POSTED 7/8/07 RACERS & CREW MAN CAN PLAY GOLF?

Is Odell Turner of Turner Racing the Bo Miller of Golf? Odell played Matt Spinks and Adam Brooks crew man of Grider Racing and Brad Spinks the B in B&R Racers Supply. Needless to say I won!!!! Is there any other racers or crew men that would like to play? I would list the scores but don't want to embarrass anyone (Ha-Ha). It was a lot of fun, I haven't played in a few years. Enjoyed it guys, lets do it again.

POSTED 7/7/07 TURNER RACING #99 NEW SPORTSMAN CAR

Turner Racing #99 with Driver Odell Turner brought out his new car. The sponsor's are Rafferty's Restaurant & Bar, Chucks Liquor Outlets, Flea Land, Bilbrey's Upholstery, Thompson's Trophy Center, Jerry's Mufflers and Tires and SIGNS by ODELL.

POSTED 7/7/07 GRIDER RACING BRINGS NEW CAR OUT FOR SPORTSMAN CLASS

Grider Racing #30 with Driver Billy Grider and his crew have brought out their new car. This team has Rally's Hamburger, Rivertown Moving & Storage, Precious Memories DVD, Spinks Lawn Care, Phelps Lawn Care and SIGN by ODELL. Good looking car, and good luck Billy!

POSTED 7/6/07 THE PEPSI 100 TWIN 50 LAP RACE TOP 10 MONEY EARNER'S

The Pepsi 100 Twin 50 lap race pay out and finishes overall are: (1) Tie with Tommy Climer #5 with a 1st place and a 15th and Bo Miller with a 1st place and a 15th and both took home $950.00 each. (3) Sammy Sanders #12 with a 2nd and a 5th taking home $$850.00. (4)Tie with Donald Byrns #31 and Mark Oliver #25 with Mark finishing 4th and 5th and Donald a 3rd and 6th and both taking home $750.00 each. (6) Chad Willis #99 with a 2nd and 8th taking home $700.00 (7) Chris Harmon #6 with a 3rd and a 16th taking home $600.00 (8) Tie with Roger Parker #53 with a 6th and a 7th and Davey Coble with a 4th and a 14th both taking home $550.00 (10) Martin Belcher #2 with a 7th and a 14th taking home $400.00. That is the top ten money finishers. We had 19 Late Models to start the first race.

POSTED 7/6/07 SALEM SPEEDWAY'S 18TH ANNUAL FIRECRACKER 200 AT SALEM, IN. TURNS OUT GOOD FOR LOCAL DRIVER, JAY PARRISH

I am hearing that our local racer, Jay Parrish #79 finished 11th out of over 50 cars in the 18th Annual Firecracker 200 at Salem Speedway, Salem, IN. Good job Jay! You represented Bowling Green well.

POSTED 7/5/07 ITEMS FOR SALE

FOR SALE: I have a single axle car trailer that my son used to haul his front Runner car for three years $175.00 obo I have a car trailer that I hauled my sportsman car and front Runner with, it is dual axle and 16 foot long 761/2 inches wide and steel floor. asking $600.00 obo I have a Chevy Corsica would make good Front Runner for Beech Bend or the Figure-8 at the Southern Kentucky Fair, Needs some work. $150.00 obo Email me at kyjava1997@aol.com or call Odell @ 270-843-1563 for more information

POSTED 7/5/07 LEADERS IN THE POINTS AT BEECH BEND AS OF 7/3/07

If I figured right Tony Rothe #44 took the points lead away from #48 Anthony Russell in the Modified Street Class. Dennis "Zoomie" Oliver is still the points leader in the figure-8. Mark Cummings in the A1 remains the points leader in the Front Runner Class. Tony Peak #17 takes the points lead in Front Runner Figure-8. Phillip Akin #44 holds on to the points lead in the sportsman class. This is not official.

