SELINSGROVE, Pa. -
May 27, 2006 Defending sprint car champion Blane Heimbach of Selinsgrove defended his home turf by winning the 30-lap 26th Annual Jack Gunn Memorial Challenge Race against the URC sprint cars Saturday night at Selinsgrove Speedway. Heimbach was at the wheel of the Goff Racing/Paul Stine Chevrolet No. 12 for his third victory of the season that was worth $3,000. URC driver Greg Coverdale of Milford, Del., was the C-N-B Mushroom fast qualifier with a lap time of 18.213.
Gary Beward of Thompsontown won his sixth race of the season in the 15-lap pro stock feature, while the May 13 make up feature for roadrunners was won by Keith Bissinger of Orangeville. Selinsgrove Speedway will present a four division show of sprints, late models, pro stocks and roadrunners at 7 p.m. on Saturday, June 3.
The first lap of the sprint car feature saw 20th-place starter Colby Womer make contact with the first turn guardrail. On the restart, polesitter Brooke Weibley powered into the early race lead. Weibley was followed by second-place starter and former Selinsgrove Speedway champion Kramer Williamson.
The race was stopped on lap three when four Selinsgrove Speedway regulars collided in turn two. Len Krautheim, Mike Walter, Adrian Shaffer and Jason Shultz all escaped injury in the multi-car incident. Weibley continued to set the pace on the restart, with Williamson and sixth-place starter Blane Heimbach in pursuit. On lap five, Heimbach stormed by Williamson for second and set his sites on Weibley. On the 15th lap, Heimbach made the winnng pass by Weibley using the inside lane in turn four. The next several laps saw defending URC champion and third-place starter Curt Michael show some speed. Michael
reeled in Heimbach and the two champions went wheel-to-wheel in a race for the lead. Misfortune struck Michael on the 27th lap when mechanical problems forced him to withdraw from the race. The restart resulted in a spectacular second turn crash involving Midge Miller and Scott Flammer; both drivers were not injured.
For the final two laps, Heimbach had to hold off seventh-place starter Nate Snyder and fifth-place starter Jason Clauss. At the checkered flag, Heimbach was victorious by 1.23 seconds over Snyder. Clauss, Williamson and 10th-place starter Phil Walter completed the top five.
Polesitter Jason Smith led the first lap of the pro stock feature. The second circuit saw fifth-place starter Dustin Hoffman power into the lead with teammate and 12th-place starter Gary Beward charging into second. On the 11th lap, while battling for the lead, Hoffman's race car catapulted out over the first turn guardrail, then flipped back onto the track in a spectacular series of tumbles. Hoffman escaped injury. When the race resumed, Beward inherited the lead and posted the win by a half car-length over AJ Stroup. Neil Langtry, Jim Somers and Dave Brouse, Jr. completed the top five.
In the makeup roadrunner feature seventh-place starter Keith Bissinger led wire-to-wire for his win. Bissinger was chased by current point leader and ninth-place starter Gary Kerstetter for most of the event. At the finish, Bissinger was victorious over Kerstetter, Cory Long, Doug Minium and Matt Drum.
