Two Time Winners At Quincy

Despite excellent weather this weekend, my racing was limited to just Sunday night at Quincy Raceways. A mid afternoon shower dumped some much needed moisture, but not nearly enough to jeopardize the racing action. The six divisions turned out 83 race teams. With an ALMS late model show 2 and a half hours away in Lincoln,Il., the late model count was down a bit, but still 17 cars were on hand vying for the $1,000 top prize. Mark Burgtorf confused the hometown fans by competing in the Lynn Richard Racing # 15R after two weeks in the more familiar # 7B. Mark started on the pole position in the 30 lap feature on the .29 mile oval by virtue of the dash win. He had started on the pole of the dash by accumulating the most passing points in the heats, coming from row four to finish second to polesitter Dustin Griffin. Michael Long was the victor in heat two in the Jennings Racing # 56j, as the heats foretold the action later in the evening. Burgtorf took off to lead the early laps of the feature, but a lap four caution flew as a result of a Robbie Warner spin. With the NASCAR style side by side restart system, Mark took the preferred inside groove. But Griffin found something up top, and snagged the top spot. Lapped traffic came into play on lap 19, and allowed Long to close in on the top two. While Griffin held the lead, Burgtorf and Long swapped the runnerup spot four times before Michael sneaked by on the inside out of turn four coming to the checkers. It was his best finish in the Jennings ride. Rickey Frankel, who has twice in this young season nearly totaled his # 33F, finished fourth, with a much improved Jerry Lierly fifth. The second five was led by Jason Perry, followed by Clint Kirkham,Jim Moon, Justin Reed, and Matt Bailey. The latter two have main event wins this season at QR, with Griffin ( 2 ), and Dennis Erb, having the other wins. Vance Wilson sold his late model operation this week to a Pennsylvania racer, and purchased an IMCA sport mod. In his sport mod debut, he ran second to Tony Dunker.
  Dave Weitholder and Michael Long staged a war in the UMP modified 25 lapper, before Long got in too deep on an inside move during a lap 18 restart. Long then retired pitside, with Weitholder cruising to his second QR win of 2012. A late race pass for second by Jared Schlipman was negated by a caytion flag, and he settled for third behind defending champion Steven Delonjay.
  Abe Huls outlasted Aaron Brocksieck in the IMCA stock car main, Jake Powers collected the hobby stock finale, and Morning Sun, Iowa pilot Nick Wilkerson followed up a Saturday win in Bloomfield, Iowa with an IMCA sport compact victory.
  Even with an extended intermission, the final checkers waved before 9:00. Track officials had planned to move the 5:30 race time back one hour for the summer months, but a vote at the drivers meeting showed the majority of participants prefer the 4:45 hot lap, 5;30 race time in effect through this coming Sunday. so we will see what decision is made.this Sunday will again feature six classes of regular points racing.
  Keagan and I had the opportunity to finally meet CJ Speedway scorer Dianna Winkel and her racer  husband Mark, who made the long trip down from Letts, Iowa to watch some racin'. It was their first ever visit to QR, and I hope they enjoyed the show!
  There is no shortage of good racing over this upcoming Memorial Day weekend, the forecast is good, so get out and do some dirt trackin' and maybe we will see you at the races!