K-C Raceway
June 21, 2002
All Photos By Stephen
J. Hartzell
In my first visit to K-C this season, several things were quite noticable to me. One is that Jim Nier has done a lot of work on this place, and the changes are all positive. This is still a great old racetrack.
The other thing I noticed was that
the ticket & pit pass prices are still pretty steep, at $20 & $30
respectively. But before I got too upset about it, I took a good long look
around the place. There seems to be a great lack of track sponsors, as
a few banners on the turn 1 fence were all I could find. Those track sponsors
go a long way in keeping the prices down and the purses up, as is evidenced
at Attica & Fremont. K-C needs to do a much better job of marketing
their advertising space in order to accomplish this.
John Ivy held off a hard charging Dale Blaney, who started 7th, to claim the feature win at Jim Nier's K-C Raceway. The cars played cat and mouse with Chad Blonde's lapped car, and Jim Stinson got into the fray as well to provide a thrilling race. Behind Ivy, Blaney and Stinson were Ed Neumeister, Todd Heller and David Harrison, who started 13th, to round out the top 6.
Jim Stinson was the fast qualifier
followed by Heller, Ivy, Phil Gressman, Neumeister and Kieth Baxter. Those
six cars raced in a 6 lap dash to determine the feature lineup with Ivy
coming out on top by a big margin. Heats were won by Blaney, Nick Nabor
and Hud Horton, while Brandon Martin took the B-Main by a convincing margin.
This big new pressbox is one of the recent improvements at K-C.
One unique feature of K-C is the way the cars exit the track, straight up the turn 1 bank.
Jeff Barnhart is the latest in a long string of drivers of the Brown 99 car this season.
Phil Gressman
Chillicothe's own Kieth Baxter.
Dale Blaney adjusts the Penske shock on the Andrews 72 car.
Randy Fink
Phil Gressman & Brandon Martin check the feature lineup.
Hud Horton
Mark Tusing of Kears Speed Shop demonstrates the proper use of the electric pit scooter to Gary Heller.
Brandon Martin won the B-Main by a quarter of a lap in spite of a caution with 2 to go.
Craig McGuire
Jody Keegan
Nick Nabor
The Doug Ludwig cars of Matt Lucius & David Harrison normally travel together, and this has been a big help to Lucius, a 410 rookie.
Jimmy Stinson looked very strong all night, and recorded the quick time.
Brian Stinson, normally a late model driver, took a spin in his brother's backup car and did quite well.
John Ivy celebrates his feature win with his family & crew.