No “Home Field” Advantage for Tony Stewart
Matt Miller’s confidence level at Eldora Speedway was increased another notch Saturday night, as he handily defeated a stellar 53-car field to capture $2,000 and the Sunoco sponsored American Late Model Series event, while Jeff Babcock made it two-in-a-row in Advance Auto Parts Stock Car feature action and Brian Ruhlman triumphed in the UMP Modified finale.
Miller’s 2005 credentials included impressive wins in June’s $100,000 Dirt Late Model Dream and another $10,000 in the season-ending UMP Nationals. And, Saturday, after a shaky start, he added to his resume, in a field of entrants that included defending NASCAR Nextel Cup champion Tony Stewart and multi-time World 100 winner Donnie Moran.
Although Smoke’s “owners advantage” didn’t seem to aid in him winning the feature event he did take the [avatar:http://cranialcavity.net/files/check-flag.bmp]checker[/avatar] in his heat race and third behind Miller in the feature.
Stewart also announced the latest addition to this years Nextel Prelude to the Dream (June 7) at Eldora Speedway.
Mark Martin is the most recent NASCAR Nextel Cup driver to confirm his intentions to jump behind the wheel of a dirt short-track Late Model to challenge nearly a dozen of his NASCAR brethren on the one-half mile clay oval.
In addition to Stewart, who is the owner of the legendary speed plant, Martin will be joined by defending Prelude winner Kenny Wallace, Kenny Schrader, Ryan Newman, Carl Edwards, Dave Blaney, Kyle Petty, Kevin Harvick, and Jamie McMurray, along with Nextel Cup rookies J. J. Yeley and Denny Hamlin. Also in the mix are the ageless Red Farmer (Read Red’s history here.)and current NHRA standout Ron Capps.
NASCAR, NEXTEL Cup, Eldora Speedway, Tony Stewart, Auto Racing, Motorsports, Full Throttle
Mark Martin and dirt…hmmm. June 7th. That might make a fun little vacation for The Church of The Great Oval bus.
Thanks for the heads up.
…change of subject. I wonder why I can’t comment on your blog with IE. It with give me that error message every time.
I wish I were close enough to see Martin run on dirt myself. I have no way of knowing but feel sure it must be a decade or more since that has happened.
No sure what the IE problem is. Since changing themes I have received other commnets posted by IE with no problems.
Testing comment entry via IE browser.