Billy Faust

Tommie Seets, Jr.

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Pontoon Beach, IL (May 2, 2008) After having the first five racing events cancelled due to rain to start the 2008 racing season, Tri-City Speedway was able to complete back-to-back nights of racing even after heavy rain earlier in the day.
Billy Faust of Lebanon, IL put on a dominating performance in the Super Late Model division to earn his second victory in as many nights at Tri-City Speedway. Faust led every lap of the main event and took the checkered flag more than a half track ahead of second place finisher Rodney Melvin. For the second straight night, Dewayne Kiefer found himself in the middle of a contraversy. On Thursday night he was spun by the leader as he was being lapped, in which the leader was then sent to rear of the field for the restart. On this night, Kiefer was having a much better run. He was battling for the second spot with Rusty Griffaw when Griffaw did a bit of a slide job on Kiefer to take the second spot. Kiefer then proceeded to give Griffaw some hard taps down the back stretch and then Kiefer spun in turn three after making more contact with Griffaw. After the caution came out, Kiefer proceeded to drive the wrong way down the back stretch and he slowed, drove head on over the left front nose of Griffaw's car. As the two were stopped, Griffaw backed up, then Kiefer proceeded to hit Griffaw's car in the left rear side. The impact was at a very low speed. Officials disqualified Kiefer from the event. Griffaw's car had left front fender damage and the fender proceeded to hung in his left front tire and eventually ripped itself away from the car. Griffaw would be able to finish the race, but slipped to a fourth place finish as Rodney Melvin took second and Bryan Collins was third. Chad Zobrist would complete the top five.

The modified division appeared like it was also going to be repeat of the night before as Mike Harrison (winner on Thursday), jumped out to a comfortable lead. The caution flag would fly on lap ten when Bobby Regot III blew out a right rear tire and left large chunks of the tire on the back stretch. During this caution period, Harrison pulled off the race track and retired from the event. That turned the lead over to Tommie Seets, Jr. who held off Ray Walsh to claim the victory. Bobby Martintoni would finish third with Brent Mullins and Scott Weber rounding out the top five.

Bobby Dauderman of Alhambra, IL led all twenty laps of the UMP Pro Late Model feature event to earn his first ever UMP Pro Late Model victory at Tri-City Speedway. Kevin Hardin worked his way up to a second place finish. Tyler Diebert took the third spot with Shannon Kuhn fourth and Darrell Moser completed the top five.

Josh Jackson sprinted to victory in the UMP Street Stock division over Richie Gabriel. Andy Beaver finished third with Tommy Gegg taking fourth and Robbie Benson fifth.

Bob Zbinden dominated the UMP 4 Cylinder (Factory Stock) division as he led every lap enroute to victory over Jason Schmidt.

Factory Stocks : A-Main 01– 14 Cars
1 99 BOB ZBINDEN
2 9 JASON SCHMIDT
3 18 CHRIS WILLIAMS
4 4 JASON SUHRE
5 713 STEVEN GORKA JR.
6 68 AARON HEDIGER
7 14 TOMMY ROADY
8 24 JUSTIN SUHRE
9 61 STEVE RICHARDS
10 9T TRAVIS HORNER*
11 81s JESSY SNYDERS
12 9X TREVOR ISAAK*
13 71 CODY CONNER DNS
14 7j JOE JOYCE DNS

Factory Stocks : Heat 01
1 99 BOB ZBINDEN
2 18 CHRIS WILLIAMS
3 9X TREVOR ISAAK*
4 713 STEVEN GORKA JR.
5 61 STEVE RICHARDS
6 81s JESSY SNYDERS
7 24 JUSTIN SUHRE

Factory Stocks : Heat 02
1 9 JASON SCHMIDT
2 4 JASON SUHRE
3 14 TOMMY ROADY
4 68 AARON HEDIGER
5 9T TRAVIS HORNER*
6 71 CODY CONNER

Late Models : A-Main 01– 23 Cars
1 92b BILLY FAUST
2 27 RODNEY MELVIN
3 11z BRYAN COLLINS*
4 16 RUSTY GRIFFAW*
5 78 CHAD ZOBRIST
6 11D BRIAN DIVELEY
7 112 TIM RATAJCZYK *
8 67 MARK OLLER
9 30 MARK VOIGT*
10 33 TIM MANVILLE*
11 1s RICK SALTER
12 35 CLAUDE WALKER *
13 67d DYLAN SHARP
14 55 DON PATTON *
15 24 DICK TAYLOR*
16 82 BILLY LAYCOCK
17 28b JOHN BECK*
18 53 LEE THOMASON
19 15 CHRIS FETTER*
20 11 MIKE BRYANT
21 22 DAN JACOBER DNS
22 0 KEVIN COLE DNS
23 13 DEWAYNE KIEFER DQ'd

Late Models : Heat 01
1 92b BILLY FAUST
2 24 DICK TAYLOR*
3 27 RODNEY MELVIN
4 82 BILLY LAYCOCK
5 11D BRIAN DIVELEY
6 53 LEE THOMASON
7 33 TIM MANVILLE*
8 30 MARK VOIGT*

Late Models : Heat 02
1 22 DAN JACOBER
2 112 TIM RATAJCZYK *
3 28b JOHN BECK*
4 67 MARK OLLER
5 15 CHRIS FETTER*
6 0 KEVIN COLE
7 11 MIKE BRYANT
8 55 DON PATTON *