SELINSGROVE SPEEDWAY SUMMARY - 27 May 2006
URC/358 Sprints - 55 Entries
30-Lap A-Main: 1) 12 Blane Heimbach $3,000 2) 5 Nate Snyder 3) 08 Jason
Clauss 4) 73 Kramer Williamson 5) 5 Phil Walter 6) 2W Kevin Welsh 7) 15
Mark Bitner 8) 4 Kevin Nouse 9) 80 Kyle Purks 10) 56 Brooke Weibley 11)
12G Bryan Golden 12) 19 Randy West 13) 00 Billy Brian 14) 92 Chris Coyle
15) 37 Scott Flammer 16) 8 Midge Miller 17) 99 Curt Michael 18) 1 Scott
Pursell 19) 39 Tim Hogue 20) 6 Greg Coverdale 21) 3K Len Krautheim 22)
63 Mike Walter 23) 2 Jason Shultz 24) 4B Adrian Shaffer 25) 6W Colby
Womer
Heat Winners: Kyle Purks, Nate Snyder, Phil Walter, Scott Flammer, Jason
Clauss
C-Main: Brian Nornhold
B-Main: Kevin Nouse
Time Trials: 1) 6 Greg Coverdale 18.213 2) 81 Bob Beidleman 18.291 3) 5G
Brian Seidel 18.330 4) 99 Curt Michael 18.345 5) 19A Ed Aikin 18.369 6)
73 Kramer Williamson 18.381 7) 00 Bill Brian Jr. 18.410 8) 56 Brooke
Weibley 18.431 9) 4R Kevin Nouse 18.526 10) 79 Davey Sammons 18.536 11)
08 Jason Clauss 18.565 12) 92 Chris Coyle 18.599 13) 63 Mike Walter
18.605 14) 17 Jimmy Martin 18.657 15) 1 Scott Pursell 18.662 16) 2 Todd
Rittenhouse 18.663 17) 12 Blane Heimbach 18.684 18) 3K Len Krautheim
18.688 19) 5 Nate Snyder 18.718 20) 2W Kevin Welsh 18.741 21) 3 Pat
Cannon 18.747 22) 37 Scott Flammer 18.762 23) 5 Phil Walter 18.771 24)
12G Bryan Golden 18.773 25) 8 Midge Miller 18.779 26) 6 Colby Womer
18.800 27) 19H Randy West 18.803 28) 15 Mark Bitner 18.826 29) 39 Tim
Hogue 18.867 30) 80 Kyle Purks 18.910 31) 4B Adrian Shaffer 18.931 32)
1N Brian Nornhold 18.969 33) 21 Duane Mausteller 18.979 34) 19 Jordan
Frontz 18.989 35) 89 Rob Stillwagon 18.993 36) 54 Mike Haggenbottom
19.005 37) 1 Adam Romig 19.016 38) 36 Gary Gollub 19.043 39) 71 Charlie
Anderson 19.061 40) 2 Jason Shultz 19.091 41) 40 Mike Kostic 19.118 42)
24 Brian Buckwalter 19.207 43) 56M Mares Stellfox 19.227 44) 19 Johnny
Zimmerman 19.234 45) 99 Frankie Herr 19.317 46) 1 Jimmy Stitzel 19.328
47) 21B Jamie Bodo 19.348 48) 49 Scott Messimer 19.351 49) 81B Bob
Anderson 19.393 50) 85 Nathan Berwager 19.410 51) 1W John Westbrook
19.436 52) 27 Wade Stauffer 19.549 53) 68 Troy Funck, Jr. 21.853 54) 1M
Babe Mader DNQ 55) 99B Nyle Berkes DNQ
Pro Stocks - 23 Entries
15-Lap A-Main: 1) 19 Gary Beward 2) 26 AJ Stroup 3) 5 Neil Langtry 4) 23
Jim Somers 5) 14B Dave Brouse, Jr. 6) 99H Peanut Heintzelman 7) 6 Dan
Jensen 8) 7X Jeff Rayson 9) 18 Roger Stoneroad 10) 6F Frank Reisser 11)
8C Jace Cresswell 12) 115 Troy Miller 13) 14 Bill Conrad 14) 711 Jim
Jurasich 15) 711F JD Jurasich 16) 54 Sammy Troup 17) 19T Dustin Hoffman
18) 28 Jason Smith 19) 21 AJ Hoffman 20) 19H Larry Hare 21) 8 Brad Trump
22) 7 Meade Hahn 23) 13 Chris Badger (DNS)
Heat Winners: Larry Hare, AJ Stroup
Roadrunners: 24 Entries
12-Lap A-Main: Postponed until June 3
12-Lap A-Main (from May 13): 1) 11B Keith Bissinger 2) 05 Gary
Kerstetter 3) 00 Cory Long 4) 12 Doug Minium 5) 48 Matt Drum 6) 10M Brad
Mitch 7) 010 Matt Keister 8) 57 Mark Spencer 9) 10 Tim Mitch 10) 67
Anthony Munn 11) 19 Chad Davis 12) 41D Dennis Conrad 13) 17 Ray Rothfuss
14) 13 Jim Collier, Jr. 15) 69 Tim Campbell 16) 3D Chris Herman 17) 44
Jim Collier, Sr. 18) 31D Brandon Shultz 19) 27 Wayne Weist 20) 1 Kyle
Miller 21) 23 Donnie Murphy 22) 22 Zack Lingle 23) 81W Wendy Swartz
Heat Winners: Keith Bissinger, Donnie Murphy
