, was coming along side of Doodle about the same time Magee was going to cross through. Magee must have suddenly changed his mind once he began to go through because he basically stopped in front of Doodle resulting in Doodle hitting him. After the initial contact with Magee, somehow Doodle took a shot right behind the driver's door from someone else. The damage to the car caused the throttle to hang and Doodle was headed straight toward the wall. Luckily, he got the car shut down before anymore damage could occur. The end result: two torn up race cars. More importantly, both Doodle and Magee are ok. Angie Dickens NOTE: WE HERE AT LOCAL RACING NEWS AND RUMORS BY ODELL WOULD LIKE TO PUT THE CALL OUT TO ALL OUR LOCAL BUSINESS OR FANS AND SAY IF YOU COULD SEND MONEY, PARTS AND ETC. TO HELP SPONSOR OUR LOCAL RACER SO HE CAN COMPETE IN THE TRAVELING FIGURE-8 SERIES KNOWN AS THE IOFS (INTERNATIONAL OUTLAW FIGURE-8 SERIES) PLEASE THINK ABOUT IT AND DO WHAT YOU CAN. CONTACT US HERE VIA EMAIL AT kyjava1997@bellsouth.net AND WE WILL FORWARD IT TO ANGIE DICKENS, RACE DIRECTOR FOR DICKENS RACING. THEN SHE CAN CONTACT YOU TO SET UP A TIME TO MEET WITH YOU. THANKS FOR YOUR HELP. (LETS SEE BOWLING GREEN SHINE THROUGH OUR LOCAL DRIVER.)

POSTED 8-24-08 LUCAS OIL SERIES FIRE AND SAFETY CREWS DO A GOOD JOB AT BEECH BEND RACEWAY

As a photographer and a former stock car driver let me start by saying this. There were hundreds of drag cars at Beech Bend Raceway this weekend from all over the states. With that being said, sometimes thing happen that you don't what to happen. As I was on the starting line shooting pictures, I most always watch toward the next car coming up. And that is what I was doing, when I heard the tires and crowd react to a wreck at the finishing line of the quarter mile track. I was most impressed with the Lucas Oil Series Fire and safety crews along with Beech Bend Raceway crew. Almost before the cars got stopped the fire and safety crew was on the track and there. I give them a big thumb's up! I am also happy to report that both drivers walked away. That says something to the safety of NHRA. I think the only real hurt to both drivers was their feelings. So, in my final thoughts, who said Stock Car drivers are the only ones to crash and put on a show. See you at another drag event. If you see me with the Photos by Odell shirt on, give me a shout. See ya Fans!

POSTED 8-19-08 PHOTOS OF PAUL WATKINS WRECK

More photos that Johnny Watkins, Paul's father sent us. God had to be with Paul on this day!

POSTED 3-9-08 WRECK AT BEECH BEND IN 1988 WITH #17 MIKE WITHERSPOON AND #24 THE LATE BILLY McDANIELS

This was taken in 1988. It is the #17 of Mike Witherspoon, still in his car and #24 of the Late Billy McDaniels. Standing in front of the #17 is car owner, the Late Pat Cassady. On the wall is former driver Don Rich. Mike is looking up to Don as if he was asking Don something. Why Don? Just kidding Don.

POSTED 3-9-08 MY FIRST RACE AND WRECK AT THE RIM IN 1986

This was my first stock car race. As you can see it wasn't my best. The black car in front of mt car was the #61 of Kevin Lamastus and the White with Red #9 was Mark Reynolds. This was at Highland Rim Speedway in 1986.

POSTED 7/21/07 MORE PHOTO'S OF TONY PEAK WRECK

In these shots you can see that Tony got hit in the passenger side rear. Can you believe he walked away? Wow!!!!