Late Models : Heat 03
1 13 DEWAYNE KIEFER
2 16 RUSTY GRIFFAW*
3 11z BRYAN COLLINS*
4 78 CHAD ZOBRIST
5 1s RICK SALTER
6 35 CLAUDE WALKER *
7 67d DYLAN SHARP

Late Models : Qualifying Dash 01
1 92b BILLY FAUST
2 13 DEWAYNE KIEFER
3 16 RUSTY GRIFFAW*
4 112 TIM RATAJCZYK *
5 24 DICK TAYLOR*
6 22 DAN JACOBER

Modifieds : A-Main 01–18 Cars
1 1 TOMMIE SEETS JR
2 1w RAY WALSH *
3 48 BOB MARTINTONI *
4 41m BRENT MULLINS
5 4j SCOTT WEBER
6 73 ED LENHARDT
7 78c ALAN CONNER
8 11 DANE GUNDAKER*
9 14 RICK CONOYER
10 1a STEVE MEYER JR
11 11B KYLE BYERLINE*
12 41 LARRY HULL*
13 87 DEREK DUBREE
14 24 MIKE HARRISON
15 4uw BOBBY REGOT III
16 1 ANTHONY LACH *
17 22r CURT RACKERS DNS
18 17m MATT VERBECK DNS

Modifieds : Heat 01
1 24 MIKE HARRISON
2 1 TOMMIE SEETS JR
3 48 BOB MARTINTONI *
4 41m BRENT MULLINS
5 11 DANE GUNDAKER*
6 11B KYLE BYERLINE*
7 4uw BOBBY REGOT III
8 41 LARRY HULL*
9 17m MATT VERBECK DNS

Modifieds : Heat 02
1 1w RAY WALSH *
2 4j SCOTT WEBER
3 73 ED LENHARDT
4 78c ALAN CONNER
5 1a STEVE MEYER JR
6 87 DEREK DUBREE
7 14 RICK CONOYER
8 22r CURT RACKERS
9 1 ANTHONY LACH *

Modifieds : Qualifying Dash 01
1 1 TOMMIE SEETS JR
2 24 MIKE HARRISON
3 73 ED LENHARDT
4 48 BOB MARTINTONI *
5 1w RAY WALSH *
6 4j SCOTT WEBER

UMP Pro (Crate) Late Models : A-Main 01– 20 Cars
1 18D BOBBY DAUDERMAN
2 49 KEVIN HARDIN
3 84 TYLER DEIBERT
4 11K SHANNON KUHN
5 22 DARREL MOSER JR
6 59 JOSH CARROLL
7 92K BRANT KEHRER
8 92s MATT SANTEL
9 74 JOHN CRENSHAW*
10 30 RYAN SEGER
11 1 BUB MITCHELL
12 18 ROB SHAW
13 11 GORDY GUNDAKER*
14 4 CRAIG BESSINGER
15 8t TJ EILERS
16 2X NICK LYONS
17 10F TODD FERBER
18 9 PAUL HUMPHREY
19 36 RONALD SENSEL DNS
20 1 CASEY MONTAGUE * DNS

UMP Pro (Crate) Late Models : Heat 01
1 18D BOBBY DAUDERMAN
2 74 JOHN CRENSHAW*
3 92K BRANT KEHRER
4 59 JOSH CARROLL
5 11K SHANNON KUHN
6 36 RONALD SENSEL
7 30 RYAN SEGER
8 1 CASEY MONTAGUE *
9 22 DARREL MOSER JR
10 9 PAUL HUMPHREY

UMP Pro (Crate) Late Models : Heat 02
1 92s MATT SANTEL
2 49 KEVIN HARDIN
3 84 TYLER DEIBERT
4 11 GORDY GUNDAKER*
5 18 ROB SHAW
6 4 CRAIG BESSINGER
7 8t TJ EILERS
8 1 BUB MITCHELL
9 2X NICK LYONS
10 10F TODD FERBER

UMP Street Stocks : A-Main 01–20 Cars
1 5j JOSH JACKSON*
2 63g RICHIE GABRIEL*
3 21 ANDY BEAVERS
4 22g TOMMY GEGG
5 69b ROBBY BENSON
6 22 DEVONE HARTWELL*
7 11b FRED SPARKS JR
8 1 WALTER VAN DYKE
9 41 RON PETTY
10 27 GENE CRAIN
11 31 DAVID PARKER*
12 43 JERRY HARRIS
13 14 TOMMY GAITHER*
14 68 TERRY MCCANN
15 11 JOHN BURNS
16 49 STEVE LEACH
17 79 KEITH ROSE
18 38f STEPHEN FLANNERY JR DNS
19 30 KASEY GOVERO* DNS
20 36 DANNY EMS DNS

Street Stocks : Heat 01
1 22g TOMMY GEGG
2 21 ANDY BEAVERS
3 41 RON PETTY
4 11b FRED SPARKS JR
5 68 TERRY MCCANN
6 14 TOMMY GAITHER*
7 1 WALTER VAN DYKE
8 49 STEVE LEACH
9 38f STEPHEN FLANNERY JR
10 30 KASEY GOVERO* DNS

Street Stocks : Heat 02
1 5j JOSH JACKSON*
2 63g RICHIE GABRIEL*
3 22 DEVONE HARTWELL*
4 43 JERRY HARRIS
5 27 GENE CRAIN
6 31 DAVID PARKER*
7 69b ROBBY BENSON DNS
8 36 DANNY EMS DNS
9 11 JOHN BURNS DNS
10 79 KEITH ROSE DNS