POSTED 7/4/07 THANKS TO B & R RACERS SUPPLY

I have wrote about many drivers and tracks, but I would like to blog about two people that very rarely get credit for helping us racers. This story is about B&R Racers Supply. The two men behind B&R are Brad Spinks and Rick Falcone. I have known these two guys for over twenty years. Brad drove a stock car and did a fine job back in the days. Brad is married to Becky (Phelps). They have one son, Matthew Spinks. Matt is a crew man on the number #30 sportsman car of Grider Racing. Brad works for the Bowling Green City School System where he is in management. Rick is married to Barbara (Phelps). They have one son, Scott. Scott is married to Crystal and they have a daughter, Makayla. Scott also helps on the sportsman car of Phillip Akin #44. Rick manages Toohey's Auto Parts. Brad and Rick started selling parts soon after White Bros. Oval Track Supply sold out. Some of you reading this may say that they don't need any thanks because they make money off us drivers. Duh! Auto Zone, Toohey's, Advance, O'Reilly's and catalog mail orders don't? These guys are at the track every single race. It is a job for them and I know they get tired. I for one have broken a part and didn't have to run to town. I only walked across the pits to buy a screw, bolt, fluids and etc... Plus they give me advise on what I need for my car. Thank you guys and your families for supporting stock car racing. Racers please leave your comments for Brad and Rick along with your name and car number. Again, Thanks, Odell Turner, Sportsman Car #99

POSTED 7/4/07 MIKE MASON AND DENNIS "ZOOMIE" OLIVER HIT IN THE FIGURE-8!

The figure-8 race was not that wild for most fans last night. But if you watched close you would have seen a couple of cars bump into each other. I did not see everything that a source told me that happened. I did see Dennis "Zoomie" Oliver #34 get into #M1 Mike Mason. Mike got lose and Zoomie took over second from mike. I don't know if Mike had hit Zoomie before to cause Zoomie to retaliate. I don't think Zoomie did it on purpose unless Mike did something first. But I do not know. Maybe the two drivers will post on here what they know happened. I know that there was some action in the pits after the race. Lots of words flying and a few fist. Remember if you post comments DO NOT USE FOUR LETTER WORDS AND KEEP IT CLEAN! I will delete anything I think is not proper.

POSTED 7/4/07 THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

I will be fifty years old this year, have raced for several years off and on. I learned two things last night at the races. First, let me say I don't know much about setting up or building a stock car. I don't know how to build an engine. I do know how to do a lot of little things to a car. One thing is for sure, I love driving a stock car as much as anyone. I have a lot of friends and family that has help me, and I appreciate that very much. This season I have to thank my sponsor's for their help. I have had many of you drivers that have said I should be doing good with all them sponsor's but honestly the money I got from sponsor's this year was good but when it comes to racing in the sportsman class and spending thousand's of dollars I like many of you am short handed. I worked so hard to get my new car out at the track as many of you fellow racer's have also done. All the little things that kept going wrong as you guys know about. The season started April 6, and I was not ready so I used my back up car. Then on July 2, I had the new car ready to go to the track to test only to find out my car was too wide to fit on the trailer. The next day I bought another trailer and then got home and get ready to back up the the garage to load the car and my van will not start. I finally get to the track for the July 3rd race with no practice and take the new car out to qualify and make about seven laps, not getting up to speed but running really good. I was so happy with the handle of the car and knew I had more gas peddle left. On the seven lap, I go off in turn three and the engine sounds like a hand grenade going off. Yes, my new engine just broke. So here is the two things I learned last night. I had that sick feeling that you fellow drivers get when you blow and it was bad. I was so sick. But the thing I was most proud to have learned was that after I blew up and loaded my car up there were guys over at the trailer to help push it on and many, many fellow racers and fans came up to me and said they hated it for me and offered to help in any way. This is not a feel sorry for Odell post, I just wanted to share something I learned. From now on I hate to see anyone blow or wreck their car. Been there done that. And last, with all the smart remarks that people put on this site I can still be proud to be a racer at Beech Bend Raceway. Last night you drivers and fans made me realize that we are a small racing family. Thanks to you all for your support.

POSTED 7/4/07 LOCAL DRIVER MAKES A GOOD SHOW IN OPEN WHEEL MODIFIED

I race with Brian Cherry in the Sportsman class each week and it is hard to pull for him with him winning a lot and I am having a hard time just keeping up. But as a writer on this blog and after blowing my engine Tuesday night I became a fan in the stand. Saying that brings me to this story. I would like to say personally to Brain, good job! You drove the wheels off that Open Wheel Modified. I for one was pulling for you to win it. Even with the spin, you have nothing to be ashamed of. Again, good job Brian!

POSTED 7/4/07 RESULTS FROM LAST POLL

The last poll ask which driver you think might win both Pepsi 100 twin 50 lap races. Sammy Sanders was the top voted driver. Bo Miller had second most votes.

