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DirtNews Digest Your Online News Source for Late Model Dirt Track Racing "Get Some Dirt On Your Computer!" Todd Turner, editor
Email address: DirtNews@aol.com Web site: http://members.aol.com/dirtnews/digest =================================== CONTENTS: May 14-17 results (published May 20) =================================== WEDNESDAY'S RACE CAPSULE
HICKS WINS 25TH SHRINE 100: Billy Hicks of Mount Airy, N.C., passed eight-time race winner Mike Duvall on a restart with 10 laps remaining to win $4,000 and the 25th Shrine 100 at Carolina Speedway in Gastonia, N.C. The race benefits children of the Shriner's Hospital in Greenville, S.C. FEATURE (100 laps): (1) Billy Hicks, (2) Mike Duvall, (3) Ricky Weeks, (4) Mike Gault, (5) Buster May, (6) Kenny Rominger, (7) Larry Blankenship, (8) Keith Stone, (9) Dennis Williams, (10) Jimmy Galloway, (11) Roberg Long, (12) Jeff Smith, (13) Randy Morrison, (14) Buddy Smith. ------------------------------------------------------------- FRIDAY'S RACE CAPSULES
STARNES WIN AT MILAN, TENN., IS FIRST OF YEAR: Robbie Starnes, taking the lead for good when polesitter Jerry Inmon's engine soured with three laps to go, earned his first victory of the year after a race-long battle with Inmon to win $3,000 in a Rick's Late Model Series race in Milan, Tenn. "I just lacked a few laps being able to stay in there," Inmon said. "Oh, I babied it and everything else those last few laps, just trying to suffer it on out because I knew it was down. I just didn't know how bad." Inmon was the fastest qualifier (16.89 seconds) of 20 entries. FEATURE (50 laps): (1) Robbie Starnes, (2) Donnie Barnhart, (3) Johnny Stokes, (4) John L. Cliett, (5) Mark Mears, (6) Eddie Rickman, (7) Rick Rickman, (8) Jacob Davis, (9) Steve Ross, (10) Nick Lyons, (11) Thomas McReynolds, (12) Barry Wright, (13) Terry Pool, (14) Jerry Inmon, (15) Jim McDuffie, (16) Brian Rickman, (17) Jerry Dunnaway, (18) Gary Mann (disqualified for failing to heed move-over flag).
DODD WINS MACS OPENER AT I-79: Doug Dodd of Cambridge, Ohio, collected $2,500 for a victory in the season-opening Mid-Atlantic Championship Series event at Interstate 79 Speedway in Shinnston, W.Va., a race delayed a week by rain. Dodd, Denny Chamberlain and Robbie Scott were heat winners among 31 entries. FEATURE (35 laps): (1) Doug Dodd, (2) Denny Chamberlain, (3) Bob Salathe, (4) Lynn Geisler, (5) Shane Hitt, (6) Robbie Scott, (7) Bobby Bertges, (8) Mike Hawkins, (9) Scott Rhodes, (10) Ron Slavic, (11) Phil Jeffries, (12) Danny Hamrick, (13) Gary Dalton, (14) Chad McDougal, (15) Ed Ferree, (16) Jerry Haseleu, (17) John Flinner, (18) Sonny Conley, (19) Andy Fries, (20) Terry McKisic, (21) Miles Stitzinger, (22) Chuck Harper. ------------------------------------------------------------- CAPSULE CREDITS: Jeff "Buzz" Reynolds <fubar@blueridge.net>, Tim Lee <leemedia@watervalley.net> of Behind the Wheel's Late Model America and Dixie Phillips <dixie@hhs.net>. ------------------------------------------------------------
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