POSTED 7/4/07 PEPSI 100 (SECOND 50 LAP RACE) RESULTS FROM 7/3/07 AT BEECH BEND RACEWAY

1 Bo Miller #38 2. Sammy Sanders #12 3. Chris Harmon #6 4. Davey Coble #14 5. Mark Oliver #25 6. Donald Byrns #31 7. Roger Parker #53 8. Chad Willis #99 9. Jerrod Foley #4 10. TW Fisher #16 11. Keith Montgomery #40 12. Daniel Young #112 13. Mike Pruitt #2 14. Martin Belcher #2 15. Tommy Climer #05 16. Shawn Smith #86 17. Roy Petrey, Jr. #45

POSTED 7/4/07 PEPSI 1OO LATE MODEL (FIRST 50 LAP RACE) RESULTS FROM 7/3/07 AT BEECH BEND RACEWAY

1. Tommy Climer #05 2. Chad Willis #99 3. Donald Byrns #31 4. Mark Oliver #25 5. Sammy Sanders #12 6. Roger Parker #53 7. Martin Belcher #2 8. Tony Willis #98 9. Jerrod Foley #4 10. Roy Petrey, Jr. #45 11. T.W. Fisher #16 12. Keith Montgomery #40 13. Shawn Smith #86 14. Davey Coble #14 15. Bo Miller #38 16. Chris Harmon #6 17. Jason Edmonds #90 18. Mike Pruitt #2 19. Daniel Young #112

POSTED 7/4/07 OPEN WHEEL MODIFIED RESULTS FROM 7/3/07 AT BEECH BEND RACEWAY

1. Ricky Sanford #5 2. Roy Dorris #98 3. Jimmy Schutt #707 4. Scott Gay #1 5. Richard Hargrove #61 6. Larry Searcy #69 7. Brian Cherry #45 8. Trent Turner #70 9. Bo Hall #10 Arty Hall #11 11. Tim Lawson #27

POSTED 7/4/07 MODIFIED STREET RESULTS FROM 7/3/07 AT BEECH BEND RACEWAY

1. Tony Rothe #44 2. Clint Ivey #52 3. Joey Stancil #10 4. Jimmy Broders #18 5. Larry McGrew, Jr. #32 6. Davis Baird #15 7. Jimmy Glass #2 8. Randal Wells #13 9. David Uhls #17 10. Rita Cline #69 11. Tommy Lawrence #7 12. David Cox #85 13. Steven Brown #29 14. Anthony Russell #48

POSTED 7/4/07 FRONT RUNNER RESULTS FROM 7/3/07 AT BEECH BEND RACEWAY

1. Mark Cummings #A1 2. Paul Cummings #A1 3. Alan McFaddin #20 4. Terry Duke #11 5. Anthony Miller #12 6. Hunter Willis #99 7. Steve Vincent #6 8. Jimmy Jacobs #95 9. Tony Peak #17 10. Josh Sartain #06 11. James Mehaffey #6 12. Michael Rittenberry #10 13. Michael Anderson #7 14. Michael Kaylor #83X 15. Keith Kaylor #16 16. Tex Ramsey #0 17. Brad Koughev #13 18. Joe Wall 19. Matt Melton #11 20. Jimmy Linville #8 21. Dakota Gibson #5 22. Lee Alvey #28

POSTED 7/4/07 FIGURE-8 RESULTS FROM 7/3/07 AT BEECH BEND RACEWAY

1. Ricky Dickens #28 2. Dennis Oliver #34 3. Mike Mason #M1 4. J.J. Schweizer #7 5. Ricky Johnson #77 6. Richard "Doodle" Dickens, Jr #85 7. Tommy Lawrence #07 8. Wayne Green, Jr. #60 9. Terry Russell #3 10. Kyle Naftel #21 11. David Zellers #38

POSTED 7/4/07 FRONT RUNNER FIGURE-8 RESULTS FROM 7/3/07 AT BEECH BEND RACEWAY

1. Mark Cummings #A1 2. Tony Peak #17 3. Terry Duke #11 4. Steve Vincent #6 5. Alan McFaddin #20 6. Michael Anderson #7 7. Lee Alvey #28 8. Josh Sartain #06 9. Joe Wall #20 10. Michael Rittenberry #10 11. James Coles #21 12. Keith Kaylor #16

POSTED 7/4/07 SPORTSMAN CLASS RESULTS FROM 7/3/07 AT BEECH BEND RACEWAY

1. Brian Cherry #22 2. Kevin Lamastus #21 3. William Johnson #6 4. Phillip Akin #44 5. Paul Watkins #80 6. Jay Parrish #79 7. Billy Grider #30 8. Chris Willard #83 9. Aaron Yakobovich #69 10. Willard Nelson #35